Crossing one poi backward

Drill single-poi backward spinning while travelling side to side across the body, building a clean backward crossing pathway. Nick Woolsey has you start on one side, stop and reset on the other, then use an over-the-shoulder throw as a checkpoint to keep the rotation truly backward rather than accidentally switching to forward.

You’ll refine relaxed timing and body support by letting hips, shoulders, and weight shifts assist the crossing, then vary size, height, and width once the pattern is stable. The aim is reliable backward crossing on either hand as a foundation for later transitions and combinations.