I learned complex weaves, wraps and body tracers so easily but it took me FOREVER to wrap my head around reels and flowers. I've been poi spinning for years but only worked out flowers last week haha! Just goes to show!
My first poi trick was a 3-beat weave, and I was struggling with it so much! It took for me about three weeks, including practicing by myself every day, and six 2-hour lessons with other spinners. But finally I did it :) Crossers were also hard for me, but I learned them relatively fast thank your tutorials 👍 Now I am trying to do meltdowns, which are also not so easy for me. At first I was just hitting myself, now it is better, but I still need to make my planes look better in this trick
3-beat weaves also took me forever. Not because they were hard (although they were), but because I couldn't tell for the longest time that I was actually doing 2-beat weaves. Whoops! Meltdowns are fun! Definitely enjoy that journey!
You know what’s great about struggling with new tricks? You become very very good at teaching them because you know the problems and know how it feels to have problems with that trick. I do acrobatics and I can’t really explain the things I did right the first time but I am excellent at teaching the ones that I struggled with. I love your videos!
I've been trying to get back into flow, and seeing this definitely reinspired me. I'm also struggling with the last two tricks you mentioned. Thanks for this, Drex! Flow on :)
Just went through 3 weeks of your learning Poi during Covid. And I just finished the 3rd week. Been gloving for 8 years but you make it so easy to learn. Looking forward to learning these in the future
So also oddly enough, I'm still working on basic flowers. Even though I can do technically harder things with ease. I totally understand the self questioning of why is this hard and it must be my issue and not the poi's. I have had to stack flowers like a bicycle derailleur to get my brain to be like fine ok I'll try... otherwise it just wants to play in rolling weave land. ... dumb flowers... why you so challenge.
Crossers was the first trick that I really struggled with & it was only with your videos that I finally learned it. I am at a point now where tackling hybrids and behind the back maneuvers feels intimidating. Also, out of curiosity, do you practice one handed tricks with your left at all? I am having difficulty getting even a simple one handed butterfly down with my left..
Omg this is very interesting one or the 1st tricks you taught in the live stream classes was reals and you explain how to do that very well. Crossers definitely does seem hard to do. Still learning how to spin in reverse. I have not learned isolations or horizontal cat eyes before in poi. This is definitely interesting trick the Mercedes. I have not done that yet but you are inspiring me to make it a goal for the future. I am definitely going to try to learn gun stingers as Antispin flowers eventually. Not sure how hard it is to do that because I have never tried yet. I had trouble doing tricks with poi except a 2 beat weave bc I was trying to convert hoop moves to poi as in do the move the same way with a different prop.
The good news is that isolations and horizontal cateyes both have parallels with hoops. Gunslingers not so much, though. Still a fun challenge, though!
ok so I guess i'm good i started poi spinning one year and a half ago and i'm able to do the four first tricks and Drex, are you able to do the double cateye? (horizontal cateye + vertical cateye, same direction, split time)
This is a great list of some really cool tricks! I've gotta put in the time for horizontal cateye one day, and gunslingers are also on my bucket list. I will say, when learning hard tricks, I find that it's more fun to not focus on one specific trick, but to bounce between a few. I don't get as frustrated when I get stuck on one trick since I can instead try to make progress somewhere else. I've been learning some meteor tech for the past few months, and when my right hand is tired of the constant clacking when trying to learn mercedes, I'd swap to my left hand and try to clean up my weaves.
Interesting approach! I can definitely see why that would give a more consistent feeling of progress. And yes, please more horizontal cateyes and gunslingers out there!
These crossers, I know. An important advise to everyone having difficulties with this one - watch out for your crotch, guys - or even better - wear some protecting gear!
I learned complex weaves, wraps and body tracers so easily but it took me FOREVER to wrap my head around reels and flowers. I've been poi spinning for years but only worked out flowers last week haha! Just goes to show!
I'm ashamed but glad I'm not the only one who's beaten their poi against something when learning those hard ones haha
Definitely not the only one! Also a great way to find out just how durable my poi actually were!
