Drex's Tech Poi Blog #60: Alien Jon's crosser flower, pendulum assembly patterns

[Daavisonfire]

In his vid i think he is doing it same direction though thats why your not getting the effect

[sweetlainee]

Nice!

[tracerammo]

I love that last little trick! Dude, the antispin/pendulum combo bit at the end of the last cap deal, kinda' looks like an unside-down stall transfer sorta' thing. Looks badass. ;)

[leospoi]

That CAP reminds me a lot of the 1.5 hybrids I've been working on. If you start mixing pendulums and regular spins you get 6 relative timings and directions, so it's good you started exploring more than one of them to see what interesting things come up.

[PoiRsQuared]

that reminds me why poi is awesome

[Insignia]

I love this man. I love that in the moment behind the scenes when you figured this out you were like "My God, this is ridiculous! XD"

These moments seem to be happening more and more throughout the community as a whole hehe.

[PoiMc]

I really like the pendulum-antispin combo, looks pretty cool, I'm going to go have a play with that, you can most probably turn with it and do parts behind the head, and even a combination of the two.

I really need to start posting stuff, silly McMc, I keep forgetting to record things, tend to get too lost in just doing it...

[TaoAvatar20]

Excellent point. Given that I was playing around with antispin behind the head earlier in this post it does totally bode well for doing behind the head variants.

Whoa...I could do Alien Jon's sequence as this type of CAP...*goes off to practice*

[diarkon]

now thats rocks!

[Mireneye]

If you now start to play with antispin stalls up and down and the low antispin stall and mixing them with circles and pendulums and switching classical arm variations you'll be looking at what I have in my head atm.

It's crazy how you are coming to similar conclusions now as I'm but from another angle.

I'm filming today so soon, new video =)

[TaoAvatar20]

*nods* Oh, totally, and I can easily switch any pendulum segment for an extension segment to alter the figure all over again. RE: video: Yes, please! Post soon, I want to see :)

[globalj420]

Nice one man :D That pendulum combo is dopeness!!! Keep it up man!!!!

[stillhuman]

great video!! yet again you've inspired wonderful new ideas to flow through my head.

i'm having a hard time thinking of a way to use alien john's move as a transition (because it seems very transitional to me) between crossed and uncrossed arm moves. i can only really think of a plane bend into a wall plane flower. hmm... oh well. just rambling. :)

[TaoAvatar20]

I could easily see using it as a way to turn a crosser into a flower and when you recross doing a buzzsaw weave with it (this is all assuming you're doing the polyrhythm hybrid version). But it also presents an interesting exception: previously the only two methods we had to escape a degree of twist were to reverse the degree of twist on the other side of the body or perform a CAP to reverse the arms as the poi figure inverted. What Jon's showing here is that there's a third option.

[MsWhompwhomp]

4:15

wow.

[TrippWaLk]

I enjoyed this blog man! I had been trying to figure out what was going on with Alien John's trick he showed, and I was stuck on my CAPs. Those were some tricky patterns, and I'm glad because I got some nice new ideas to play with. Thanks!

~happy spinning~