Drex's Tech Poi Blog #129: The S-CAP

Another one of those funky things that's come out of the Facebook Tech Poi Group: a type of CAP based around an S-shaped handpath. You have to slightly change how you approach the antispin section to put the poi head in the right place. Here I demonstrate a couple patterns that utilize this shape with hands going split opposites. The first one is pretty clean but the second one needs work :-P These also mesh really well with a variant of G's floating triquetra pattern.

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[meshunderlay]

Looks pretty cool. The first version, split opposites looks the best so far I think.

The second version, I'm just wondering, though you said out of phase, one is doing anti-spin (right hand) and your other (left hand) is doing in spin. I was wondering if that was intentional?

[TaoAvatar20]

@meshunderlay It is indeed...when I said out of phase my meaning was that rather than each hand performing antispin and extension simultaneously, one would be performing antispin while the other did extension. The net result is that the poi heads look like they're going split time same direction.

[LucyHeartPoi]

you are so good at explaining things. thanx for posting this tutorial. the s-cap has stumped me for a while and now i got it! yay

[POIgasm]

Yess sir, good stuff, that is alot like what I have been thinking about latel, isolate everything, flowers, beats, triquetras everything, connecting that to an S Curve would look beautiful

[tdukesjr]

hey I watch you all the time nice cap pattern I tried to get you on facebook but you never excepted my friend ship I'm thelonious dukes on facebook hope to talk to you soon

[ngst74]

Looks like common 4-petal antispin but shifted.

[kairoshin]

This is one of the coolest patterns I've seen in some time :)

[quagitty]

that G version isn't out of phase it's just that you bring the pendulum hand higher to mate with the bottom of the triquetra. In terms of parametrics, phase is when you adjust the poi position for the corresponding hand position, or vice versa. In both triquetra patterns the phase (relative spin) is the same but the pendulum has a different center

[sirspinalot420]

would this be possible in wheel plane?

[meshunderlay]

@TaoAvatar20 Ah, alrighty. I misunderstood then. Very funky looking patterns.