poi trance

Connor · **poi trance -** 08-08-08, 07:02 AM

does anyone else get in those modes where you have to put the world on hold until you accomplish what poi move you're working on?

just the other day i was practicing this thing (i have really no idea how to describe it, lets go with a split time butterfly fountain? sort of not really) but its one that takes a lot of concentration, and i got into this while a bunch of friends and me were hanging out in front of a house and getting ready to leave and start the day.

everyone kept talking to me and asking me things and trying to get me to go with them but i was sort of just standing there working on my move like "uhh you guys go ahead i'll meet up with you later." then people would look around and keep trying to talk to me and i would be like "ummmm hold on." and that went on for some time.

so yeah does anyone else get that?

**ukeyouee** · 08-08-08, 01:53 PM

yeeeeeeeeees. it's how I tore up my shoulder last time because I wasn't paying attention and then realized that my cat was standing right next to me and I almost clocked her and I love my kitty.

that was a run on sentence.

rednblck · 08-08-08, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ukeyouee

yeeeeeeeeees. it's how I tore up my shoulder last time because I wasn't paying attention and then realized that my cat was standing right next to me and I almost clocked her and I love my kitty.

that was a run on sentence.

lmao for some reason that made me crack up... i mean the run on sentence part. hahaha

awww kitty...

**LilRaverBoi** · 08-09-08, 02:26 AM

Yeah, that totally was a run-on....NICE CATCH....way to proofread, Sarah!!! Yay *HUGS* LOL

As for the question....yeah, I've been in poi trances before. Although, usually it's on my own in my room with my fav music on. When the really sweet break-downs happen and the choicest melodies cue in, I kinda lose my grip on my environment and enter my own spinning world of personal (inner) ecstasy. I forget what's going on and live by the moment.

TasteTheAlex · 08-09-08, 07:09 PM

often times i practice at night cause its much cooler outside than during the day, ill go outside around 2 am often enough I have seen the sun rise because i was so set on getting move down before I finished up and went back inside. I would usually highly like these nights but they haven't been happening as often, i need to start updating my moves list again and stop working on flowing as much, although both are important, i could really use some more moves

Shpongled · 08-09-08, 08:45 PM

I am mostly in trance if i am spinning fo over 5 min, its one of the reasons i love poi so much. You can be completely relaxed while sweating your balls off working hard as fuck to nail that new combo

BRJ · 08-10-08, 01:37 AM

i get in this trance so often. Normaly when im addin to my wrap combos or workin on utl stuff. Lately i been workin on Waist wraps and ive gone out at 10 pm and come back in at 3 am lol. Just practice practice

**ukeyouee** · 08-10-08, 01:39 AM

this is actually why I spin poi - I find that I can get into a really deeply focused meditative state much more easily than when I'm sitting still...even five minutes makes a difference to how I feel day to day.

**starlet** · 08-11-08, 07:41 AM

not only that but i end up talking myself through it too. 'oh, um, yeah well actually how about... oh wait...that dosn't make sense...ohhhhh i seeeee.... '

i am a whole bag-full of crazy sometimes.

but yep, once i get in 'The Zone' there is usually no distacting me!

X-PlIcIt · 08-11-08, 11:15 AM

oh yeah, i kno what ya meen. that zone.....its one hell of a drug, i dont literally meen drugs but when i practice and someone trys to bother me i just kinda snswer but have no idea what i said or if i was even talking sometimes, and if someone does brake my consatration, i get pissed, like i said being in the zone....well its one hell of a drug