This is Noel's first burn on Saturday night at the FLAME Festival in Georgia and it's one of the cleanest sets I've ever seen him do. I'm really glad I was able to capture this one on video :)

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This one has been rolling around in my head for a long time...trying to make a contact roll one of the beats of a reverse 3-beat weave and it's a doozy. The idea here is to substitute an elbow pit catch and roll where you would normally have the beat under to the other side and instead have your native hand lead the turn back to its own side. Ironically, after woodshedding the hell out of this trick and seeing it on video I think it may not actually be as visually compelling as the amount of work it takes to make it happen. Oh, well :-P

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Here's an attempt to tie together a whole bunch of different threads from some recent videos both myself and some others have made. First up, e6 posted a video over the weekend about timing and direction where he pointed out the difficulties in making the traditional T&D combinations work with flowers that have an odd number of petals. In an odd bit of synchronicity, Justin Benson posted a video displaying an example of just that--wherein he takes a pentagram into split opposites by creating two pentagrams that reflect each other across a given axis.

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A couple cool ideas based upon triquetra vs pendulum, which kind of fudges the triquetra pattern to create something more akin to two different flowers cut and pasted together. Here I take the same idea and apply it to triquetras and 6-petal antispin flowers to create a new composite and hybridize it both with another triquetra and triquetra's inspin equivalent: 1-petal inspin. Note to self: when recording a video on St. Patrick's Day, do the video before the drinking begins--otherwise I talk a record sped up to double speed :-P

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