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"I have been trying for ages to get these moves down but i just can't do em! When I get close to haveing my hands cross for the BTB weave the poi just tangle and i hit myself. Anyone hav..."
"been thinking about this for a while. and ive not heard talk of it. ill try and explain this with a few badly drawn pictures.all the pictures are with one poi and one hand only.ok the b..."
"So far, I've latched onto just about every poi move pretty easily. But I still can't do thread the needle. The art of poi DVD doesn't explain it very well and all the previous posts abo..."
"Single Poi move, real move. Quite different form the others,becasue it uses two dirrections at one plane, wall plane.1&rbr; Wall plane circle(any dirrection)2&rbr; Push phaseWhen the Po..."
"hi i was curious as to more than one fire wick on the poi make using them any harder and it they were more dangerous to use "
"it shuldnt be more then 5 minutes. i prefer not a trance."
"ok so i know this has been asked a ton prolly but i cant this if my life depended on it please help i always come inbetween my legs and smack well yea it f-ing hurts plz any good advice..."
"Got it! Double neck wrap from a butterly.Okay, do the forward (I think? right hand clockwise left hand anti) butterfly in front, stick your neck in when the balls are at the bottom, th..."
"Here I am again, in hope to have found something relatively new... I've been practicing these for a while, and just recently started to be able to play some with them, my aim with these..."
"I've been doing poi for about a year, and I'm doing "advanced" moves. I'm pretty damn good with poi when they're in front of my body or behind my head, I can pick up new moves like nobo..."
"i was just wondering if anyone coudl help me with BTB moves i've been practicign for a while knwo but i can only get my left poi to go behidn me my right arm jus refuses to let it go is..."
"I've been spinning for about a month now, and i've learned most of the moves quite quickly. I know most basic 'wave' moves and some stuff in 'buttefly' as well.I've got a quite fluid ro..."
"Does anyone have a Vid..or feels like making a vid of a propeller with poi..I have been reading alot about this lately...and I want to see what it looks like with poi...so I can attempt..."
"Ooookay so.. As you know, learning poi goes much faster if one can see what one wants to learn.. Therefor.. How about starting (this:)) thread where people can ask for a trick and other..."
"The idea of Cross-stalling is stalling between up and sideways, or down and sideways in wallplane. Both at the same time to produce the first part of a cross like this "X". There is onl..."
"Okay I know a lot of people talk about getting problems doing reverse weaves adding in the socks but I have another question.How do I keep myself from adding in an extra turn (or subtra..."
"So I've been doing poi for about 5 months now and I kind of hit a dead end. In the beginning I learned moves fast and made quick progress, but now that they take longer to learn I find ..."
"when i did (rather tryed to do) over the head butterfly chains gone around my hands, and somehow tied, I'v burnd myself, but not to bad, so I trydd again, and again it didnt work. What ..."
"I have been spinning poi daily for over a year now, I love to poi so i bought some fire poi... i have burned 4 times now after burning for the first time last week.It is so addictive. B..."
"So I was spinning in a park the other day when I started noticing that their was a growing number of people watching me. I was just swinging some sock poi, but I had a crowd of about fi..."
"i have been knunchuking for almost 13 years, a few years ago i saw this dude on the roof of my dorm twirling bits of fire, naturally i was intriged. i asked if i could try and he starte..."
"I never realised how flippin' difficult it is to turn around while spinning a flower since i'd never bothered to until now.Maybe it's just a new motor paten that I'm gonna have to get u..."
"do you think while your performing? when performing do u make it up as you go or do you make routine up ?i find myself so into the music and surrounding that if i stop to think i cant..."
"I saw someone doing a continuous airwrap on this site:http://www.feuershow.de/how is that possible???does anyone know how its done or at least take a guess?The site is in german i think..."
"just had a wicked play with LTC, Fluff and Durbs - working on arm patterns (squares, pentagons, hexagons, eventually circles) creating anti spun shapes and interesting polyrythms. sound..."
"So, when i first starting spinning last summer i was a tad lazy with learning left and right backwards forwards versions of moves. I learn't alot quite fast untill i felt happy that I c..."
"Title says it all, and I know i'm being dense so please excuse me, lol But, now i'm fairly competent and the weather's all lovely I want to nail uber fast mid and high level turns that..."
"Hey guys, I have a probably very stupid question: How do you spin two poi in front of you, going the same way, on the same plane? I don't know the name of the move, but it seems like ev..."
"I'm sure you're all aware of the various different forms of Extreme Ironing, but if not I suggest you look it up on youtube.Anyway, has anybody tried to do extreme ironing by using Iron..."
"some call it a pin wheel, we figured out the other day how to buzz saw into an isolated throw back into the buzz saw time.does anyone know its name or if this trick exists?"
"if i buy a ball chain is it strong enough to hold monkey fists or do i need an oval chainjust a 2.5 monkey fistnot the really big ones"
"Hey All,I know this isn't about a poi move ive learnt, but it is related....I read the other threads about wristsbut none were the same problem I have.I recently bought some LED sock Po..."
"Wouldnt it be great if all the poi lessons/shows poeple in the hop community had made were in one handy database??so, for the first step i've just created a youtube account with the nam..."
"I have a TINY practicing space at the moment and found myself isolating an arm when i'm doing some of the longarm so i dont hit the bed door or ceiling.... sometimes it actually add's a..."
"I dont know the name of this one but it can be found HERE in the staff lessons. Someone told me its called pinwheel?!?Definitely more diffucult with Poi, so what one has to practice fi..."
"did you ever wonder why arashi hits himself so much with poi? i know i did. well, now i hit myself ALL the time. i no longer control where my poi are going when i'm playing by myself. i..."
"Ok, here is my try to contribute something new for people to play with. Well... I honestly don't know how new this concept is. But I hope it's fairly untouched yet.Most spinners use the..."
"So I finally decided to write something on my poi site and I thought I'd share It's not perfect and I'd like some constructive criticism.. But I hope you'll enjoy this What can you do w..."
"i should really have put this in the contact poi forum, but its kind of halfway between contact and isolations so i thought i could be more of an attention &lbr;censored&rbr; and start ..."
"I'v been poiing for a while now and iv kind of mastered the basics, like weave and reverse weave and butterfly and stuff, and I don't really know what to do next. Any moves that aren't ..."
"its prob something really simple and im prob being really stoopid not realising it, but i was just wondering if anyone could explain to me what this girl is doing in this clip (http://w..."
"Because I see a lot of people asking for this and wasn't able to find anything definitive heres my best shot.Isolating essentially means moving the centre of the circle to a point on th..."
"i was just wondering if any one had a helping hand they can give me with this? "
"hi, can someone help me out on the butterfly weave? thanks "
"Lately I spent a lot of time in practiceing with 3 poi;after a lot of try I found that the easyest(for me) pattern to start with 3 poi is tossing them :P .Now I have a record of about 1..."
"56 wraps!I have attempted to compile everyone's wrap postings into a comprehensive document. this is by far the largest listing I have seen. If anyone has any to add, please post! (:But..."
"Hey, I have had a few times where i'm out there practicing a new move or wrap or something and i just bust something completely incredible and i know i could never do it again. I just w..."
"&lbr;Bows to the Poi Masters upon entry into the Sacred Temple...&rbr;So I've been doing a 5 beat weave for a while. I do the kind where the backs of my palms are together in front of ..."
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