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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #325: What is a probend toroid?

There's been a lot of questions about this on the Facebook Tech Poi Group, so I thought I'd do a video on nothing but what defines probend toroids and how they can be constructed. Think of them as a whole long of two-beat weaves daisy-chained together ;)

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #322: Toroid Triangle Rhapsody (how to)

Based upon the toroids I uploaded the previous Monday (http://youtu.be/XA5d4yoS97w), here's a long how-to on how you can perform each of them and integrate these toroid triangles into your spinning.

 

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #321: Toroid triangle rhapsody

Inspired by a recent photograph of some really gorgeous toroid triangles put together (https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.offerpop.datastore/276469/UhwaNA.png) I went on a little bit of a quest to put together a bunch of different toroid triangle orientations and found fun ways to integrate them into my spinning in surprising ways, including plane shifting and inversions.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #306: Toroid triangle weave (now with both hands)

Taking up a challenge from Kai McHaggerty after I posted my first video on a toroid triangle weave to come up with a version of this move wherein both hands are performing a toroid triangle, here it is with both hands performing two toroid triangles in the course of a weave. Fun challenge :)

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #305: Toroid triangle weave

Another attempt to merge together toroids with weaves and inversions--this one takes a simple two-beat weave and adds a toroid triangle to it.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #298: Inverted toroid Zan's diamond weave

Following up on last week's video of the pentagram inversion, here's a similar move that's Zan's Diamond as a toroid and a couple fun combos that can be used with it. Plus which I'm playing around a bit with my format--tell me what you think!

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #283: Toroid hybrids

A few weeks ago, Alex Powell uploaded a great video of some interesting hybrids utilizing toroids in an atomic configuration. I started working on these same hybrids in other timing and direction combinations as well as some pendulum-based toroid hybrids after taking a pendulums class from Ronan in Tahoe. Here are the results.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #276: quarter-time toroid chase

This was a cool move I picked up from Rei Reynosa at Spark Fire and Flow Festival last weekend. It very elegantly combines elements of three important facets of tech poi: quarter-time moves, toroids, and inversion/introversions. Here is the original move, plus a variant that includes a body tracer.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #268: Toroid hexagrams

I've demonstrated the unicursal hexagram on this blog before, but it's only been recently that I've been able to perform a more regular hexagram--the type that looks like a Star of David with a pair of overlapping triangles. Here are two approaches to making it. One has one point up and one down and the other has the points out to the side.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #266: Timing and direction in antibend toroids

I got a nifty challenge at Kinetic Fire Festival to perform a Zan's diamond toroid in same time opposites but to have the poi phased in same time opposites as well. It resulted in a pattern where the verticals remain in opposites but the horizontals switch to split time same direction. Strangely enough, if you try doing the same pattern in split time same direction both with poi and hands, the timing and direction remains consistent throughout the pattern. I'm taking this to mean that a lot of our rules for timing and direction no longer apply in the toroid world.

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