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- compiled from previous threads.

- Report broken links if not already listed.

- There were many dead links. If you would like to submit or resubmit your tutorial then post a link.
After the tutorial is reviewed your post will be deleted.

Contents

- Newbie Section
- Creating "style"
- Move/Definition list
- External links.

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I would like to welcome you to Glowsticking.com. First of all, If you haven't already gone to the newbie section then I suggest that you go there first. This is a site that has a strong community aspect to it. Not only will you learn faster and have more fun if you get involved with the site, but we expect certain things from our members here. This site is not only about learning how to glowstick! We are a group with strong cultural beliefs. It is your own responsibility to learn about the beliefs of the sites that you are a part of. If you do not know about our beliefs, then visit the Culture section and read our articles. Some people do not share our beliefs, If you are one of these people, then we ask that you not use our resources.

Other then that, Have fun learning!

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Frequently Asked Questions from Beginners.
http://www.glowsticking.com/articles-and-t...-beginners.html

Intro to Glowstringing (video) - Covers how to tie the strings, hold them, and string length. It also goes over the Weave, Windmill, and Butterfly.
http://www.glowsticking.com/articles-and-t...wstringing.html

Tips to End All Tips: How can I learn to do a "X"?
http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/on-the-...-tips-t132.html

How to become "better" at glowstringing - Some advice on learning the basics.
http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/better-glowstringing-t130.html


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Most newbies have this idea that there is a set order of how to learn moves. This believe isn't necessarily true; there is no set order in which moves have to be learned. Moves such as the weave and basic wraps will help you out as a beginner. But you do not have to know how to wrap in order to do a link catch. You do not have to know how to do a weave in order to learn the buzzsaw. However, there are some moves such as basic weaves that will make it easier for you to learn other poi moves. From my experience, what works best is to watch a video and pick out a few ideas that you like. After you have picked out these ideas you can then try and learn how to do the moves yourself. This doesn't mean to copy exactly. Learning somebody else's combo doesn't really make you that much better of a stringer. It doesn't get you any closer to being able to construct your own combos. What does help is taking the ideas that you like from these combos and then creating your own combo from that idea. In this sense, there is no exact order of learning moves. There is only an order in which you decide to learn things. Just practice and find out what looks good to you. This leads one to form a style of their own, which is the topic of the next section in this thread.

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After you learn some moves you will learn how to link them together into basic combos. The more you practice the more variation you will begin to find in the combos that you construct. The way that you put these combos together, as well as the way that you move your body, will slowly begin to change and set you apart from other stringers. Most people call this "style".
If you watch some movies from a few experienced stringers, you will find that most of them look different from each other. It should be most peoples goal to distinguish themselves stylistically from other stringers out there. If you are having problems with this then just give it time. Most of the experienced people that you see here in videos have been glowsticking for well over a year.
If you have been glowsticking for a while and have just hit a block, then these links might help you out in your progression.

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Tips On Creating Your Own Style - Combo Construction and Developing Your Style.
http://www.glowsticking.com/articles-and-t...glowstring.html

Broken beats: Refining and Regenerating your style.
http://www.glowsticking.com/articles-and-t...generating.html

"How to stop being average" - Why you should be paying attention to the music.
http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/Rant-t12289.html

Stringing Ideas (thread)
http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/on-the-...eas-t11185.html


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This list of moves is in alphabetical order. It should be used like a dictionary. If you are wondering about where to find a tutorial for something then this is the place to find it. If you would like to submit a tutorial for this section then post a link and it will be reviewed. If you think a definition is missing then tell us about. If we think it needs to be added then we will put it in.

Definitions without a tutorial

- Atomics
- Forward/Reverse spin
- Planes
- Stalls
- Through Wraps
- Throws/tosses/releases
- UTL (Under The Leg)

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360s - Any move done with a 360 rotation.

360's (Barnzee)
360 Wraps (Knivez)

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Airwrap - A move where the strings wrap together and spin apart in midair. There are different variations.

