I've been playing around with a lot of single poi manipulations of late and kept finding myself holding both ends of the poi and not knowing what to do with it. This trick came out of trying to find more options for this position. If you can do forearm transfers straight back and forth, this move is a great way to break them up.

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Poiboi and Santiago both have new tech vids out and both feature a wide variety of body contact rolls, so I thought I would demo here two that I've been playing with frequently myself. Both are shoulder rolls that return the poi to native hand and both really utilize horizontal momentum rather than vertical momentum unlike most of the other contact rolls I've demoed here before.

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Another trick from Poiboi's latest performance video...this one is by far my favorite. It's a forearm roll where one switches from the inside of the forearm to the outside of the forearm, essentially doubling the area the poi head rolls across. It incorporates elements of what feels to me like a fishtail as well as two forearm rolls I've demoed on here before.

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An idea I was playing with on the long road home from Africa--contact juggling frequently makes use of transfers between points of the body. I tried finding similar transfers with contact poi utilizing the extra variable of the momentum of the tether and this was the simplest example I could find. It's essentially a transfer between forearms and hand cradles accomplished by treating the handle of the poi as if it is a pendulum going back and forth.

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