Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > Poi Hurts!!
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Location: Buderim QLD, Australia
Member
17 posts
Location: Buderim QLD, Australia
Posted:
ive been playing with the staff and double staff for about 3 months and I just started on poi yesterday. I must say poi hurts a lot more then staff! ive got brusies everywhere, ive been hit in the face 1,000,000 times, and winded myself by an unfortunate hit in between the legs
- still i can see an addiction forming!!
Has anybody got any funny/ painful injurys stories to share? It might inspire me to perserve and learn this bloody 3 beat weave backwards
Peace,
Tom
ive been playing with the staff and double staff for about 3 months and I just started on poi yesterday. I must say poi hurts a lot more then staff! ive got brusies everywhere, ive been hit in the face 1,000,000 times, and winded myself by an unfortunate hit in between the legs
- still i can see an addiction forming!! Has anybody got any funny/ painful injurys stories to share? It might inspire me to perserve and learn this bloody 3 beat weave backwards
Peace,
Tom
member
43 posts
Location: Fareham
43 posts
Location: Fareham
Posted:
I got myself in the nuts with a hideously badly-conceived pair of home-made poi, several years ago.
I couldn't find tennis balls, so I used golf balls. I think I might have cried a little that day.
I got myself in the nuts with a hideously badly-conceived pair of home-made poi, several years ago.
I couldn't find tennis balls, so I used golf balls. I think I might have cried a little that day.
No philosophical signatures for me. I hate those things. But I do like biscuits.
newbie
9 posts
9 posts
Posted:
i tried for the first time and nailed myself in the head.... gonna get softer ones cause that left stars in my eyes!!!
NOT stopping though!!
i tried for the first time and nailed myself in the head.... gonna get softer ones cause that left stars in my eyes!!!
NOT stopping though!!
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Should I be spinning around my poi, or should my poi be spinning around me???
42 posts
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Should I be spinning around my poi, or should my poi be spinning around me???
42 posts
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Posted:
I was doing an outward spinning butterfly and tried a behind the head move........
the poi wrapped around my wrists (handcuffed me) behind my head and whacked me in the ears simultaneously....
that will throw off your equilibrium!
I was doing an outward spinning butterfly and tried a behind the head move........
the poi wrapped around my wrists (handcuffed me) behind my head and whacked me in the ears simultaneously....
that will throw off your equilibrium!
Spinning makes the world go round
stranger
24 posts
Location: Caerphilly, S Wales
24 posts
Location: Caerphilly, S Wales
Posted:
I keep hitting my calves...
I keep hitting my calves...
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Member
13 posts
Location: St. Helens, Merseyside, England (UK)
Member
13 posts
Location: St. Helens, Merseyside, England (UK)
Posted:
Was out in the park for ages today spinnin and doin well until I cracked meself in the nuts twice within 10 minutes!! Oooch!
...decided to call it a day after that! I think I was losin focus out of hunger and tiredness.
At least it wasn't as bad as the other day when I hit meself in the rocks with both poi at once!
I been thinkin a box (that they use in Karate etc) might be a good idea!
Was out in the park for ages today spinnin and doin well until I cracked meself in the nuts twice within 10 minutes!! Oooch!
...decided to call it a day after that! I think I was losin focus out of hunger and tiredness.At least it wasn't as bad as the other day when I hit meself in the rocks with both poi at once!
I been thinkin a box (that they use in Karate etc) might be a good idea!
live unlimited... love regardless!
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journeyman
51 posts
Location: that cute valley in the south, Slovenia
journeyman
51 posts
Location: that cute valley in the south, Slovenia
Posted:
Whacked myself in the head a gazillion times doing behind the head butterfly. Luckily I have the fluffy poi with their forgiving feeling
so it's rather like "no, no, Harasu, you're doing it all wrong" instead of "you clusmy crow, wtf is wrong with you".
Btw, I don't think girls' private parts (whacked that, too
doing 3 beat weave) hurt any less than boys'. They're both quite sensitive, innit?
Whacked myself in the head a gazillion times doing behind the head butterfly. Luckily I have the fluffy poi with their forgiving feeling
so it's rather like "no, no, Harasu, you're doing it all wrong" instead of "you clusmy crow, wtf is wrong with you".Btw, I don't think girls' private parts (whacked that, too
doing 3 beat weave) hurt any less than boys'. They're both quite sensitive, innit? Commander Schutz: Strange, and I thought you were an Aryan.