Airwraps Example Video (Melvenorc)

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Antispin - Anti spin is typically when the arm is rotating one way (clockwise) and the sticks are rotating the other way (counterclockwise).

Antispin Tutorial With Flowers (Kael)
Antispin tutorial (Sparrow)

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Atomics - Type of spin where the strings planes are perpendicular to each other.

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Beats - Amount of rotations in certain moves.

Beats (Sparrow)
Polyrythyms (Sparrow)

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Bowtie- A set of moves where the glowsticks are tied to the string. There are many variations.

Basic Bowties Tutorial (Sparrow)
Palm Spin Tutorial (Jstudd)

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BTB (behind the back) - Moves that are done while the strings are behind your back.

BTB Tutorials (Sparrow)
BTB Tutorial (Knivez)
Forward 3bt btb weave tutorial (Barnzee)
2 Beat BTB Fountain Wall Plane Tutorial (Afro-Nitro)

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Butterfly - Sticks swinging in opposite directions (one clockwise and one counterclockwise), with hands held next to or close to each other. There are many variations of the butterfly.

Butterfly Tutorial (Icy)
Butterfly Tutorial (Sparrow)
Intro To Glowstringing (Wes)

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Buzzsaw - When the glowsticks are spinning in between your arms. To the observer it will look like a buzzsaw.

Buzzsaw (Sparrow)
Buzzsaw fountain (Sparrow)

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Catching - Catching the glowstick. (Also see: "Freehand Transition")

Basic Catching Tutorial (Wes)

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Color switching - This move is done with handles. There must be a different color glowstick on each end of the same string. The handles are then switched, making the color of the outside and inside glowsticks change.

Colorswitching Tutorial (Lis102trants)
Short-String Shotgun Colorchanges (Ellezdey-RetrO)

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Combo - A sequence of wraps/traces/catches/etc., which flow together into a single pattern. Combos are the basis of a stringers creativity and uniqueness.

Combo Construction Part 1 (Stinkowicz)
Combo Construction Part 2 (Stinkowicz)

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Corkscrew - A move where the strings follow each other in the celling plane, passing over the top part of your head/arms, and than underneath Your hands. It is the same motion as the Freehand figure 8.

Corkscrew Tutorial (Sparrow)

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Crosser - Type of weave commonly done in wall plane. Done by crossing your arms over to the other side of you body. There are several types: huggy (with both arms in front so it looks as though your hugging yourself), left arm in front/right arm behind you, right arm front/left behind, btb crosser, and variations including straight jackets.

Crossers Tutorial (Sparrow)
Butterfly huggy crosser (Sparrow)
Full body crosser (Sparrow)
Huggy crosser (Sparrow)
OTH crossers (Sparrow) (Sparrow)
OTH-UTA crosser (Sparrow)
OTHUTL crossers (Sparrow)
UTA-UTL crosser (Sparrow)

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Crossover wrap - A wrap sequence where your arms cross over the opposite bicep to wrap on the same bicep of the arm that is swinging the string. Both arms alternate in this fashion.

Crossover Wraps Tutorial (Sparrow)

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Duowrapping - When you wrap one part of your body, and while it is still wrapped, wrapping onto another part of your body.

Duowrapping Example Video (Kael)
Duowrapping Tutorial (Stinkowicz)

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Extensions - Category of moves done with arms extended.

Extensions tutorial (Knivez)

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Flowers - A long arm poi extension in which you change the point of rotation at certain time intervals.
What this means in english - moving your arms in circles while the glowstick is rotating around.

Flowers Tutorial (Kael)
Anti-spin Flowers (Sparrow)
Polyrhythm Butterfly Flower Breakdown (Ellezdey-RetrO)
Polyrhythm Butterfly Shotgun Flowers (Ellezdey-RetrO)

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Fountain - Truly a forward weave in the wallplane on one side, then a reverse wallplane weave on your other side. Some people have adapted the original definition to, "Forward weave on one side, to a windmill, to a reverse weave on the other side." This adapted version of the fountain includes a windmill.

