I got a request this past week based upon a mixed transition diagram I'd posted to Facebook for instructions on how to do one of the transitions outlined in it: namely switching from root horizontal cateye to ET vertical cateye. Primarily I'm using gravity to help in this case, but there is a way to snap the poi head vertically to do it as a mixed transition with the hand soft--it's damned hard, though.

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DerPoiBenne sent me an inquiry about doing a mixed transition with loop up top and extension down below inverted and it turns out it's doable with a stall. Here it is performed in split opposites such that one segment is antispin flower and the other is extension. I'd originally misunderstood what he was suggesting and did the loop as a major translation/linear isolation, so here is an interesting 4-step pattern using this property as well.

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First up, I'm revisiting a trick I posted several weeks ago: PoiRsquared's request to see an opposites crosser to polyrhythm hybrid transition. I hadn't realized the crosser he was describing was actually what I would consider to be a meltdown and had to shelve the move till I learned how to do an opposites meltdown. Well, I've got it now! Included is a step-by-step breakdown of how I got to it and finally, a demo of the transition PoiRsquared originally requested.

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