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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #267: Negative space and contact from horizontal body tracers

This was an interesting discovery based upon messing up a trick I was trying to do: there's a great way to take horizontal body tracers and use them as an entry point for negative space combos and contact rolls.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #229: Negative space body tracers

In an attempt to take some elements of snaking into a vertical place, I stumbled into a pattern that seemed to make use of both negative space framing as well as creating some lovely moments of isolation. I had a hard time figuring out how to do it on the opposite side of my body (hence re-recording this tech blog), but the results make for a very satisfying fusion of body tracer, negative space, and fountain.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #167: Keith's Negative Space Tricks

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Here's a recap of one of my favorite classes from Firedrums: Keith Marshall's class on negative space. These are two of the tricks we covered that are both cyclical so they're repeatable. The first is relatively simple using a non-native frame and the second can be performed with a contact roll creating a native side frame.

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Video Tech Blog #137: the Philly sequence

Here's a sequence of moves that Noel and I came up with in Philly that he took some video of. It breaks down to the stall chase to throw sequence Poiboi was doing in his latest performance video, then creating a negative space frame to throw the other poi through and finally utilizing a split-time negative space trick that Noel had been working off with an airwrap to wrap the whole thing up. The two of us performed this trick simultaneously and had a bear of a time getting synchronized.

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