linking reels into chase the sun

Shoulder Reel Turn + Hip Reel Turn.

Watermill split time hip reels

Nick's water mill tutorial. Water mill = Split time low reel turn + Split time carry turn.

Getting Stalls Started

stall exersice by Nick.

You need make "Stall Line" clear to make stall clean. Nick shows that you can use wall for clean the line. You can use any wall such as Berlin wall.

Glowstringing 360-wrap Tutorial

A tutorial of 360 wraps with glowstrings.

From Jin Smylez at Glowsticking.com, your premier destination for glowsticking since 2002.

Poi Dancing Tutorial - How to Spin Triquetras

http://www.playpoi.com - Intermediate poi spinning tutorial: Triquetras!

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Variations of Exit from Stall

1. Spin backward where it comes from (0
2. Spin forward (180
3. Change plane and spin forward (90
3. Change plane and spin backward (270
5. Swich position 180 on Z axis, then you have 1 - 4 ways out.

16 stalls Poi Charity Lesson

Basic stalls which are classified as 16 variation.

There are more than 16 stalls in poi spinning, but if you get these basic16s, you'll be more free when you spin poi.

Basic 8 Stalls

Make square around body with stall

Anti-spin 8 Stalls

Make stall from Anti-spin. This stall can make center cross-line.

Flower Basics

Spiral Wrap

Step 1 : Practice Wrapping move with one poi, one hand.

Step 2 : Practice the movement without poi.

Step 3 : Practice Wrapping 2 hands with one poi.

Step 4 : Practice wrapping 2 hands with 2 pois, this is the spriral wrap!

Infinite Spiral Wrap

Spiral move that Thomas and Cyrille discovered in 2009 Firedrums. The spiral can be continued infinitely very easily.

Practice method

Practice with one Poi.

1. rap poi around your wrist, and unwrap as the other direction.Keep wrapping and unwrapping untill you feel comfortable with it. Do the same thing with the other hand.
2. Wrap poi around your wrist once, ant hold your hands togerther. Poi wrap your wrist togerther. Make sure that poi does't wrap your hands, but wrist.
3. Keep holding hands togerther, then keep wrapping and unwrapping untill you feel comfortable with it. Do the same thing with the other hand.

Practice with 2 Pois.

1. Spin poi in front of you in split time. Wrap around wrist separately. Unwrap, and wrap the other direction. Keep doing this untill you feel comfortable with it. Try keep the rhythm in Split time.
2. Spin poi in front of you in split time Wrap around wrist once, and hold hands togerther. Poi wrap around your wrist togerther, if you spin poi in right ungle with your hands, it automatically wrap your wrist. Twist, untwist your hands ant poi will get more even position.

How to go out from sprial

If you started by the clockwise spinning, you can go out with relesing hands on the other directon counter clock wise.
If yoiu release hands on the same direction as you came in, you will get poi shorter.

For safety

Don't do this move without protector! This move can burn your wrist very heavily!!

Wrist move of the Wall Plane : Reel

The wrist move of the Wall Plane is different from the Side Plane. You need like a 'reel' move to make it clean and smooth.

Outward Thread The Needle

Begin with outward butterfly.

1. Move your bottom poi push forward when both poi pass at the bottom.
2. Keep the position untill poi comes to the bottom again. Be patiant. Many people get tangle since they can not wait!!
3. Alternate position when poi pass the bottom. Keep going!

*Alternate out-ward butterfly Poichi Exercise will help you.

Butterfly Turn

Turn with butterfly. For butterfly move, reel turn is easier and more smooth. But, if you can make this normal turn, poi looks like going through into body.

Both poi can't transfer planes at the same time. The poi which is toward the dirction of turning, transfers firs, then the other poi transfers after harf around a circle.

4 beat thread the needle

Advanced thread the needle.

In inward TTN, your hands change position after poi cross at the "TOP". But in 4beat TTN, you wait till poi cross at the "Bottom" .
You need to wait half a circle.
*for out ward, wait till poi cross at the top.

Poichi wall plane split butterfly

This move is the basement of split butterfly flower moves.

This is very good for starter of the poi practice, building body balance, and turns.
You can get exhaust after this practice in summer.

Tips for Split butterfly

1. Hands(poi) meet on holizontal line.
2. Hands make vertical line in front of you.

These points are 2 twice a circle, total 4 points. If you can keep this 4 points clean, you can play with split time butterfly as Nick woolsey!!?

• Relax your shoulder muscles. Stand in balanced position.
• Always imagine the wall plane, and hands are on wall plane.
• Don't think too much about how extend arms, but make it balanced. Too much extention will injure shoulder.
• Think inner shoulder. Don't force them, set it comfortable and free position.
• Alternate your right hands and left hands.

Turn

You can use this turn for poi itself.

1. Start turn after open arm position.(vertical position.)
2. At 90 degrees position, your arms point horizontal line with pararell. your body has turn 90 degrees.
3. At 180 degrees turn, your arms are open position (Vertical position) as start position on the other planne.
4. Hands meet on the horizontal line.

Isolation

The center of rotation is in the middle of Poi String. If you keep both of the center, poi becomes like a stick.

It takes at least a month to get isolation.

Vortex

Spiral wrap around arm and hand.

Basic 8 stall

Basic idea of stalls.

Waist wrap and Neck wrap

Combination between hipmills, or shoulder mills

Before you try waist wrap, you should get hipmills and shoulder mills.

One Handed Butterfly

Hold pois in a hand and do butterfly!!

1.5 beat weave and 3.5 beat weave

1.5 beat weave and 3.5 beat weave

Big Circle Pirouette

Hipmill and Shouldermill

Combination of the basic spining on Wall plane.

5 Beat Weave

Spining poi 5 times on each side, is "5beat weave". Twisting your arms and add extra beats on 3 beatweave.

Hipmill

Let's see Clockwise, rightside hipmill this lesson.
You can call this move "forward hip mill". Because if you twist your body to right side, it'll be forward spin on the side plane.

Practice one by one

1. Place your righht hand on left shoulder.
2. Spin your left poi under the right arm, make 2 beat spin on front and btb.
   Make sure you keep plane nice and vertical. If you feel uncomfortable, you can twist body little bit.
   
3. Practice right hand low reel
4. Spin both hand togather. Make sure the crossed poi (left poi which comes cross from the other side of body) is always under the other poi.

! This move is 2 beat. The crossed poi is always under. If it's over the other poi, you should spin as "Shoulder mill" not hip mill.

Poichi wall plane butterfly

This move is the basement of butterfly flower moves.

This is very good for starter of the poi practice, building body balance, and turns.
You can get exhaust after this practice in summer.

• Relax your shoulder muscles. Stand in balanced position.
• Always imagine the wall plane, and hands are on wall plane.
• Don't think too much about how extend arms, but make it balanced. Too much extention will injure shoulder.
• Think inner shoulder. Don't force them, set it comfortable and free position.
• Alternate your right hands and left hands.

Turn

You can use this turn for poi itself.

From inward to outward.

1. Start turn after open arm position.
2. At 90 degrees position, your arms at the top, with pararell.
3. At 180 degrees turn, your arms are open position as start position.
4. Hands meet at the bottom, you are now spining inward butterfly.

From outward to inward.

1. Start turn after open arm position.
2. At 90 degrees position, your arms at the bottom, with pararell.
3. At 180 degrees turn, your arms are open position as start position.
4. Hands meet at the top, you are now spining outard butterfly.