>> ISOLATED CONE THEORY <<

i'd say parts of this are very simple. seeing as this did actually help me understand my hyperloops i'm gonna strip away some of the cryptic mystery for the benifit of those who don't know what everyone's going on about.

as far as i understand it, when you do a basic hyperloop your hands stay still and move through points across your body. i.e. outside, inside, outside.

to keep the loop going though you can coax the poi heads to keep going round while remaining between your arms by making little circles with your hands forwards or backwards depening on whether your loop is forwards or backwards moving. i find that i'm actually scooping my hands round the tangle point in a similar way to which i'd do a busszaw isolation with the poi heads flooping over the tangle.

this feels a bit like riding a horse (forwards or backwards) and effectively isolates the tangle so that if you were to visualize the shape created you'd have two cones with circles created by your hands pointing into the tangle.

because oli was the first person most of us ever saw doing this (constantly) the move became known as oli-ing.

i have my suspicions that you can use the point of tangle as a pivot for plane changes although i'm not entirely sure.

for more info on continous tangles tim (trees&beetles) wrote a good explanation in his understanding twists and tangles thread and oli's a good person to ask...