4-beat corkscrew

Building on a regular poi corkscrew, this lesson adds extra beats to create a 4-beat corkscrew. Nick Woolsey frames it as a symmetrical, windmill-like pattern and relates it to how beat counts change the feel of a sequence, similar to how a 5-beat weave extends a weave.

You’ll drill the timing for adding an extra circle as the poi pass the belly line, using a controlled tangle and a wrap around the right wrist to hold the pattern longer. The focus is on consistent lead changes and clean pathway control, with the practical aim of sustaining elegant, slow-moving circles and setting up an entry into one version of the matrix.