Fountain Tutorial (Sparrow)

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Forward - Spinning the glowstick in a circular motion, which will apear similar to spinning a jump rope. The strings will move from behind your head, to in front of your head, to your knees, to your feet, and then back behind you again.

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Freehand Transition - Any move or combo that has the purpose of transitioning from Stringing to freehanding.

Freehand Transitions (Stinkowicz)
Freehand Transitions 101 (Knivez)

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Gumbies - Holding the stick from your right hand in your left, and the stick from your left hand in your right, and dragging them around your body. Going from the front of your body to the back and then around again. Usually around your neck, arms, or legs. When you do this move your contorted body will look like Gumby the cartoon character.

Gumbie Tutorial (Sparrow)

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Handles - Type of string setup where there are glowsticks at both ends of the string.


How To Tie Handles (Adrillf)
Handles Tutorial(Last Singularity)
Color Switches (Adrillf)
Tossing (Adrillf)
Handles Example Video (LiS102trAntS)


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Hand/wrist wraps - A one handed spiral on that same hand/wrist that is holding the string. These are also sometimes known as shotguns.

Handwraps (Sparrow)
One Handed Spiral Tutorial (Melvenorc)
Advanced One Handed Spiral Tutorial (Melvenorc)


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Inversions - Inversions are upside down as well as reversed, in a contrary direction. Need to have strings shorter than your arms. Easy one can be done by not carrying over the weave to the other side but bending over and letting it go under your arms.

Inversions (Sparrow)

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Isolations - When the center of rotation has been moved from your hands/wrist to a spot on the strings, you are isolating. Isolations are a concept that was borrowed from clubswinging. In clubswinging they are known as snakes. With snakes, the center of spin becomes the spinner's elbow and the clubs meld into the forearms. Poi isolations often meld into each other (in glowstringing, the strings seem to become one) but they don't need to.

Isolations tutorial (Barnzee)
Isolation Example Video (Kael)

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Linkcatch - A catch done where the strings cross forming a "Link", much like an X with an intersection in the middle. The right hand is holding the glowstick attached to the right hand and the left hand is holding the glowstick attached to the left hand.

Link catch tutorial (Sparrow)
Link catch variations (Barnzee)
Link catch Manipulation (Redline)

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Linkcatch Orbital- Orbital created by first linking the strings together, then throwing the sticks into the circular motion.

Link Catch Orbital (Stinkowicz)
Link Catch and Orbital Tutorial (Sparrow)

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One Handed Moves - Moves that involve holding both strings in the same hand.

One Handed Glowstringing 101 (Knivez)
One hand bicep wraps (Sparrow)
One hand BTB wraps (Sparrow)
Onehand butterfly (Sparrow)
One Handed Butterfly and Wraps Tutorial (Sparrow)
One hand necktrace (Sparrow)
One hand spiral (Sparrow)
One Handed Spiral and Wraps Tutorial (Sparrow)
onehand supermans (Sparrow)

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Orbital Airwrap - An airwrap in which the sticks spin in a circle for an extended period of time. The orbital requires a 90 degree turn as the sticks begin to spin, which seperates it from an ordinary airwrap.

Orbital Tutorial (CybrPunk)
Orbital from link catch (Seven)


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Pins - Glowsticking while holding the string/glowstick with your joint instead of with your hands.

Knee Pin example (Melvenorc)

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Planes - The 3 spacial dimensions that you can spin cleanly in. X, Y, Z. They are know as the ceiling/floor, side, and wall planes.

Ceiling/floor Plane: Glowsticks are moving in a plane parallel to the ceiling and floor. The corkscrew is a move done in the ceiling plane.

Side Plane: Plane parallel to the side of your body.

Wall plane: The glowsticks will be spinning directly in front of you or behind your back.

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Reverse - Type of spin opposite of forward. If you were spinning a jump rope it would be hitting the back of your feet. Tagged onto moves which require direction, such as weaves.

