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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Cambridge UK
Posted:
Well, the following moves have very little use to them, but I thought somebody might get something out of it, so here goes:
Pendulum Tangle/Thruwrap
Basic Idea: use one poi to push the other one in a pendulum motion
Example: swing a pendulum in left side plane. Spin other poi in front wall plane anticlockwise (from your perspective). As the pendulum crosses the wall plane bring the other poi across the far side of the pendulum and tangle it so it goes under neath your hand and then outside your arm. As it comes outside the arm, move the whole mess into the rear wall plane, untangle and repeat in reverse, the aim being to maintain a pendular motion without too much messiness
as I said, a silly move, and one I have yet to get clean...
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Using a pendulum to keep one poi head at the centre of another's rotation
Basic idea: A marginally prettier move, and one which looks vaguely aesthetic with fire or glow, this merely involves spinning one poi while keeping the other poi head next to your hand. So that you end up with a circle with a dot in it.
In theory, you could do this with isolations (i.e isolate the spinning poi while following the isolating hand with your other poi head, thus achieving an isolation-esque appearance while having your hands in different positons to normal isolations)
EDITED_BY: LazyAngel (1138273448)
Well, the following moves have very little use to them, but I thought somebody might get something out of it, so here goes:
Pendulum Tangle/Thruwrap
Basic Idea: use one poi to push the other one in a pendulum motion
Example: swing a pendulum in left side plane. Spin other poi in front wall plane anticlockwise (from your perspective). As the pendulum crosses the wall plane bring the other poi across the far side of the pendulum and tangle it so it goes under neath your hand and then outside your arm. As it comes outside the arm, move the whole mess into the rear wall plane, untangle and repeat in reverse, the aim being to maintain a pendular motion without too much messiness
as I said, a silly move, and one I have yet to get clean...
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Using a pendulum to keep one poi head at the centre of another's rotation
Basic idea: A marginally prettier move, and one which looks vaguely aesthetic with fire or glow, this merely involves spinning one poi while keeping the other poi head next to your hand. So that you end up with a circle with a dot in it.
In theory, you could do this with isolations (i.e isolate the spinning poi while following the isolating hand with your other poi head, thus achieving an isolation-esque appearance while having your hands in different positons to normal isolations)
EDITED_BY: LazyAngel (1138273448)
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Posted:
nice one - i like tick-tocks too
i do something similar to the first one:
spin one poi in front wall plane and with the other swing a pendulum from back wallplane (over the arm/shoulder into front wallplane) and when it swings back into the path of the other poi, airwrap and on exit, return to the start position.
i like extending the airwrap into a buzzsaw hyperloop to the other side to get both poi doing circles again and ending the pendulummy stuff.
[wow, i think that's just about the worst description of a poi move i've ever typed!]
just to be tidy, here is a link to another thread that started off being about pendulums but quickly descended into the definitive post-modern poi discussion thread:
[Old link]
cole. x
nice one - i like tick-tocks too
i do something similar to the first one:
spin one poi in front wall plane and with the other swing a pendulum from back wallplane (over the arm/shoulder into front wallplane) and when it swings back into the path of the other poi, airwrap and on exit, return to the start position.
i like extending the airwrap into a buzzsaw hyperloop to the other side to get both poi doing circles again and ending the pendulummy stuff.
[wow, i think that's just about the worst description of a poi move i've ever typed!]
just to be tidy, here is a link to another thread that started off being about pendulums but quickly descended into the definitive post-modern poi discussion thread:
[Old link]
cole. x
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Posted:
Random idea:
Get two people standing next to each other and make a poi Newtons Cradle
Random idea:
Get two people standing next to each other and make a poi Newtons Cradle
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Cambridge UK
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Cambridge UK
Posted:
coleman:sorry should've done a search or thought about it a bit more: I was looking through all the 'tangle' links for something similar. D'oh!
I think I've seen the first move in the spinach sessions somewhere as done by rob? They are certainly much more lovely to watch than the moves above..
Second move, I think I might understand what you mean...
OFS: already been done.... well, tried, anyway, when Mr. Chutney came to Cambridge. You can also do a one person version, which is quite fun and silly
coleman:sorry should've done a search or thought about it a bit more: I was looking through all the 'tangle' links for something similar. D'oh!
I think I've seen the first move in the spinach sessions somewhere as done by rob? They are certainly much more lovely to watch than the moves above..
Second move, I think I might understand what you mean...
OFS: already been done.... well, tried, anyway, when Mr. Chutney came to Cambridge. You can also do a one person version, which is quite fun and silly
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Posted:
Cool. It was just a random idea. Nice to know other people are thinking the same way.
Cool. It was just a random idea. Nice to know other people are thinking the same way.
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Posted:
I love pendulums. I love them soooooooo much.
I love them so much I made sticks do pendulums too.
Then I made them do anti-gravity pendulums.
Then I decided to integrate them with some cirles (pooo) too.
Then I decided that poncing about with pendulums was farrrrrr more important and more importantly, enjoyable than circles.
My favourate stupidity: BTB Waistwrap Pendulum. (done with either hand in pendulum, or for extra silly points, both.) While poncing. Preferably.
I love pendulums. I love them soooooooo much.
I love them so much I made sticks do pendulums too.
Then I made them do anti-gravity pendulums.
Then I decided to integrate them with some cirles (pooo) too.
Then I decided that poncing about with pendulums was farrrrrr more important and more importantly, enjoyable than circles.
My favourate stupidity: BTB Waistwrap Pendulum. (done with either hand in pendulum, or for extra silly points, both.) While poncing. Preferably.
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Posted:
"More poncing"
Its so much fun. It makes people think you're a twat before you blow their minds with endless fishtails and flowers.
Anti-gravity pendulums? I'm not even gonna ask...
"More poncing"
Its so much fun. It makes people think you're a twat before you blow their minds with endless fishtails and flowers.
Anti-gravity pendulums? I'm not even gonna ask...
Have faith in what you can do and respect for what you can't
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Posted:
I believe I saw a guy kick the stuffing out of pendulums a little while back... may have been a girl but I love pendulums a lot specially the anti grav pends
I believe I saw a guy kick the stuffing out of pendulums a little while back... may have been a girl but I love pendulums a lot specially the anti grav pends
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Location: ashland OR
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Location: ashland OR
Posted:
waist wrapped pedulums with long arm lockouts while turning makes silly pictures.
waist wrapped pedulums with long arm lockouts while turning makes silly pictures.
dont make peoples heads turn, give them whiplash.
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Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
Posted:
Waist wrap pendulum is ok to me.
How you can lock-out pendulum
if it is partial arc?
:R
Waist wrap pendulum is ok to me.
How you can lock-out pendulum
if it is partial arc?
:R
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