Just wondering about overhead variations

Please can some nice poiple enlighten me as to really kool looking overhead moves that they do because I don't know that many and I really like them. Maybe a little description as to how to do them aswell would be nice.

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JUL
19
2004
mattpoi

hey hey

I enjoy doing a thread the needle in the overhead plane. This is especially fun to do while on the ground leaning back. Overhead butterflys work real well.. I like to bend my head down and put my hands right above my neck during the butterfly.

also i like turning with a corkscrew above me (2beat to start working into the 3 or 4beat). not sure if this is truely a "overhead" move... but.. close enough

Nick Woolsey does a crazy over head move i cant do in his videos... http://www.thevenue.org/firespinning_videos.htm
he leans way back and spins one plane above him and one below while turning sorta.. its neat Sphism/smilesmiley

hope that helped

JUL
20
2004
Rev

well bth and over the head to me are close enough.. I mean if you do it bth it looks like its done over the head...

so there's weaving.. (not liek windmills.. I mean side planes bth)
and crossers..
and straight jackets..
and wraps..
and tangles..
and so forth and so on.. bascially if you can do it down here (or btl lol) then its very possible over head either wall or side planed..

JUL
23
2004
poikid

Hey Sphism/gigglesmiley

I LOOOOOVE doing over the head ttn's, especially while leaning real far back. Good for those breaks in music too

I dont really know of much other ones Sphism/smilesmiley

JUL
23
2004
djmagicfairy

POikid,, what's a ttn??? Newbie alert :oops:

JUL
23
2004
Rev

*does his best impression of poikid*

Ttn's are great... it stands for Thread The Needle...
Here's the encyclopoidia thread

and here's one that SHOULD be in the butterfly section where I always look for it

have fun...

*goes back to being Rev*

JUL
23
2004
poikid

Lol rev

Well yah, ttn is thread the needle, or push through

Butterfly pattern where with each beat of the poi one hand goes ontop of the other hand and pushes through the pattern, then next beat the other hand does it. Not saying you necessarily have to have the hands ontop but it's usually the easiest way to first learn it.

Sphism/smilesmiley So yes, over the head ones are luvly

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