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Spiral - Type of wrap where the hands are clapped or stacked together and the glowsticks wrap around them.

Spiral Tutorial (Wes)
Spiral Tutorial (Sparrow)

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Stalls - A halt in the swing of the glowstick, often accompanied by a change in the direction of the spin.

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Straight jacket - A position the arms form by threading through each other. Many moves can be done within a straight jacket.

Picture - What the Position Looks Like
Straight Jacke (Redline)
Straight Jacket (Sparrow)

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String Manipulations - The proper term for moves that involve manipulating the stick and strings. These combos usually involve caches, throws, tosses, links, thumbsplits and a variety of other moves. An incorrect term that has been used is "mind games", which should only apply to freehand moves.

String Manipulation Tutorial (Cleric)
String Manipulation Tutorial 2 (Cleric)
String Manipulation Tutorial 3 (Cleric)
Chasers (Sparrow)

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String Wrap - A type of wrap that involves pinching one of the glowsticks while wrapping the other glowstick around the taut string.

String Wrap Tutorial (Wes)
Looped Catch String Wrap Tutorial (Melvenorc)

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Thread The Needle/TTN - A variation of the butterfly where the hands thread each other as they move toward and away from the body.

Thread the needle (Sparrow)
Reverse thread the needle (Sparrow)

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Through Wraps - Partially wrapping around a limb and then carying it over to the other side. Typical on leg, bicep, arm, and neck. Seen in many martial arts movies/videos where the object on the end of the poi is deadly. Rope dart, Meteors, and most famously by Gogo in Kill Bill vol 1.


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Throws/tosses/releases - Any move where the glowsticks/strings are completely let go off and caught again.

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Thumbsplitting - A type of manipulation where the sticks are link catched and then released to the opposite hand.

Thumbsplitting (Sparrow)
Thumbsplitting Variations Demo (Melvenorc)

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Traces - Moving the sticks across a body part in a circular motion. Usually around the knees, neck, arms, or feet.

Trace Tutorial (Wes)
Basic Tracing Tutorial (Melvenorc)

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UTL (Under The Leg) - A set of moves that are done by swinging the sticks under or between you legs.

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Weave - Swinging your strings from one side of your body (left side) to the other (right side). There are MANY different variations of this basic concept.

Intro To Glowstringing (Wes)
Reverse Weave Tutorial (Wes)
TTN 3BT Butterly Weave (Barnzee)
3-4 Beat Butterfly Weave (Krakan)

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Windmill - A weave done in the wallplane - a weave in front of and in back of your head spinning 90 degrees to the body.

Intro To Glowstringing (Wes)

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Wraps - A category of moves that involve wrapping the stick around a certain body part.

Wrap 101 (Wes)
Duel Bicept wraps (Icy)

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sweet tutorial compilations ;o

If anybody has any suggestions for it Im sure it would help.

It took me a long time to finish this but Im sure we can make it even better.

wait last part of this article is more of an advertising plug.. you can do that ;I? i thought nathan closed that other thread mentioning playpoi cuz of that soul reason =x

These tutorials are okay they helped thank you

guys this looks incredible!! obviously a shit load of work went into organizing all of this, great job guys =D

I dont see any reason not to put them. If people want to learn POI those links might help.
Its not like we are competing with them or anything like that. If you dont think the site is a very good one or if we have any problems with the site then we can take the link down.
The list shouldnt get that long. The 3-4 that we have right now I think are fine.

I started fixing this up two months ago from the old pinned threads and then putting in some new stuff. I probably put like 10-15 hours into making it. Hopefully nobody ever has to do anything like that again. it sucked. Im just glad that it makes the stringing section look nicer.

Thanks for the tutorials.

Fantastic job of compressing everybodies tutorials into one list that just oozes awesomeness

I'm not trying to be a dick, but shouldn't we only put tutorials that use sticks on here? I'm not saying the move matters, but shouldn't we stick to glowsticks?

