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flash fireBRONZE Member
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2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia


Posted:
This space is for all those funksters busy improving their technique by learning new moves - made-up or traditional.



Tell us all about it! We love hearing about our fellow poiers/staffies/misc. toyers succeeding with new things biggrin

It's just hard to keep up with it all sometimes, so if we keep it together you'll be certain to get a little feedback.



here a pat on the back in advance from me



::flash enthusiastically pats your back::



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RicheeBRONZE Member
HOP librarian
1,841 posts
Location: Prague, Czech. Republic


Posted:

Staff - "Cross" with doubles around the neck smile
Using chest with one staff contacts smile

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oliSILVER Member
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom


Posted:
how to get out of a hyperloop on the same side you went into it

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
more double staff than you can shake (two little) sticks at wink

all thanks to dave knox and his brain-squelching intensive 'beginners' doubles crash course hug

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
new way into and out of 4b shower: 4 56 71 23 4



which kinda means i can do 4567123 on one side.

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
Yay! I got a half Steve biggrin

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DuncGOLD Member
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom


Posted:
BTL whip catches and BTB whip catches biggrin all thanks to a certain someones video wink hug2

Let's relight this forum ubblove


DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
really? BTB whip catches? Yowzers...

I've also been playing with Whip Tosses which are a bit hit and miss, 3 consecutive in a row is my current record.

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DuncGOLD Member
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom


Posted:
Yeah I didn't say they were good or reliable yet tho ubbangel BTB is just the same and infront when you do them from weave. Throw them behind from infont then just put your hands where BTB weave is. Or behind your head like windmill.

I can't get those whip tosses to work tho at all....grrr.....except by accident of course!

Let's relight this forum ubblove


bluecatgeek, level 1
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere


Posted:
mmmm 8 back crosses(doubles), constant tomohawks, finally....


15 catches 8 balls....... goddamn.


R

Holistic Spinner (I hope)


TwirlyShoryuken!
233 posts
Location: Hexham, Newcastle, England


Posted:
Weave with a beat of buzzsaw in the middle. I don't think this is a buzzsaw weave though is it? Not sure what the difference is mind.

BirdGOLD Member
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6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom


Posted:
A fully isolated reverse buzzsaw weave!! At last! Its not very tidy at the mo, but its there! biggrin

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DuncGOLD Member
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7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom


Posted:
hug

[boselectaMJmode] We is gonna be bad-ass I-so-la-tin mutha fuckas by the time we get to Faaaaalmouth....chamone[/boselectaMJmode]

Let's relight this forum ubblove


BirdGOLD Member
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6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom


Posted:
and i have got a nice between the legs stall (blatantly stolen from Oli) going into a turn, so it goes:

Reverse butterfly->stall->reverse butterfly!

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My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."


fireweaverSILVER Member
stranger
2 posts
Location: CA, USA


Posted:
i finally figured out a transition into the reverse weave from the corkscrew

MikeIconGOLD Member
Pooh-Bah
2,109 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA


Posted:
Learned the 3 ball box. Its sloppy and I cant do it more than like 3 times in a row but I got it none the less smile

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We'll blaze a new trail,
and torch the rough patches.

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colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: Custom Bug


[boselectaMJmode] We is gonna be bad-ass I-so-la-tin mutha fuckas by the time we get to Faaaaalmouth....chamone[/boselectaMJmode]




ubblol

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


talesstranger
10 posts
Location: Colorado


Posted:
FINALLY!!!i have the behind the back 3 AND 4 point weave down..!!!

im too tired to type...


spiralxveteran
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK


Posted:
Butterfly fountains. Very pretty.

"Moo," said the happy cow.


