Beyond the Basics of Poi

Learning to thread the needle behidn your body will teach you great control over your planes. This will make all your patterns with opposites and butterflies more beautiful and confident. 

Learning to play with inspin and antispin on the horizontal plane will open a whole world of horizontal poi spinning. Enjoy!

Horizontal poi spinning looks way better if you can keep the poi spinning truly horizontal. Spinning over a table is a great way to learn!

In this video we look at laying the groundwork for good horizontal spinning, and adding helicopters between the arms to the basic corkscrew. Get ready to master all things horizontal! 

In this video we look at Split-time Hip Reels, also known as Watermill. Really watermill and windmill are the same basic pattern, just done at different heights. 

Want to learn stalls? Then find a wall! 

Speaking of stalls, here's Nick's Favourite Stalling Pattern! Stalling patterns are a great way to learn freedom of movement!

A crosspoint is the point where the flight path of a poi intersects itself. Playing with crosspoints is a way to observe, understand, stabilize, and interact with the poi. 3-beat weaves when performed randomly don't look like anything from the front, but by stabilizing the crosspoints it can become a beautiful helix. Crosspoints can also be used for spotting when turning and whirling in virtually any pattern. (It is easiest to work with crosspoints if you have light emitting poi!)

In this lesson we keep the poi spinning on a wall plane while we turn through a full circle. This teaches plane control through a full range of motion. Great for developing freedom to dance!

Nick demonstrates a few ways to wrap the poi around your hands to spin with shorter poi, followed by a Sign of Intelligent Life: Toronto's new Bixi Bikes! Music is "The Happy Track" by Delhi 2 Dublin. A big thanks to Kim Ivey and Raymond Ng for video.

In this video we look at buzzsaws; how to learn them, how to turn with them, and how to make them look good. Filmed at the inspiring Don Valley Brickworks, well worth checking out if you love the idea of nature coming back to major cities.

In this video we look at turning with behind-the-back weaves.

Clockwork is a family of moves combining flower petals, extensions, and pendulums on wall planes. Below we cover a few now-famous patterns.

Tick-Tock

In this video G teaches a classic clockwork pattern that we're now calling "Tick-Tock"

Time Flies

And this one we call "Time Flies." Thanks to Vanita for the name idea!

Nick shows you how to learn the anti-spin fountain. Hover over the thumbnail to see the move animate, and click it to go to the lesson page!

Big thanks to Karen for filming. Music is "The Happy Track" by the ever-awesome Delhi2Dublin.

Also known as "orbitals" by the glowstringers, superduperuberloops are a variation of hyperloops. This has been one of Nick's primary pet moves for the past year, and yet he still can't quite master it! 

We'd love to see this move become popular, as we're sure we'll see ubercreativity regarding new things to do with it.