not exclusively spinner idea

Dee_Ohh · Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Wigan, UK

I've just started to learn poi but I had an idea for something to mix it with to make performances a bit more interesting. If you know it then you might be able to see where I'm going with this, it's called jumpstyling, if you haven't heard of it there's a lot of video's on youtube showing it and one guy called patrick jumpen has a lot of tutorial video's for it. What do you all think of mixing the 2?

ajclarke · Posted: Mon 05th May, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject:

<3 Jumpstyle. could work. Not sure tbh

Daedra · Posted: Tue 06th May, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject:

Could be done I spose! Not sure how well the two would go together as Poi is more of a flowing movement rather than loads of jumpy short sharp movements if you see what I mean. If you were using double staff then I think it would work better. But with Poi... I'm not sure!

Great idea tho!

Dee_Ohh · Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Wigan, UK

I see what you mean with the flowing movement but I was thinking more speed the poi up as much as possible so that the beats of the jumps were at the same time as a certain point in the spins, like each time the poi reach the downward position is when the leg on the same side would be used for the jump. I know it might loose it's flowing appearance that way and just seem like someone messing around but it's just the way I see it in my head it comes out a bit different.

Daedra · Posted: Wed 07th May, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

By all means practice it my friend and do a video!! It'd be worth watching and you never know. It could really take off as a fresh new Poi style! I know many many bouncy people who love to jump around and such. So if this works then it'll make them very very happy indeed if they could play with Poi as well as be bouncy and happy hehehe!

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