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Login/Join to ParticipateCarpal \'Tunnel
2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom
Ive had this picture in my favourites and a few people have asked how is this done, but its not had an answer yet. So I photo-bucketed it and now im asking...
How is this done?
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577 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
You sure that's poi? Looks kinda like a fire hoop to me.
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3,149 posts
Location: London
looks like hoop
you could get trails like that turning with poi doing large horizontal circles, and wrapping\unwrapping the waist.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
i would guess (having not tried this) start with your arms wrapped around you (self hug stylee but with one behind your back) start turning un wrapping then extending arms
- i have no idea if this would work and atm i cant test it as i dont have enough space in my room but i assume it would
back
577 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
The giveaway is the brightness of the inner circle, and the faded outer circles. It's hard to get that type of pattern with poi.
Definition of poi- A Hawaiian food made from the tuber of the taro that is cooked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.
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HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
Looks like horizontal spiral wrap(double full wrap) with both Poi parallel close to each other.(look at the fire starting form left to counterclocwise spiral) and possibly one-handed.
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old hand
929 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
One more vote for hoop
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master of disaster
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Location: New York, USA
hoopy hoopy hoop
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1,365 posts
Location: Manchester, England (UK)
hoop
Was going to say poi until I realised the person is kneeling down, at that unless he can twist his arms around his body several times, it would be very difficult get that kind of effect with poi. And the fact there are parrallel spirals, not just a single one, plus the overall shape of the spiral suggest its unlikley to be rope dart.
Whos photo is it, I've seen it before, but I can't find it and would also like ot make it a faveorite.
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old hand
768 posts
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
hoop. the person's arms appear to be going over his/her head, but the fire is spinning at chest level. hoop for sure.
taken out of context i must seem so strange
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What a Bummer
3,224 posts
Location: Shatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
woop woop hoop hoop!!
old hand
929 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
Or a very crazy person with a really long ropedart.........
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328 posts
Location: uk
I'm not saying its a rope dart, but I have some pics around here of me doing something very similar / same with rope dart
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Carpal \'Tunnel
2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom
Written by: pricklyleaf
Whos photo is it, I've seen it before, but I can't find it and would also like ot make it a faveorite
Its in Onyx gallery
Chief adviser to the Pharaoh, in one very snazzy mutli-coloured coat
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Pooh-Bah
1,872 posts
Location: Canada
My guess is poi using the horizontal spiral wrap because the flames are brighter when the poi would be spinning a smaller circle and accelerating/decelerating closer to the body
HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic
How can hoop makes spiral?
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POI THEO(R)IST
577 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
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How can hoop makes spiral?
That's all hoop does when twirling around a center point... it actually probably makes more of a flower, but slow shutter photo of fire hoop makes the pattern in this picture.
Definition of poi- A Hawaiian food made from the tuber of the taro that is cooked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.
Ahnold discussing poi - "It is naht a toober!"
veteran
1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England
me thinks hoop
before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
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3,540 posts
Location: Bristol UK
A hoop will have 4/5/6/7/8 etc wicks protuding from it, not one wick all the way around... (see the irish invasion video by strugz)
When spun around you, they will give that effect.
Hoop it is, methinks...
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Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
It's not a hoop.
Ask me how I know...
OK, I'll tell ya:
When a hoop spins, the point of rotation is constantly changing as it revolves around the body. If the person in the picture was using a hoop, the image would look more like a flowery-spirograph style image, rather than the spiral pattern that you see.
My vote is for poi waistwraps, although I stand ready to be corrected.
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Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
Tho it might be a rope dart...
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4,030 posts
Location: Bali, Australia
A great image of MoonPixie hooping.. showing that a hoop does photograph as concentric circles, not the 'spirograph' as suggested above...
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147 posts
Location: Glasgow
I have also seen hoops where there is just a ring (or more like an octagon) of fire rope attatched to spokes coming off the central hoop, not just the eight prongs as suggested above.
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enthusiast
213 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
It seems fairly unanimous that that's a hoop, but this is definately poi. Don't know how this photo-bucket business works
So how's that done? I've tried the obvious holding the poi more or less still and spinning my body round, raising my arms as I go, but I get dizzy and it looks rubbish. Besides which, in the picture Nick's face is slightly blurred, but too clear for him to be moving his body that much, it must have been in the same position for most of the exposure time. Any ideas?
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lurker
380 posts
Location: Nashville, TN, USA
Written by: Tom_Shill
It seems fairly unanimous that that's a hoop, but this is definately poi. Don't know how this photo-bucket business works
So how's that done? I've tried the obvious holding the poi more or less still and spinning my body round, raising my arms as I go, but I get dizzy and it looks rubbish. Besides which, in the picture Nick's face is slightly blurred, but too clear for him to be moving his body that much, it must have been in the same position for most of the exposure time. Any ideas?
if the flash is at the end of the exposure, it has that effect. otherwise, practice your spinning. ice skaters rotate a lot more a lot faster, and there are tricks to keep you from getting dizzy. if i can imagine anyone doing piroette-y ballet spins on a daily basis, it's nick w. :P that guy is AMAZING.
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nut.
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Location: Bouncing off the walls., England (UK)
It doesn't look like there's flash used in this, or the lighting of the floor in the foreground would be different colour and a different pattern.
I think the shadow's wrong on the guy as well.. That's just holding very still..
By the way, what *is* hoop exactly? is it just what it sounds like? Same kind of thing I failed to play with as a kid, but on fire?
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Yeah. Pretty much. Check out my Fire Skating video for some awesome shots of Reagan tearin' it up.
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old hand
929 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
Are you sure he's using poi in that last picture? It looks like he's just pausing holding them above his head at the end, which would mean they're probably torches of some sort...
Either way it's a well done picture
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enthusiast
272 posts
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Good guesses. It's torches, and a combination of posing still and whirling quickly. I spend a lot of time whirling so I don't get dizzy
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Europe,Scotland,Both
its one of the best pics I seen, because it subtly but VERY difficult.
pros to nick, to turn on the spot that acuratly that many times takes loads of training.
If you want to start a 'tips for pirroettes' thread nick, I would be well into it!
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544 posts
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Nick, your pirouettes are one of the best things about the way you spin. Besides your poi spinning your body movements are pretty much spot on all the time too and thats why your so darn interesting to watch. If we took your poi away and you just went through your body movements that would still look awesome.
I finally nailed the splittime longarm butterfly turns, but only for a few turns before I get dizzy. I really need to take the time to learn how to spot.
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