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

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. Next I'm working up to an isolated weave and thus drilling switching between all the isolation positions I know of in wheel plane. I'm definitely pretty far away from the weave, but in the meantime it's been helping me get an isolated fountain more presentable. Next, a whole bunch of tricks inspired by my friend Lucas from Richmond: a plane-bending figure that reveals a Star of David is first up, followed by a figure he and another friend jokingly made up called a "Walrus Eye", which is similar to a basic hybrid where one hand traces the path of the other hand's poi head, but done with a cateye in the center rather than an isolation. Finally, a few experiments with CAPs--poi moving same direction.

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• poi
• triquetra
• mercedes
• pinwheel
• isolation
• fountain
• star of david
• walrus eye
• cateye
• CAP

[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 :)

[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

[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.

[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'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]

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).

[Carmellito1]

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