December 1, 2009 - 12:40 pm
Tags: stalls, wraps
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Poi Tricks; How to do spiral wraps.
This is typically a same direction split time trick. It can be performed in many different planes, the most common would be in the wall plane in front of your body. As you wrap, remember that when you come out, the poi will be going the opposite direction [...]
Learn a new poi trick that brings your poi from a backwards swing up and over your shoulders while you turn 180 degrees.
Start by spinning your poi backward in Equal Time, as the poi come up, bring your hands up and over your shoulders, being mindful to keep your left hand on the left and [...]
November 21, 2009 - 10:20 am
Tags: floats, isolations, stalls
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Poi Tricks; How to do a float or floater.
This is sort of a stall/isolation in the sense that the direction of the poi is stopped in its spin and then it is brought straight up, isolating on a vertical line.
Image your arm is making part of a “U” shape. This should be the path that [...]
November 19, 2009 - 10:34 am
Tags: 1.5's, pendulum
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Poi Tricks; 1.5 and pendulum swings.
A 1.5 is basically the count of doing 1 and a half swings with you poi before starting the count again.
A pendulum swing is just doing a half a beat at the bottom of the circle.
In this tutorial I go over a few of the 1.5’s that I know. [...]
November 18, 2009 - 2:28 pm
Tags: same direction, split time, stalls
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Here is a practice you can do with a same direction stall in the middle up and down. You will spin your poi in same direction split time and stall one poi up and one poi down in the middle…ore center of your body. First try doing box stalls, your poi heads meet your opposite [...]
November 15, 2009 - 10:41 am
Tags: stalls
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Imagine you are standing in a cube, you are the center. You have 4 upper points and 4 lower points. Now take your poi and stall to each one of the points from every one of the points, playing with all variations. Thats stalling poi in an invisible cube.
November 15, 2009 - 10:13 am
Tags: pendulum, stalls
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Grab your poi, stall your poi and change directions. The great thing about stalling your poi is that at its stall point, you can change into any direction, plane, spin that you choose. A stall is essentially a starting point for what ever you choose to do with your poi.
You can bring your hand [...]
November 14, 2009 - 10:00 am
Tags: direction changes, stalls
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Learn how to change direction from a same direction equal time up stall.
Start by spinning your poi in equal time in the wall plane in the same direction. Stall both poi up, both poi will come to a down stall, but instead of pulling them down out of the stall in the same direction [...]
A fountain is described as the initial pattern moving in a larger circle. Flowers would be an example of this.
To spin a weave fountain, first spin a forwards weave, transition down low to a backwards weave and then bring that weave over your head in a windmill and then back down to a forwards [...]
November 11, 2009 - 10:18 am
Tags: Beginner Poi, speed
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Polyrhythm is described as your poi moving in two different timings. When you spin one poi faster and it takes one poi the same amount of time to do one beat as it does for the other poi to do two beats, this is polyrythm.
