This will probably wrap up the new tech from the Wesleyan event--this is a move Charlie dropped on Saturday that I thought looked really cool. This is a CAP vs cateye hybrid performed in such a way that each hand performs a single beat simultaneously, such that it takes two cateyes to equal one CAP. Charlie's version is more of a linear extension, which fits well into things like an 8-step CAP or Zan's diamond. Here it is demoed as more of a cateye, which fits well with a split-opposites antispin flower and a nifty transition using split opposites cateyes across the middle.

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This is a trick inspired by Tim Goddard's recent video posting to the Facebook Tech Poi Group. In it, he switches his pendulum and CAP hands using an isolation out of what would otherwise be a spot where you could insert a cateye vs isolated pendulum. In an online chat, we discussed the possibilities of working off the extension rather than antispin to go into isolated split-opposites. The spacing also sets us up to be able to do horizontal cateye vs isolation or just go into any number of isolation-based tricks.

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When I was experimenting with timing and direction changes using the quarter-time stall pattern Poiboi used in his holiday performance video, I ran across a way to elevate CAP vs pendulum but got stuck when I realized I didn't have a good way to move it back down to its normal height. After playing with it for a couple weeks, I have a couple different approaches for doing this now--one involves going into a static vs extension hybrid off of the arc of the CAP and the other involves a very tricky iso vs cateye combo off the antispin section of the CAP.

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Sorry about the audio quality! Last week Poiboi uploaded a video of a performance he did in Israel that was pretty kickass and also seemed to be a kind of an update on a performance he did earlier in the year at EJC. One of the changes he did was changing a switch from CAP vs pendulum to quarter-time stalls to CAP vs pendulum going the other way to using quarter-time floats as the transition.

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In New York I had a funky breakthrough wherein I realized I could stick a horizontal cateye vs iso hybrid on either end of the horizontal stall stacking move Charlie came up with based upon Mel's pattern at Wildfire. Knowing this, I tied together a bunch of threads from the past couple months using moves that all incorporate this hybrid and thus treat it as a transition tool to get between them. Some cool things came out of playing with this.

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I've had a rather productive week playing around with tricks that are based in triquetras--here is the first one of a couple: this move is based upon the idea that performing back-to-back triquetras in wall plane can create a transition point to a triquetra vs pendulum hybrid on either side of the pattern by conserving the rotation of the two poi when they brush past each other in the middle of the figure. Takes a little bit of finessing to make it come together, but a really cool transition!

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Sorry I've disappeared! Last week was really intense and I didn't have a chance to do a video blog. This is based upon a trick Ted from New York posted in a video a few weeks ago wherein he was switching to iso vs horizontal cateye at each of the side petals of an opposites split-time antispin flower. Continuing with the antispin flower means that the hands have to exit on the opposite side of the unit circle they enter from, so you have to exit after half a turn, or add a half turn to every complete rotation of the trick.

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Last weekend we were fortunate to have a bunch of folks from out of town who utterly kick ass at their tools to play with. Lots of fun stuff came out of it when we got together for a spin jam on Sunday--here's a couple of the ideas we toyed with. Here we start off with hybrids and try to keep them continuous even as we are throwing one poi around. I'm finding it's easiest to use the poi tracing the smaller circle for this operation. Here we have static vs. extension and iso vs. extension with hands together.

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Had a chat with Noel on the Facebook Tech Poi group last week about cateye vs pendulum hybrids, more specifically those involving hand orbits rather than head orbits and wanted to try and find a way to perform the former given that I could already do the latter. Here is what came out: the idea is that you're performing two unit circles side-to-side and alternating which hand is performing them as a cateye and which hand is performing them as a pendulum.

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Christian posted a challenge on the Facebook Tech Poi group this past week asking for CAP vs cateye hybrid possibilities. Never one to back down from a challenge, I started working through it. I'll admit I haven't found anything yet that I feel is really that aesthetically pleasing, but here's what came out nonetheless.

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