The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread

It was the first thing I learnt where my left hand wasn't just following my right: a big step.

It's also one of the things that a lay audience likes if you do it with light / fire, because of the way the poi seem to be all 'round you.

So yay! Well done Midkiff!

well the way i learned it, it is a split time butterfly hip reel alternating to a split time butterfly shoulder reel and back one hand up and one hand down

What my friend is a Wiggle? I'm interested now and can't find it on Youtube.

Oh, that. Yeah, I love that one. Feels great, and makes an easy turn in split time butterfly.

I've never specifically looked for it on YT, I don't recall seeing it - I got it from Michal Kahn's book.

Pretty much as midkiff describes, with an extension in front for the third beat so you don't dislocate your shoulder.

So, imagine split time inwards butterfly: right arm goes once behind your hip, extend up to once behind your shoulder, extension in front back to behind your hip. Left arm follows 1/2 beat behind, which leads to the wiggle.

Either hand can lead and if you do it outwards it's reverse so behind shoulder- behind hip-front-behind shoulder.

I have no idea what was just described

It's just raising a hip reel into a butterfly windmill and back, except one hand goes up while the other goes down.

I haven't heard of the term before either, but from the description I'm thinking that the thing I do in the collab video around 4:32-4:35 would be considered turning with Wiggle (though extremely sloppy) ?

I just put some kind of weight in the handles on a pair of poi, and have really started to explore throws more. Can do the cool toss each poi to the other hand during an upward stall while spinning opposites.

I'm coming along slowly with throws, but I just got the hang of putting a random toss into a weave. It's a big step for me to A) not change the direction of the poi when I catch it, and B) to be able to spin with the other hand at the same time.

It looks like it to me.

I think most experienced poisters would include that combo in passing now and then, without thinking about it, but to me as a beginner it was a milestone.

It's also one those moves 'lay' people like, especially when done with light or fire, because of the variation in circle size and the way it wraps around you.

i am very new to poi. just made my first sock poi last week, and i love them.
i have been hooping since last summer so i am just getting te hang of both arts.

i hope to learn from each person i meet on here. :]

Split-time same direction stalls behind my back

Just starting to get those myself. Also got the notcoleman weave, which I don't really like

what is the notcoleman weave? it's not on youtube

It's an inverted 3bt weave. For the forwards, when you bring one arm over the other, instead of taking it back to the other side of your body you bring it up between your arms. Basically instead of the single beat on that arm's side of your body, you bring it through the buzzsaw plane.

ok this is gonna sounds so lame but im very happy i just learned how to do bw 2bt weave i just never did anything bw and its very hard for me

but next step bw 3bt weave wooooo!!!

Congratulations!

Awesome Don't worry, going the other way is harder for everyone. I still suck a buzzsaw flowers the opposite direction than I normally do.

thankkk youuuu

yea its very harddddd i still keep hitting myself on occasion but its getting better lol
i got Reels down too