Poiboi and Santiago both have new tech vids out and both feature a wide variety of body contact rolls, so I thought I would demo here two that I've been playing with frequently myself. Both are shoulder rolls that return the poi to native hand and both really utilize horizontal momentum rather than vertical momentum unlike most of the other contact rolls I've demoed here before.

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I ran across a cool performance video of Yuta in the Flowspace last week that reminded me of something I'd begun playing with months ago but hadn't pursued very far: moves that involve wrapping one or both poi around their own hand. I spent a good portion of the weekend playing around with these moves in same time same direction and split time same direction, pulling out some moves I've seen both Ronan and Yuta do in their performances as well as and idea of my own.

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I got a request on my recent video on the horizontal cateye vs CAP hybrid to describe how I was doing a pair of horizontal cateyes that I was using to switch side to side on the aforementioned hybrid. Here they are demoed--essentially they're a pair of cateyes performed in split time opposites and can easily be thought of as being a pair of floats in which then hands and poi heads switch orientation as they go back and forth. It's a little tricky because the planes the cateyes operate in are at a slight angle to each other.

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Another trick from Poiboi's latest performance video...this one is by far my favorite. It's a forearm roll where one switches from the inside of the forearm to the outside of the forearm, essentially doubling the area the poi head rolls across. It incorporates elements of what feels to me like a fishtail as well as two forearm rolls I've demoed on here before.

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