Define ~ Tracer

A trace is when you change your swinging style.. normally your poi via centrifugal force, pull them selves.. we just kind of guide them a little.. a tracer is the opposite.. instead of the poi pulling out from your hand.. your hand is going to pull the poi... no in order to get any kind of pattern out of pulling your poi, you have to pull around something.. like a pulley.. you can getinto them with or without wrapping..

it helps to think of it like this: you can't make patterns pulling poi, if you don't pull around things.. it runs contrary to how we think of spinning..[/code]

ok check this out.. it traces and outline of the body part you pull around.. when Imake a loop around my neck the poi has to spin a circle around my neck until it reaches the proper alignment to continue moving in a straight line to the next point..

bascialyl peopleknow them from wraps because a wrap is an easy way to do it.. and get rope burn.. lol... because when you wrap it makes a spiral (no matter how compressed) when you pull, instead of letting it recoil, the poi will not get chance to spiral out.. it will instead be pulled along the coiled spiral on your arm... all the slack that should be letting it spiral further out is take up on the other end by the hand.. now the key to this is in the recoil.. if you wait to pull, until after the poi is ready to recoil, it will will not tighten sround the bodypart.. If you pull before the poi enters that free fall state, the poi and your hand will be tightening a coil.. ouch..

wraps make it easier to do traces because it does the pattern for you.. as it wraps it makes the coiled pattern on your arm.. however onece you start tracing.. the pulling that your handdoes is leading the trace.. so from there on its easier to just lead your hand around the wrap point.. you can trace sections of circles, like over shoulders, or all the way around once and then a little to get a clearer effect.

I get it and I agree. Rev has a nack for making me understand poi in text.

OK, From what I understand:

Tracers:
Pulling on the handle to lead the poi head along the path of the poi body which is wrapped around an appendage.

Needs work...

So what's your definition then?

Tracer

A tracer is where you pull the poi around one or more parts of the body as if the poi was a pulley.

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what's a non pulley trace exactly? sort of like a isolation only your pulling it through the air?

[quote="spiralx"]Tracer

A tracer is where you pull the poi around one or more parts of the body as if the poi was a pulley.

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spiral... I never said i disagreed.. I just said I didnt' articulate it, because I didn't know where to draw the line.. that of course is acceptable by me.. (though I wouldnt say I'm an authority on tracers lol)

non pulley traces involve isolations and free fall.. thus getting the trace effect without actually having to touch a body part.. it still works the same, your just using a higher level of control to make the poi spin the motions without outside influence..

here this is about as simple as it gets.. wrap your right poi on your left arm.. instead of letting it recoil, pull the handle.. this pulls the poi around the arm.. voila... there are lots of ways to get to that motion.. and that's where the fun is..

peace