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Posted:
I was going to use the word "Jedi" but I have mixed feelings about it.
And every time I think about this I think back years ago to Drew amazing and confusing an EJC workshop by doing a really crappy isolated buzzsaw. That was back when Jedi meant something.
So, what's new these days? What's cutting edge poi? What are the cool kids working on? Who's pushing the envelope? Are flowers still in? Are inversions the new isolations? What's ubergeektacular?
I was going to use the word "Jedi" but I have mixed feelings about it.
And every time I think about this I think back years ago to Drew amazing and confusing an EJC workshop by doing a really crappy isolated buzzsaw. That was back when Jedi meant something.
So, what's new these days? What's cutting edge poi? What are the cool kids working on? Who's pushing the envelope? Are flowers still in? Are inversions the new isolations? What's ubergeektacular?
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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Location: Tampa, FL, USA
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Posted:
Body acrobats while spinning poi has always been real hot. Such as jumping into a diving somersault...or something similar..
Body acrobats while spinning poi has always been real hot. Such as jumping into a diving somersault...or something similar..
-=ÇrazyRaverÐude=-
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Posted:
wow all that is way beyond me... i think ill stick to beginners...
*long face*
wow all that is way beyond me... i think ill stick to beginners...
*long face*
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Macaque of all trades
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Posted:
I've been thinking on poi juggling or puggling as I suppose meg would call it. using 3 poi instead of balls I believe meg posted somewhere a video of a guy juggling meteors. is juggling the new black? all the cool kids seem to be doing it
staffs, clubs, balls who'll be the fitst hopper to post a video of juggling 3 or more poi?
I've been thinking on poi juggling or puggling as I suppose meg would call it. using 3 poi instead of balls I believe meg posted somewhere a video of a guy juggling meteors. is juggling the new black? all the cool kids seem to be doing it
staffs, clubs, balls who'll be the fitst hopper to post a video of juggling 3 or more poi? A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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Tangled into my spins
187 posts
Location: Italy
Tangled into my spins
187 posts
Location: Italy
Posted:
Just done...someone is working on 3 poi...
[Old link]
Acciaio
Just done...someone is working on 3 poi...
[Old link]
Acciaio
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Classically British
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Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Classically British
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Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Posted:
Acciaio was doing some bad-ass 3 poi stuff at UberParis - like Matt's wibbling but with lots of contact poi thrown in to.
I still maintain whip-catches/tosses are uber-tech.
Hyrbid-shapes and lego-poi is uber-[censored]-hard (Which is why Ronan does it)
Relative isolations are fun and hard
Oh, and movement over tech is currently firmly in favour with most spinning authorities
Acciaio was doing some bad-ass 3 poi stuff at UberParis - like Matt's wibbling but with lots of contact poi thrown in to.I still maintain whip-catches/tosses are uber-tech.
Hyrbid-shapes and lego-poi is uber-[censored]-hard (Which is why Ronan does it)
Relative isolations are fun and hard
Oh, and movement over tech is currently firmly in favour with most spinning authorities
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journeyman
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Posted:
i have been working on negative space and framework but not really accomplished much. Still loving hybrids as well
i have been working on negative space and framework but not really accomplished much. Still loving hybrids as well
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bastard child of satan
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Posted:
i've been trying some of the whip catches durbs did at PLAY, i managed to do the one he tried at the end of his routine a few times.
contact poi is very techy but i never got past propellors and kick ups.
a cool combo i came up with is a kick up to whip catch.
i've been trying some of the whip catches durbs did at PLAY, i managed to do the one he tried at the end of his routine a few times.
contact poi is very techy but i never got past propellors and kick ups.
a cool combo i came up with is a kick up to whip catch.
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newbie
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Location: Cape Town, South Africa
newbie
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Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Posted:
Dunno what this classifies as, thought of this other day, gave quick try but havent really put time into it; having your poi come off your wrist by attaching it to a bracelet or something, then you go your hands free to twiddle something on your fingers, i had a lighter that glows damn nice under uv which i was using to check it out with. Could be cool with flames i think, having fire poi extend from your arms then having a very mini fire staff between your fingers. Your poi moves would be a bit limited and my co-ord on left side is still way to bad to do it with both arms. Anyway i thought it would look cool, if i have time ill try come up with something.
Dunno what this classifies as, thought of this other day, gave quick try but havent really put time into it; having your poi come off your wrist by attaching it to a bracelet or something, then you go your hands free to twiddle something on your fingers, i had a lighter that glows damn nice under uv which i was using to check it out with. Could be cool with flames i think, having fire poi extend from your arms then having a very mini fire staff between your fingers. Your poi moves would be a bit limited and my co-ord on left side is still way to bad to do it with both arms. Anyway i thought it would look cool, if i have time ill try come up with something.
