CAPs

Video Tech Blog #25: wallplane CAPs, cateyes, etc

Starting off with the wallplane CAPs I played with two weeks ago. Rather than bisecting the diamond with vertical floats, I'm trying instead to bisect the diamond horizontally with linear extensions. The results are messy at best, but mark my words I'll get it cleaned up. This also leads me to a pattern that resembles an arrow pointed straight down. I've got my split-time same direction cateyes looking presentable now--on to the cateye weave...someday.

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Video Tech Blog #24: CAPs as variants on unit circle, cateye 1.5s

Very short blog this week...DJ pointed out to me last week that the CAP, flower, and isolation patterns I've been playing with constitute a variant on unit circles wherein the direction of the poi change with the direction of the hand, thus creating a grid with extensions and isolations overlapping each other rather than extensions, cateyes, and isos overlapping each other. Also, I've started playing with 1.5 patterns that use cateye rather than static spin patterns. The first one resembles a hybrid I've seen Alien Jon do.

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Video Tech Blog #23: More fun with CAPs

Based upon responses from Insignia and Alien Jon, here are some additional tricks to add to the opposite timing CAPs I have in my repertoire. Needless to say, I am still loving all the possibilities these tricks open up for playing with butterflies...they're close to being in flow but not 100% there yet. I'm also realizing these patterns lead back to some of the butterfly extensions Zan was playing with in the Arizona transmission video.

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Video Tech Blog #22: CAP patterns and antispin flowers

Some more ways in and out of the CAP pattern from last week, courtesy my friend DJ and a little tinkering of my own. I'm totally amazed at how many transitions this movement opens up. Plus my antispin flowers are getting close to being ready for showtime and finally me copying some of Insignia's great CAP patterns from his last vid.

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Video Tech Blog #21: Isolations, CAP patterns, and buzzsaws

My laptop was in the shop last week and I wish I could show an astonishing amount of progress for the past two weeks, but I'm still slowly trudging through my isolation drills in the hopes of eventually mastering them. The mercedes/CAP combo from two weeks ago has also been at the forefront of my tinkering with turns for the CAP pattern now being a major emphasis. Finally, I continue to practice my buzzsaw flowers to be able to master switching between my dominant and non-dominant hands leading.

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