One of the most important things you will ever learn in poi is how to transition from move to move, plane to plane and direction to direction. In this tutorial you will learn how to use a pendulum stall to change the direction of your spin. It is called a Pendulum stall because of the Pendulum like motion that your hand makes. It swings back and forth in the bottom half of the circle.

When spinning in same direction forwards, try letting one of your arms float behind your body and stop when it comes to a horizontal plane, then bring your arm back down to your side and continue spinning that arm BACKWARDS. When you stall you will be changing the direction of your poi, from forwards to backwards.

Once you get the motion and the idea. Try this exercise. Both hands forward equal time, stall right back, come to opposite direction spinning, left poi forward, right poi backwards. Now stall your left arm behind you and bring the left to backwards spinning. Now stall your right in front, come to forwards spin with right poi, now stall left forwards and come to both poi spinning forwards once again. Repeat until it is second nature and then do it 1000 more times.