Peaks and Troughs
Or should I say 'zeniths and nadirs'? 
anyway, I'm having one of those days where I'm pretty disillusioned, I'm sure we all have them from time to time when we feel like there's nothing we can do about the stupid mistakes we make and all the stuff we have left to learn is just so advanced it's like dangling laptop infront of a donkey and waiting for it to evolve fingers. :roll:
Anyway, asside from the depressing rant I thought it might be interesting to put up a few posts about our peaks and troughs and how we've got past them, maybe a few ideas that might help people in a similar position (although right now all I really want is a pint 
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Just an idea, you don't have to... :idea:
The way I'm doing it now is sitting at work trying to think of things I could do with my poi, realising it would be impossible then going and trying it anyway. So far nothing I thought would work did and a few of the things I thought wouldn't work have worked(not very well but I'll deal with that later)
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Peaks and Troughs
silly monkey!! Of course we all have bad days all the time. Want to know what's really hard?? To be surrounded by fast learners and being a slow learner. Not just on spherculism - but IRL too. For instance - I've been working on the waist wrap for about 3 months now - and I've got it to the point where I can 'hit it' once in 5 tries. And my boyfriend saw me struggling with it last week, learned it in five minutes, and was doing it repeatedly in both directions with his triple fire poi three days later. It's really hard not to get pissed off.
Now - for the helpful part following my rant - how to deal with these bad days:
1.) I play with other toys - I picked up a staff and a hoop and I'm learning a broader set of skills
2.) Teach someone else something. You won't realize how good you are getting until you turn around and work with someone who's still struggling with the basics. And it'll make your poi better, too, because thinking about ways to explain moves/combos will deepen your own understanding.
3.) Just dance! Don't worry about moves you don't know yet, or things you are struggling with - turn the music on loud, get your groove on - sometimes (i swear it's happened to me) the 'impossible' move you've been struggling with will just work. And even if it doesn't, you'll be having FUN!!
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Peaks and Troughs
Everyone goes through them, it'll pass in time.
However if you read the thread I put in the Everything Else section about how to practise, you'll see that even when your performace isn't going well you're still learning... so you'll improve in the long run!
Peaks and Troughs
Yupyup
Generally have a really bad day if I've had a really good spin the day before
I think if I have a really good session and everything feels easy, I come back next session expecting everything to still feel easy but sometimes :o It doesn't!
My tips:
1. Get a book or some reasonably comprehensive list of basic-ish Poi moves and learn all of them, forwards, backwards, L>R, R>L etc. This is really good for getting a more comprehensive move base to work with. You also learn how the poi move and get a feel for the way they react to you and you react to them. I think it's all about feeling more 'at home' or natural while spinning.
2. As Saucy said: "Teach someone else" you really do realise how far youve come. I've been playing alot with hyperloops recently and (stupidly) came to the conclusion that all the basic ones are actually really easy, so I tried to teach a couple of friends that do a little spinning some basic tangles and realised just how much my co-ordination and control had advanced 8O.
3. If you find yourself getting really frustrated, ...leave it.
Go out and have a picnic :46 , go to the cinema :jedi , or just listen to some music and chill! :44 :56
Ther is more to life than sox
Peaks and Troughs
Some days I can barely manage anything beyond 3 beat (so yeah, can't do anything). Those days I usually do something else. Acrobatics or stretching or something that still benefits me overall.
Otherdays I will start off very rusty, so I have to work all the way from a basic forward spin to where ever I want to practice that day. It does good to go through all the basics and transitions now and then though. You can start putting tricks into the simple stuff, then you'll find your self doing something harder, and able to put the same tricks in.
Peaks and Troughs
i find that i'll be at spitz and i'll learn 5 new tricks instantly in a night. but then the next week i'll be all thumbs and toes and accomplish nothing but bruising myself.
it's the ebb and flow of life.
Peaks and Troughs
I was thinking about this at work last night. I remember when I first started spinning I would hit a peak in learning new stuff and be kind of stranded for a while like around a month or so. Then I would learn a new technique and have a whole bunch of new areas to explore which would eventually slump off again. It doesn't really seem like this happens anymore now that I understand spinning in much more depth. I always have a plethora of new ideas or untried concepts to draw from. I also seem to learn new things faster. I never work on learning a new pattern or concept for more then a day or two but I constantly am polishing them once I can do them. This really isn't a bad thing. It's almost like the whole way I spin is constantly evolving. Before when you are still learning moves the way you spun changed slightly as you'd learn something new to add in to your "bag of tricks". Now I'll learn one little concept and it will completely change my whole style of spinning. A good example is for the past two days I really finally started working on learing complex same-time same-direction stuff and am completely blown away by what I have been missing. With all the new things I've learned my whole style of spinning is different. Sorry if this post rambled at all but working the graveyard shift soemtimes plays little tricks with ya.
-ChrisRovo
Peaks and Troughs
I'm always having bad days, but thats just cause I'm new I suppose. I agree with Saucy, teaching someone else helps, especially someone who has really bad co-ordination, so you won't lose heart cause there will always be SOMEONE worse than you
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