Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > Beyond Butterfly

Posted: 21st Nov 2007
"not many are thanks to your teachings"

Have you er...tried both the poi moves forums - advanced and beginners?
Or trawled YouTube and other poi sites for videos and tutorials?
There's so much out there on a plate for you to learn...

If you're stuck with butterfly moves, either force youself to learn same-direction moves, or just go and discover how many 1000s of moves are out there using a butterfly as a base.

Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 21st Nov 2007
Sorry Durbs that came out wrong - meant that all the moves I've learnt were from here, thanks to those videos, although I haven't managed to learn many...it was meant to be thank you not an insult.

If a tree falls in a forest with no one to witness it...do the other trees laugh?

Posted: 22nd Nov 2007
Nay worries, thought it might've been a typo, just couldn't work out what it was meant to say

Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 22nd Nov 2007
Let that be a lesson to me - don't thread at ridiculous times in the morning, no matter how bored you are at work!

If a tree falls in a forest with no one to witness it...do the other trees laugh?

Posted: 24th Nov 2007
I hear this "wall" problem a lot from people. Heck I even get it myself once or twice a year. Just hit a point where nothing new seems to be coming along or you can't think of anything new to try.

I've learned to view these times not as an obstacle or as a bad thing, but as a chance to relearn what I already know and perfect it. If you are a beginner then there is no way you have perfect plane control yet, or that you've learned to put the moves you DO know in new places, etc.

So if you aren't getting new stuff, thats no problem, work on what you do know, perfect it, move it around, drill it, do it with your eyes closed, turn with it etc. I've seen people spin doing only 5 "moves" but do them so well that its more entertaining to watch them than some guy who knows 408935302587345 different moves and transitions but looks like a spazz.

I promise you if you drill what you do know you will find that even though you think you know a move, there are many more levels of comfort and smoothness out there to grasp with any one move. In fact, whenever I teach people i constantly tell them NOT to worry about getting new stuff all the time, instead concentrate on making what you do know beautiful, drill the basics, and "connect" with your poi more. The new stuff comes by itself usually once you stop trying to chase it down.

Happy spinning and keep practicing!!

I once learned every move that there was,
Every style, Every technique.
Then I woke up, and forgot it all,
So now I struggle to dream.

Posted: 28th Nov 2007
I actually hit the wall, and decided to take a break...and then when I pick it up in a few weeks I've found after doing a lot of reading/surfing, the wall is easily bypassed, but that is just me

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed

Posted: 28th Nov 2007
Great post there Mr.Imbalance.