WIBBLE WIBBLE WIBBLE -- I'm going crazy

A wibble is a more dynamic version of the throw 'tap-back'. So you release a poi and as its being caught you instantly throw it back the way it just came. Wibbling is a progression of this where the poi are potentially continuously tapped back and forth, the contact being a spot just below the handle (which needs to have some reasonable weight BTW or there is nothing to counter the weight of the head of the poi and it'll just fly off in all directions )

I'll try and knock up a basic vid for you and stick a link up soon- failing that there is as mentioned above, at least one video of wibbling in the galleries

Hope thats some help,

Chutney

haha, no wibbling on spherculism yet i'm afraid. Except a couple of vids that garthy took of me at the glade festival last year.

But this is the "Home of Wibbling" since it was me who forced the term into common lingo I used to call it 'Slapping the wet fish" but moves like the infamous "Cod Batterer" were never publically accepted.

No time to sort the gallery at the moment,

I've got some new wibbling vids on my laptop i think.

Chutney's description is pretty much spot on.

Learn to throw underarm, ie throw from an outwards butterfly (1 poi) so that when you catch you reverse direction.

Then instead of catching it you tap the handle back so you effectly do an overarm throw. You can practice the overarm throw separately.

So you've got underarm throw >>> tapback

Now do underarm throw >>> tapback >>> tapback >>> tapback >>> tapback >>> tapback>>> tapback>>> tapback >>> tapback>>> tapback >>> tapback >>> tapback>>> tapback >>> tapback>>> tapback>>> tapback

And you're wibbling

To get them really clean, the outwards throw should be tapped back with the palm side of your hand or arm, the inwards throw should be tapped back with the back side of your hand or arm.

The most important part of the wibble is hitting the 'sweet spot' which is an inch or 2 below the handle. The handle must be weighted. You can use same weight as the head but i prefer somewhere between 1/3 and 1/5 the weight of the head.

If you hit the wibble about 4 inches from the handle you do 1 propellor before the wibble, looks tight.

You can also tap the head of the poi so you get a kind of half beat wibble.

Wibble = 1 spin
Dibble = 2 spins
Tribble = 3 spins
Polibble = 4 or more spins
Fibble = Foot Wibble

Then of course there are countless variations of 1 poi wibbling and 2 poi wibbling patterns.

Enjoy,

m

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