Drex's Tech Poi Blog #31: Pinwheel, isolated fountain, plane-bending star of David, Walrus Eye, CAPs

[Metallicrazy]

i'm so happy i found this! this is awesome

[daviskrew14]

How did you get one of your flowtoys to have a red LED in it? did you take out an old one and replace it?

[BBSredacid]

nice man love the tut real easy to understand hey what element is your one flow poi with the red on it? and where did you get it i olny have fire and wind element lol looks like you have both combined haha

[ieatplacenta]

holy shit man when you said at 4:43 "youre friend in richmond" did you mean VA? cuz i live in the richmond area and have been dying to finally meet another person to spin with

[Carmellito1]

Man! 6:55 Extended-CatEye Hybrid? Gotta try this... Thanks for the Inspiration!

[Insignia]

WALRUS EYE? Cat Eye / Head orbit chase? Silly names for interesting patterns. Cycling through all those different chase patterns is very very interesting indeed. Same direction CAP's are currently owning my ass though.

[TaoAvatar20]

RE: Walrus eye. Agreed...apparently it was a joke that Lucas and Dale made up at some point and when pressed to explain what it was, pulled that pattern out of their asses. I don't think they ever intended for anyone to actually try doing it ;)

The same direction CAPs are wicked hard--to make them look like anything you really have to be able to do them quarter-time which is a total brain-buster. They also don't seem to integrate with other tricks very easily--have you had any luck with this?

[JaviAirhead]

If you could imagine doing a 4-beat (4 per hand) fountain......for the 2 horizontal beats, youd be in wheel position and for the 2 vertical beats, youd be in wallplane position.....so all the petals your right-hand makes are a quarter-beat behind ur left-hand (or vice versa) which is doing the exact same petals in the same positions (just a 1/4th beat later but still horizontal or vertical).

[TaoAvatar20]

I've got the reverse of that quarter-time down, but haven't tried to tie them together yet. I don't imagine it'll wind up looking much different from a sloppy buzzsaw flower, but I could be wrong. Have you got this one?

[JaviAirhead]

Regardless of if i do or if i dont, it doesnt make it not worth learning just because it will most likely look like a sloppy buzzsaw flower. I KIND OF have this (looks like a sloppy buzzsaw flower) and everyonce in a while i do get it down (looks like what it should look like-crazy).

But u cant go through learning moves with that mentality in my oppinion. Itll keep what u do closed off and within a comfort zone. it doesnt matter what it looks like, it matters what it feels like!!!

[TaoAvatar20]

I was just curious if there was a demo or anything because I'm more visual and usually have a hard time putting moves together based purely on written descriptions. I've done very little quarter-time stuff--this could just as easily come out looking something like the hybrid fountain but I guess there's no way to know until a body works it out.

[thesoundof3am]

that star of david plane bending looks like a fun move. if i may suggest, learning it both from top to bottom and then back up.

as well as taking the off set cap and transition that to the other side.

this is usually just something i do myself. learn a trick and then program my brain and arms to do it in reverse.

[TaoAvatar20]

That is actually a great suggestion! I'm totally going to give that a shot :)