Poi Lesson 37: Longarm 360 Spin

Longarm 360 Spin

Lesson Type: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Longarm reels turns

Alternative Naming: 360 Pivots, 360 pirouette (all longarm)

In this video, I show you how to do a commonly seen move, the 360 longarm spin. This video was originally at the end of the Longarm Spinning and Reels video, but that was too long, and this is deserving of it's own lesson. Be forgiving of sloppiness, by this stage I had been continuously long-arm spinning for around twenty minutes.

If you wish to do this continuously, as is sometimes seen in videos, simply continue to spin, do one 360, then another, then another. I can't do many, and I certainly couldn't do much in this video as I was dizzy and tired, but I still think it's an adequate lesson none-the-less.

If you're having troubles with it, post a video response of yourself trying it and I'll help you out.

Enjoy,

Nathaniel Everist

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• longarm
• 360
• reels
• spinning
• turning
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[shlomo6169]

i dont realy understand why just about every single one of your videos havent had many views.....i think to draw more attention to your greatness would be to include tags like, glow, glowstick, glowstring, rave, and others cause i know many people that want to learn moves that YOU have a tutorial for. they just look for glowstring videos and not poi. its sad realy.

[NathanielEverist]

Yeah, I was actually thinking I should do that. Cheers for the compliment as well. I'll try and put glowstringing into the tags to spread the knowledge further.

[Bananahat456]

I found while teaching people this one that its easier to do from a windmill with a longarm component whenever its not spinning behind your head. People who have done club twirling, especially taught in calisthenics will already be familiar with this long arm windmill action.

Benefits are that you get less tired than constantly doing longarm and that you begin from something a bit more stable, a bit easier to keep on plane.

You'd probably want to attempt it without the poi, but arms longarm.

[NathanielEverist]

Yeah, I've done a bit of clubs myself, and the long-arm "sweep" from windmill is one of my favourites, and yeah, would probably be better than holding longarm reels as they are very tiring and due to this, the planes do get hard to hold. So solid advice dude, cheers.

[andersv20]

wow, great tutorials! Can't believe I haven't looked at them before

[shinobiprincess76]

This is exactly what I have been wanting to learn!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for posting this!!!!! ;) Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tchn339]

Thanks again!