One of those things that came out of the final days of the Spring festival tour, a funny little curiosity that Keith promptly pronounced his favorite trick I'd done in the past few months. It's actually Mel's old stacking trick, but made out of 2-petal inspin flowers rather than repeated stalls. Part of the benefit there is that it's easy to switch directions with it.

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While I was in Boulder, Alien Jon and I spent an evening playing around with some movements based around creating right angles with inspin stalls and pendulums. Here are a couple variants we played with and a couple transitions one can use to get in and out of them.

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At Burning Man, Noel showed me this nifty combo that included elements of a number of different tricks that have showed up on this blog in the past few months and filled in a couple of the gaps between them in some very creative ways. This combo involves doing a pair of inspin vs antispin stalls that one then transforms into a hybrid before using the resulting alignment to create a horizontal stack. Tricky, but fun!

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More random combos I've been playing with--lots of stuff based upon the idea of breaking out of triquetra vs pendulum into various other patterns and back, plus a couple cool horizontal stacks with body tracers based upon some things Charlie, Alien Jon, and I played with back when they were in town and some ideas Ky Lee threw into the mix last weekend. Finally, some one-handed stuff I've been dying to put in a video and couldn't think of a better way to use :)

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