Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > I looked and couldn't find anything whirlers...please help

Posted: 2nd Mar 2006
lol

its not a hard move, its just really really hard.

i think its done with tourches, ask Menick, who did it.

basically its a lot of spinning on the spot and raising your hands up as you go, the hard part is spinning in exactly the same place, thats in the middle of both arms, Menick is a bit of a movement master and Ive never seen any9one turn like him

If you wanna come on this thread and lay down some tips for perfect piroettes nick, please do!

T

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006
i think that you might find [Old link] thread useful, if you are talking about the move in this picture

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They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006
the end of that thread at least...

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006
ahhh i see, so it's with tourches welp guess i'll have to learn how to do that it's just too beautiful and my curiousity is sooo peaked, wish me luck i'm gonna try to figure this one out:) oh yeah, so um no clue about tourches open to advice on that one or actually i'll do a search and get back...(trying to be a good HOPper )

When you're already walking on thin ice...why not dance?

Posted: 2nd Mar 2006
okay i looked and couldn't find anything on tourches any way someone could break it down for me? pretty please with sugar on top!

When you're already walking on thin ice...why not dance?

Posted: 2nd Mar 2006
One thing to consider is that spinning for pictures is quite a bit different from just spinning. You can do this move to with poi, and a very similar looking move, which creates a helix rather then a full spiral, can be done with corskscrew movements. The thing is, unless you can move *extremely* fast in proper lighting when your poi are at certain brightness levels, the audience is not going to see anything even remotely as pretty as what you can capture with a long exposure picture. A good example would be a picture, I think from Coleman, who is spinning a circle with a square in it. It's a great looking effect with the long exposure capture, but if you were to see it live it would be quite boring I think.



Soo, if you're doing this for long exposure camera shots, then just play around with different movements and realize that the poi will trail as the shot is captured. If you're doing it live, then realize that the effect you will create will be a bit different, and likely less dazzling, than the ones in the pictures.

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2006
[Old link]

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