Drex's Tech Poi Blog #70: asterisk flower, exotic composites, isolated weave

First up, a tip last week from a commenter on this blog gave me a critical piece of the puzzle for the isolated weave. It's not perfect, but it's at least recognizable as what it is now. Next, based upon the concept of doing a plane-bent "asterisk" like G does, at a recent spin jam it was suggested that one could think of the radiating spokes as behaving like the petals in flowers, so here are examples of two timing and direction combinations of this idea. Finally, a revisit of the CAP vs pendulum hybrid Poiboi07 posted a couple months ago yielded some interesting results when viewed in the context of placing the elements in opposite halves of a figure rather than the same one and introducing stalls into the mix. I think one of these patterns is an idea that Mireneye explored a couple months ago.

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• poi
• isolated weave
• isolation
• plane-bending
• flower
• diagonal planes
• composites
• CAP
• pendulum
• stalls

[Mireneye]

yeah, the stuff from 5:16 is also something I should have somewhere in my videos, somewhere.. I think we actually played with it on last firedrums. (When is firedrums this year btw?)

Also stalls vs spin/antispin is definietly in my alley I'll have a look at that variation and see what comes out.

Care to explain "asterisk" for me? I don't quite understand the name.

All together, awesome ideas!

Cheers

[TaoAvatar20]

So when you write out an asterisk: *, you usually do so by superimposing an "x" over a "+". The spokes of each plane-bend radiate out at each of the same angles, so I call it an asterisk because the pattern kind of resembles one when seen head-on.

Thanks, man! :)

[krissztiina]

this was very useful, thanks a lot for the new ideas, tonight I am going to try them out!:)

[2cBeatnikk]

anyway once you've gotten to the ams crossed iso - practice flipping the poi over your arm on the inside... (dunno how well that reads - I may make a video if you don't quite see it...) then play with which end of the isolation leads, the poi head, or the hand... remember that there is a slight atomic feel to this move - in order to generate an extra bit of space - and you should be there!

Peace and poi.

CPh

[2cBeatnikk]

Awesome work Mr. Drex sir mister... I'd recommend hitting the "not-coleman-3" in forward and reverse in order to nail the last 20%... I've been stuck at this point for about a year, the only real progress i have had with this came after jon explained it to me and did a rather splendid demo... perhaps he broke a few psychological barriers! ;P

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[globalj420]

Firedrums is May 6th-9th this year. I still need to find out when tickets r goin on sale though.

[globalj420]

Nice one!!!!!

[derekjf85]

I've been telling people to practice isolations with their arms crossed to learn isolated weaves for a long time now!

[JoffJk]

i really liked the last section you were talking about :) I'm off to go play with cap vs stalls and pendulums

[djcow111]

i love the asterisk flower i have been playing with those for a while now. i have also been having trouble with iso weave this is what i have needed!

cheers drex

keep up the awsome work!!