Practise makes Poi-fect :P
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old hand
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
old hand
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Posted:
Oli has been juggling 3 poi for a while
https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1759361127
Im really into poi juggling (or Joi as i like to call it) and wibbling at the moment. There are loads of different wibbles and throws that are uber hard. Also inversions are rocking my world. My favourite recent one being turning atomic barrel rolls. Ooh Atomic stuff too, loads of fun.
Oli has been juggling 3 poi for a while
https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1759361127
Im really into poi juggling (or Joi as i like to call it) and wibbling at the moment. There are loads of different wibbles and throws that are uber hard. Also inversions are rocking my world. My favourite recent one being turning atomic barrel rolls. Ooh Atomic stuff too, loads of fun.
"Don't do it naked!"
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old hand
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
old hand
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Posted:
oops my mistake thats not 3 poi juggling its wibbling. nevermind, sorry.
3 joi (ha ha free joy) is great fun though, me and oli have been working on passing but its fairly hard with more than 4 poi.
oops my mistake thats not 3 poi juggling its wibbling. nevermind, sorry.
3 joi (ha ha free joy) is great fun though, me and oli have been working on passing but its fairly hard with more than 4 poi.
"Don't do it naked!"
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Tangled into my spins
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Location: Italy
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Location: Italy
Posted:
also with 4 is not so easy...I have only tryed it once but is sooooo fun!!!!
I need someone able to 2wibble in Italyyyy!!!
Acciaio
also with 4 is not so easy...I have only tryed it once but is sooooo fun!!!!
I need someone able to 2wibble in Italyyyy!!!
Acciaio
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old hand
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
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Posted:
come to bristol and we can have 3 way wibble passing! yay!
come to bristol and we can have 3 way wibble passing! yay!
"Don't do it naked!"
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Tangled into my spins
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Location: Italy
Tangled into my spins
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Posted:
I will plan it
but stop hijacking the topic :P
also a lot of throws(expcially body throws are a lot unexplored and very frustrating and difficoult to learn...
and poi body rolling and 1 poi contact moves sometime are really impossible...
Acciaio
I will plan it
but stop hijacking the topic :P
also a lot of throws(expcially body throws are a lot unexplored and very frustrating and difficoult to learn...
and poi body rolling and 1 poi contact moves sometime are really impossible...
Acciaio
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Posted:
Antibrids are the new hybrids... I dunno everyone is going different directions now. I really like the idea of making movement/dance and tech work together. Use your movement to do the tech moves, right?
Antibrids are the new hybrids... I dunno everyone is going different directions now. I really like the idea of making movement/dance and tech work together. Use your movement to do the tech moves, right?
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Posted:
mini meteor poi things are pretty fun - not especially new but very fast wraps using, say, both wrists and with out holding the poi is very fun and ive only seen one other person doing it - been kinda outta the loop though so who knows... general throws are always fun and hybrids are the way forward
mini meteor poi things are pretty fun - not especially new but very fast wraps using, say, both wrists and with out holding the poi is very fun and ive only seen one other person doing it - been kinda outta the loop though so who knows... general throws are always fun and hybrids are the way forward
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Location: Oregon, USA
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Posted:
Tech + movement = !!! It's been a style that I've been advocating since I started spinning. It's great to watch more and more tech+movement folks come into existance. Stalls and flower/fountains are another thing that I'm absolutely loving right now! Alot of poi head connection stuff, probably due to recently starting back up with double staffs and really getting into choochooisms.
As far as poi juggling goes, somewhere in these forums you can find a couple of really amazing poi juggling vids. One is a clown guy that uses meteoresque poi for juggling (no actual poi spinning, but really amazing). I think you can find that one in Drews video blog thread in the vids section. The other is of a guy name Kev (I believe) and I think they were calling it "poigling". He does an amazing job at it and it's well worth trying to find. It's been quite a while since I've seen them tho, so my memory of them may be a bit misperceived.
Good thread, hope to read more..
Peace,
- Sui
Tech + movement = !!! It's been a style that I've been advocating since I started spinning. It's great to watch more and more tech+movement folks come into existance. Stalls and flower/fountains are another thing that I'm absolutely loving right now! Alot of poi head connection stuff, probably due to recently starting back up with double staffs and really getting into choochooisms.
