A cool challenge popped up on the Tech Poi Group on Facebook about two weeks ago: the possibility of doing a triquetra hybrid that would incorporate the plane-bent triangle flower I've showed off now in a couple videos. David Foregger was kind enough to model it using his poi simulator and based on that I was able to sort out this pattern. The triangle here needs some cleaning up, but the gist of the move is definitely there. With the polishing I think this will be a really cool looking hybrid.

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Here's a popular viewer request: the 3D flowers that Mel was doing at the end of his "Red Pants" video. These flowers are based in the idea of having the poi spinning in a different plane than the hand and therefore creating a spiral or worm-shaped profile for the viewer. Tank and I played with a similar concept two years ago at Firedrums, but placed the poi plane in wall rather than horizontal plane.

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Christian had mentioned this months ago and Charlie was kind enough to give me a demo--I've almost got this now!

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