Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > new beginner wants to know how to get started!

Posted: 22nd Jun 2007
have a llook at the thread called helpful advice, it pretty much dose what it says on the tin.

in my opinion good things to learn next for you would be backwards weave, thread the needle (both ways!!), windmills and other reels and any stalls and wraps you can think of. good luck

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no

Posted: 23rd Jun 2007
Well, sweetheart - how 'bout [Old link]
for starters?

the best smiles are the ones you lead to

Posted: 29th Jun 2007
I would racomend looking at the free lessons portion of this site. It's got video and pretty good explanations in most cases. even breaks it down by difficulty (i.e. begginer#1, Begginer#2, and so forth). It helped me w/ a couple of moves.
oh, and practise a ton, good luck.


"what makes you think you can kill time without injuring eternity"
-thoreau-

"what makes you think you can kill time without injuring eternity"
-thoreau-

Posted: 6th Jul 2007
well, if you can already do the a basic weave and butterfly, try reversing them. Then try turning with them. Getting those two down forwards and backwards is an awesome foundation for expanding to more complicated things.

Also practice spinning in the different planes, by your sides (wheel), in front or behind (wheel), between your arms (buzzsaws), over your head, and horizontally. Besides being the starters for flowers, they are great warmup exercises and trainers for the future moves.

"to a man whose only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail." Abraham Maslow

Posted: 7th Jul 2007
^ what squid said, then do the 'moses moves' as nick woolsey calls them. try doing split time then raise your arms up to eventually do a windmill keeping the same movement on each side. Then go to the top, turn and back down the other way, this time going backward split time (if you did forward first)