My first poi trick was a 3-beat weave, and I was struggling with it so much! It took for me about three weeks, including practicing by myself every day, and six 2-hour lessons with other spinners. But finally I did it :) Crossers were also hard for me, but I learned them relatively fast thank your tutorials 👍 Now I am trying to do meltdowns, which are also not so easy for me. At first I was just hitting myself, now it is better, but I still need to make my planes look better in this trick
3-beat weaves also took me forever. Not because they were hard (although they were), but because I couldn't tell for the longest time that I was actually doing 2-beat weaves. Whoops! Meltdowns are fun! Definitely enjoy that journey!
You know what’s great about struggling with new tricks? You become very very good at teaching them because you know the problems and know how it feels to have problems with that trick. I do acrobatics and I can’t really explain the things I did right the first time but I am excellent at teaching the ones that I struggled with. I love your videos!
I've been trying to get back into flow, and seeing this definitely reinspired me. I'm also struggling with the last two tricks you mentioned.
Thanks for this, Drex! Flow on :)
So glad to hear it! You're so welcome!
Just went through 3 weeks of your learning Poi during Covid. And I just finished the 3rd week. Been gloving for 8 years but you make it so easy to learn. Looking forward to learning these in the future
So your quality seems to have step functioned... that was really good. I love the longer clips because it makes seeing it easier.
So also oddly enough, I'm still working on basic flowers. Even though I can do technically harder things with ease. I totally understand the self questioning of why is this hard and it must be my issue and not the poi's. I have had to stack flowers like a bicycle derailleur to get my brain to be like fine ok I'll try... otherwise it just wants to play in rolling weave land. ... dumb flowers... why you so challenge.
excellent video my brother
Thank you so much!
Crossers was the first trick that I really struggled with & it was only with your videos that I finally learned it. I am at a point now where tackling hybrids and behind the back maneuvers feels intimidating. Also, out of curiosity, do you practice one handed tricks with your left at all? I am having difficulty getting even a simple one handed butterfly down with my left..
2p1h spiral wraps took me forever. I kept quitting and coming back to it. I'm still only 95% confident on them, esp with long poi sets around 29".
And I still don't have them down completely with my left hand. :-P
Omg this is very interesting one or the 1st tricks you taught in the live stream classes was reals and you explain how to do that very well. Crossers definitely does seem hard to do. Still learning how to spin in reverse. I have not learned isolations or horizontal cat eyes before in poi. This is definitely interesting trick the Mercedes. I have not done that yet but you are inspiring me to make it a goal for the future. I am definitely going to try to learn gun stingers as Antispin flowers eventually. Not sure how hard it is to do that because I have never tried yet. I had trouble doing tricks with poi except a 2 beat weave bc I was trying to convert hoop moves to poi as in do the move the same way with a different prop.
The good news is that isolations and horizontal cateyes both have parallels with hoops. Gunslingers not so much, though. Still a fun challenge, though!
ok so I guess i'm good
i started poi spinning one year and a half ago and i'm able to do the four first tricks
and Drex, are you able to do the double cateye? (horizontal cateye + vertical cateye, same direction, split time)
This is a great list of some really cool tricks! I've gotta put in the time for horizontal cateye one day, and gunslingers are also on my bucket list.
I will say, when learning hard tricks, I find that it's more fun to not focus on one specific trick, but to bounce between a few. I don't get as frustrated when I get stuck on one trick since I can instead try to make progress somewhere else. I've been learning some meteor tech for the past few months, and when my right hand is tired of the constant clacking when trying to learn mercedes, I'd swap to my left hand and try to clean up my weaves.
Interesting approach! I can definitely see why that would give a more consistent feeling of progress. And yes, please more horizontal cateyes and gunslingers out there!
Hola, amo tus videos de una pregunta, esos poits son de luces ?
Hola! Estos poi están hechos de un tejido reflectante. Son brillantes debido a todas las luces de mi estudio.
❤❤❤
🙏🙏🙏
These crossers, I know.
An important advise to everyone having difficulties with this one - watch out for your crotch, guys - or even better - wear some protecting gear!
Algorithm. ❤
Please don't say "real talk."
Please don't be rude.