Poi

[watervole]

It's an odd thing about poi. Bit like riding a bicycle really.

It looks easy.

You try a particular trick and it's almost impossible.

You practice it and work on it and analyse it and gradually it clicks.

You practice some more and it becomes easy.

It becomes so easy that you forget it was ever hard in the first place.

I'm still at the second stage on this one:

http://www.homeofpoi.com/lessons/poi_lessons.php/poi/14

I've managed to get it right a couple of times now, but most attempts just result in interestingly tangled strings. In about three days time, it will be completely automatic, and I'll be working on doing it the other way round.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

That one looks cool. I'll try it tomorrow.

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

I've never managed to get beyond the first thing I tried - just simply changing direction 180 degrees while doing major circles. No time to practice. :-(

I did bring my poi to Worldcon, but kept forgetting to mention it.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

There's a trick to that one that is much easier if you have a real person showing you what to do. In essence, if you want to swop direction, you have to swop the side of the body you're working on.

Remember, poi are very good for stress-busting. They force you to concentrate on something else. Why not try one of the sites with free lessons?

10 mins a day can get you a lot further than you think.

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

It's just finding ten minutes...