Drex's Tech Poi Blog #59: More old-school tech, pendulum stall stacking

I'm taking a week off from last week's theory-intensive video to show off a couple tricks I've been playing with in the interrim. First off is a combo: meltdown - under the leg throw - 1.5 - antispin flower - spiral wrap. If you can nail the throw, the rest of it flows together incredibly smoothly. Next, after seeing the videos coming out of Russia from the Antispinners crew, I'm working to make my antispin flowers and stall switches to change direction cleaner. Next, after seeing Ronan's video from BJC, I've been working on emulating this really interesting float-down to pendulum stall stacking trick he did there. After seeing poiboi07 demo it in his blog, I finally realized that I'd only picked up on half the trick. Here's the full thing, albeit still a little bit rough. Finally, a funky idea for switching between inspin and antispin flowers via the G plane-shifting cross on either side. This is VERY rough, but when cleaned up could look very cool. I'll be back next week to sketch out more of my symmetry theory for poi. Enjoy!

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• poi
• meltdowns
• antispin
• stalls
• stall switches
• pendulums
• stacking
• plane bending
• throws
• releases

[tubularG]

Hey Drex

Nice to see you've found that plane changing idea. Now think about this, you have anti-spin stalls and in-spin stalls but just as you spin one poi forwards and one backwards you can stall one poi in-spin and one anti-spin. Try all the sequences you've discovered like that. Also apply the same idea to planes i.e. if you can switch from one plane to another with both poi you can do the same move with one poi in each plane :)

[TaoAvatar20]

Wow...far freaking out...good tip, man! :)

[poiboi07]

About the Float-Stack, I like keeping the poi at 90 degrees apart when doing the pendulum stall at the bottom to switch hands, so that the poi that did the float ends up vertical, and the other poi ends up horizontal, and then continues the move

[TaoAvatar20]

Huh?

If you switch the entire assembly 90 degrees off the pendulum stall of the floating hand, you wind up with the right angled pattern alright, but the stalled hand is at the same point as the formerly static poi head, whereas you want it to be at the same point as the hand. There has to be another rotation involved in this transition at some point, unless I'm totally misunderstanding this.

[charlicopter]

I think I agree with poiboi07... When you break apart the one in Ronan's vid, it is essentially a leadup to a hybrid between a pendulum-arrest and a pull-out from a downward stall... I basically think of it as that hybrid where you spin iso vs unit-extension with your extension-hand following the iso-poi-head (newskool antibrid), except in this case, your poi are at 90deg to each other. You can also do it with your HANDS together ala the oldskool traditional hybrid.

The new camera rocks!

[TaoAvatar20]

Ooooooookay...I just played with this and realized where I was going wrong...the angle of the Ronan vid made me think the transition from the floating hand to pendulum stall was a unit circle 1.5. Poiboi's right that if you keep them at a right angle when making the transition the momentum carries through to the top stall and float of the other hand. Cool...yeah, that looks a lot better, actually.

[poiboi07]

Yeah that's basically what I meant :)

[poiboi07]

yeah that's what I meant

[AlienJon]

FYI on some poi history: What Baz started calling "Antibrid" a wile back IS part of Andy House's original post on Hybrids. He just didn't go into great detail, so many people missed it, and inly associated hybrid with hand-hand.

[TaoAvatar20]

*laughs* That figures...next time I see him I'll have to ask if there's a version that incorporates a Shoryuken ;)