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"Most of the moves we know are kept in the same plane (exception for example atoms) and we transition from one plane more or less smoothly to the other. But why?Open Spinning: Controlled..."
"I've been playing around with a few hybrid ideas and I thought about this...one hand does does a cateye (1 unit wide, 3units tall) and the other hand follows the poi head (in same time,..."
"This has been brewing in my head for awhile. Its a way to pass time in Calculus and helps me understand - not only math - but flowers as well. I don't have much time to write as of righ..."
"It'd be a sad day, but do you think we'll ever exhaust poi? Or is it something that there will continue to be innovation in forever? I speak only in terms of moves, not in terms of styl..."
"I'm not sure if this is normal, but I heard about 4 or 5 different songs that I can see myself really spinning to, but in each on, I have an insanely different style when I let myself l..."
"I've heard alot about jugglers having different varieties of games they play against each other (combat, endurance, club collecting....) but are there any games for poi? staff? others?A..."
"Since I'm the kind of person who has a much easier time with her poi when she has a way to think about them, are there any resources out there on how to think about turns generally (or ..."
"This is be one of my first posts on the HOP in many years. I put a good amount of work into this post (sorry it's so long) I hope the community gets something out of it.Video demo of t..."
"Hello a friend of mine was practicing "tangled beat weaves" and I was wondering if anyone else was familiar with them and how to do them? Thanks for the help."
"Righty, I know this has been done, but I have searched it and can't find the posts. So if someone could answer my question or point me in the right direction of an existing thread that ..."
"When i was at a psytrance festival i saw two people poying together. They would each have one poi and they would intertwine their arms in a very cool fashion while spinning. I have been..."
"(I didn't see another post on the topic, but I'm new, so forgive me if this has already been covered) I don't really care to define what a hybrid is because such a topic has been tackle..."
"I have seen pictures of what is labeled a "triquetra." I may already know how to do this but am unfamiliar how it looks photographically. What exactly is done to make this pat..."
"I was bored and working on btb stuff and waistwraps, and I came up with this thing, I think it might be classified as a waistwrap but I'm not sure. I am in a btb weave position, I do a ..."
"When you use fire, lets say with standard cube Cathedral wrap poi, how long into the spin can you safely do an orbital without spaying fuel, because I saw a video where a guy did one an..."
"I did a search and to my surprise I did not find another thread about this so here it is. I am trying to learn under the legs and I am having a lot of trouble as I keep doing leg wraps ..."
"Does anyone got any advice on split time stalls? Is there a good excersize for this? Every time i try to do them my hand always keep getting in the way of each other. And i can't contin..."
"I'm not sure how many people know this, but I saw something in a video of Alien Jon, where he was doing a fountain and when his arms moved around him, when it came down from windmill to..."
"so I have been trying to get horizontal cateyes down for a little while now and they have been driving my insane. I can always make them work for one or two rotations but past that it e..."
"So I'm trying to learn the 4 beat moves. When you do a 4beat corkscrew, if the right hand goes up first normally you just wrap your arms and let the left hand lead. On windmills the han..."
"Ok, so I couldn't find any other topics asking this question so I hope its safe to post, If it is an existing thread let me know.Do you prefer one move lessons or concept based tutorial..."
"Hey there, I'm only about a month and a half into poi and I was learning my orbitals and I was holding it like Nicks "Superduperuberloop" and I wanted to see what would happen..."
"I'm trying to get these down, but i want to make sure I have the right arm positioning. Ideally for the upswing->behind the head stall should my elbow be pointing forward as I stall?..."
"Okay, so there's a family of moves I've never seen videos of before, and while I understand the basics of one of them, I saw a variation today I'd like to be able to watch more of. The ..."
"Well. I have too much on my place. I'm learning all of my moves again, solidifying them up so I fill the gaps that I was missing. I'm learning tons of transitions. All the moves I've le..."
"Hopefully there's not already a thread on this somewhere...I've been trying to get air wraps down, and I seem to have hit a snag. I can do them in one direction pretty perfectly, and ca..."
"So I have recently learned "trading stalls by linking hand positions over the head"http://www.homeofpoi.com/lessons_all/teach/Stall-Carryover-Variation-3_25_346I have also bee..."
"So I'm having an issue with the orbitals and I can't seem to find a very good explanation anywhere. I can get into an orbital just fine, but I can't seem to escape it no matter how I tr..."
"So, I've been meaning to do this fore a wile, and now the conversation in the thread about contributing to my dead laptop fund has inspired me to get the ball rolling!Some videos I've..."
"A similar thread is running in the Beginner's Forum, thought it'd be just as useful here. Post what you're working on, and what issues you're having. Thanks to S. Eleven for suggesting..."
"Hey all I just wrote this all up and am curious if anyone else understands this, it has been a synthesis from many sources, finally ready and teachable for the general public...I actual..."
"Hey all.Not sure if this belongs under Beginner Poi or Advanced Poi, but here it goes...I wondering what exactly it means for a poi move to be "augmented." I looked under Lear..."
"Have there been any moments or something you have learned or figured out that has totally changed your way of spinning. You know when something just clicks and it all makes sense?I have..."
"I've been trying to figure out a move Nevisoul does on this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYTh-1yV2Tcit's the spiral wrap at 3:03-3:08, I just can't figure it out, any tips?"
"Yeah, I know, use the search. Did that already lol, didn't find any posts describing the problem I'm having. So here it is.I can get the first 4 beats everytime, on both sides. The last..."
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07z-MG6XBdEI can't see the video at work, and can't remember exactly where abouts in the video it is, think it's just after thomas orbital, or just before..."
"So ive been spinning for bout 2 months or so and have majority of the basics down, not all, but alot.I want to try some of the harder stuff because i guess you could say it looks cooler..."
"I know how to do Isolations, I can get them in Buzzsaw, but when it comes to wheel and wall plane I just cant seem to get it going. I can do a slight isolation on each end of a weave, b..."
"Since Firedrums, my mind has melted, and part of what I have reshaped the goo into follows:The Unit circle can be used to create three forms when spinning in a 1:1 ratio. That is, the ..."
"I have a few poi questions.1) What exactly is a straight jacket crosser? is it where both arms are tucked underneath opposite armpits and crosser from that? and if is so, would it be no..."
"I've been playing around a lot with my chase crossers lately, and can transition into and out of them in pretty much all the ways I've tried so far. But while I learned butterfly crosse..."
"Well first off HI! Long time lurker here and would just like to thank you all for this amazing community. Now the reason why I finally registered and am posting!Lately I've been working..."
"I'm loving my iso's at the mo, and was experimenting a little with TTN. I made this vid, an attempt of trying to explain it. I 'discovered' it a couple of weeks ago and have been browsi..."
":Above the head hybrids:A few weeks back I watched Nick Woolsey's video on "no beat windmills". Essentially its spinning split time same direction with one plane behind your h..."
"Hi I'm just wondering if anyone can post a tutorial and/or explain what "CAP"'s are. CAP's are reffered to on the channel Drex's Poi Tech Blog: Link: YouTube-Drex's Tech Poi ..."
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