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Okay, After having watched people fire spinning and thinking wow i want to be able to do that, 2 weeks ago i went out and bought myself some poi. Hurrah
I'm not normally one for sticking at things but after twirling around not doing much speical for a while i found that all though i wasnt doing anything impressive at all I was completely enjoying myself ....
so I practiced loads
and can pretty much do all my book was teaching me...
-->3 beat weave
-->Butterly, alternate butterfly, angel wings both in same and split time and backwards.
-->sholder reals and turns, split time and normal time, windmill
-->hip reals split and normal
-->thread the needle, although somewhat slopily
Giants of most of these with lock outs
now im stumped....
still can't pull off a reverse 3 beat weave but Im bored of practiceing it without anything new and im sure it will come in practice...
can anyone suggest anywhere to go from here?
any moves that are somewhat not too complicated ( i dont feel like I could 5 beat weave or anything silly yet) but look good or are just fun to do? links? something...Ive been looking around the site and like can find loads of moves and stuff...but i have no idea about how any of them or how easy they generally are to pull off and stuff.....
*thinks*
thanks in advance
Okay, After having watched people fire spinning and thinking wow i want to be able to do that, 2 weeks ago i went out and bought myself some poi. Hurrah
I'm not normally one for sticking at things but after twirling around not doing much speical for a while i found that all though i wasnt doing anything impressive at all I was completely enjoying myself ....
so I practiced loads
and can pretty much do all my book was teaching me...
-->3 beat weave
-->Butterly, alternate butterfly, angel wings both in same and split time and backwards.
-->sholder reals and turns, split time and normal time, windmill
-->hip reals split and normal
-->thread the needle, although somewhat slopily
Giants of most of these with lock outs
now im stumped....
still can't pull off a reverse 3 beat weave but Im bored of practiceing it without anything new and im sure it will come in practice...
can anyone suggest anywhere to go from here?
any moves that are somewhat not too complicated ( i dont feel like I could 5 beat weave or anything silly yet) but look good or are just fun to do? links? something...Ive been looking around the site and like can find loads of moves and stuff...but i have no idea about how any of them or how easy they generally are to pull off and stuff.....
*thinks*
thanks in advance
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Posted:
try linking your moves together, and practising your transitions between them, also stalls.
if you wanta good dvde of how to progress look for The Scales Of Poi on the HoPShOp
try linking your moves together, and practising your transitions between them, also stalls.
if you wanta good dvde of how to progress look for The Scales Of Poi on the HoPShOp
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Posted:
wraps are fun
Corkscrews
Isolations-you can use this for the moves you already know
Flowers-especially with lockouts
Stalls
Pendulum
Releases
Butterfly weaves-since you know ttn
Crossers and straightjackets
Buzzsaw
Under leg/between leg/under arm
Do you know chasing the sun?
Hyperloops
Or just go down the list for tutorials
wraps are fun
Corkscrews
Isolations-you can use this for the moves you already know
Flowers-especially with lockouts
Stalls
Pendulum
Releases
Butterfly weaves-since you know ttn
Crossers and straightjackets
Buzzsaw
Under leg/between leg/under arm
Do you know chasing the sun?
Hyperloops
Or just go down the list for tutorials
Faith
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Okay so i think i got corkscrew all though i have no idea how to get into it....*goes searching forum* and yep I can already do chaseing the sun
I don't supose anyone has any usefull links for any of those.....I've been searching around the forum..but all the threads i can find are confuseing me very much...found a site with animations of pretty much most of them but no verbal explanations into how to do any of them...so again equally as confusing...
urgh im lame sorry
Okay so i think i got corkscrew all though i have no idea how to get into it....*goes searching forum* and yep I can already do chaseing the sun
I don't supose anyone has any usefull links for any of those.....I've been searching around the forum..but all the threads i can find are confuseing me very much...found a site with animations of pretty much most of them but no verbal explanations into how to do any of them...so again equally as confusing...
urgh im lame sorry
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Posted:
watch videos, see how other people move and get into things, the great thing about poi is everyone style is different but the fundamentals are the same
watch videos, see how other people move and get into things, the great thing about poi is everyone style is different but the fundamentals are the same
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Posted:
"I don't supose anyone has any usefull links"
Poi moves forum, top post.
has lots of useful links.
As does the hyperloops and tangles thread.
"I don't supose anyone has any usefull links"
Poi moves forum, top post.
has lots of useful links.
As does the hyperloops and tangles thread.
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thanks
thanks
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You're not lame, you're a newbie. There is a slight difference. not much though
PS I'm still considered a newbie by some!
You're not lame, you're a newbie. There is a slight difference. not much though
PS I'm still considered a newbie by some!
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I have spinning for about a year (fire just a couple times recently) and am definitely a newbie, big time. With that said, my advice is turns. Turns, turns and more turns. Getting comfortable with turning will open up a lot of freedom with your spinning.
And have fun!
I have spinning for about a year (fire just a couple times recently) and am definitely a newbie, big time. With that said, my advice is turns. Turns, turns and more turns. Getting comfortable with turning will open up a lot of freedom with your spinning.
And have fun!
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Posted:
Learn,
Butterfly,
The Eight,
Turn
and
Split Butterfly,
moves.
lighting,
:R
Learn,
Butterfly,
The Eight,
Turn
and
Split Butterfly,
moves.
lighting,
:R
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Posted:
D00d, somone elce said to link some moves together, i think a good one for you will be the 360 weave, go from forwards to backwards and round again. this is a good move to learn as a "newb" as it gets you used to turning yourself and direction.
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still can't pull off a reverse 3 beat weave but Im bored of practiceing it without anything new and im sure it will come in practice...
can anyone suggest anywhere to go from here?
