Going back to basics
Does anyone else here find that every so often they get to the point where they suddenly realise that they need to take a step back from learning all about 7-beat isolated BTB butterfly weaves and concentrate on fixing those very basic things they should already be able to do? For me at the moment it's sorting out my left wrist motions... I'm pathologically unable to maintain planes even when doing a sodding reverse butterfly for very long 
*sigh*
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Going back to basics
ive had that problem. i go through patches of learning lots and i often progress to fast for my own good. I think the trick is to learn enough new moves to keep you entertained for a while, and then stop with the new stuff and get them super smooth.
Bit tricky when poiple like Matt opens our minds and makes us realise we've only mastered the tip of a very large iceburg
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weirdness
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I'm in one of those stages right now. For a while I was full speed ahead learning crazy tosses , underleg patterns, funky isolations stuff like that then I'm like woooah wait a sec , my hyperloop is shitty. So I'm working on that one now. Heh I had to take a serious step back. Ah well. As for the left hand, it actually tends to perform better than my right which is odd cause I'm right handed :24 Peace out
-Poikid-
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that's why I like combining everything.. to a degree.. see I always saw the UK poi masters talking about doing things with the 3bt weave.. all sorts of things.. and always starting them out applied to the 2 and 3 bt.. hell I had to relearn the 2bt to learn to offset stuff, and the 3bt as well.. which was news to me since I started with the 3bt btb and worked my way up.. so instread of working on my 2 bt stuff only I went back and worked my 2,3,4,and 6 bt stuff... because the even stuff can be lead with either hand producing even more to learn.. basically I've worked most all of it back in through offsetting things.. its helped me to get more aquired to using them in ways other then I ahd learned them.. bonus.. which in turn turned me on to wanting to do all my moves in as many planes as I can... from then on, I tried as best as I could to take anything I knwo and learn it backwards, forwrads, and everyway but upsidedown.. because welll... havent got that whole headstand poi spin thing down yet..
I always look for ways to add the basics to what I do. lest I forget them.. which I admit.. somethings I have.. nothing I really use though, or couldnt pick up quick..
one thing I need to work on that I don't anymore is weight changes.. heavy poi help build better planar control.. especially if they are huge and heavy.. I stopped because it made it hard to learn things with my sticks.. not being able to feel them and all.. but I've spent so much time not spinning the heavy stuff that my planes are getting worse..
Anyway... I can sympathize hardcore.. because if your anything like me.. you realize how much there is to learn, and become more focused aquiring some of the many skills lacked rather then ones that we never think to use anymore..
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i totally hear ya on the lefthand bizz spiral!....i too haf a few issues with keepin my left hand under control and in-plane...
i concentrate like really hard on tryin to send the right messages down to my left hand....however it seems that wen they get their they must be in another language or summin cause my left hand jus doesn't get the picture!... :16
practice n more practice n a bit more practice i guess :32
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kind of, buuut...
as you learn really tech stuff, you gain greater control over your poi in general. i used to be really crap at stalls, couldn't do them properly at all. so i never did them.
about a year and a half of poi later, i thought
"ok let's try out these stall things then... oh, i can just do them. wierd."
But having said that... since getting into tangles all my poirs (like peers but with poi) are telling me that my planes have gone rubbish
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how is that I wonder... because tangles require greater plane control I thought... to keep them fro being all wobbly and stuff..
then agian this comes from someone whose planes are SHITE... but I thought that was because of other factors.. mainly wraps..
wow epiphany.. so tnalges do junk my planes.. tanlges are like wraps.. they teach crooked planes.. ie. planes that intersect with other objects and not planes that don't intersect at all..
oi..
so I guess if I spun in a manner contrary to how I want to, I should be alright yeah?
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Heheh yeah to learn tangles you need to be able to break your planes to create the tangle.
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I tend to beat new moves to death, although for the first few months my reverse spinning sucked, I still can't do as many tricks in reverse, only a move or two behind though.
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The need to go back to the basics tends to be in the back of my mind a lot of the time. There are a lot of things I know need work, and what I really want is a day I can spend entirely on said work. Or maybe a week.
That probably won't happen for a long time, unless I get lucky.