Mind Games

ok... here's a quick rundown of mindgames...

mindgames aren't just throw-catches..mind games re a style, like isolations...
this will be the cartoon explanation of them, but will suffice until I finish writing up my wrap article for poiinthepark...

mindgames are things that you can do that completely boggle peoples minds..
a simple one involves having the right poi come into the inside of the left leg causing it to wrap, you then pull your right hand up the body around the outside of the left arm (like doing a counter-clockwise corkscrew).. your right arm (at the elbow) should pass over your head.. which you can then pull your right arm down the right side a little and up towards the front... I know this sounds hard to follow, but what you do is make the poi trace up (spiraled) aaround the left leg, out around the left side of the of the torso (around the ribs) across the back and come up from around the waist or lower of the right side.. not too mention all the stuff you coud be doing with the left poi at the same time..
another one involves catching a poi and tossing it to the other hand, and then tossing it back, and pulling both poi strings.. this should wrap one poi (the thrown one) around the string of the other, which when you toss it back allows you to pull it into an airwrap...
another way is to let the right poi come up on the right bicep from the bottom.. thus having it wrap up and over your shoulder from behind... now as you pull to trace this, catch the poi in your armpit.. this can be asy as just keeping your arm against your body as you pull the trace.. you can then reach around and catch the glowstick behind you (out of the crowds view) and pull it over your shoulder and drop it.. right as its about to run out of string, pull it into a weave or over into another wrap.. the effect is a trace that disappears, while your hand continues to move... it later pops from over your shoulder out of nowhere and ap[pears to fall, until you make it spin.. the tracers left from this just make people sit for a second and go "huh?" which is exactly what you want..
there's tons of ways to do these things, but they all involve pulling through some of your wraps... by pulling through a wraps you can take the momentum of a recoiling poi and drag it as it hovers about a cm over your body, all over the place...

I will have by monday an article on wraps and wrap theory... at least as much as I know... and it should be pretty comprehensive of all the tricks I can explain... I'll send it to matt so he can post it where he feels... I'm not sure which category it would best fit in... and I'm sure some of the glostringer on here can add to what I post...

hopefully that will get you guys started on my take of the mindgame stuff..

I think I saw a version of the airwrap one that Rev described being done by Bluecat at Spitz when I was in London a few weeks ago. Not quite mind games style, but a very similar move... well, as much as different poi moves can look the same ;-)

Roger