Apr
21
Video Tech Blog #82: plane-bending with buzzsaw flowers
Submitted by Drex on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 2:37pm
A couple months ago I posted a video using plane-bends to switch between inspin and antispin flowers. G saw the vid and suggested I try the same technique in split-time same direction, so here it is! My right side isn't as clean as my left side, but I still think it's a cool effect. Enjoy!
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Apr
19
Vesica Piscis charts
Submitted by Drex on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 4:18pm
Whoops! I just rewatched my video on vesica piscis soft transitions and realized I'd promised to post the charts I'd used to work through these transitions and never did. Here they are, along with the original video--they depict a series of soft transitions from cateyes to triquetras and vice versa in which the overlap in hand paths between the triquetras resembles the vesica piscis pattern sometimes seen in sacred geometry. Enjoy!
Apr
15
Ronan practice session
Submitted by Drex on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 9:39pm
For a large portion of the past year, I've had a massive poi mad-on for technique like Ronan McLoughlin's. He's from Cork, Ireland and has one of the most original poi spinning styles I've ever seen. Unlike most poi spinners (myself included), Ronan centers his style around stopping the momentum of the poi rather than keeping it moving, resulting in a dizzying array of stalls, pendulums, and contact work that always leaves me scratching my head.
Apr
14
Video Tech Blog #81: horizontal stall chases with quarter-time stalls
Submitted by Drex on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 3:40pm
Sorry about the audio! The mike on my flipcam isn't great, I'm afraid, but hopefully, the ideas I'm playing with here will still come across. I've been working on a way to make the now-cliche stall chase work in horizontal plane and came up with this approach which utilizes plane shifts to give us a brief moment of the poi angles straight out before one or the other has to stall down. Interestingly enough, it also yields a shape that's compatible with the quarter-time stall chasing patterns I showed off a couple weeks ago.
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Apr
8
Video Tech Blog #80: vesica piscis soft transitions
Submitted by Drex on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 1:40pm
Christian (Insignia) posted a series of images to his Facebook profile last week detailing a few diagrams wherein a body could transition between triquetras and cateyes in a variety of really fascinating ways. After playing around with the idea for a little while and realizing it featured a geometric concept called a vesica piscis, I worked out where playing with cateyes and triquetras using the concept could take you. Ironically, the shapes are all axially, but not radially symmetric as Christian's diagrams came out.
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Apr
8
Video Tech Blog #79: CAP to hybrid stalls and transitions out
Submitted by Drex on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 1:26pm
Nick Woolsey and G posted a video today that featured G doing a crazy kind of hybrid stall I'd never seen before. I got to playing with it and here is a fun pattern that came out of it, switching between CAP patterns with a split buzzsaw flower.
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Apr
2
Video Blog #78: Mixed transition from horizontal cateye to vertical cateye
Submitted by Drex on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 7:38pm
I got a request this past week based upon a mixed transition diagram I'd posted to Facebook for instructions on how to do one of the transitions outlined in it: namely switching from root horizontal cateye to ET vertical cateye. Primarily I'm using gravity to help in this case, but there is a way to snap the poi head vertically to do it as a mixed transition with the hand soft--it's damned hard, though.
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Mar
30
Video Tech Blog #77: BTH Hybrids
Submitted by Drex on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 3:23am
Last week PoiBoi07 posted a great vid with some fun triquetra and cateye hybrids performed with the static/isolating hand behind the head. Here is the same hybrid as well as a couple others I've seen that utilize a similar approach, including extensions and C-CAPs.
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Mar
29
I Believe/The Disorder of Things
Submitted by Drex on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 8:25pm
This weekend comes the fruit of weeks worth of labor: my glowspinning troupe, Revolutionary Motion is performing at Contradiction Dance's spring concert. Featuring some of my favorite local spinners: Surprise, E6, Mia, and Maddy, we've worked up a piece incorporating elements of modern dance and hip hop with our tools and we're stoked to be performing this piece in such a fantastic setting.
If you live in the Baltimore/Washington area, please consider attending. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
Mar
25
Video Tech Blog #76: transition theory and weaves
Submitted by Drex on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 4:13pm
Had an interesting revelation over the weekend: thus far all the work I've done on the concept of transition theory (hard and soft transitions) has been restricted to 2D epi and hypertrochoid shapes. While playing with a mixed transition CAP pattern over the weekend, I suddenly realized I could repeat the pattern without altering its character by switching to the plane behind me. Technically, such a transition means going to an ET relative to wheel plane, but it behaves like an IT due to conservation of angular momentum.
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