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
and hard as hell!

nice one spiral smile


blue - you qualified 8 yet or what?! wink hug

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


DuncGOLD Member
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom


Posted:
UTL hyperloop whip catch....and for a change I have witnesses!! (rossco bossco I'm lookin at you wink)

Let's relight this forum ubblove


spiralxveteran
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK


Posted:
Written by: coleman


and hard as hell!

nice one spiral smile



Only one direction out of the 4 so far... the others are almost there but I need to work more on wall plane butterfly weaves for a while...

"Moo," said the happy cow.


duballstarSILVER Member
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2,216 posts
Location: Suburbiton, Yoo-Kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
nice one dude... are you gonna be at spitz tomorrow? i took the time to learn some butterfly hyperloops for the first time yest (as opposed to airwraps) and remember you showing me some good stuff with them before.

otherwise i'm getting close to a 5bt btbw but it's still more like 4 at the moment.... smile

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spiralxveteran
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK


Posted:
Nah, don't think so. You at the Glade festival?

"Moo," said the happy cow.


fraggleSILVER Member
member
94 posts
Location: denver, colorado, USA


Posted:
i learned this really cool wrap combo


you do one thread the needle then a double wrap on your right arm with both poi then u do an under wrap with your right poi to the underside of the left hand and back to your right arm then back up to a thread the needle then you bounce your right pio ball from top arm to top ar while butterflying the other then u have to do that double wrap where they go above and below and wrap each arm follw that with a grab, you grab both poi thile its way cool and confusing but once u see it ull understand

YUP

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borismcnorrisprofessional pedant
137 posts
Location: Bristol


Posted:
no new poi stuf recently but I finally learnt some new juggling tricks after about 8 years of being able to juggle a cascade and nothing else.

spriral
machine (kinda)
mills mess (ish)

all 3 balls. juggle

emotion of the day: dead chuffed smile

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colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
4b multiplex thingy that looks a bit like burkes but isn't quite.

4b mills is still making me cry - you think you got it and then realise you were kidding yourself and its actually the hardest thing ever mad

wink juggle

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


spiralxveteran
1,376 posts
Location: London, UK


Posted:
Proper straight-arm 5 beat weave where all 5 beats are done with the same arm straight... before I was doing a 4bt on one arm and then the other which was rather cheaty wink

"Moo," said the happy cow.


DutSILVER Member
lurker
380 posts
Location: Nashville, TN, USA


Posted:
I've got something down I'm calling the "split time 3-beat inverse butterfly weave" for lack of anything better to call it. I think this is technically correct tho... Basically, the 'over' hand makes a turn to being between chest and arms, wall plane. if you opened it up, it would look like an inverse (cross armed) butterfly buzzsaw (w/ the chains outside the arms, ./x\. where . is balls, / is chains, and x is wrists [in this figure, left poi is on right side at 3 o'clock coming up, right poi is on left side at 9o'clock going down]. So it's just throwing in this one crossed beat, cross body "inverse" of a butterfly. But since you can cross, you can cross right then left for a three beat. it's hard to synch up when to thread the wrist which way if I keep this up for a while, but it looks badassed. Technically, if your strings were short enough, you could just weave back and forth from full inverse butterfly to regular, but I can't make it look good yet myself.

I might throw this and a few other moves down on video, cuz I've never seen them done, and they're super easy, but super stylin'. horizontal butterfly weave for example...

umm.. what else is new? oh yeah, basic long string under the leg and "spanish lady" through wraps...

butterfly double handcuffs, (forward and reverse, duh) and butterfly double bicep wraps.

some funny trick stalls where I go into the stalls butterfly and come out weave, or vice versa. I'm getting them to look better at this point as they're still kind of wonky.

-- dut

RevBRONZE Member
Bastard Newbie Messiah
1,269 posts
Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA


Posted:
yeah the butterfly corks are fun and don't get near the time they should.. lol..

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oliSILVER Member
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: spiralx


Nah, don't think so. You at the Glade festival?




hey spiral i am, and i wanna spin with you i think, so we shall see if that happens smile

learning things hmm... getting my throws better recently, and some other stuff i forget.

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no


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