Drex's Tech Poi Blog #7: more pendulums, 1.5s, flowers

A butterfly flower stall I was shown a couple weeks ago, plus more variations on the butterfly 1.5s--including a vertical variant. Also some of the techniques I'm using to practice antispin flowers. If anybody has any better exercises, let me know.

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• 1.5
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[freedomcaller]

i count flowers on the outside, if you count revolutions you get a different number for reguler and antispin, but if you count petals its the same...

[TaoAvatar20]

True, but I find it problematic because the petals occur at a different point in the path of the poi than they do with a normally spun flower. If one uses the same system, ie that the inside path of the poi occurs at the bottom, left, top, and right corners of the box you get petals at those points in a normal flower and between them with anti-spin. To alternate between the two, you must use a common system to count where the inside and outside paths are.

[TaoAvatar20]

Nonetheless, you are right that it's easier to count points along that path than to count the circles you're drawing. Currently, I'm counting the same four points of the path that I do with an outside flower: the points at which they pass an imaginary center-line. I'm still counting four beats, but instead of counting the petals, I'm now counting the path between the petals for anti-spin. Different system, same result.

[auntjamima]

I first learned anti-spin flowers in same-time three point forward plane since the movement is very easy to watch. The easiest way to start learning the wall plane anti-spin flowers is spinning it in opposites and only paying attention to one side. I found that the hand I didn't pay attention to found it faster and I was set from there.

[ubernoobishness]

... also im rewatching both my video and yours at the moment and when you do the first vareation twords 2:20 I think that its a spilt time because the heads seam to be more together when they are at the sides.. whereas the one you do more twords 3:20 they seem to be together at the top and bottom (well bottom lol) wich would be sametime butterfly pendulum vareation thingy lol... i dunnoits late can barly focous on my schreen i could be wroung here but its a thought lol.

[ubernoobishness]

I just posted a poi blog a few nights ago. During one of my many faild atempts at filming it I was messing with my hand position with the butterfly pendulums and finaly stumbled onto how to the it with hands together, wich looks alot like what you do arround 2:30 in the video

[Zeradin]

i want my vertical stalls to be that good. what the hell

[marduk666666666]

man u cant really see the pois cos u move them too fast

[Alhimik198]

thx!

[42ohashbrownies]

Also good stuff!!!!!