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So i've been playing lots with what have become known as 'floats', though I think 'Slides' are also a good name.
Basically, it involves stalling the poi and then moving it in its stalled position across the plane. Ronan (Ronopotamus) has committed some to film which you will find on one of MCP's LAB videos.
I've been playing with whipcatches a bit lately and found that if I release say my left hand poi in a helicopter and catch it with my right poi in wheel plane I can end up in a nexus which can be played with..
It feels nice to whipcatch into a 180 turn and finish in a nexus..
Hope ye have some feedback on other things to play with in this idea!?
I don't oftwen have much to offer by the way of new or interesting ideas, but hopefully this will set a few cogs turning
'Stands' as I have come to call them are the result of accidents discovered when messing with releases- I'm sure many have inadvertently done them, but I thought I'd try and push them as a 'trick' in their own right.
Heyho, been thinkin a lot recently about spinning with flags, but i dont really know anything about them, ie, what can be done with them? are they easy to make / get hold of? any comments would be mooch appreciated pholks
Odds are somebody's already thought of this, but I haven't heard about it. I was doing some thinking and ended up wondering about mixing flowers and buzzsaws.
Obviously, you'd smack yourself without really short strings/chain. But what it you spun them isolated?
not something i've done but through a roundabout route of thinking which started watching a Tony Robinson program on the peasant's revolt, i thought well a fire head's a fire head, fire breather's use a fire head to ignite, would a spinning poi do the same? Maybe already done, most likely already tried but has anyone here seen/done it? How bad were the burns?
Something ive thought about here and there but never given any serious thought to, but in my current sleep deprived state it sounds it has more potential then in my other moments of fleeting thought.
ok, I'm sure you must be able to make other colours of flame than just the usual paraffin colour? I'm really wanting to make green flame which I think can be done with copper but I have no idea how to get copper into the paraffin or if it'll burn at the lower temperature that the parafin does, any ideas anyone?
seeing as how contortionist is this years style (was that you that made that statement durbs?) I was jsut wondering about some things..
like 6bt ttns... not the pseudo 6bts but true 6bt ttn..
for example, the right hand goes over the left (elbow over elbow) and then swoops under and back over.. bring the left around and same story..
I briefly tried two ways - arms crossed and uncrossed. Uncrossed, you look like you're reaching back to pull a hood over your head. Crossed, you're hugging yourself around the neck. I'm thinking crossed would bring the elbows more inside and out of the way. Either way, though, I haven't even gotten a good figure eight going with either hand. So, has anyone tried or done or see this?
Um, to be honest, this thought JUST popped into my head. Then it occured to me that in a wallplane there is no...well really no space to invert anywhere. But its possible to hyperloop in as well as out of a wallplane...
I know this was some thread on HOP. But like what freehanders are doing now is adding more sticks to the mix. Instead of using only 2, some are now becoming increasingly proficent at using 3 and 4 sticks at the same time. I mean at first, i thought "is that shit even possible?" and then I saw it with my own eyes. So possibly the same could hold true for using poi.
see you can hit this poi btb that is between the shoulder blades.. and do a tangle.. (not a skill I have mastered yet but) taking this one step further if you twist them up and turn 180 they can come out the other way.. to which you can do full extensions with each arm.. before bringing them to connect and twist the other way...
Anyone tried hacky sacking with like sockpoi's... not standing there kicking all day - more like make a throw n then let it drop abit extra n kick it back up or something? Could be cool!
Ok, so I've been looking at my Astronomy notes (Hooray for Hargreaves!!) and thinking a lot about black holes. I find the concept of something-being-reduced-to-nothing-but-still-having-mass a bit unnacceptable.
but it's a great idea (well I think it is anyway)
