Poi Dancing: Beyond the Basics (Part 1)

Course

Module 1

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Introduction to Beyond the Basics

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Guidelines for questions

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Poi and your health

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Example warm up incorporating poi-fu

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Poi fu and posture

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Basic whirling footwork

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Turning while moving across the floor

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Circling your arms in opposite directions

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Introducing poitruvian arms

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Looking closely at how you spin the poi

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Ways to move the poi

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Exploring planes

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Left right reverses

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More reverse right left progressions

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Reviewing the 6 beat fountain

Module 2

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Brain and body warm up

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Practicing turning footwork

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Poi fu split time same direction

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Turning full split time same direction

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Switchy switchy

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Introducing crosspoints

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Introducing jiggies

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Saloon doors intro

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Rhythm and beats intro

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Isolations

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5-beat weaves

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Not getting dizzy

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Meet the tree 2

Module 3

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Warming up the body and brain with poi fu

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Cardinal focus points

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More whirling practice

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Introducing poilates - core conditioning for poi

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Jedi grip

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Zero points and cool patterns

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Playing with buzzsaw circles

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Exploring extended poi and flowers along a wall

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The one beat windmill

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Jon archer weave

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A homework challenge - turn in two full circles with weaves

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Adding back-step to traveling

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Playing with two pillars to improve planes

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Practicing pivoting 180 for poi-fu

Module 4

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Warming up

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Practicing poi fu on a wall

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Combining footwork and poi fu

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More poilates

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Easing into 1-beat windmill - some tips

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Mastering 2-beat weaves

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4x4 fountain as a mirrored progression

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Turning with the weaves with straight planes

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Rhythm with Reels

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More on flowers - lots of inspin and a bit of antispin

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Introducing the whirling progression

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Footwork - turning on concrete safely

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Basic tick tock

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Bonus idea - share a split-time circle with a friend

Module 5

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Warm up with pirouette progressions and rhythm

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Warm up part 2 - poi fu mode switching

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Planes and ranges of motion - the moses progression

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Combining 4x4 Fountain and High-Low Weave Turning

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Switchy switchy wall plane flowers

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Circle stepping adding poi

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Jiggies behind the back

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Combining types of poi movement - one poi spinning the other swinging

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Further with isolations

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Antispin flowers

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Why only counting down swings will confuse you

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Further with tick-toc

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Jiggies behind the back