Glowstring vid of me :D

Lol I thought there was tons of variation but kudos spiralx :2 Wil...keep it up man, lovin' it

M-P Kid

Is the video DIVX encoded?

Wil, that is the same vid you sent me right? I loved it but never got round to telling you. I love the mindgames. I used to use glowsticks a lot but haven't in ages. I got some out the other night and realised that they are frigging hard Nice work, and thanks for sharing it with all the spherculoids out there, and spiralx ~ there is no difference between poi and glo round here it's just one big happy family :34

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Thread the needles, hyperloops, buzzsaws, fountains, waist wraps, all kinds of things.

I'm not criticising your skill though! Just saying I generally prefer to see a wider range of things

Yeah, I think maybe it's a stylistic difference.

A waist wrap is a club swinging move (which is why it has the term wrap even though it doesn't touch your body) which is like a fountain but two beat. There's a thread on it in the Encyclopoidia section which goes into more detail

wil- I think he is refering to you don't use much variation in your vid.. you use a lot of the same stylistic moves...

sprial- the reason most glokids stuff is like that is because they don't see the point in showing you what EVERYONE else has been doing forever.. so you don't get as much poi as you do in straight poi vids.. if that makes sense

but I could jsut be way off as usual...

nah.. what I was asying is that inthe glo community you typically show what you've been working on and not just spin... whereas nonglokids tend to spin more wf what they know in general and not just the new stuff in vids...

I wasn't saying anything about your style specifically.. I was pointing out thats' why there wasn't the variety in your video that people like spiral are used to...

both of you look at vids and variety different.. and I was just trying to bridge the gap.. help you to see what each other meant.. not meant as a critque of what you did.. I dug it.. you are woking on a lot of things in that vid tha tI've been playing with last few months and some things that I haven't..

I'm planning on busting out my glows tonight, I have been reinspired to play with those perdy glowy toys again.

[quote="wil"]oh? what things did i do in the vid taht you have been working on?

I love watching tracers but I cannot figure out what the heck is going on with it. If anyones got vid with lots of em that'd be helpful.

Wil, got my glows last night, had a blast, my style with glows is the same as with my poi, so its totally differant but still pretty. Anyways just wondering, is there a specific thing to do to get all the wraps so clean and effortless looking? Lots of practice or is there a secret?

M-P Kid

Right on thanks Rev :22 I'll definitally check it out :36

I wish we had a tracer video tutorial.

I get lost in text discriptions. Well with poi, now with contact juggling it works fine.

the key to remember with traces I think is that your hand leads the poi... when spinning we commonly think of the poi leading our hands.. i.e the centrifugal force pulls the poi in the shape we want.. think of the 2bt weave.. basically you just pull your hand left to right and most of the rest is done for you.. well with traces its not like that.. your hand is pulling the poi.. no longer a matter of centrigual force.. the poi will move whereever you pull to.. but it won't do that well unless ther is some kind of tension.. this is where the fulcrum comes in.. anywhere you can wrap can act as a fulcrum.. basically you have to pull around that fulcrum..
for example if I pull up my chest over my shoulder then my shoulder acts as a fulcrum.. and as my hand moves down my back the poi moves up to my shoulder.. it doesnt move down like my hand does.. now once it crosses the shoulder, the poi will head to the next fulcrum point.. If I were to lift my left foot behind me, then I could take my hand after going downmy back and wrap around the foot.. the foot then becomes the next fulcrum and thepoi HAS to move to that ppoint before it can continue on to the next point..

so long trace combos are difficult because they require a mastery of adding fulcrums like a giant connect the dots.. the result however is this beautiful mass of tanlged string around your body that disappears as the poi runs from point to point.. which in my opinion is just amazing..

simple traces occur from a wrap.. where instead of letting the wrap recoil, you pull your handle.. this takes all the recoil slack out of the poi, forcing it to make laps around the wrapped body part without ever getting any further from that body part.. hence the name trace.. so getting started with a trace is easy.. enter from a wrap, from there comes the mass of connecting the dots mentioned above..

reading text and writing text of poi is diffcult.. and its a skill just like poi itself.. It also helps you to better understand what you are doing by being able to read and write about it..

your welcome.. I would by far not call me master... I am padiwan.. not jedi.. not average joe.. in that happy space between.. glad I could help.. your gonna be pimp at this if you keep up kiddo.. learn it all you can now.. you'll be proud of it later..

I can't wait to see this kid in a few years.. heheh..

heya will! long time no chat hehe...

youve gotten ALOT more down since the last vid... very nice indeed

loved all the crossers, youve gotten alot better for not having practiced much lol

im not much of a person for mindgames, theyre cool and all, (and really complicated)... i just like seeing more circles created by the regular spinning.... the mindgames (for me) interrupt the flow hehe

excelent job tho

and as far as poi and glowstringing goes... i agree with the comment that its all the same thing.... in the end, a weave is a weave, a butterfly is a butterfly, etc.... only diff is the object that makes the light trails wether it be fire, LEDs, glowsticks, flashlights, beamers.....even then it doesnt need to make trails... tennis balls, practice poi, flagheads....

its all Poi (just different forms of poi) and its all part of the greatest hobby out there :11