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The Talent Trap

Sun, 10/23/2011 - 12:44pm by Drex Tags:

At a recent regional burn, a friend watched me as I practiced poi one afternoon and lamented that she believed she had no natural talent for the tool. I chuckled and replied that I didn't either, which I didn't think at the time would be such a controversial position, but it lead to a very heated debate over what constituted talent and how one might be judged to have it.

My assertion then is the same as it is now: when it comes to talent there is no such thing.

Drex's Tech Poi Blog #201: merging Ronan and G transitions

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:15am by Drex Tags:

I forgot to bring my tripod to the studio, so the vid on finding hybrid families using QFT will have to wait for the next video. In the meantime, here's a nifty transition that takes elements from patterns that Ronan and G play with and merges them together in a fun and creative way. It utilizes CAP vs pendulum and lets you switch which hand is performing which move.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #200: The lines of poi

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:12am by Drex Tags:

200 tech blogs! This one is on how I've been working to create the hybrid families I've been frequently featuring in my videos over the course of the past year--I have two methods I use these days and this is the more visual one: finding the "lines" of the poi tricks to figure out how to switch between them. Sorry for the weird cuts--I had to get it under 15 minutes :-P

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Breaking In My New Camera :)

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:06am by Drex Tags:

I got the new iPhone yesterday and wanted to test out the camera, so I came to the park to get a little bit of flow on. It may just be the bigger screen but it sure seems to be giving my flip a run for its money :)

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G spins fire at Sangha DC Decom

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:03am by Drex Tags:

G stopped by DC for a few days last week and was kind enough to spin some fire for the local burner community at a decom hosted by local party promoters 88. Here is his second burn of the night.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #199: Horizontal stack to right angle transitions

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:00am by Drex Tags:

An idea from a previous blog I wanted to explore a little bit more: the pendulum stall chasers from a few tech blogs ago included a brief note on using said trick as a transition between horizontal and vertical stacking. Here I explore the transition from the horizontal stack in a little bit more detail, taking my two favorite stacks and figuring out the transitions in and out of them into this pattern.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #198: Contact poi hybrids

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 9:57am by Drex Tags:

I've been mapping out hybrids lately that utilize a relationship between the hands and realized I'd been assuming the handle was synonymous with the hands. I then started to think about cases in which the handles could be together but not necessary have the hands together. The first hybrid I played with seemed too easy, so I started doing it with an outer forearm roll and it led both to isolation vs extension and triquetra vs pendulum hybrids.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #197: Opposite same-time triquetra vs pendulum hybrids

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 9:54am by Drex Tags:

Over the weekend I started messing around with a slightly different approach to triquetra vs pendulum and found it opened up some transition points I rarely use but found to be really fun to incorporate into my flow. In this case I was playing with triquetra vs pendulum with the hands in opposites same-time and looking to the transition points on either side of the pattern, which can access static vs extension or same time same direction hybrids.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #196: Poi head catching patterns

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 9:51am by Drex Tags:

Here's another trick Ronan was showing off on the playa--based in pendulum vs CAP, he was doing a catch with the poi head that would then be used to shift the center of the pattern to either side. Another option was throwing the poi head vertically to enter static vs triquetra. I don't often play with head catching tricks, but these have a really fascinating capacity for shifting an audience's point of attention.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #195: Interior stall transitions

Sat, 10/22/2011 - 9:47am by Drex Tags:

In Tahoe, G showed me this nifty interior stall pattern he'd been playing with that I'd at first thought to be a mere curiosity. It involved searching for transitions where the hands were crossed and so were the poi, but as we continued to play with it, a nifty hybrid pattern came out and later G pointed out that Ronan's triquetra fractal could be used as an intermediary trick. Here are all the transitions we found that week.

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