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The first Home of Poi collaboration vid!

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 12:13pm by Drex Tags:

Back in the day, glowsticking.com used to frequently feature videos that edited together footage of many glowstickers into one fabulous vid that showed off the talents of many people all at the same time. Recently, the challenge went up on the Home of Poi forums to put together a similar collaboration vid between many of the spinners on the forums. Ten fantastic poi spinners answered the call and Poiboi edited them all together.

Pineapple Pete and G: the Reloaded sessions

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 12:02pm by Drex Tags:

Things have been busy down under! If you're not familiar with Aussie poi auteur Pineapple Pete, you should give a look to this fascinating video from a couple years ago showing off some of his experiments at the "Church of Poi".

Video Tech Blog #71: quarter time stalls and floats

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:51am by Drex Tags:

For a few weeks I'm going to change my format a little bit and rather than doing a weekly update with all the tricks I've been working on, do updates for individual tricks. It should keep my running time down and mean more frequent updates. Sound off in the comment section and tell me if you like the change or not.

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Video Tech Blog #70: asterisk flower, exotic composites, isolated weave

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 10:09am by Drex Tags:

First up, a tip last week from a commenter on this blog gave me a critical piece of the puzzle for the isolated weave. It's not perfect, but it's at least recognizable as what it is now. Next, based upon the concept of doing a plane-bent "asterisk" like G does, at a recent spin jam it was suggested that one could think of the radiating spokes as behaving like the petals in flowers, so here are examples of two timing and direction combinations of this idea.

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Video Tech Blog #69: isolated weave (cont), CAP vs BTH hybrid transitions

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 4:41pm by Drex Tags:

This week I'm going back and revisiting a couple ideas from the past couple months to follow up on them both to show progress and where some of those ideas have taken me. First up is the isolated weave: I've had some progress on this both by practicing standing isolations in all four individual positions of my arms during the course of the weave and with a helpful piece of advice from Charlie on switching from one side of my body to the other. Next, the CAP vs static BTH hybrid poiboi07 and I had chatted about a couple months ago.

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Video Tech Blog #68: Opposites meltdowns, elliptical to C-CAP transitions

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 12:36pm by Drex Tags:

First up, I'm revisiting a trick I posted several weeks ago: PoiRsquared's request to see an opposites crosser to polyrhythm hybrid transition. I hadn't realized the crosser he was describing was actually what I would consider to be a meltdown and had to shelve the move till I learned how to do an opposites meltdown. Well, I've got it now! Included is a step-by-step breakdown of how I got to it and finally, a demo of the transition PoiRsquared originally requested.

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Video Tech Blog #67: Meltdown fountains, isolated weave, plane-bent weave

Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:54pm by Drex Tags:

After demoing the around the head meltdown last week, I got a comment from one person asking about performing the meltdown as a fountain. While I think that conceptually the two are different enough that a straight-up combination of these moves is not possible, there is a way to perform a similar maneuver by using Alien Jon's concept of body zones. Demoed here are a couple ways to play with this concept. Next up, I'm getting to be relatively happy with my transitions from isolation to lockout, so I'm starting to work through an isolated weave.

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Video Tech Blog #66: isolations and iso throws, BTH CAP hybrids

Wed, 01/27/2010 - 12:19pm by Drex Tags:

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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Flow practice: MLK Day 2010

Wed, 01/20/2010 - 11:40am by Drex Tags:

DC finally came out of its deep freeze just in time for a warm MLK Day. I headed down to Dupont Circle for the day to enjoy the sun and do a little free spinning. Enjoy!

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Poi Epitrochoid transitions part 2: charting transitions and the patterns that emerge

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 9:17am by Drex Tags:

Here's the second installment of my explanation of how hard and soft transitions work with Alien Jon's concept of arcs and loops. Here I demo all the permutations of these transitions through the intratangent circles (concentric) versus extratangent circles (outside--btw, if any mathematicians know what these concepts are actually called, please let me know) for a bunch of different circle sizes.

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