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Video Tech Blog #159: Charlie's octahedron

This is something Charlie showed me nearly a year ago and that I hadn't really been working on that hard until recently. Geometrically, it's possible to go through each vertex of an octahedron without repeating any segments and Charlie had created an exercise wherein one does plane-shifts between each of these vertices to define an octahedron via constant 90 degree shifts. Here I demo two of the easier variants in same time same direction, split time same direction, and Charlie's preferred method of quarter-time. Be forewarned: this shit is hard!

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Video Tech Blog #152: Horizontal cateye antibrid float thingie

I started playing with this trick earlier in the week...it incorporates elements of the quarter-time floats/stalls that Poiboi and Mel have been using, but drops in and out of a horizontal cateye vs isolation antibrid at each end. I've been sticking pendulum vs CAPs in the same spot and figured I would just skip the middle figure. I like that it has an interesting start-stop dynamic to it.

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Video Tech Blog #145: 3D composite pattern

Another fun trick that came out of the retreat in Connecticut, Charlie on that Saturday night pulled out a fun box-mode move that utilized inspin and antispin stalls to define the corners of the box. I added a V vs. V transition to switch which corner the action was focused on and Charlie suggested using it as a setup for making a horizontal switch. We use this combo to create at 3D composite where we switch positions in the Wesleyan video.

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Video Tech Blog #143: atomic horizontal stacks

I spent the weekend hanging out with some of my very favorite spinners at Wesleyan University's Winter Fire Arts Festival. While there, Insignia suggested to me that I try horizontal stacks in atomic planes and a funky boxing pattern emerged. I realize before long that depending on the type of stack I was doing, that I could then plane shift out of it and resolve to a more familiar move. Thanks for the suggestion, Christian!

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Video Tech Blog #142: Floor plane intensive

A couple months ago I posted a tutorial on plane-changing that was heavily focused on vertical plane-shifts. Lately I've been playing with a couple exercises that have really been helping to nail down the stuff in floor plane and thought I'd share them. Enjoy!

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Video Tech Blog #141: horizontal stacking patterns based on Leo's breakdown

Just an experiment...editing my video instead of doing it as a single take. Please leave feedback and let me know what y'all think of doing it this way. Anys, today on the Poi Theory Group on Facebook, there was a fascinating discussion over horizontal stacking patterns and Leo (leospoi) lent us some of his expertise. He's been thinking of abbreviating the elements of these tricks with single letters to as a mnemonic device to make different combinations. With that in mind, here are three homogeneous patterns, three hybrids, and one possible CAP based upon this breakdown.

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Video Tech Blog #138: moving CAP vs pendulum vertically

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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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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Video Tech Blog #134: using horizontal cateye vs iso as a transition

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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Video Tech Blog #132: triquetra/topstall/pendulum pattern

Continuing with the theme of some fun moves that can be done from the back-to-back triquetra move in wallplane that looks something like a split time same direction antispin flower, here is one that incorporates some elements from tricks that Mel and Poiboi have been playing around with lately: namely when the hands are at opposite ends of the flower top and bottom, you pendulum the top hand and top stall the bottom to align the poi, then reverse this same motion and treat the resulting position as a stall before reversing the direction of the wall plane triquetras.

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