DrexFactor Poi

Jordan Campbell, 2008 fire idol winner and member of the Vulcan crew spins some poi Saturday night at Firedrums 2009. Look, he even does requests!

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A sample of the craziness of the circle at Firedrums 2009 in the circle Saturday night. Seriously, there was so much damn fire the safeties must've been going crazy. Cyrille is spinning just to the left of center about midway back, but I don't recognize any of the other spinners in this vid. If you do, let me know and I'll add them to the tags. Seriously, down in front, motherf$%ker!

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Wish I'd caught him when his wicks were fresh, but even the stuff we was doing with them burnt down a little bit was amazing. This is Chris "Rovo" Bailey spinning a tool that as far as I know he has invented and explored: the double meteor. Crazy cool stuff but wicked difficult from what I can tell.

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Gah! Attack of the blurry! You can still make out some of the details of what Cyrille and Yuta were doing together. Incidentally if any of you out there have this problem with your camera, it turns out it can be fixed by swiping your hand real quickly in front of the lense, causing the camera to refocus.

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My friend Nicole had an acupuncture conference the week before Firedrums in the Bay Area, so she was able to join us for the fun. This is her second burn! She's been working hella hard the last few months and it was a huge treat to get to watch her light up for the first time. In the background you can see a cluster of firebreathers attempting to do seven in a row.

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My buddy Thomas wows the crowd with a set of poi the last night of Firedrums 2009. Granted, not the best angle, but hopefully it captures the wonderful flow this guy has :)

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Hopefully this isn't too late to be irrelevant, but here's part of a bitchin' spin Alien Jon did the last night of Firedrums in the main circle. Big fan! :)

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Lots more stuff this week. I've got working transitions from the triquetra vs pendulum hybrid into CAPs from all four corners, though all are still ugly. When integrated into flow, however, I'm looking forward to seeing what this move can do.

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Lots of stuff from Firedrums last week--first off a few variants on the pendulum-triquetra hybrid that I've played with before, including switching up the timing of the hands to split-time opposites. Based upon a linear extension approach to this hybrid, an interesting pattern Baz came up with the last night at FD that combines the pattern with CAPs and a very sloppy rendition of a variant on this idea that I think may lead to reworking all the triquetra-halving patterns I've played with so far.

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Definitely a smorgasboard of tricks this week. The first is a repeating triangle pattern done that is repeated at 90 degree angles to reveal what looks to me like a pinwheel, though the trick takes so long to render the idea may be irrelevant for performance. I tried it this past weekend and got a good response, though. I don't know what to call the next trick--I think it ultimately breaks down to halving the triquetra in split-time horizontally. Most of us know the vertical variation, but the horizontal one requires some arm-crossing action.

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