As far as poi juggling goes, somewhere in these forums you can find a couple of really amazing poi juggling vids. One is a clown guy that uses meteoresque poi for juggling (no actual poi spinning, but really amazing). I think you can find that one in Drews video blog thread in the vids section. The other is of a guy name Kev (I believe) and I think they were calling it "poigling". He does an amazing job at it and it's well worth trying to find. It's been quite a while since I've seen them tho, so my memory of them may be a bit misperceived.
Good thread, hope to read more..
Peace,
- Sui
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Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Posted:
Dev Kev
But also... dance
EDITED_BY: _Clare_ (1189780592)
Dev Kev
But also... dance
EDITED_BY: _Clare_ (1189780592)
Getting to the other side 
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Posted:
I agree I thought I had invented poiggling until i joined hop as I'd never seen anyone do it before it was the first poi move I learnt
Written by: _Clare_
Dev Kev
I agree I thought I had invented poiggling until i joined hop as I'd never seen anyone do it before it was the first poi move I learnt A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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Location: sur, USA
sanguine
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Posted:
When I first saw that an advanced section had been made, I assumed it was a place where you could lock Rev, Arashi and Bluecat away whenever they got too technical.
When I first saw that an advanced section had been made, I assumed it was a place where you could lock Rev, Arashi and Bluecat away whenever they got too technical.
"to a man whose only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail." Abraham Maslow
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Posted:
Most of my tech moves at the moment are coming out of stall switches (changing your stall from up to down, left to right or anything else for that matter with no spin). Combining this with floats gave me a very nice horizontal butterfly float which you can swith at each end and take back without the need to spin out. I've also recently been playing with using stalls to change planes in many different ways.
Most of my tech moves at the moment are coming out of stall switches (changing your stall from up to down, left to right or anything else for that matter with no spin). Combining this with floats gave me a very nice horizontal butterfly float which you can swith at each end and take back without the need to spin out. I've also recently been playing with using stalls to change planes in many different ways.
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Location: Sweden
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Posted:
I've been working on butterfly flower to throw to reverse arms to catch and repeat for ages... It's just so possible and yet hard as hell =)
So... Flower throws =)
What is poi lego ?
I've been working on butterfly flower to throw to reverse arms to catch and repeat for ages... It's just so possible and yet hard as hell =)
So... Flower throws =)
What is poi lego ?
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sanguine
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Posted:
Flower throws! I would love to see a video of that one. Im imagining counter-weighted poi being slung simultaneously while tangled and creating mini flowers all while in an arc, up and down.
Ok, now that I have started playing with them, I am loving whip catches and hyperloop catches. Im doing airwraps behind my back, over my head, under my leg, etc and then letting go of one poi to toss it up in the air and either catch the free poi or try and whip catch it in mid air again. So far, Ive only managed to do 2 whip catches like that in a row, though. Aiming for 5!
Thing is, if you do a tangled toss and catch, you have the freedom to pivot on one foot and rotate in any direction before catching. So, theoretically, I can combine it with more dance-oriented movement.
Not that I've progressed to that point yet.....
Flower throws! I would love to see a video of that one. Im imagining counter-weighted poi being slung simultaneously while tangled and creating mini flowers all while in an arc, up and down.
Ok, now that I have started playing with them, I am loving whip catches and hyperloop catches. Im doing airwraps behind my back, over my head, under my leg, etc and then letting go of one poi to toss it up in the air and either catch the free poi or try and whip catch it in mid air again. So far, Ive only managed to do 2 whip catches like that in a row, though. Aiming for 5!
Thing is, if you do a tangled toss and catch, you have the freedom to pivot on one foot and rotate in any direction before catching. So, theoretically, I can combine it with more dance-oriented movement.
Not that I've progressed to that point yet.....
"to a man whose only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail." Abraham Maslow
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Posted:
Well I don't imagine flower throws as tangles, but that'd be kick ass as well.
I've kinda realised tho that the effect wouldn't be almost any different at all if i stand in wallplane and do this instead of wheelplane so that makes it a bit easier.
Well I don't imagine flower throws as tangles, but that'd be kick ass as well.
I've kinda realised tho that the effect wouldn't be almost any different at all if i stand in wallplane and do this instead of wheelplane so that makes it a bit easier.
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Classically British
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Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Classically British
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Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Posted:
One-handed infinite hyperloop flower would look nice if you could keep it clean...
I'm still playing with whip catches/tosses - they're about oooooo 67.9% reliable
Managed 3 continous whip tosses at lunch today - so i've set myself a vague goal of 5 whip-tosses, but that's going to take a while...
One-handed infinite hyperloop flower would look nice if you could keep it clean...
