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heli

Names
English heli
English helicopter
Japanese ヘリ
Japanese ヘリコプター
Chinese 直升機
Properties
Articulation shake
Shake Length 1
Parent Techniques shake
Difficulty easy
Prevalence core
Position
Start heli
End heli
Glyph Notation
Glyph
Usage
Dynamics
Volume low
Range low
Ease low
History
Source unknown
Location of Origin West Africa
Date of Origin unknown
Influences n/a
Signature Players n/a

Spinning the free gourd in the air. This should be done from the elbow, and not through bending the wrist. The flip direction is clockwise for the right hand and counter-clockwise for the left hand. The flop direction is the opposite.

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Named after the fact that it looks like a spinning helicopter.

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