All of sparrows tutorials were done with his poi,
I can understand what you're saying,
but i don't think we should really discriminate in that manner.
It just seems like wasted effort on alot of peoples parts just because of the specific item they were spinning.




also a side note for the list, i hear side planes more commonly referred to as the wheel planes.

is it just me, or did anyone else notice alot of basketball shorts in the tutorials? lol

thx for all the tuts

It's not really our fault if they decided to use poi instead of sticks, this is the "glowstringing tutorial center," which means just that. I really think only glowsticks + strings should be used. It's not for any type of spinning, just glowstringing. It's just pretty damn sad that our "official" glowstringing tutorial center doesn't even use glowsticks.

yes but thats just it, its YOUR opinion.

and again we shall now continue the great arguement carried off in our historical section, arguing how poi and stringing compared to eachother, the greater/lesser of the two. *sarcasm*

this is the one of the most childish attitudes i've seen man, talk about a stringer elitist mentality but on the other side, this IS GLOWSTICKING.com. so to keep it from being a bash-fest on poi, here is the arguements in a nutshell



socks
1) sock poi is easier to see in a video
2) because sock poi is cloth material you can see which angle and momentum is used when being spun (plane changes, pattern changes, etc.)
3) sock poi is easy to make, not everyone has a horde of aquas to crack on a whim with a camera, and not everyone is handy enough with an x-acto blade to cut up an LED stick, whereas all you need is a tennis ball and pantyhose/sports socks

sticks
1) you can actually DO manipulations which is a big defining point in stringing
2) must i repeat it? this is GLOWSTICKING(dot)com
3) you can actually keep the subject of glowsticks on concept instead of saying "well im going to teach with sock poi, but you need to do it with glowsticks"


suggestion:
for the nit-picky among us who cannot be glad we have such a massive database, we could split the tutorials even more into catergories of glowstick based moves and poi based moves and then moves that are interchangeable amongst the two (IMG:http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif)

when I watched that vid it confused me. It made it sound like the "wall plane" was on all four sides. In the definition we have the wallplane is only in front of you and in back of you. If thats not right then I need to change the definitions that we have. It sounds picky but since its the tutorial center I think we should be as close to being exact as possible.

The links to the articles are down right now too.. Ill try and fix those in the next few days.

Yes, that is my opinion and I'm entitled to it.

I really don't care about how glowstringing and poi compare neither... just leave it to the basics for now: glowsticks = glowstringing, socks = not glowstringing, simple enough for this.

For materials, if they don't have glowsticks, then why are they on here? I really don't think it's very hard to spend 2 dollars or less for a pair of glowsticks and 1 dollar for some laces... actually, I think socks and tennis balls cost more. It's not exactly a hard thing to obtain. If you think it's too hard to make a pair of glowsticks, then that's pretty sad.

It's really not that hard to see sticks and strings in a video if you have the lights on whether its string manipulations or spinning, or wraps, or w/e. Slowing it down helps too, and I'm sure they can figure out how to do that if they have the knowledge to make a video in the first place.

And I've noticed every time that you say I'm being "childish," it's only when It's something against your opinion like the sock poi predicament; so seriously, you just need to stop being childish and not me.

To the suggestion: I don't care about the moves preformed at all. Weaves, butterflies, inversions, flowers: it's all glowstringing to me if done with glowsticks (if you want to see a further POV from me, read my post in the stringing vs. poi thread in the culture forum currently.)

http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/histori...6307-st40.html#

At the moment I seem to be the only one editing this Thread. That means it is under my control. When I say that Im not trying to sound like a dick either (IMG:http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/lol.gif)
Ill put a clip in if the person is using sock poi as long as they are from GSC. But if somebody else makes one that is just as clear and is using glowsticks then Im going to replace it with that one since this is a glowsticking site.
You can debate if you want but Im the one who left that clip out. Until somebody clears up the issue I had with it then Im not going to put it in.

sounds like a fair compromise..

and let's keep the debates in the glowstringing vs. poi thread since bueno has made his decision on this thread...

Alright cool, sounds like a good idea to me.