I'm still playing with whip catches/tosses - they're about oooooo 67.9% reliable
Managed 3 continous whip tosses at lunch today - so i've set myself a vague goal of 5 whip-tosses, but that's going to take a while...
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Location: In my backpack, United Kingdom
Posted:
Ivè played onehanded butterflys and where they go same direction in the same hand (don`t know what it`s called) since I started with poi more or less. Now I reached the point where I can use one hand as two hands and split the motion to each one of the poi.
For example I can spin both forward in one hand, stall one of them and let it hang still while the other one keep spinnig and then I can do flowers, turns bhb while one is hanging still.
Doesn`t sound very cool but it looks weird, it´s like one of the poi spinnig by itself and the other doesn`t move at all.
Ahhhh I can`t explain it, just sound stupid
One other thing I found is a beatswitch (as I call it ) but in between spirawrap on one hand while you move your arms in antispins, looks amazing.
Also two handed spiralwrap that goes in and out a hybrid and in again and so on, also look really wicked, thechaninging between the spinning point looks so good, like slow motion for two seconds on one of the poi.
Yeah yeah im just babbling
Meet me up and have a spin I will be traveling everywhere, first out Thailand offcorse, tell me if you know any spinners anywhere!
//Thomas
Ivè played onehanded butterflys and where they go same direction in the same hand (don`t know what it`s called) since I started with poi more or less. Now I reached the point where I can use one hand as two hands and split the motion to each one of the poi.
For example I can spin both forward in one hand, stall one of them and let it hang still while the other one keep spinnig and then I can do flowers, turns bhb while one is hanging still.
Doesn`t sound very cool but it looks weird, it´s like one of the poi spinnig by itself and the other doesn`t move at all.
Ahhhh I can`t explain it, just sound stupid
One other thing I found is a beatswitch (as I call it
) but in between spirawrap on one hand while you move your arms in antispins, looks amazing.Also two handed spiralwrap that goes in and out a hybrid and in again and so on, also look really wicked, thechaninging between the spinning point looks so good, like slow motion for two seconds on one of the poi.
Yeah yeah im just babbling
Meet me up and have a spin I will be traveling everywhere, first out Thailand offcorse, tell me if you know any spinners anywhere!
//Thomas
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Location: Sweden
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Location: Sweden
Posted:
Some crazy stuff there Thomas. I really like some of the things you explain. Particularly interested in those hybrid spiral wraps.
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I'd have to admit not doing anything really crazy other then trying to perfect my Polyrythmic hybrid weave. It's not tight enough yet =)
I really want to have more crazy people to play poi with. Are you staying in Sweden long enough to attend NPC this year ?
Some crazy stuff there Thomas. I really like some of the things you explain. Particularly interested in those hybrid spiral wraps.
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I'd have to admit not doing anything really crazy other then trying to perfect my Polyrythmic hybrid weave. It's not tight enough yet =)
I really want to have more crazy people to play poi with. Are you staying in Sweden long enough to attend NPC this year ?
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journeyman
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Location: Dublin,Ireland
journeyman
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Location: Dublin,Ireland
Posted:
em....one handed hyperloops?wud that just be letting them tangle near the hand and move across to the other side of ur body so it untangles?
em....one handed hyperloops?wud that just be letting them tangle near the hand and move across to the other side of ur body so it untangles?
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Location: everywhere
Posted:
so, as a direct result of some serious 'poi - the game' play, the following has been happening;
solid quartertime - crosses and weaves
loads of fun with barrel roll fountains, with stops.
horizontal inversions.
extremely wrong weave - barrel rolls galore.
really geeky conversations about the nature of polyrhythm, and the concept of zero.
butterfly parallel time hybrids (thanks ronan)
mmmmm.
so, as a direct result of some serious 'poi - the game' play, the following has been happening;
solid quartertime - crosses and weaves
loads of fun with barrel roll fountains, with stops.
horizontal inversions.
extremely wrong weave - barrel rolls galore.
really geeky conversations about the nature of polyrhythm, and the concept of zero.
butterfly parallel time hybrids (thanks ronan)
mmmmm.
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
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Posted:
Thre is cheat for solid quarter time via R-type catch
(the wheel weaving) too.
Concept of zero, what's that?
the new one,
:R
Thre is cheat for solid quarter time via R-type catch
(the wheel weaving) too.
Concept of zero, what's that?
the new one,
:R
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Location: everywhere
Posted:
using stalls in polyrhythms - can be really dull as a 'answering the vcriteria' but also really interesting, especially in horizontal.
using stalls in polyrhythms - can be really dull as a 'answering the vcriteria' but also really interesting, especially in horizontal.
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
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