Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > Overhead Butterfly...is this right??
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Location: MD, USA
Ah. I was wondering if this post belonged in the "moves" section or in this section. But since its not really a new move I'm discussing, I decided to post this here...I have a lot of little red blops from my glowsticks on my back :-pMy question was: I'm working on the overhead butterfly, starting from in front of me, then back and then back front again. Am I supposed to switch the direction of my hands from back to front, in order to match the momentum of the original direction? Ex. if I'm moving forward in front, and then when I throw em back, are my hands supposed to switch to backwards? It seems to be the most natural way the move is working for me right now...-=M-D=-
[This message has been edited by MystikDancer (edited 08 September 2001).]172 posts
Location: Staten Island , NY. USA
you just keep moving your arms/wrists up and down behing your head.If you have your right hand over your left in front.Then in back your left with be over your right.and if you have you left over your right in front.you'll have your right over your left in the back.make sure you bend at the elbows, cause if you just bring your amrs back you'll whack yourself more than not.
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Location: MD, USA
Bend my elbows, yes, bend.*manages not to whack herself in the back of the head every five seconds* [This message has been edited by MystikDancer (edited 08 September 2001).]
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Location: Austin TX USA
Just a terminology nit to pick, but when I think of an overhead butterfly, I think of something done in a horizontal plane--what MD apparently is describing is in a vertical plane, and alternating front-to-back.
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so what's the difference between what MD's doing and a poi windmill?------------------I'm a FF fan. So what?Live by honor. Kill by stealth. Only the unseen survive.~peace~
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Location: Staten Island , NY. USA
Well if you look in the poi moves section the overhead butterfly is the move that MD is trying to do. And it shows them spinning on the vertical plane.Shouldn't the horizontal butterfly above the head be called something like the helicopter , er sumthin,, i know i remember seeing some interesting names for it.
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Galveston, TX, USA
MystikDancer, yes indeed the direction of the poi change as you do an overhead butterfly. If you are spinning in a forward direction in front of you, then you will definitely be going in reverse while the poi are behind your head. Congrats for figuring this out naturally...it wasn't quite so easy for me.
the henna lady
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Location: WNY, USA
moved this to moves!
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Location: Austin TX USA
Naganootch--I stand corrected. As Emily Litella would say: "Never mind."TK:In a windmill, both chains are going the same way. In a butterfly, they're going opposite directions.
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ic, thanks for the clarification.
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Location: MD, USA
Oh! I was wondering where this post went! Opps! I looked for it for days. I'm silly
hehe *blush*Well I'm trying to do something, not quite sure now what it is anymore! ehehWell All I know is its very painful when the glowstick whacks you in the back of the head... 123 posts
Location: brooklyn
What i found useful...change the positition of ur wrists...like...in a front b-ly...ur palms face up....when its over ur head...your palms face eachother..and when ur doing it over your shoulder...make them face the ground
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