help with hip reels please

belzie · Posted: Wed 23rd May, 2007 11:33 am Post subject: help with hip reels please

I'm new to poi only started on Saturday and I'm having loads of trouble with hip reels they just go flying into each other when i try and get them behind my back and getting really tangled its annoying me loads is there anything I can do to do hip reels more successfully?

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Wed 23rd May, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject:

hey hey. stick a hello in the introductions forum!

Hip reels can be tricky to get your head around. remembermainly that:

Your poi are spinning both the same way (i.e. both clockwise)
Each poi is making a figure of eight with a part in front and a part behind.

Try to nail one arm at a time first only holding one poi, then put that poi down and use the other arm, then try and put it together!

Id · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

I know I didn't bother learning hipreels for a while, which I regretted as I now find them a nice move for a bit of a flourish here and there.

My advice would be to try it out with one poi at a time watching your planes, get them spot on if poss. Smile

Then stick 'em together.

Hope you get it soon!

Id

dangermoore · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 137

oooh, Aj is a reels expert.... some would say that this thread was made for him

Kazayami · Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 4

I think some people find them harder (like me, can do 5Beat and BTB 5 beat but not hip reels) because one has to go behind on the upwards swing and one one the downwards. Its hard to synchronise if you dont have that kind of brain.

ajclarke · Posted: Sat 09th Jun, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject:

Poifect · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Wales

hi...i just managed to nail doing hip reels =]

i found a slow-mo explination which shows you exactly where and when to move your arms ... [ helpful if u know what ur trying to do but just cnt work out what to do with ur arms

http://www.sonicstars.com/lessons.html

Felixwah · Posted: Wed 13th Jun, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

i remember when poipoi had ones pretty much exactly the same as that and at the end they had a video clip of the move. old school poipoi tuition lol im sure emma was in some of those vids cant properly remember tho :D

Adam D. Oneirical · Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 4

all this productive talk turns me on... doesnt it do that to everyone? i mean, damn, somethin new, somethin fresh, a feckin hip reel, now that is sexy

and if u dont feel it, feck off, and eat fire shocked

Adam D. Oneirical · Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 4

and now i feel bad for saying that, hey thnks for the sonic website Wink

Raven · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

argh help! i cannot do hip reels! (or shoulder reels either for that matter.) my poi do not go horizontally as it were. they go diagonally and bash into my legs! can anyone help me with this problem? Confused

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