Okay, I'm really torn on this one having seen the video now. The flower described to me as antispin in the comments section of the last video had an upbeat between two petals and downbeat between two other petals. What I'm performing here is the first geometry I could find that conformed to the shape, but watching it now I think it's just a 2-beat corkscrew performed as a floor-plane flower. The "spiral" based flowers I played with before all had the motion of the poi head oriented at all times on a plane perpendicular to the orientation of the hand. I suppose this "antispin" flower could technically count as that as well, though it seems like one of it's primary planes is parallel rather than perpendicular to the plane of the hand...chime in, guys. Is this the solution you found before?

Here's my follow-up to last video on whether there are inspin or antispin toroidal flowers...I got a LOT of really helpful and insightful comments, but wanted to focus on the solution that Ted and Charlie said they came up with for this problem--the "antispin" variant I'm working with here matches the description as I understand it that Ted left on the last video. Charlie said he had one with six downbeats...I'm still totally baffled as to how this is even doable. I'm still going to make the case that neither variant qualifies as "inspin" or "antispin" given that both can be made to create shapes that would appear to be either inspin or antispin in a given projected direction.

In other news: I'm flying to Kenya in two weeks to teach poi for a month at the Motomoto Circus school in Nairobi. We are looking for donations for materials to bring the kids there to aid with poi construction as kevlar and many other implements are very very hard to come by. Please consider making a small donation to the project at http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/motomoto-circus

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