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

I can do a (9 beat????) windmill by wraping on my left hand in front, unwrap behind my head, then wrap on left again while it is behind my head, then unwrap in front and so on. I actually have no idea how many beats it is, but it is a lot (probably between 7 and 9). if anybody else can learn it let me know, cause I wouldn't mind knowing how many beats I am getting.

whhaaat... lol.. vid request..
this sounds kinda funny lookin

Well - I was pretty happy to get the 5-4-5 beat fountain consistent the other day...

and I've got this nice little neck spin -> chin catch -> rvs neck spin combo happening on staff which is pretty cool...not consistent yet tho..

Josh

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Yeah, I like the 5-4-5 fountain..looks the best IMHO. Switched up with the "rolling" weave or whatever you want to call it these moves look sick.

CRD

Sweet! Just nailed turning weaves, both directions! Can go back and forth. Haven't tried doing a 360 BTB...hmmm have to try that when I get home. :P Huzah for me...

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-=Crazy Raver Dude=-

I got the BTB fountain last week, well I think that's what it is, switching from reverse btb weave to forward btb weave while keeping both feet in the same position. Are many other people doing this move? I think it looks amazing as the outer circles of light end up infront of your body as you face forward the whole time and the middle circle is behind your back. This is going to go 5 beat pretty soon as well, but my 5 beat reverse btb weave just isn't happening .

Also tryed twirling with hulla hoops attached to handles and they work just like poi! it's amazing they don't bash into each other at all and under UV with fluro hoops! My eyeballs are still shaking. This also means that anything that sits in a single plane can have handles attached and be spun, I'm thinking 5 point stars with a flames at each point (hehe).

AAAAnd while I'm ranting on aboot my flame filled adventures, we pulled off this classy stunt last tuesday... Javier and I often twirl with long poi while standing on each others shoulders, its very relaxing and looks funky I reckon, but last tuesday we tried somthing a little trickier, we got me standing on his shoulders doing a one handed butterfly above my head (so it looks like an atom, both planes slightly tilted?) then in the other hand I can hold a juggle torch and do a firebreath out of the centre of the atom. We fell down in a keroscene soaked heap pretty soon after that though are many other people incorporating acro into their twirling? People doing 3 person fire dragons everywhere? Sorry if this sounds like a blah blah I can do this blah but we're stuck here in Tasmania and don't really know whats going on in the rest of the fire world. If you come to Hobart, twirling is on every tuesday at salamanca and we love new people. Probably in summer we'll be lighting fires all over the place though.

quote of the week?

"put it down Gene, just PUT IT DOWN!"

John counted the wraping windmill for me...he said I was getting seven beats in front and seven in back, too. So I guess it is a seven beat windmill. I'm sure it would work for a corkscrew too.

Very, very, very pleased to have finally cracked the forward 5 beat weave on Saturday afternoon

I LIKE POI.

today i learned a few new tricks, good day.
Master the 5-beat foreward weave, the alternate butterfly sequence thing, and this one i guess you might call the giant butterfly turn. You simply turn at the apex when your hands cross and go into a backwards butterfly.Oh btw, nice to meet you all. I love this website, the lessons have really really helped. I only started about two weeks ago, and can now hang with the big boys up at Nations(rave club in DC, aka buzz, and yes its triffling but at least i can spin poi all night).

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:cheers: can trastion very smoothly from forward to reverse weave, and my BTB butterfly is coming along very nicely
:pats self on back:

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Wraps aren't my thing but this one i love...

I was turning from BTB foward weave to BTB reverse weave and accidentally did a double wrap around the upper part of my arm, took me a while to do it again. Basically start out doing a fowrad BTB weave and when your left poi is on the right side, let it revolve once and then on the upswing, do a single/double wrap around well i guess its more of an armpit wrap... if you are female, pleeeease be careful... im probably not going to be able to breast feed on one side

I was also thinking that perhaps you could wrap both poi.. one armpit wrap and maybe a bent elboe thing and then continue doing a BTB weave in the opposite direction? hmmm... again, wraps arent my thing so for any of you pros that have variations, please let me.

hehe, im so obnoxiously proud of my new move

I love this thread... my friends and family who are tired of listening to all my boasting love this thread too

Yoyoyoyoyo,

got the backward finger spind on the double staffs, opend up about 8 new tricks.

me so happy!

Hahahaha!

I do staff twirling quite a bit now, and I've always found it easy and fun. The other day I was twirling while my friend was spinning poi. I did a weave move and he looked at me oddly.
"That's a five-beat weave" he said
"is it?" was my reply
"yea. do it again"
I repeated the move. Then found about forty different ways to do a three-beat weave with a staff.
I suggest you all try it....it's a lot of fun.

Oh yes...I also figured out that using a staff makes it possible to do unlimited-beat weaves. Just add drop-spins or finger-rolls at the sides....cheesy I know, but fun to imagine a 10973-beat weave.

i'm still trying to get this move perfect, but it requires more wrapping skill than I currently have to pull it off consistently. whilst doing the butterfly, lift up the right calf like a flamingo. Then swing the left poi behind the back to wrap on the leg, and the right poi goes behind the head to wrap around the left bicep. right now i'm trying to work it into combos, but like i said, i'm not that much of a boss.

yet

Poiboy- are you stsrting with the foward or reverse butterfly??

either way, im having a tough time... hhmmm..

maybe i need biceps

Man, learning moves so fast i can't even keep up. Got the behind the back foreward weave, one handed bf startup, some crazy new bf power move(totally nuts), btbbf, switching from inline to alternating bf(one hand and two handed, reverse and btb), learned the reverse bf ttn, some new giant bf variation(way cool), and a few others i can't even remember.I learned all of these in two days, for real(three hours a day practicing pays off). GOD I LOVE POI! Somebody help please,I CAN'T STOP SPINNIG!

man, learning moves so fast i can't even keep up. Got the behind the back foreward weave, one handed butterfly startup, some crazy new butterfly power move(totally nuts), behind the back butterfly, switching from inline to alternating butterfly(one hand and two handed, reverse and behind the back), learned the reverse butterfly ttn, some new giant bf variation and a bunch of others i can't recall now. GOD I LOVE POI!someone help me I CAN'T STOP SPINNING

:kicks BTB reverse weave: mwhahahaha, take that b*tch move, thats for all those bruises on the back of my legs, hehe,yeah i finally nailed it...

I just learned a jump 360 windmil, keeping the hands on the back of the neck while doing it. You can "sling" the poi more towards horizontal when you do the spin, or you can keep them in the same plane the whole time. (John showed it to me)