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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

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.



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Lookitchoo rockin out every which way! Go girl.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

ooooh oooh yesterday i had a lurvely spin at spitz, and learnt the following:



uglies in to pretties

absolutely no idea how to describe it

*shouts for coleman to wander over and explain*



continuous airwrap stepthroughs



all sorts of wierdities with a couple of sticks.



a way out of the 'hangman'



pirouette airwraps(thanks simian for the reminder)



the REAL 'thread the needle'



tehe

a happy cat

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

i managed to do the one where, ok for the purposes of theis convo we'll call it carolines trick, then i somehow did a funny corkscrew but i dunno what it was i did different looked cool though,

oh and realised when i needed to check my watch mid spin i could do one handed butter flyt too :D:D:D

random murbles

BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL. 30th april ~ Calton hill - Edinburgh
SAMHUINN FESTIVAL. 31st October ~ Royal Mile - Edinburgh

finally got to play again. upward butterfly airwrap wall plane, knot at 12:00 for more than one beat, stick index fingers into plane, then dragon's tongue both poi on fingers for 3/4 beat, bring pull out and shoot to 45 degrees above horizontal, fall to inverted wall plane to release. cyclops with a moustache- man it's fun

-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.

I can do BTB weave both directions and I'm quite chunky and have short arms You'll find your arms get more able to stretch as you practise

"Moo," said the happy cow.

"Moo," said the happy cow.

right arashi, followed that all the way up to 'dragons tounge'.....

I did my first machine today. *shrug*

t

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

how to catch with my left hand

(not as reliable as the right, but getting there...)

now all i have to do is learn to juggle my poi

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

actually, ive got all of that bar the dragons tounge, now what the hell is it?

T

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

Not poi but doubles...



Butterfly weaves.

Smoothed out a few new weave / buzzsaw type moves.

BTB waist wrap into cross BTB.





How many catches qualifies a juggle BTW?

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

3balls : 6 catches
4 balls : 8 catches
5 balls: 10 catches
and so on and so forth.


for the manoovers
R

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

I learned "simple" turns with crossed hands both directions and both position in plane and as a top crossed hand wind mill

POI THEO(R)IST

I was reading the thread on buzzsaw weaves earlier, didn�t really understand the stuff about the notcolmen5 or 5bt butterfly weave, but it left me questioning what I thought was a three beat buzzsaw weave. Anyway I went away and had a play, I learnt something that I think might be a 5 beat buzzsaw weave, not sure though, you kinda do the buzzsaw in it, but your arms are 'overlapping', and you have to be a little funky with your arms� anyway, that�s quite cool.

Also started to learn btb waistwraps on Friday which happen some of the time on my right side, so im a happy boy.

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

nice one oli

along with the 3bt butterfly weave, btb waistwrap was the mills mess of poi for me - a real breakthrough move.



this weekend i picked up poi whilst by myself.

tis the first time in ages i have done this

i learnt fwd and rev 3bt buzzsaw weave and half of the 5bt buzzsaw weave (got it to come inside on left side but the other way just ends up tangled at the moment).



i also spun the windmill the other way for a bit and pretty much fixed my ugly version of btb ww going fwd on the left with bottom carry.

two things i should have drilled a long, long time ago but could never be bothered.

still need to practice the windmill more as it feels really awkward and i am scared for my nose's safety but that brings my btbww count up to 2/4 - two down, two to go... :rolleyes



i do like the way that at the top of this page it looks like bluecat learnt to qualify 3, 4 and 5 balls all on the same day.

now that would be some quick learning

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

cj tricks.

4 ball shower, seperate.

4 ball stack thumb lift.

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti

*moans something about having to work again tomorrow, stops juggling and lays down to sleep*



nice one tom - boston's is hardcore (and works two ways ).




ps. 41 catches of five
pps. messy as hell after 22

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

nice one thomas.

and you co-lemon.

in a fit of insomnia at three this morning i unwrapped m' socks... and learned(for a given value of learn! 3 times out of maybe forty tries...) a double step through airwrap and back out into btb tangle buzzsaw....now just to work out how to get it back to in front without losing the momentum


R

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett

good work duballstar

link to a bump

and rob, you are a cheeky munkee.

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

Cool direction reversing double wrist wrap for poi buzzsaws.
3 ball windmill.
Double staff shoulder roll to BTB butterfly waistwrap.
4 Cross passes.
Forward 3 beat weave with doubles
BTL throws.
A BTB staff catch.

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

Wizard of LED poi !

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

mwahaha! tehee.
chuckle

i'm going to campaign for a fourball mills juggling smiley

R

Holistic Spinner (I hope)