Drex's Tech Poi Blog #91: Ronan's pendulum-CAP transition as vesica piscis

The last day at Firedrums, Alien Jon, Yuta, and I were playing with a pattern I could not for the life of me get: it's a switch that Ronan does between adjacent pendulum vs. CAP hybrids using a move in the middle I couldn't make out (he does it at 3:09 of his BJC performance video). After a couple weeks of futzing with it, I found the solution quite on accident--the middle move is cateye vs pendulum, a bizarre hybrid Ronan taught in one of his classes at Firedrums. After sorting it out, I mapped it out and realized it uses the exact same geometry as the vesica piscis patterns I played with a few weeks ago, but in hybrid rather than homogeneous form. Here are a few patterns based upon this idea that use hybrids and soft transitions to work through the vesica piscis pattern.

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• poi
• howto
• vesica piscis
• soft transition
• ronan
• CAP
• pendulum
• hybrid
• antibrid
• triquetra
• cateye

[suddent]

What kind of poi is that, where did you get those?

[Archetti561]

awesome stuff, I was thinking that it would be possible to do a 4petal flower vs Iso in the same way. what do you think?

[118CodY118]

So sense there is a forwards and reverse to everything, wouldnt there be a way to switch that transition from cap vs pendulum to cateye vs pendulum thingy to and from forwards and reverse????? (think because the poi can spin clock wise or counter clock wise) Get back to me and let me know keep up the dope videos Drex!!!

[ogkotabear1]

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!

[PoiRsQuared]

and then.....CLICK! Andrew presses pause and repeats Drex's awesome pattern again and again because it looks really cool! Please never stop making videos man, they brighten up my day no matter what kind of day i had, even if it was a super-led-solar flair-mag light bright day!

[MsWhompwhomp]

i thought i had a lot of what ronan does figured out, but rewatching his videos after taking his classes made me realize how much stuff he does that i still dont understand

thanks for clearing this one up!

[dirtyyydave]

very nice

[chesstaipan]

Thanx Drex, great installment!

[Insignia]

Soft transition mania ftw :D

[xcybrpunkx]

Wow, amazing concepts!

Your tech blogs have helped me immensely... thanks so much for all your hard work.