Dancing!

Becky · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Nottingham, England

i dnt get it! i love dancing in clubs and stuff, its pretty bad dancing but its ace cuz i just dnt care! still... n e way as soon as im poi-ing Rolling Eyes

i freeze up and just do the poi move! especially if people r watching! i get all self conscious its crazy! i cant w8 till im confident enough at poi 2 just dance and poi and not b thinking... and for it 2 look good! so ill need a lot of work on my dancing!! i just read ur sposed 2 develop ur own style and im finding it reeheealy difficult!! :(
Becky
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nickwidd · Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 38 Location: torquay, devon

becky, good things come to those who practise. that's the whole thing about poi. there is skill involved yeah, but that skill comes with practise. its all about muscle memory to start off with. get your head round a lot of the basics. learn some transitions from forwards to backwards weaves and basic stuff like this. you don't have to find your own style straight away. find some good poi videos, copy them, learn off of it, and then in time you will develop your own style.

as you said yourself, confidence will come to you with time. and the more confident you are the better you will look. learn a small routine, and work on it, put a bit of footwork in it. as soon as you start turning or moving side to side with poi it is classed as dancing. try make these movements graceful and elegant. once you have done it several times your body will learn the routine and you will be able to do moves smoothly and look good while doing it.

Learn about the different plains you can explore with the poi. such as wall plains and door plains. try mix them up and soon you will get some good personal style.

i am a dancer myself, so i do know what i am talking about by the way :mrgreen:

Ryz0r · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 94 Location: Manchester, UK

Well, cant get better advice than from a dancer himself! I'm the same really, i love to glowstring in a club but when i realise that people are watching me i get all self conscious and mess up, so i only do basic moves. I guess what you could try to do is just concentrate completely on the music and yourself, try to forget that there's anyone there watching you and you're just in your bedroom alone or something. I suppose this is what helps me!

And drugs(but i didnt say that, nor do i condone it Rolling Eyes

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Becky · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Nottingham, England

lol, thanks alot guys thats all gud stuff!! ill keep practicing! i think im a little bit better wen im drunk n e way!! the 1st time i used poi, i was a bit wasted-this guy called mike (if ur a member of the forum then hi mike!!) n e way this guy called mike showed me on a ml training week thing, and he taught me how 2 do the weave straight away!! so i dunno if it was cuz i was drunk or he is just an ace teacher!
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seeker · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 28 Location: sussex uk

i dont recc fire-spinning after drinking at all, anything else is pretty fun.

Rogue Monkey · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 14

I know exactly what you mean becky! I felt the same for a long time. But!! :D its starting to happen! Im not a patch on some Ive seen poi dancing but It stil feels great when you can just lose your self in the motion... even if im pretty limmited in moves but you DO learn.. even when you think your not getting anywhere! just keep at it! thats my advice! Smile

Smiley · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 113 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Yepp, the "Aha!" moment is great, when you find yourself just doing stuff and not thinking much at all Smile

Yes sure its alot of smacks a bit here and there in the beginning but it loosnes up. Smile

I felt I could do alot more trasitions right after I learned high and low windmills and then connected them, all felt alot easier then Smile

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Wed 18th Oct, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject:

I feel that once I had got past the 'awkward-transistion' stage, the music took over the mood of my performance.

Since, it's seemed that when I have music on, I don't do poi, the poi do me :P and occasionally you just trance it up, and when you stop you think 'wow- i cant remember any moves i just did!' because you were so lost in it.

its great :D!!!

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