Noel just finished his series on the different combinations of timing and direction for tools that can be used by each hand independently. I've played with all the poi stuff already, but seeing it render against double-staves was really helpful in terms of translating movement between the two tools and seeing how differently similar ideas come out between them. Doubles give me a lot of trouble because movement on both sides counts as a beat, rather than thinking of them is a poi that continues through the other side of your hand.

The breakdown in isolation hoops is fantastic, too. I am not nearly grokking this tool at all...would have been nice to seen these combos done in fans, too, but I think the tech on fans is still enough in its infancy people haven't played with them in this way just yet.

It'll be fun to take all these movements and work through them in both wheel and wallplane in the same fashion as Insignia and I have spent the past few months breaking apart the components of triquetras and building compound figures out of them, not to mention direction shifts.

One of the things I love about flowers (and that I played with in my first couple poi tutorials) is the fact that each flower pattern has what I'd consider to be transit points between different flower shapes. For example: same time, same direction breaks out into same time, opposites at the apex and bottom of the circle and split-time, opposites at either side--all you have to do is switch the direction of one of your hands. This is partially the idea behind the first trick I showed off in my tech poi vid yesterday, but the examples here are definitely more detailed.

Two thumbs up--keep the vids coming, Noel :)