Mar
24
Video Tech Blog #75: 6-petal split-opposites antispin flowers with doubles
Submitted by Drex on Wed, 03/24/2010 - 3:04pm
It's been a while since I've broken out the doubles! This past weekend a friend and former student showed me an alternate way to perform a split-time opposites antispin flower with doubles that opened the door to figuring out how a couple friends from Virginia Beach are able to do a 6-petal variant of this same move. Basically: you switching from thumbs leading to pinkies leading. Here is a demo and detailed instructions.
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Mar
22
And now for something more personal...
Submitted by Drex on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 9:40pm
We interrupt your regularly scheduled poi program to bring you a special bulletin:
Mar
15
Video Tech Blog #74: mixed transition CAPs with a vertical split
Submitted by Drex on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 2:26pm
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Mar
11
Video Tech Blog #73: quarter time stalls and pendulums with stacks
Submitted by Drex on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 2:47pm
After posting tech blog #71, I realized I could easily take the top stall that was giving me so many problems and use it to transition into the pendulum stall down maneuver I already had down to create kind of a funky waterfall effect. As was pointed out in comments, this move also provides an excellent point of entry for Ronan's pendulum stall stacking move from BJC--that transition is demoed here as well.
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Mar
8
Video Tech Blog #72: inverted mixed transitions
Submitted by Drex on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 4:27am
DerPoiBenne sent me an inquiry about doing a mixed transition with loop up top and extension down below inverted and it turns out it's doable with a stall. Here it is performed in split opposites such that one segment is antispin flower and the other is extension. I'd originally misunderstood what he was suggesting and did the loop as a major translation/linear isolation, so here is an interesting 4-step pattern using this property as well.
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Mar
5
The first Home of Poi collaboration vid!
Submitted by Drex on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 4:13pm
Back in the day, glowsticking.com used to frequently feature videos that edited together footage of many glowstickers into one fabulous vid that showed off the talents of many people all at the same time. Recently, the challenge went up on the Home of Poi forums to put together a similar collaboration vid between many of the spinners on the forums. Ten fantastic poi spinners answered the call and Poiboi edited them all together.
Mar
5
Pineapple Pete and G: the Reloaded sessions
Submitted by Drex on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 4:02pm
Things have been busy down under! If you're not familiar with Aussie poi auteur Pineapple Pete, you should give a look to this fascinating video from a couple years ago showing off some of his experiments at the "Church of Poi".
Mar
5
Video Tech Blog #71: quarter time stalls and floats
Submitted by Drex on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 3:51pm
For a few weeks I'm going to change my format a little bit and rather than doing a weekly update with all the tricks I've been working on, do updates for individual tricks. It should keep my running time down and mean more frequent updates. Sound off in the comment section and tell me if you like the change or not.
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Feb
25
Video Tech Blog #70: asterisk flower, exotic composites, isolated weave
Submitted by Drex on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 2:09pm
First up, a tip last week from a commenter on this blog gave me a critical piece of the puzzle for the isolated weave. It's not perfect, but it's at least recognizable as what it is now. Next, based upon the concept of doing a plane-bent "asterisk" like G does, at a recent spin jam it was suggested that one could think of the radiating spokes as behaving like the petals in flowers, so here are examples of two timing and direction combinations of this idea.
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Feb
19
Video Tech Blog #69: isolated weave (cont), CAP vs BTH hybrid transitions
Submitted by Drex on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 8:41pm
This week I'm going back and revisiting a couple ideas from the past couple months to follow up on them both to show progress and where some of those ideas have taken me. First up is the isolated weave: I've had some progress on this both by practicing standing isolations in all four individual positions of my arms during the course of the weave and with a helpful piece of advice from Charlie on switching from one side of my body to the other. Next, the CAP vs static BTH hybrid poiboi07 and I had chatted about a couple months ago.
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