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Posted: 10th Jan 2009
Windmill? Windmill with extensions? Windmill into a full arm extended pirouette?

You're sitting at a pretty good point in your poi life at the moment, theres so much to learn and so little you can't learn.

If I were you I'd drive into some techy stuff so that I stay inspired then have a look further down the track and go "Right,well, what can't I do the other way?" and then do that.

Posted: 10th Jan 2009
Windmill it is! I have been practicing changing the directions with stalls, which is easier than I expected... At least with socks, that and isolations o.O

Human

Posted: 10th Jan 2009
I really enjoyed starting to do wraps, and taps, off the arms and the legs, and around the waist even. Sort of adding something percussive to the mix!

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Posted: 11th Jan 2009
For me the moves that really opened up my spinning when I was at that stage were the windmills (both directions) and thread the needle, once you have that you can turn in any direction with the poi going any direction and keep them moving without having to wrap or anything.

Also lockouts are a nice simple way of getting out of trouble without having to stall or wrap

Posted: 11th Jan 2009
Originally Posted By: Mother_Natures_SonYou're sitting at a pretty good point in your poi life at the moment, theres so much to learn and so little you can't learn.

That actually really inspired me a lot, I accidentally learned butterfly reels yesterday, still working on windmill, it's hard because we have three feet of snow minimum everywhere; and light fixtures inside!

Human

Posted: 12th Jan 2009
Bwahahahahaha....

Swap you the 42'C in the shade before humidity we had on Friday?
I think it was over 50'C in the sun....

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