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Rancor
253 posts
Location: Right Here, USA
Rancor
253 posts
Location: Right Here, USA
Posted:
Originally Posted By: newgabeGlowies are friggin LETHAL things. Sure, I split my eyebrow and all sorts. Go slower, concentrate on PLANES not SPEED and you will rarely get hit.
But the hit in the balls thing I simply do not understand. In 6 years or so spinning poi I have never ever not even once hit myself in the fanny. What the hell are people doing to get them going upwards between the legs? Or are these extra endowed people, hung like bulls as they say?
*boasting prompt*
Funny I have been on my knees today three times from a blow to the balls. I find it happens when the poi ricochet off each other (tennis balls) in an unfavorable trajectory... I never see it coming until it's to late...
Edit: I just crawled to the computer to say, "Number Four..." Worst one yet.
EDITED_BY: doppelGanger (1231058321)
Originally Posted By: newgabeGlowies are friggin LETHAL things. Sure, I split my eyebrow and all sorts. Go slower, concentrate on PLANES not SPEED and you will rarely get hit.
But the hit in the balls thing I simply do not understand. In 6 years or so spinning poi I have never ever not even once hit myself in the fanny. What the hell are people doing to get them going upwards between the legs? Or are these extra endowed people, hung like bulls as they say?
*boasting prompt*
Funny I have been on my knees today three times from a blow to the balls. I find it happens when the poi ricochet off each other (tennis balls) in an unfavorable trajectory... I never see it coming until it's to late...
Edit: I just crawled to the computer to say, "Number Four..." Worst one yet.
EDITED_BY: doppelGanger (1231058321)
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Jellie Jamie
2 posts
Location: Warren, MI, USA
Jellie Jamie
2 posts
Location: Warren, MI, USA
Posted:
I was drinking, and I thought it would be a great time to poi (cause it was really dark out), and 5 minutes into it, I whacked myself right in the nose. I think I fractured it then.. just maybe. But it hurt real bad. I was using glow poi with the socks.
I was drinking, and I thought it would be a great time to poi (cause it was really dark out), and 5 minutes into it, I whacked myself right in the nose. I think I fractured it then.. just maybe. But it hurt real bad. I was using glow poi with the socks.
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The official unofficial purveyor of cake
26 posts
Location: Missouri USA
The official unofficial purveyor of cake
26 posts
Location: Missouri USA
Posted:
I just got my poi three days and hit my self in the nuts more in those three days than in the last three years! but I sure learned alot.
I just got my poi three days and hit my self in the nuts more in those three days than in the last three years! but I sure learned alot.
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Vagabond
3 posts
Location: MAssachussetts USA
Vagabond
3 posts
Location: MAssachussetts USA
Posted:
I hit myself hard enough in the ear ( I forgot what trick) that I shattered the ipod ear bud that was in it. My ear rang for a few hours after that and I had a bitch of a time getting the peices out of my ear.
I hit myself hard enough in the ear ( I forgot what trick) that I shattered the ipod ear bud that was in it. My ear rang for a few hours after that and I had a bitch of a time getting the peices out of my ear.
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Newbie
19 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
Newbie
19 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
Posted:
Originally Posted By: deshriaI hit myself hard enough in the ear ( I forgot what trick) that I shattered the ipod ear bud that was in it. My ear rang for a few hours after that and I had a bitch of a time getting the peices out of my ear.
Wow! That sounds....horrible.
Originally Posted By: deshriaI hit myself hard enough in the ear ( I forgot what trick) that I shattered the ipod ear bud that was in it. My ear rang for a few hours after that and I had a bitch of a time getting the peices out of my ear.
Wow! That sounds....horrible.
*Insert poignant and emotionally relevant song lyric here*
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enthusiast
324 posts
Location: SouthDakota, USA
enthusiast
324 posts
Location: SouthDakota, USA
Posted:
Originally Posted By: deshriaI hit myself hard enough in the ear ( I forgot what trick) that I shattered the ipod ear bud that was in it. My ear rang for a few hours after that and I had a bitch of a time getting the peices out of my ear.
