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Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.

Sorry dude, I'm with LTC, it's not advanced in my book. If a BTB waistwrap is beginner, so is this!

It IS, however, a fountain. I'd call it a 4-beat weave fountain, cause the twisty hand transitions only come on the front to behind transitions.

Try doing a full 5bt weave fountain. They're fun.

My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean

If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?

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.

 Written by: technicaltitch1



It belongs in advanced - it is trickier than the 5-weave.



I'd also be interested to hear why you don't think it is a fountain. Perhaps you only watched the first few seconds?





I did watch the whole thing. the spinning is that fast, and the poi that difficult to see, that it appears to contain a windmill...



So basically, what you have here is a three beat fountain, with little bursts of Five beat weave to take you from '12 beats' to '16 beats'. Am I right? If soneone can explain to me why I might be wrong, I'm happy to listen.



I can do a three beat fountain that has over double that number of beats. just means I move my arms in a slower circle than you.



ANyways, I'm gonna use my super powers to move this to Beginner. EDIT: my super powers don't seem to be working, so I'll ask someone else to do it instead.

Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

 Written by: TheBovrilMonkey



I wish I had better superpowers than that.
*throws pellet onto the floor and leaves in a cloud of smoke*


You must have been in that Ninja Day Parade.

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

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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!

5bt weave fountain: do a 5bt weave forwards, then turn into a 5 bt weave backwards. Then go the other way, back to forwards 5bt weave, turning back the way you came. Then do the forwards to backwards transition low and the backwards to forwards one up high. You're now doing a 5bt weave fountain.

You can also insert a 4bt windmill at the top for a ludicrous number of beats to the whole pattern. Hope that helps dude!

My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean

If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?