Learn Beginners part 2 - Low Turn

I had to watch this video seven times over the course of two hours before it finally clicked. I was so excited to grasp it!

I have a long journey ahead of me. haha.

took me two days almost, until i realized that my hands just stop and that the Poi will automatically fall into the other direction sorta thing...

Isn't it weird, I can do butterfly and weave yet this still baffles me, I can do going in front of me but behind my back is hard!

I cant figure out the hand movements I have been trying this one for a few days and I have not got it yet
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I just dont get it!!!...hard x)

took me 10 mins to cross from forwards to back but i cant turn from back to forwards!

i can do it now! time for next trick!

It would help if someone would do a diagram of what I'm supposed to do with my left hand... I can do it with the right alone, but my left hand has no idea. I'm just getting bruises.

Every now and then I do it by accident, but I can't figure out how I do it so that I can do it consistantly! I keep getting a tennis ball to the head... Misswolfe: Can you tell us exactly what clicked?

low turn is hard!! and every time i turn i got hit by my poi! but i can get it,, i'm just having a hard time with my left hand...whew!

I found that bending my knees and getting closer to the ground helped me to get the Poi swinging behind my back. Now I understand the motion I don't need to get as low.

Do the Poi change direction during the turn?

Malcom, but it does seem like the Poi change direction, even though the person is really the one turning.

I just spent about an hour learning this trick. It was a little difficult until it clicked. There are people asking what exactly clicked...
Well, for me, it clicked when I realized that the Poi are actually rotating in the "opposite" direction when you complete the 180 (as Malcom stated, it's you that is changing directions - not the ball - but it helps to know the outcome).

After I realized that, I got it instantly.

It also helps to shorten the Poi to about half length until you get it.

So I got my right had turning to the left, but I couldn't get my left. So I tried my right hand turning to the right and I couldn't get it. Having a thought I tried my left going to the left and got it. Its the putting them both behind my back that seems slight difficult. I got the left one time turning to the right and thought I'd had my light bulb moment. I'm not understanding the turning the hand upside down unless they mean palm up?

They seem to cross behind my back (I had to make a quick pair of Sock Poi because it was starting to hurt).

I'm determined to get this!!

Ok, so I kinda got it now, just not consistently, and better turning to the left (continually) than to the right. The backwards to front turn I can do every time, but for some reason the forwards to back I mess up on about 50% of the time. I tried closing my eyes (old advice from a friend) and ended up clocking myself so that wasn't good. When doing the backwards to forwards (poi passing in front) my hands come up higher, is this ok or bad form?

I was pretty frustrated for a while, until I read this comment. You really don't move your hands at all, the motion of the Poi changes by itself with momentum!

I thought I had it... But I didn't x')

It took me like 2 minutes to get it turning to the left, but when I tried turning to the right... Oh dear. It's been a couple days now, and my left hand is still being spastic. My left hand keeps wanting to change direction by 90deg and I hit myself in the leg.
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this one took me several days of practice but I can finally do it, but still having a little trouble with it.
I need more practice with it. I can already do the tuck turn and high turn, but this one was difficult

I was just about to give up and had no idea how he was reversing the direction of the Poi. I finally figured it out though! I suggest practicing with one hand at a time and instead of focusing on how to move your hand, just move your body, and naturally the Poi will reverse. Just keep on practicing with one hand and hopefully you'll see what I mean when I say the Poi naturally reverses when you move your body. If you get the first hand down, then move to the next, then put them together. Takes a lot of practice!

Is it average that I learned it in about 15 minutes? Doesn't seem that hard, time to move on to the next one.

yeah nah. its been a whole day now and i dont get it. I'm gunna be a lovely urple polkadot tomorrow.
Do you end up changing direction?
how do you not knock poi?
this is gunna take ages

I keep whacking myself in the legs every time I try this one. I think I'm just unco.
I agree when I don't hit myself in the legs I end up going the same direction, why is that?

two things that made a world of difference in how much i whacked my arms and sides: first was the length of my socks. they'd stretched since i made them and retying them proved helpful (just wrapping them shorter made it harder bc i had to put more energy into the spin). second, i realized you have to start the turn before you pull your hands back, this was critical.

I found it helpful to work on this one hand at a time. Once I could isolate the single Poi and understand how it and I were supposed to move when I turned, I was able to get my right hand side smooth and instinctive. Left hand was much harder, and both together was harder still. It seems to work best when I'm not thinking about it much - it's a very fluid feel when it works.

Dude slooooooowwww down Your absolutely kick ass at these but I suck balls therefore it be awsome if you done it much slower xP

For me, I had to work on it for a couple of hours the first night and then come back to it the second night.
I realized I cannot do it behind me, instead I put both of them in front of me. I spin the Poi forwards and I wait for the Poi to be at the bottom of its circle. Then as I spin 180 degrees, I change my hands to spin the Poi backwards, relative to me.

I hope that helps everyone.

i tryed it 1 night... and when it started geting dark i got it with 1 hand i can do it perfectly when the Poi is down if u move to the right push the Poi little more to the left so it should go little furder from u and when that happens the Poi must be behind u then take it back to u and start spining it backwards i dont know if ur gona get it the way i put it... but thats how i got it with 1 hand i can turn perfectly with left and right hand but im still training with both hand tonight i hope to make it GL to all that are trying

Hrm, I can do the 90 degree turn either direction, and I can get each hand to do it individually. However, when I try to put the together, my right Poi (I am unfortunately left-hand dominant: makes learning new moves a little difficult) just goes crazy and cracks me in the arm, leg, or face (I think I just gave myself my first poi-induced shiner!). Any thoughts...

Nevermind, I just needed to sleep on it. As soon as I woke up, not only did I get the low turn (albeit it a bit clumsily for now), I also just instinctively figured out the high turn as well.