Drex's Tech Poi Blog #32: pendulum/triquetra hybrid variants, the "Baz", CAP/pendulum hybrid

[Mireneye]

I realized just now another damn good thing with this blog is that I can go back and see what events were all about. I had totally forgot some stuff here o_O

Cheers!

[Mireneye]

The variation at 3:50 ish with using the inward half of the circle and going out into linear extension looks interesting. It might have some interesting properties. Will have to play with it.

Thanks for putting up this video so quickly =) Grand job!

I'm thinking of how to improve the antispin/float cap variation, I'm pretty sure it can be done very beautifully =)

Cheers mate!

[burnpoi86]

thank you drex for keeping the poi, and your hands which assumedly control them, visable. great ideas as always!

[Kaleidometric]

The ideas here are fantastic...especially for working with shifting the speed of your spinning as many of the pendulum caps look graceful when done slowly.

Drex, you should bring up the 90 degree caps you were talking about post cyrille workshop.  Sorry for being such a downer on that particular conversation, the idea itself is brilliant. It opens a huge box of potential variations. I don't know what the hell was my hang up at the time. Call me Mr. rain-induced-grumpy-pants.

[TaoAvatar20]

Wow...dude, this just gave me the craziest idea: imagine a rectangular sheet of rubber and orient it flat so that if you look at it from above or below you can see the square, but not from the front or sides and then twist it laterally, you wind up with a shape that will look like two triangles pointed at each other both from the sides and the front and back, but more of an ovoid if seen from above. Now imagine you are spinning atomics and the corners of this sheet are the nodes.

[TaoAvatar20]

You should be able to find an orientation for the poi that keep symmetry from two different perspectives and thus maintain the shape from front and side--a 3D atomic symmetry pattern. I'm rattling this around in my head, but can't think of a shape that would be symmetrical from all 3 perspectives. Give me time on this, though ;)

Thanks for the reminder of this--I'd totally forgotten I was playing with this pattern!

[PoiRsQuared]

very nice man, another thing that is fun with the trifoil pendulum is if you make your hands one poi length apart, so that the flowering hand is lined up with the circle of the poi that is doing the pendulum, that way there is a poi in the center of each circle of your flower if that makes any sense? I don't know if you have tried that but you could get it easily, keep up the good spinning!

[TaoAvatar20]

I'm having a hard time visualizing this--is this the two poi moving in parallel like I asked of thesoundof3am's pattern description? Is there video or an image breakdown of this?

Thanks for the great suggestion!

[PoiRsQuared]

It very well may be, for such a simple trick it is hard for me to put it in to words...sorry, It is essentially the exact same pendulum triquetra pattern that you were doing except the hands are spaced out more, that way the poi head that is doing the pedulum is directly in front of the hand of the the poi that is doing the trifoil, so it almost looks like if you just had one poi with a handle, sorry if my description is all retarded, i don't know of any vids out there that display this variat

[stillhuman]

im really glad you got those flow toys. they help so much.

[jeremyyme]

thank you so much i always enjoy your vids (theres only so much nick wosley i can take) its very refreshing to watch and learn from a hummble spinner such as yourself warm regards jez

[sonnykennedy]

Thanks for posting all these blogs. I wish I made it to fire and drums =[[

[dercrazyalbaner]

thank you for inspiring me!

[globalj420]

Good stuff as always man :D

[thesoundof3am]

a buddy of mine who happens to be a production major in school and a fellow poi enthusiast, took that video i sent your way and dissected it in to individual trick videos. now i've got 64 individual tricks to learn. and one of my favorites ties directly in to the triquetra pendulum in the first part of this blog. the pendulum directly follows [as if the poi is sitting atop] the trifoil hand and creates a beautiful pattern when done right.

as always, great work and happy spinning

[TaoAvatar20]

64?! Good god, any chance you could send me a breakdown?

Interesting pattern! I'll give that one a shot this week. Am I right in thinking that it breaks down to the hands moving in parallel around a circle with one poi oriented permanently down and the other doing a triquetra?

[thesoundof3am]

your correct in how your visualizing it.

and yeah 64 individual vids. i've got it in a nice little folder. p/m me your email and i could send it your way.

[derekjf85]

I love this! I will most def play around with this!