Poi move ideas

well i first must learn the waist wrap i have troubles putting both hands behind my back but it shouldn't be to hard i learned the meltdowns already

this may be hard to follow (may be a wee bit drunk)

Alternating pentagram wall-plane:
-start your poi spinning split time reverse opposite with your right hand over left.
-begin the pentagram(five point star) pointing to the left.
-after your hands do their vertical floats, before your hands go back to the starting position, you should have your left hand over your right.
-at this point start a pentagram pointing to the right.
-switch back to a pentagram pointing to the left after the vertical floats.
- repeat.

this creates a crazy looking pattern that resembles a star of David with an x in the middle.

what do you think? does that make any sense?

Sounds plausible, but I have to see it to believe it, post a LED or fire photo.

I agree with Tankboy, in that it is the exact same configuration as split-same 1st degree inversion, but instead of rolling the nexus at the wrists, you move it farther down to the tethers.

Now to get really oldschool on yo ass: What most people call a hyperloop was once called a "maxiplus hyperloop" and hyperloop was used to describe a bunch of different tangles. What most people call an inversion is more specifically a split-same 1st degree inversion. There are plenty of 0 degree inversions (for instance, sustaining a buzzsaw is a sustained 0-degree inversion, woohoo). and plenty of 1st degree inversions. Not just in split-same but all 4 timing-direction modes as well.

I've been able to get a really sloppy second degree inversion (split-same) in floor plane.

Anyway, tangles and inversions use the same form, just a matter of the nexus being in the arms or the tethers.

what about you alien jon? do you have any ideas for tricks you haven't seen or heard of?

random concept i found whilst mucking around with pendulum poi
i found you need to just be pinching the grips of your handles between the tips of your fingers to do this
so from your standard 3 beat weave after crossing over your hands you tuck the handle from the poi in your bottom hand in snug with your second poi's handle greating a little tangle
your now having the two poi continue to tangle beside you you then swap back across your body let them unwrap and your tangled poi will fly free
still working on getting a nice release on it

Played around with the pendulum-antispin CAP that drex had a blog on a while ago. Figured that it can easily be turned upside down, with an extension on top, and the hand doing the stalling on the up-petal instead of the down-petal at the end of the pattern.

And once you have the pattern down both ways, "right-side up" and "upside-down", all the 4 variations flow nicely into each other.

I turned it also 90 degrees to both directions, but don't think those looked quite as pretty. But they're possible.

had an idea today only actually pulled it off once but it is a spiral wrap with a tangle right before it starts wrapping your arms then right before it comes out all the way turn into hyperloop or orbital oh and you can also turn before it unwraps your hands i did it on accident while i was spinning walking home but also did something that looks pretty cool while doing a orbital i rapidly moved my arms from side to side and it looked pretty awesome

some other things i have been playing around with that i am going to be putting some vids on here to show them are orbital fountains, hyperloop fountains, and like bendy orbitals but i will put vids up later tonight as to show what i mean

Got any ideas of more advanced movements/classes of movements that work well with high energy dance/expression/music?

Even a fierce/crunchy interpretation/variation of something normally not used in such a way...

So far I've been toying with remixing the chase flower into something gritty and clutch!

well you could work on speed changes get really good with spinning at super high speeds and ridiculously slow speeds and then work on changing from speeds rapidly at a moments notice and also work on being able to do any of your tricks at every possible point you can think of

Learning to do complex tricks and stalls fast and very fast is the key to be able to poi jam to the beat of the drums and most music. Otherwise you're stuck with spinning out of beat eternally confined to the speed at which you originally learned the tricks.

What is fast, can be slow to somebody.

What about rhythm?

1,2,3,4

ok i tried the orbital fountain in antispin and it looks ridiculous i have never seen anything like it and am waiting for nightfall to take a vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-KgKagoXA
this isa link for the orbital fun at night
please share what you think about this i want opinios and such

midkiff, that looks really nice, perhaps you could post a video in daylight so people can see where your hands are