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RicheeBRONZE Member
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Location: Prague, Czech. Republic


Posted:
What are you doing, w ith the other hand
in single staff spinning?

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willworkforfoodjnrSILVER Member
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Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (UK)


Posted:
I like to use it for making rude gestures to my friends when they point out I'm off-plane.

Failing that I generally tend to try for a big movement of the arm to the point I'll be switching hands.

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DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
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Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
*This thread wins the award for being the hardest to click on*

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StoutBRONZE Member
Pooh-Bah
1,872 posts
Location: Canada


Posted:
Yea...what happened to the OP ?

This is something i try, but quite often fail, to think about, Sometimes i find my staffless arm just sort of hanging there, lost and looking for a purpose and when i do, I'll either pass the staff to that hand, or wave it around in hopes that it somehow "fits" with what I'm doing with the other hand.

astonSILVER Member
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4,061 posts
Location: South Africa


Posted:
Awesome! A nearly hidden thread....

I do not play with a staff often enough to answer this.

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"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
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Mother_Natures_SonSILVER Member
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2,418 posts
Location: Geelong, Victoria, Australia!


Posted:
i rarely play with staff, but I usually find that my arms usually mirror one another, this is probably because of poi flowers and such, my arms tend to stay on opposite sides of one another. I should make an effort to cock my wrist while doing so to make it look deliberate. tongue2

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squidBRONZE Member
sanguine
382 posts
Location: sur, USA


Posted:
sometimes I will hold my passive hand behind my back. I think it gives me an arrogant, military or artiste aire. Most times I try to hold it straight out to the side, opposite of the staff hand, like MNS was stating.

rest of the time I use it to help block the damnable thing from bashing me in the head. smile

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astonSILVER Member
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa


Posted:
I use it in a similar way, protection.

Although mucking about with a levi-stick gave me some ideas....

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland


Fire_MooseSILVER Member
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA


Posted:
pockets.....both of em

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StoutBRONZE Member
Pooh-Bah
1,872 posts
Location: Canada


Posted:
Originally Posted By: Pojepockets.....both of em

You're that good at contact ?

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Fire_MooseSILVER Member
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA


Posted:
Lol not THAT good. I can keep duck outs going for a while with hands in my pockets...just recently started a hands in pocket jesus but thats still a bit iffy.

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burningoftheclaveySILVER Member
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Location: over yonder, New Zealand


Posted:
hmm.. sometimes I hold it limply to my chest to the effect of a bird with a broken wing, or down at my side, swinging out a little.. or if I'm dancing then it'll be dancing too... smile

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akgraphicsSILVER Member
member
133 posts
Location: Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom


Posted:
having spun double staff for a while, i find my empty hand does the corresponding move to the one my actual stick is doing (regardless of whether its possible or not :P) when staff spinning. for contact? its flailing everywhere!

DyamiTKGOLD Member
beginner forever
159 posts
Location: Santa Cruz, Ca, USA


Posted:
the whole rest of the body (including my staffless arm) is dancing in such a way that compliments the dance of the staff itself.
Just joking I don't actually do that. Really I use my free hand to hold the pie.

Fire_MooseSILVER Member
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3,597 posts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA


Posted:
Hey Dyami!

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SkattoGOLD Member
Walking on whims...
687 posts
Location: Eastbourne, UK


Posted:
Obviously it depends on what I'm doing... but if I'm just twirling the staff in one hand, my other hand is usually clasped behind my back or stretch outwards in the opposite direction.

... or strangling a moose...

Skatto

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Run like a cushion,
Be the small bookcase."

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