D00d, somone elce said to link some moves together, i think a good one for you will be the 360 weave, go from forwards to backwards and round again. this is a good move to learn as a "newb" as it gets you used to turning yourself and direction.
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Posted:
Well done on learning the 3 beat weave.
But what about all the different variations of 2 beat weave?
Wheel plane is the normal one,
Wall plane is another
Or horizontal plane,
Left or right hand on top,
with arms crossed once,
arms crossed twice,
behind the back,
over the head,
under the legs,
then learn all that with 1 poi spinning the other way, ie lots of butterflies
Once you can do any of those in both directions then you can turn from one to the other.
Then you can transition between any of them and start dancing.
¦m¦
Well done on learning the 3 beat weave.
But what about all the different variations of 2 beat weave?
Wheel plane is the normal one,
Wall plane is another
Or horizontal plane,
Left or right hand on top,
with arms crossed once,
arms crossed twice,
behind the back,
over the head,
under the legs,
then learn all that with 1 poi spinning the other way, ie lots of butterflies
Once you can do any of those in both directions then you can turn from one to the other.
Then you can transition between any of them and start dancing.
¦m¦
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Posted:
I would suggest simply watching lots and lots of videos, and expose yourself to all the different styles of poi. You can decide which one you think suits you best and learn all the little things you see in the videos you like.
And yes, of course turns are an important ability to have as well, and adding more body movement into the mix couldn't hurt either.
I would suggest simply watching lots and lots of videos, and expose yourself to all the different styles of poi. You can decide which one you think suits you best and learn all the little things you see in the videos you like.
And yes, of course turns are an important ability to have as well, and adding more body movement into the mix couldn't hurt either.
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Posted:
learn how to spin in every direction you can imagine and spin in every direction that you could posibly imagine. in order to spin yourself in circles, you have to be able to do the reverse weave. so work on that., peace.
learn how to spin in every direction you can imagine and spin in every direction that you could posibly imagine. in order to spin yourself in circles, you have to be able to do the reverse weave. so work on that., peace.
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Posted:
handy hint: dont think about what you're doing.
let the poi do their own thing, so you can watch them and marvel at how cool what they are doing is.
handy hint: dont think about what you're doing.
let the poi do their own thing, so you can watch them and marvel at how cool what they are doing is.
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Posted:
I'm 6 months in now and like you I started with the basic move patterns, just that I cracked the backward 3 bt weave less than a week after forward, as it's vital for turns and fountain.
But as fluiditiy and variety are much more imortant ingredients to a nice play than trickery IMHO, I am working mostly on transitions and turns now and I want to finesse flow and dance and style by playing the sheer endless varieties of the more basic patterns before I will go into the more difficult tricks.
After all, its supposed to be a nice looking play, not adding trick after trick after tick ...
I'm 6 months in now and like you I started with the basic move patterns, just that I cracked the backward 3 bt weave less than a week after forward, as it's vital for turns and fountain.
But as fluiditiy and variety are much more imortant ingredients to a nice play than trickery IMHO, I am working mostly on transitions and turns now and I want to finesse flow and dance and style by playing the sheer endless varieties of the more basic patterns before I will go into the more difficult tricks.
After all, its supposed to be a nice looking play, not adding trick after trick after tick ...
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I am totally with you
Just try doing what you can do in all possible ways and directions, than work on transition and on DANCE!!!
It' s what I' m doing right now.
And then, it' s very important to work on planes... when I started I had no idea of what planes were, so I learnt a lot of tricks, but the result was a real kaos O_O and only in the last few months I concentrated on planes, and now I can pass from one plane to another easily and my stile earned in fluidity ^^
Planes planes planeeeees (it' s the cry of my boy everytime he watches me playin' =_=''')
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But as fluiditiy and variety are much more imortant ingredients to a nice play than trickery IMHO, I am working mostly on transitions and turns now and I want to finesse flow and dance and style by playing the sheer endless varieties of the more basic patterns before I will go into the more difficult tricks.
After all, its supposed to be a nice looking play, not adding trick after trick after tick ...
I am totally with you
Just try doing what you can do in all possible ways and directions, than work on transition and on DANCE!!!
It' s what I' m doing right now.
And then, it' s very important to work on planes... when I started I had no idea of what planes were, so I learnt a lot of tricks, but the result was a real kaos O_O and only in the last few months I concentrated on planes, and now I can pass from one plane to another easily and my stile earned in fluidity ^^
Planes planes planeeeees (it' s the cry of my boy everytime he watches me playin' =_=''')
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Posted:
I think that my best advice would be, first of all, not to think that five beat weave and more advanced tricks are too hard, because often it's just a matter of getting your muscles to agree with you and getting yourself in the right headspace, and then just really puzzling them out. I would suggest going to the lessons portion of HOP, and also if you do a search for videos online, there's another website Mot's Place, which will not be hard to find, and they have some wicked lessons that are not difficult.
I think that my best advice would be, first of all, not to think that five beat weave and more advanced tricks are too hard, because often it's just a matter of getting your muscles to agree with you and getting yourself in the right headspace, and then just really puzzling them out. I would suggest going to the lessons portion of HOP, and also if you do a search for videos online, there's another website Mot's Place, which will not be hard to find, and they have some wicked lessons that are not difficult.
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Posted:
I hate to scream like this, but:
WINDMILLS!!!!!!!!!
They are possibly the best thing for combining weaves, and for jamming in between.
Go learn them!!
I hate to scream like this, but:
WINDMILLS!!!!!!!!!
They are possibly the best thing for combining weaves, and for jamming in between.
Go learn them!!
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