triquetra

Video Tech Blog #156: Composite flower hybrids

A couple cool ideas based upon triquetra vs pendulum, which kind of fudges the triquetra pattern to create something more akin to two different flowers cut and pasted together. Here I take the same idea and apply it to triquetras and 6-petal antispin flowers to create a new composite and hybridize it both with another triquetra and triquetra's inspin equivalent: 1-petal inspin. Note to self: when recording a video on St. Patrick's Day, do the video before the drinking begins--otherwise I talk a record sped up to double speed :-P

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Video Tech Blog #155: Timing and direction consistent hybrids

Last week Charlie posted a video to the Facebook Tech Poi Group of an 8-step CAP based in a 2-petal inspin vs 4-petal antispin hybrid. Having encountered this hybrid before when learning same time same direction hybrids from Yuta at last year's Firedrums, I realized that for any hybrid where you combine an inspin and antispin flower that have the same number of downbeats, they will maintain a constant timing and direction all the way around the pattern. Here are three examples in both same time same direction and split time same direction.

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Video Tech Blog #151: Hand wraps in same direction patterns

I ran across a cool performance video of Yuta in the Flowspace last week that reminded me of something I'd begun playing with months ago but hadn't pursued very far: moves that involve wrapping one or both poi around their own hand. I spent a good portion of the weekend playing around with these moves in same time same direction and split time same direction, pulling out some moves I've seen both Ronan and Yuta do in their performances as well as and idea of my own.

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Video Tech Blog #150: horizontal cateye intensive

Last week I uploaded a tutorial on horizontal cateyes performed in split opposites and got some feedback that the cateyes were looking a little too much like floats, so I've spent a big part of the past week working on cleaning them up both by doing some older tricks I'm a big fan of and trying some newer ones. I used horizontal cateye vs isolation hybrids to check my hand spacing, horizontal cateye vs extension to check my hands' timing and direction, and a pair of triquetras arranged in a Star of David configuration to get a rough idea of what they should look like.

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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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Video Tech Blog #131: transitions between triquetra moves

I've had a rather productive week playing around with tricks that are based in triquetras--here is the first one of a couple: this move is based upon the idea that performing back-to-back triquetras in wall plane can create a transition point to a triquetra vs pendulum hybrid on either side of the pattern by conserving the rotation of the two poi when they brush past each other in the middle of the figure. Takes a little bit of finessing to make it come together, but a really cool transition!

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Video Tech Blog #129: The S-CAP

Another one of those funky things that's come out of the Facebook Tech Poi Group: a type of CAP based around an S-shaped handpath. You have to slightly change how you approach the antispin section to put the poi head in the right place. Here I demonstrate a couple patterns that utilize this shape with hands going split opposites. The first one is pretty clean but the second one needs work :-P These also mesh really well with a variant of G's floating triquetra pattern.

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Video Tech Blog #123: horizontal triquetra patterns

Wow...I was super exhausted when I recorded this and it came out really sloppy. Hopefully y'all will forgive me for this :-P Anys, over the weekend in an effort to expand my vocabulary in horizontal plane, I tried adapting one of my favorite moves in vertical plane: back-to-back triquetras, and stick it into horizontal plane. Here are four variants: the first is just to take the move exactly as it is and bring the hands together near the head as you're switching back to the original position. Watch out! It's REALLY easy to club yourself in the head with this move.

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Poi Tech Blog #106: pendulum vs. triquetra hybrids and plane-shifts

I started out by trying to figure out how to integrate G-style plane shifts with the ubiquitous triquetra vs pendulum hybrid and realized I'd never played with the other three arrangements of it: pointing the odd petal to either side or down while maintaining the pendulum in the other hand. It led to some odd timings, but did make the plane shifts I'd originally wanted to play with doable. The one with the petal pointed down also seems to integrate well with the same time same direction moves Yuta was showing me at Firedrums. Cool stuff!

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Video Tech Blog #96: triquetra vs pendulum hand switching

This puts together a few threads that came out of Firedrums and Wildfire. It's basically just a couple different approaches to switching which hand is performing pendulum and which is performing triquetra in a hybrid. We can use either 1.5 stacking or a lockout to get us there--or both if we so choose!

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