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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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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A couple contact tricks from Burning Man that Marvin taught me the last day on the playa. The first is a really cool float throw to cradle and catching the handle on the shoulder before tossing the poi out and catching the handle again. It seems to me like this one is crying out for some uber-cool last step. Anybody have any ideas? The next trick is a Ronan move, catching the head on the shoulder and sending the handle flinging around horizontally to catch it again behind the back.

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 I'm back to drilling isolations in hopes of getting down the elusive isolated weave, but shooting for lower hanging fruit in the form of the iso to lockout combination guys like Nevisoul and Ronan have made famous. I'm specifically working on getting the isolated bit in the middle locked into the iso position like they have to make it really pop.

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Though I've long admired them, I haven't until recently taken the plunge into really learning float throws. Here are a couple variants I spent much of the holidays working on. The first is a plane-shifting throw wherein you switch the poi into horizontal plane at the height of the float and catch them as they rotate. The other involves reversing the orientation of one's hands before catching the poi such that you catch them with one hand behind your back. Needless to say, both of these still need a lot of work.

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