[LilRaverBoi]

Okay....I've just had a pretty productive spinning session (finally....I've been stuck against a wall for quite some time). I sorta figured out the forward BTB TTN (I had reverse down, but couldn't do forward). It's still a little hazy, but decent. I also can do the reverse BTH TTN....pretty fun. I also figured out a BTH butterfly meltdown, 'dodging daggers' (basically, consecutive UTL spins in same-direction spin with one hand in front and one hand behind you....I also worked on the (consecutive) reverse butterfly UTL things which I'm pretty good at now....still gotta work on forward), a forward 5 beat weave with the 5th beat UTL and I'm doing better on my butterfly waistwraps....kinda have it down, just not super smooth yet. I've also made some progress on turning antispun flowers....shit's hard! Mine are always in front of me....so it's kinda atypical of the ones I've seen....but from what I could tell, it looks cool. (any suggestions on learning this?)

I forgot how awesome my fire wicks are.....they have the greatest weight/feel to em! I am nowhere NEAR as productive with my sock poi. Yay for heavy-ass-poi!!!

[glowFect-yA-m1nd]

wow dude, fuckin CONGRATS!! i cant even think of how to get into half of that stuff, except maybe the btb ttn. very cool bro!! you're such an inspiration man, you really are!

and yes definately gie it up to heavy-ass poi!! my friend big daddy has sock poi with 2 tennis balls in em. they were actually a bit heavier then his cathedrals. i learned so many cool isolations with them inluding an isolated atomic weave. YAY FOR HEAVY POI!!!!

[dancefloor]

I'm SOOO close to getting the straight jacket. I can get into it, but I can't keep it going.

Thats the only move I'm working on right now though, everything else is kinda just transitions/variations of stuff I already know.

[glowFect-yA-m1nd]

Originally Posted by dancefloor

I'm SOOO close to getting the straight jacket. I can get into it, but I can't keep it going.

what the hell is with this move!? i can get into as well but its SO hard to keep momentum with it. WTF lol. i feel your paaaaaain! itll come around someday soon tho. itll happen just like that and itll stick. thats how it always goes.

[LilRaverBoi]

THE WALL HAS BEEN BROKEN!!!
Some of you know that I've been stuck against a wall for the past month or more....HOWEVER....this wall has been rudely (yet successfully) BROKEN! I really think this is due to using my fire wicks (3.5" monkey fists) rather than my sock poi (socks+baseballs). For some reason, my sock poi are just the wrong weight or size...I can't do nearly as well with em.

Here are the things I was working on tonight...keep in mind, I don't consider these things as 'learned' or 'done' but they are now 'do-able' at least some of the time.
*1.5 waistwraps or waistwraps with 1.5's (or whatever you wanna call what I do)
*BTB UTL crossers (kinda like BTB crossers but one hand UTL...still working on BTB crossers)
*Waistwraps with UTL (again, whateva'...shit's so subjective at this point I don't try that hard)
*Full-body UTL crossers
*Double dodging dagers (double UTL thingy from front then back)

[Captain Planet]

Originally Posted by glowFect-yA-m1nd

what the hell is with this move!? i can get into as well but its SO hard to keep momentum with it. WTF lol. i feel your paaaaaain! itll come around someday soon tho. itll happen just like that and itll stick. thats how it always goes.

this is the real straightjacket that everyones talking about.

YouTube - POI - Real Straight Jacket

[LilRaverBoi]

No offense to CP....but FUCK THAT GUY!! He's directly hated on Zan Moore in the past....and in case you don't know who that is....look him up. Producer of the 'Encyclo-poi-dia' DVD and a world-class performer (featured in the 'Spinning in Arizona' YouTube vid if you've seen that. The guy makes a living by performing (especially by performing for disabled/diabetes kids......I mean, come on meow, don't EVER disrespect this guy!!). This video is actually a 'video response' to one of Zan's vids in which this dude refers to Zan's straight-jackets (as I learned/teach them) as 'fake-jackets' and challenges him to do them the 'right way' (as executed in this vid). Honestly the guy is a DISRESPECTFUL DOUCHE BAG (in my opinion)....talented, nonetheless, but again....a DOUCHE BAG....please forgive me. (don't disrespect my IDOLS or I will lose most respect for YOU)

[Captain Planet]

haha well sorry raverboi, only reason i posted it was to clerify to people so they wouldnt think there doing something they're not.

when ihear straightjackets i think of these, not like 2nd degree crossers o_O

[LilRaverBoi]

Okay....new stuff!
*forward foot thru-wraps
*heel shots (forward)
*knee shots (forward)
*double knee shots (foward)
*elbow shots (reverse)
*double elbow shots (reverse)
*double UTL combo (double front then double back)
*UTL hyperloops (definitely not 100% on these, but I can pull em off now)

[glowFect-yA-m1nd]

jesus bryan lol. that wall HAS been rudely broken!! i dont even know what those are.. knee shots, heel shots.. lol no clue, yet you're doing doubles and in reverse!! and all that btb utl shit.. man lol i got some catching up to do!!

anyways.. today i learned some new things. pendulums, forward and a sloppy reverse. and also a sloppy 4bt atomic weave. sometimes i do it with the planes just right, sometimes i dont n it ends in a 3 bt corkscrew lol. but its definitely there! also learned forward hip reels with a 180 into reverse hip reels. and polished up a split time butterfly weave over both shoulders, to both sides, uta on both sides ad putting them all together. very cool lookin move!