Alien Jon Poi: nano-Tech Blog 1: twisting & untwisting the body between 2 flower planes

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Random Tech poi ideas in the form of tiny snippets of video.

A twist on flowers using Horizontal Mirror Symmetry (split-opposite), both inspin & antispin.
360º turn starting and ending in a crossed-arm position.
The poi stay on their respective planes the whole time,
with your body untwisting & twisting in between. http://www.alienjon.com

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[schmarzech]

I just revisited this, and that motion is the basis of a bunch of the weird fountain variations I've been finding lately. For any weave (since fountains are weave turns) carry that weave over the head and to the other side of your body, adding or subtracting a degree of twist from it but keeping the beat count the same. Then you use the weave in that position as the basis of a fountain (that may now end up going behind the head or getting all hybridy or some such).

[AlienJon]

@schmarzech Nice 1. That stuff is fun to explore. Zan and also Lester of Fire Groove are into it too.

[jitpunkia]

whats the soundtrack???

[AlienJon]

"Paint it Black" by Sigma

[Daavisonfire]

im gonna get this move down tonight!!!! I came back ha nice flowlight colors btw

[mindciller]

i just <3 butterfly and opposites movements

[VegaEtereo]

Thanks for sharing.

[sourjonboy]

i just hit my face a bunch and am now thoroughly confused lol

[sonnykennedy]

hey jon, thanks! i learned a lot from tihs blog and thanks! used it kind of in my fun jam last night - its very fun to play with!

hope to see you down here in the tampa bay, fl area sometime soon!

[Exuro89]

i love how the simplicity of the idea is inherently so technical, must play with variants, goofy flowers here we come.

--Ex

[AlienJon]

If your poi are together-opposites, then your arms would need to be as well, if we are trying to keep the flower symmetric. This would mean arms tog-opp starting and ending with the arms crossed over the head.

If you spin tog-opp but do split-opp arms like in this video, your poi will be 180º out of phase: one will have petals at the cardinal points, the other will have petals at the diagonal points.

[Bellithe]

*fingers crossed*