Slang and alternatives
What are some interesting slang or "alternative" names?
Here are a few off the top of my head...
The chase (2bt weave?)
the funky chicken (Seattle name for isolated backwards weave)
Magic (Santa Cruz name for isolated backwards weave)
Seattle Style (Santa Barbara slang for isolations)
Taking the Weight Off (Nick Woolsey's name for isolations)
1-2 time (Nick's name for split time)
Bicycle Buzzsaw (isolated buzzsaw)
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Hey, along the same line of thought... how does Michal Kahn's definitions from her PoiSpinning book map to the definitions here?
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The definitions in there are pretty much UK standard... there's a couple variations i.e. thread the needle is a push-through, but it should match stuff here closely.
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That's pretty much what I rememebered from my brief look through the book, but I remember reels being a different name, and also lock-outs or something like that?!?
Roger
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I've read the buzzsaw being called, the wheel before.
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[quote="Orbit"]That's pretty much what I rememebered from my brief look through the book, but I remember reels being a different name, and also lock-outs or something like that?!?
Roger
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Seattle style eh?I gotta get to learning that then. Haha funky chicken way cool
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Spiral,
I think of lockouts as another name for flowers rather than fakeys. Fakeys are done very tight - so an untrained observer might not even notice (hmm... I'm thinking now this is especially true if you cheat the planes a bit), thus the name Fakey. As in "haha! faked ya! you thought I was going to continue with the weave, but I'm gonna stop here and spin them on one side for another turn." With long poi this may be a moot point, but with shorter poi, your fakey would have the hands just far enough apart to have the poi pass, whereas the flower/lock-out involves big arm movements.
Orbit
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Not as they're defined in the book... they're just stopping a move and adding a hand circle... which is what a fakey is. I can check the book when I get home, but I'm pretty sure that's the definition there
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As for the fakeys...... I've only seen them as momentarily breaking the pattern then entering it again...but then I've only been at them for a short time so
Hey orbit, whenever I think of some more slang or alternative poi words, I'll be sure and post them 
Nice thread btw, I like it hehe
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My first post, wooohoo!
Some terms I've heard bantered about in Santa Barbara:
Shiva = called Windmill on HOP.
Whirling dervish = combining forwards and backwards weave continuously, so you're spinning in a circle. I sometimes call that a helicopter, just for fun.
Rosminah
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Hello there
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I'm looking through the PoiSpinning book by Michal Kahn... and her lockouts are definitely flowers rather than fakies. The key difference between flowers and fakies is that flowers involve extending the hands as far out as possible while fakies involve putting the hands as close together as you can get away with.
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flowers don't have to have the full arm extended. Thats needlessly tightening a definition past the point where it's commonly used.
i say
fakies=lockouts=seperations=extra circles
flowers=<the above> being moved round in a larger circle
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oops that was me...
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[quote="Orbit"]I'm looking through the PoiSpinning book by Michal Kahn... and her lockouts are definitely flowers rather than fakies. The key difference between flowers and fakies is that flowers involve extending the hands as far out as possible while fakies involve putting the hands as close together as you can get away with.
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Um.... I'd say one of the moves within the flower pattern is a fakey...