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EoSTech #7: Subtle Complexities.

Lately I’ve been feeling like all the hours of training on just a handful of movements wasn’t getting me anywhere but I think I’m beginning to feel a transition. I’m hoping to integrate some of these sequences into a choreographed route I’ll be performing at an indoors flow show in February - to be my first choreographed piece. I have a feeling I’m going to be doing some frenzied training at the end of January.

In terms of content: lots of play involving isolations (and oscillations?), transitions into and out of isolations, polyrhythm isolations; throws and contact shenanigans like antispin and nobeat throws, outer forearm rolls, contact stall, behind the back throws, same time same direction manipulations; stalls.

Once I complete my degree I’ll have more time to train with poi and clubs! Yes please! Thanks for reading/watching :] Love and light.

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The man that needs no introduction. Cyrille

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For December, I want to hit up a month of tech and theory videos—specifically, videos from the Golden Age of poi ideas being traded on the internet. I’m gonna start it off with one of the most epic series ever: Charlie’s 9-square theory!

9-Square theory is centered around seeing the possibilities of poi motion quantized into a grid around the body. It helps to find transitions between many of the movements we can accomplish inside of this grid and codifies them in a way that was revolutionary for the time. A word of warning: this is the first of several videos. The full series is an hour and a half long!

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People have been body tracing for years, but Leo here was the first one to really approach it with a vigorous methodology, seeing body tracers as reels localized to different points of the body. Here, he demonstrates each of these positions and how they can be chained together to create every more complex patterns.

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With the 2013 top 10 list out and the Americans having once again grabbed half the spots on it, I wanted to spend January highlighting some of the international artists that have really impressed me and whom I hope to see become more well known, starting with my main man Aifique from Malaysia and his lady Malin.

Aifique came to the United States in 2012 and really impressed me with how rapidly he grasped complex poi concepts and as you can see he’s since branched out to club spinning and contact staff as well. He’s one of these guys that always greets spinning with such enthusiasm it helps keep it fresh for me as well :)

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