Introducing body tracing

Body tracing in poi is drilled as a control exercise where your hands stay close to your body while maintaining clean planes and timing. Nick Woolsey uses an archer’s weave as the base pattern, then adds a tactile pathway by keeping one hand in contact with the opposite arm.

You practise sliding from wrists together to drawing back to the shoulder as the hand crosses, then returning along the arm back to the wrist, repeating shoulder-to-wrist while the weave continues. The aim is smoother proximity control and consistent contact, then swapping sides to build symmetry and endurance.