Poi Spinning Tutorial: How to Learn Waistwraps (Advanced)

[ianpelzer1]

Hey, nick. I'm 15, and I've been stringing for around 8 months now. Your tutorials alone have broadened my horizons about poi and pushed my skill level so high. Thank you so much.

[Gionster77]

and this move together to do it but then you didnt even show that hand movements for those. you always seem to show the movent and diferent perspectives of the move but you didnt really do that in this one. please remake it?

[Gionster77]

hey man :) your my favorite swinger :) your amazing. im 14 and ive been stringing for 6 months and am ready to make the transition to swinging. i love your tutorials and they always explaing things in amazing ways but i realized that this vid didnt really show how to do the hand movement it only explained that you had to put this

[Gionster77]

hey man :) your my favorite swinger :) your amazing. im 14 and ive been stringing for 6 months and am ready to make the transition to swinging. i love your tutorials and they always explaing things in amazing ways but i realized that this vid didnt

[systeman23]

I`m 29, and doin`this great anti-stress stuff for 7years.. Love the way, you cen clean your mind.. And love Nick Woolsey`s style !

[9jubjubs]

0,o I've always just thought of both of those variations as BTB 3 beats( moving the body more or less) I thought waist wraps were mostly for butterflies. Learn something new everyday. Also all you youngin's keep at it ; )

[eyekandy7]

do you live on a boat or something?

I like your pad& cant stop watching your videos.

thanks for all the help- youre tha masta

<3

[girlwithsunglasses]

i am 16 and have been practicieing for 7 months. THANK YOU!

[LucidRaver]

Thanks, this will probably be my next aim within poi along with isolations and stalls =)

[BkNickMay]

this is by far one of my favorites... it goes well to most music that is set

[PsyckoBolas]

You are to fast ...

[musicmandevin]

hey man pio are so cool im 11 years old and ive been practicing with a rope and tenisballs for 2 years and now i just did them on fire. i was nerves at first but once i got used to them icould do my frontwards weave and  spin and backwards weave

[BlindParasite]

ha im 11 and have been spinning poi fora year im glad younger children spin too yay

[skaterkingpin]

dude thats great, ive talked to nick on facebook a few times and he loves that young people are trying Poi

im 13 and have been practiceing for 5 months.

[BlindParasite]

nick has a facebook i totally wanna add him

[18mofako]

ha thats cool i wanna add him on facebook.

[xXxAnzzxXx]

Hey, do you work at a shop in street called lovely jugglies? if so i think ive met you :O

[Pummeler32]

just ordered my poi...this is gunna be fun lol

[mjfallas12]

Yo de Costa Rica...!!!...Pura vida...

[freakyhair666]

you have such a simple way of putting things man, a born teacher!

[stephaniejutras]

finally! thanks!

[redpunk87]

wow. at last my hard work for this waistwraps paid off, couple of hits on the head and some on the balls had got me going... thanks nick! more power to playpoi. Godbless.

[Baker1203]

i like the shirt lol

[PureRAWKER]

ahhh! my brain doesnt let me do that D; lol

[gabuno007]

Yo soy de Guadalajara y pues esto empecé en Vancouver pero le dejé de dar y pues ahorita los encontré y le seguí dando wey... tengo varios compas que tmb le dan y yo estoy en el ITESO, sería como la IBERO pero de Gdl...

[nonor19]

Having boobs do not help for this!

[panchoavendano]

eres mexicana? pense que no habia poi en mexico

[nonor19]

Si claro mexicana y te equivocas, sí hay poi y poistas en méxico...

[superiorsantateresa]

Alla estan los Magicos Anonimos, q me parecen re buenos artistas 0.0

[superiorsantateresa]

Hay poi en todos lados, solo q en algunas partes permanecemos "underground" :P, aunque si es cierto que en otras lados hay muchisimos carioqueros *_*.

[gabuno007]

Qué pasa??? yo tmb soy mexicano, y cada vez se hace más popular este pedo... pero tmb se hace más difícil jajaja.

[panchoavendano]

ok ok diganme de donde son, you soy del D.F. y pues en C.U, ustedes donde juegan poi?

[page12345]

how many times have u hit ur self in the face XD lol..

[soldierinme01]

it would be really nice if he could post a video on how to do behind the back weaves forwards

[diarkon]

there is one just search for it :)

[panchoavendano]

by nick??

[diarkon]

no not by him:)

[superiorsantateresa]

Yeah, there is one nick's tutorial on how to do BTB weaves.

[superiorsantateresa]

He did that. Check the playpoi's tutorials.

[samzyamanz]

this guyy is such a champ......i love this guy....hes jokes but a sick fuking teacher

[IaMCoDfErT]

this was surprisingly easy for me. the only hard part was the forward weave part. i learned the same exact thing except with 2 beats first. that helped a lot.

[ruralrighton]

flexiblity, stamina, he's 'all wrapped up' in this lesson. the main energy comes from his waist, as you can see when he sways back and forth in his behind the back weave tutorial. I suppose if I bought the DVD I could get this in no time, but this is totally pixely and why not the diff coulored sock-poi? it'll take me a bit longer for this one, I can tell

[PrettyPillz]

it probably takes alot of people longer to get this anyway since it is harder to do weaves and what not in the back than the front. just keep it up! :D

[muerTmuyfeliz]

just one thing , If there's any advice doing "butterfly waistwraps" I'd be happy to hear it, since i can do the "weave waistwraps" (alternate turning) but not the butterfly. The hole problem is getting into it, I can do it if I start with my hands in the correct position right form the start, but I dunno how to transition into it... :S, please, if anyone has any extra piece of advice, I'll be waiting for it, thanks!

[yoshixalone]

it took me a year and a haf to get this

but i was the happiest kid in the fuckin world when i did

i think its the most beautiful moves you can do

[tomeivens]

I bet you're left handed, are you left handed nick??

[zwartekat75]

i would say he is right handed, because when the camera is in the bird view position you can see his left planes are more parallel to his body than his right planes, so i would say he is able to put his right hand in a better position than the left hand. Does that make sense to you? it is an interesting topic tho, with most spinners you can tell very quick if they are right or left handed (if they are not as skilled as Nick that is.)

[DaRolla2007]

u can extend the uncross/recross part so u get the "giant waistwrap".

the thing we all call the waistwrap is formely known as the "behind the back waistwrap" and defined like this (p.124): btb hipmill + btb uncross/recross + btb hipmill + btb carry

finally u can combine waistwrap and btb waistwrap into "full waistwrap" (p.126): hipmill + uncross/recross + hipmill + carry + btb hipmill + btb uncross/recross + btb hipmill + btb carry.

[DaRolla2007]

many people use the word "waistwrap" for the position "arm around the back".

I think the best explanation comes from michal kahn in his book "poi spinning".

first of all there is a "hipmill" defined, a 2-beat windmill played an the hip (p.95)

then the "waistwrap" is defined as (p.96): hipmill + uncross/recross + hipmill + carry

[superiorsantateresa]

Thank u nick! :)

[DyamiKaplan]

I want to know who named this move. Granted I understand why it is waist, but how is it wrap? a wrap is that trick the glow stringers (who I have a lot of respect for) like where the poi wraps around some appendage of the body. When the weave is done from side to side in front of the body is that also waist wrap?

[Kwizii]

I agree with you.

I suppose one arm is wrapping around you?

But yeah I was expecting wrap as in the poi cord wrapping and unwrapping around a body part.

[zwartekat75]

I agree, with a wrap i would say the poi would wrap around your body, just like an airwrap. But whatever we would call it, it looks cool and that is all that matters!