Hybrids explained

Felixwah · Posted: Fri 24th Aug, 2007 10:20 am Post subject: Hybrids explained

Ok my first concept of the hybrid was that is was one set move (the first one i saw which was the one in the weave - one iso one longarm which put together makes the poi look kinda like a staff for a second) but after a good workshop at play by olive a found out that hybrids were a set of moves where any move combining two driving styles are used.

Ok so this opens up a hell of alot of moves. To elloborate further...

By "driving styles" i mean that each poi does a different style eg one isolated and one long arm or one antispin and one long arm. So if you think of all the individual styles you can do with your poi i.e isolating, longarm, antispin, stalls, carries, pendulums etc. you can make alot of combinations and stuff to play with that comprise "hybrids".

The most common one i feel that has had alot of dispute over its proper name which i just call that 'butterfly antispin longarm one' is suprisingly hard as are all of them as your brain has to concentrate on two seperate driving motions with each poi rather than one driving motion with each poi, and as with all poi moves these can all be reversed and probably anti-spun :S.

Ok so i will explain the butterfly one.

-start off in forwards butterfly
- both your poi are bouncing towards each other myes? so if you think of your butterfly flowers your arms move in opposite directions as do all butterfly moves however if you antispin one both will go the same way (goofy flower) in essense this is a kind of hybrid and the motion is the same for this move except your hands are always together and infront of you in wallplane.
-anyway so start in fw butterfly choose which poi you feel more confident in anti-spinning.
- next imagine the normal flower movement goin from north-east-south-west or 12-3-6-9 or backwards depending on which ever way you do it.
- ok so put your butterfly in the 6 position for 2 beats then switch to 3 for 2beats then 12 for 2 beats then 9 for 2beats etc get this smooth until you can do 1 beat at each point. (you may not have noticed but when you antispin the natural way for it to spin is at 3 points and not 4 and doing 4 might feel a bit wierd- this is no biggy as it can be done this way as well)
- so you have your fw butterfly going round in a tri-foil or quad-foil flower shape (for future reference this move in itself is quite sweet and can be linked to the move im trying to expalin) keep the flow goin and start to relax the hand that is not antispinning and let the poi stop making beats with the other one so it gradually becomes a longarm.
-it will take a bit of practice to get the speed and momentum right for the longarm poi, and you might feel the need to thread the poi at the 12 and 6 points but is good either way.

the effect this gives is a framed 3 or 4 petal flower and looks really nice.

-so you have mastered that eh? next which i still have difficulties with is changing direction, this means you have to swap the driving styles to the opposite hands mwhahaha. so the one that was doing anti now does longarm and vise versa.
- i dont have much advise on this apart that i choose my point usually 12 to change as gravity is on your side a bit.

feel free to add any points or let me know if i have messed up somewhere Smile

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Fri 24th Aug, 2007 11:22 am Post subject:

another article feely? :P
Thanks though, never really thought of hybrid as being anything besides that longarm/iso combination, but it makes sense :D

Felixwah · Posted: Fri 24th Aug, 2007 11:29 am Post subject:

lol i didnt intend for it to be an article, would probably write it a bit more in depth if possible :S

trying to do a pendulum longarm combo at the moment tis a bit blaggin Confused

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Fri 24th Aug, 2007 11:44 am Post subject:

*curls into a ball* confusing to even think about!

Felixwah · Posted: Fri 24th Aug, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject:

lol try get your head around the goofy weave Confused

Felixwah · Posted: Fri 12th Oct, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject:

has anyone seen double weave hybrids its where you hybrid the 3rd bt and then the 5th looks mad i cant seem to get it tho :( practice practice!!

Daedra · Posted: Fri 12th Oct, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

hehehe she curled into a ball! mind you it is confusing! *assumes fetal position for safety*

I don't think i'll be attempting those for a while yet Mr Felix! going to get all the tricks on me list down and out before I start moving onto more complex tricks! lol.

But yeah thats a bloody good article! nicely done Felix!

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