Stalls

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Mon 30th Oct, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: Stalls

I can stall downwards easy, and i'm getting the hang of horizontals, but upwards stalls!? i SOOOO want to be able to do that crazy 'make a box shape with an upwards and a downwards stall' move, but upwards stalls are just surpassing me.

Please help!

Vipes · Posted: Mon 30th Oct, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:

When the poi is straight up, push your hand upwards and try to keep the chains/socks straight, or with some tenson.

Felixwah · Posted: Mon 30th Oct, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

and as soon as you feel it falling down pull your hand back down with it

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

Stalls are really getting to me aswell now, trying to stall with the left hand whilst still spinning with the right Smile

*lol*
I end up stalling the right while still spinning the left, really confusing :P

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Tue 31st Oct, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject:

Hey! Thats my problem as well! Like exactly lol. I can stall with one, and spin the other, but not the opposite hands.

Aimée · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 70

http://www.poipoi.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=325

Can give you any more help than that already does.

It's just practice practice practice!

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

Yeah Aimee thats a lovely post, it's helped me so far, and I'm filing a divorce between my arms, now my left just needs to sign it aswell and they are free Smile

JasonBelivers · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 181 Location: hereford/CFMBC

yeah getting my arsm top work speratly is hard!! when i do take outs with my left arm it doesnt go as smooth. so i guess you jsut wanna learn to do stuff speratly then try putting it together when you know you arm will do it alone?

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Wed 01st Nov, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah. Learning one arm at a time helps me with loads of things. I can just about to upward stalls now. I've progressed onto trying weird little crowd pleasers now that I've got my basics (weaves, butterflies) down. I love the fun shapes you can make. Isolated buzzsaws and airwraps look so fantastic, people love them :D and it makes you feel good that you can do something so psychedelic to the eye.

splinter · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 132 Location: Dublin, Ireland

hmm vertical antigravity stalls... right if you can do isolations perfect then thats most of the battle won. spin a normal circle and then isolate for the last bit and stall and reverse it (if you wanna get all math like about it then you spin the circumfrance of the circle and come off in a tangent and reverse it)

just practice it loads and itl happen Smile

and yes my spelling is terrible Laughing

sarel · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: South-Africa

Was about to post about this, but luckily saw the topic.

I Started working on stalls after I saw this inspirational video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gUt6Wf71h7I

After reading through this thread, I see that my approach is wrong. I thought I had trouble synchronising my hands, but apparently I need to keep them individual & seperated.

I'll try it anyway, and yes, I simply NEED to do those anti-gravity stalls!!!!!

sxylou123 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 481 Location: Margate, Kent

Firstly, the right hand is alot easier to stall with then the left, the left will always want to keep spinning. This is where you need to concentrate because it takes alot of practice on the left hand, my right hand stalls are perfect but the left has something to be desired.

I know what your going on about with the boxes, to practice i tend to let the poi stalling upright hit the opposite arm and sit on it, this lets you work out when to stop the stall and pull back, when you got the hang of it you should then be able to pull the poi back without it hitting your arm. At this point you should know that if you hit your arm the moves gone wrong but its a good starting point, you know your doing it right when you can pull it beck before it hits your arm.

Remember you can go into hip reels and shoulder reels from the stalls which gives you good reason to stall, reel, stall, and reel so that your getting a constant practice. I also like to leave them to spin parallel in front of me so that i can catch the timing of the move.

louise

Felixwah and I have some sort of little competition going on with vertical stalls at the moment, proof needs to be shown though...

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