freestylin vid 3

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CONGRATULATION MATT ! ! ! :roll:

Just having another look at the 3rd freestylin vid.

you know i really should upload some more vids, only half are up so far, i might use the new video gallery to upload the rest.

Those freestyle vids look so old to me, that's where my poi was at last november, almost a year on from there now.

And that was before spherculism, although it is hard to believe there was such a time

Thanks for the props but that is just a video of me spinning in my office after 2 hours under super hot lights. Admittedly listening to shpongle, which always helps. But to me it all looks very forced. There were 8 minutes left on the tape and the idea was to try to show anything which i'd forgotten to teach previously. Soo it's not really me dancing, it's me trying to think of things i'd forgotten earlier.

You should see me when i really freestyle! And you gotta hear the music for that. For me it's about getting all those freaked out patterns, cutting them all up into tiny pieces and putting them back together IN TIME with the music. It's a 'Visual Interpretation of the Sounds I Hear'. I particularly love it when the music goes wrong, records skip, power cuts out or someone scratches in a completely different tune. Because when you've really got your flow on, your body picks up on that totally unexpected change in sound. One of my favourite styles is what i lovingly refer to as 'Malfunctioning Robot'. Super jerky movements totally in time to random noises. That feeling of there being no separation in time between your body and the music, at times you cannot tell which is in control, body or music? Sometimes you just instinctively change style and tempo and the music changes, it's simultaneous.

The thing is you use your mind (intellectual body) to teach your physical body the movements of the poi. But at some point you must disengage your mind and let your body have complete control, your mind is great but relatively slow at controlling the body.

Then when you are freestyling to music your physical body can keep time absolutely. However, your body works very mechanically and you must employ your emotional body to manifest the flow.

Then if you can reach a complete trance, your mind has no thoughts and your body movements are being controlled solely by the music (and vise versa) there are moments when your divine body cuts in. These are those rare times when you pull off the sickest movements, the ones you've never practiced, combos you thought were impossible. This is the time when you realise increadible things about your poi. What i love to call, poi epiphanies. This is when you gain Understanding of what your body is doing.

Well, i hope that helps some of you to free up your potential. And if none of that made any sense,

just Stop trying so damn hard

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Me too.

Just downloaded some Shpongled,
Mat that stuff rocks!
So varied and so much energy.
Not that I want this to descend into a music discussion, but I can see why you say it helps.
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