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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #170: Arashi tech pt2: the unicursal hexagram

Here's part two of my wrap-up from Arashi's Firedrums class. This covers how you can use the poi plane and cross points to build polygons rather than using the traditional trochoid method of defining polygon sides with an arc and corners with loops/petals. The implications of this are really cool because they allow you to build polygons that present an image in three dimensions rather than the flat shapes we normally work with.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #169: Arashi tech, pt 1: plane-bending and cross points

Here's my first tutorial breaking down some of the tech Arashi laid down in his class at Firedrums. Here we're just dealing with some basic plane-bends that create some nifty diagonal shapes and the concept of using cross points in places we don't normally stick them. You'll see more than a few ideas here that have also popped up in Alien Jon and G vids, so think of this as a basic tutorial on how to start aiming planes as much as we aim flower petals.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #168: 3D Flowers

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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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #167: Keith's Negative Space Tricks

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Here's a recap of one of my favorite classes from Firedrums: Keith Marshall's class on negative space. These are two of the tricks we covered that are both cyclical so they're repeatable. The first is relatively simple using a non-native frame and the second can be performed with a contact roll creating a native side frame.

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #166: horizontal cateye antibrid stacking

Beginning the process of downloading all the tech from the past three weeks. This is a trick that Asaf (Poiboi) came up with that we used for a lot of our tunneling both at Kinetic and at Firedrums. The idea is to take horizontal cateye vs isolation and utilize some horizontal stacking to switch to the same move on the other side of the body. The spacing works due to that quirk of antispin flowers wherein they put the poi a unit circle distance apart 1/6th of the way around the handpath.

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Bliss and Jonny staves Friday Firedrums 2011

The first minute of this was epic--this latter part is pretty good too, though :) Bliss and Jonny mix up some sweet staff manipulations with some yoga poses and a small dose of what looks like capoeira to me.

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Drex, Asaf Poiboi partner poi Friday Firedrums 2011

Drex, Asaf Poiboi partner poi Friday Firedrums 2011

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Cory, Rem, Grimm fans Friday Firedrums 2011

Cory, Rem, Grimm fans Friday Firedrums 2011

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Rastaxel spins fire Saturday Firedrums 2011

Rastaxel spins fire Saturday Firedrums 2011

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Adam Herscheid double dragon staves Saturday Firedrums 2011

Adam Herscheid double dragon staves Saturday Firedrums 2011

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