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"Hey guys,I'm totally new here, infact i've only been poi'ing for... i dunno a day or so :P My girlfriend got me into it ;PSo yeah, I got the 3-beat weave in 10 mins or so of starting, b..."
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"Hi every body I m new and I need someone who will explain me the firts move I leave in Spain Barcelone, If anyone here can give me lesson? Thank very much"
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"I was at a rummage sale with my girlfriend earlier today and I found a bunch of jingle bells. Naturally I bought them for like 10 cents and decided to turn them into a set of poi. I end..."
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"Hey hey, I was wondering what people think about using their poi short when doing fire. I quite like it myself, you can really focus on it and the movement of your wrists, and you can s..."
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"Greetings poi lovers of HoP. Curses to us all.I am in search of knowledge. I am writing a book, "The History of The Fire Arts", and I am presently looking for information about those ea..."
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"hey, im pretty new to the site so this mite already be somewhere, if so please direct me...ive been working on the 7 beat weave for a while now and i thought I had it but it was just a ..."
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"hi. I work for a company called Kent Circus School who for the past 15 years have been going around Kent doing circus skills workshops. We are currently developing a key stage 2 curricu..."
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"Hi did a search, but didn't really find exactly what I was looking for. I've been struggling with this for a while now. In moves from giant windmill to pirouettes, how do you mave sure ..."
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" av learned the 4bt reverse weave n having a problem with the 5 bt, i mess up on the last extra bt *shrug*, to go from the right side to the left should the left hand be positioned onto..."
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"http://www.putfile.com/poiguy1THis site is awesome and should be recomendd to anyone who wants video.I will try to make a fire video tonight. Thanks for looking. Feel free to email me..."
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"I am a beginner who has been learning for almost a month, spending at least a couple of hours practicing each day. So far I can do small circles, big circles, shoulder reels, hip reels,..."
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"anyone else know this move?here's how you do it (learn buzzsaw and reverse buzzsaw first):1) buzzsaw on one side2) move your hands to the other side to a reverse buzzsaw3) move your han..."
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"left, at the weekend i had at least one person ask me to put this on the internet... it is a way of thinking about how you spin poi and also a little excersise to practise. dont worry i..."
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"Good morning sir\madam i was wondering if you'd mind answering a few questions for my survey?well, just one actually."
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"I have just hit myself very hard with my poi. Not cos I did a move wrong - well I did, but hitting myself was a result of the strop I was having!I have been doing this for a week or so ..."
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"I made a little video this afternoon, spinning 5 beat with socks.This one's a longer download than the other, but its clearer. Problem is, its sideways (wmm wasnt working properly) Larg..."
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"This is just an observation and with my being so new to this art this may be irrevelant all together. With most of the technical discussions I've seen on tangles the writers mention p..."
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"some ideas I've been playing with:2 poi basics:-follow time, swing both poi to the side, then while letting both go push the handle a bit up so that the poi don't spin, just lay in the ..."
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"I'm having a problem getting my head around isolations. I know what they are and how your meant to do them, I just can't get my hands to move around the poi.Is there an easier way to le..."
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"so i was out practicing a few days ago and decided i wanted to spin REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAALLLLLY slowly. so of course I tried it and did it too slow and the poi would just drop outa t..."
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"I have a small problem with turns... even after one 360 rotation, I get really dizzy. more than one rotation is impossible! is it just me and my crappy inner ear, or is there somethin..."
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"i have found two transitions into the corkscrew but both seem very sloppy. one is entering it from chase the sun and the other is entering it from a butterfly turn but my planes are not..."
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"i dont know if anyone else has tried this but it is possible, i can only get a few before my head gets confused, but it involves a 5btweave type wrist twist thing"
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"so the horizontal buzzsaw looks cool but i have no clue how to start it or what moves it can be changed to"
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"So I have been CJing for almost 4 years now, and I've just gotten my 10 minute routine down cold to the point where I can do it blindfolded. I promised myself that once I had the 2 min,..."
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"Saw this several times at Wildfire in CT... it ends up looking like a circle coming toward you as opposed to the normal butterfly style circle. I noticed that both hands were in the mid..."
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"Don't laugh but i'm sure i'm about to ask a question that a lot of guys here will relate to.I've only just been introduced to poi and as i want my little girls to learn as much as they ..."
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"Ok, i've been doing poi for about 4/5 days and i can do butterfly alternate butterfly, weave 5 beat weave and all the stuff and now I'm stuck, cus i can't doing nefink behind my back , ..."
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"I found this link on someone elses thread the other day to a German/English poi move video tutorial (amongst other things) but now I can't find it. I can't even remember what forum I wa..."
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" When are you to old? &lbr;poll&rbr; 30 35 40 45 older when your bored with it when you find someone you trust to continue running burn night &lbr;/poll&rbr; So i dont know how ..."
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"i have been experimenting with wraps ALOT lately and it has caused me to shorten my strings a great deal. this enabled me to learn the buzzsaw, but i have a problem. i was using the sin..."
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"ok well im just gonna ramble off the things ive heard of and was like...wtf?Atomic weave/butterflyinverted weave/butterflybuzzsawantispin weave/butterflyim sorry if this has been posted..."
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"Tonight, swedish time, I did my first fire twirl with my new fire-poi!I only did some easy weave stuff and butterfly things.. I didn't want to put myself on fire in my excitement!Cheers..."
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"i can do it forwords but not reverse"
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"hi im strugging with this movei have only been doing poi for a few weeks but ive got stuck here so anyone got any idea or suggetion to help ? "
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"I've posted a few crazy ideas in my time here but this one isn't one of my more outlandish ones. I was wondering if anyone has tried having a staff in one hand and a poi or meteors in t..."
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"exactly what it sais on the tin has it been done????? explinations etc....."
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"I remembered that I used to think that Poi spinning was a a type of Juggling.And that a very long time ago on HOP (4 years?) i had a "discussion" with someone (an aussi or a Yank) about..."
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"At this years EJC I was teaching a friend of mine what I consider fundamentals of Poi. He is a martial arts staff master ( Carsten), understands what he is talking about and he asked me..."
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"Helllo, I need some video lessons in better quality...will you advise me some link, where can i get it?thank very much:)"
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"my style itself is a bit chaotic, ~but~ I was spinning fire at a festival last weekend when I ... lost control of the poi. I've been spinning for years and this has never happened. I ..."
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"Ok so I watched Dantana's video, and now I'm stuck on air wraps. I have the hyperloop down (on the right side anyway... left is still eluding me), and I can do a standard airwrap in fro..."
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"okay this is something i have had trouble with for a long time now and i just did a search and actually found nothing. which is a firstpirouettes (vertical ones)i cannot get them to wo..."
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"Heh ok so I was polishing up the butterfly buzzsaw while waiting on somefriends at the comic shop yesterday and stumbled upon what I though was a BF Weave... here's the description of w..."
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"hey guys, for some reason or another i dont know any of the more complex moves names.OK, everyon take their right wrist, and nestle it in your left arm pit. Now with your left arm, stre..."
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"about 30 to 169 seconds into the clip???????Butterfly stall / air wrap above his head?????Brother / Father / Son etc - logon - or show yourself and give us a hint."
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"have been trying to work this one out but different people seem to have different ideas on how it should be done1 theory is both poi spin the same way and the arms are always opposite e..."
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"another question without explination im afraid.ok, so the crane is same direction atom, and then you have the opposite, opposite direction atom.my question is this,Can you tangle an opp..."
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