Name that move!

@ aston
I'm not dissing the longer names, descriptive names are very useful but even if you just look at the terms triquetra, CAP, cateye etc these names didn't exist a few years ago, they just evolved over time as people used the patterns a lot, they still need definition in terms of mode/orientation/plane etc when your describing them in detail but you save yourself a lot of breath in describing the overall pattern itself. can you imagine talking about a {3 petal antispin vs extension hybrid with hands together on a wall plane with the poi in opposites} when the word triquetra would suffice? most move titles come from somewhere, even going back to when someone playing with poi or clubs or something got fed up of talking about spinning split time same direction parallel planes between their arms and decided to call it a buzzsaw.
I'm not saying do away with long names, we still need them, just that some commonly used patterns might benefit from having a nickname as we move onwards...

Yah, I wasn't thinking that that these short names were necessarily supposed to be more useful or needed.. I thought the purpose of this thread was just to make up names for the fun of making up names.

I tried.

@Revo
I also think we should just make up names for fun, hence Astroglide, which I am not afraid to call that roll at all. What else would I call it? The only other thing I can think of is beatswitch roll and I'm not even sure about that one so Astroglide it is

currently I'm learning to juggle, about the only move i know so far though is 'throw the f#kin balls at the wall in frustration'...
ARGH!!!!! lol

I have no idea what different things there are for juggling, all I know is, throw things in air, catch them. Throw larger amounts of things in air, catch them. Throw something(s) very high in air, do something, catch them. And as far as I know, that's it.

liquidtrance: try with just one ball at first, tossing it from one hand up in an arc and back down to the other. Don't focus on your hands, but on where the ball is and will be.

After that seems pretty natural, add a second ball, you'll want to toss the 2nd ball just before catching the first.

If you're after the 3-ball cascade (the typical 3 ball juggle), you'll want to toss the 2nd ball when the 1st hits the top of it's arc, and do the same for the 3rd when the second reaches the top of it's arc... Sorry if my explanations are kinda crappy... Here is a link that has some useful animations http://learnhowtojuggle.info/ . Also, if I remember right, Dube has a detailed step-by-step illustrated guide on their website.

Not saying that some short names are not useful, just laying out what you are taking out of the bag here.

But I still prefer the longer names over things like triquetra and cateye.

What else can you say for a cateye?

1 beat 0 petal antispin?

I support the use of cateye and extension because they are special. They are very different in appearance to the other numbers of beats in their sets.

But, I must point out... the point of this thread wasn't intended to be discussing the nonclemature of poi terminology.

I support short terms for a lot of things. But I like to interchange the names as best suited for the situation.

MNS: True actually, on both counts.

So let us try going back on-topic:

Arms crossed, poi move in circles, wheel plane. Go.

Wallplane crosser

Just came up with a silly forward 1.5 variation where one hand is doing a 3 bt weave and the other is always just penduluming back and forth on alternating sides of the body. I opt for calling it "saving the cheerleader", but I welcome names that aren't stupid, too

Nice one. Not the name though.

I don't get what it's supposed to be. I like the name though.

Wouldn't cateye technically have 2 petals? Like how in other antispin flowers: 3 beats creates 4 petals, 2 beats creates 3 petals, etc... In cateye the petals aren't "loops" per say, but just fo consistancy's sake, I'd rather think of it as 2 petals instead of 0

If that tickles your fancy.

But a "petal" is a visual term, rather than a technical term.

You can call it twelve tiny monkeys doing backflips on minibikes if you really like, doesn't bother me.


I understand saving the cheerleader, btw. And I like the name... its a stupid name, but its a stupid looking move, too, so it suits!

Ouch!

I think 1.5s are stupid looking in general, but it doesn't stop them from being fun