Ive done this once...only I had just gotten my ears peirced and the stud got knocked out. the worst part was trying to find it in the carpet. lol
Originally Posted By: deshriaI hit myself hard enough in the ear ( I forgot what trick) that I shattered the ipod ear bud that was in it. My ear rang for a few hours after that and I had a bitch of a time getting the peices out of my ear.
Ive done this once...only I had just gotten my ears peirced and the stud got knocked out. the worst part was trying to find it in the carpet. lol
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poiN00b
1 post
1 post
Posted:
Some years ago, i was doing the poi, and quess what...!! They both landed on my balls! They were without fire, but still it hurted like a horse kick!
Damn poi!
Some years ago, i was doing the poi, and quess what...!! They both landed on my balls! They were without fire, but still it hurted like a horse kick!
Damn poi!
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Newbie
19 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
Newbie
19 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
Posted:
*feels even luckier to be a woman with all these ball-busting stories*!!
*feels even luckier to be a woman with all these ball-busting stories*!!
*Insert poignant and emotionally relevant song lyric here*
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life's a garden, dig it
115 posts
Location: Tennesse, U.S.A.
life's a garden, dig it
115 posts
Location: Tennesse, U.S.A.
Posted:
I always seem to hit one unlucky side of my "situation". or when the little battery compartment top on my glow poi hits you perfectly on the bridge of your nose. good times.
I always seem to hit one unlucky side of my "situation". or when the little battery compartment top on my glow poi hits you perfectly on the bridge of your nose. good times.
haha
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beginner forever
159 posts
Location: Santa Cruz, Ca, USA
beginner forever
159 posts
Location: Santa Cruz, Ca, USA
Posted:
Your poi don't mean it. They still love you, they are just trying to teach you to be aware of what you are doing.
Your poi don't mean it. They still love you, they are just trying to teach you to be aware of what you are doing.
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amatuer professional
8 posts
Location: Wisconsin, US Virgin Islands
amatuer professional
8 posts
Location: Wisconsin, US Virgin Islands
Posted:
Ouch ouch...the balls again.
Ouch ouch...the balls again.
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stranger
18 posts
18 posts
Posted:
Yeah it hurts a bit, the balls is the worst but Ive realised the only time I maage to get hit in the balls is when theres been obstacles about
.
Ive had some pretty ad face hits though usually when drunk. Once I somehow managed to swing the poi ul pelt into my eye? that was bad ..
good luck anyways
Yeah it hurts a bit, the balls is the worst but Ive realised the only time I maage to get hit in the balls is when theres been obstacles about
.Ive had some pretty ad face hits though usually when drunk. Once I somehow managed to swing the poi ul pelt into my eye? that was bad ..
good luck anyways
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Rampant whirler.
2,418 posts
Location: Geelong, Victoria, Australia!
Rampant whirler.
2,418 posts
Location: Geelong, Victoria, Australia!
Posted:
Hah! One I remember was while learning the inverted beat in the corkscrew, it clipped me in my open eyeball.
Eeeek! Eyes watered for ages after that, had to have a sit down.
Hah! One I remember was while learning the inverted beat in the corkscrew, it clipped me in my open eyeball.
Eeeek! Eyes watered for ages after that, had to have a sit down.
Poi + Hoop
21 posts
Location: Ontario, Canada
21 posts
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posted:
I am just learning.. maybe had my poi set for a week and half. And i have just got the alternate butterfly working correctly, but while learning and still sometimes now when i flop myn head behind me i get hit in the ass.
And at first i was scared and would tuck down from the poi, and that would make things only worse obviously lol.
And i would get in the face, top of the head and or back shoulder area.
Soo yupp they doo hurt.
I am just learning.. maybe had my poi set for a week and half. And i have just got the alternate butterfly working correctly, but while learning and still sometimes now when i flop myn head behind me i get hit in the ass.
And at first i was scared and would tuck down from the poi, and that would make things only worse obviously lol.
And i would get in the face, top of the head and or back shoulder area.
Soo yupp they doo hurt.
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journeyman
58 posts
Location: augusta, georgia, united states
journeyman
58 posts
Location: augusta, georgia, united states
Posted:
i was spining my sea bean necklace and it hit me on the forehead...it made a cool sound
i was spining my sea bean necklace and it hit me on the forehead...it made a cool sound
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