Practicing bouncing the poi off the body as another way

Work on using controlled body contacts to reverse a poi and create clean pattern changes without stopping. Nick Woolsey frames the “bounce” as an alternative to stalls for traversing between butterfly, weave, and opposites/split-time states, using the body as an intentional impact point rather than a collision.

Start from an alternating opposites drill (two circles then cross-cross-cross) and practise bouncing one head off your foot to flip its direction and arrive in split time, then bounce again to return to butterfly/opposites. Keep the movement compact, choose one contact point at a time (foot or elbow), and aim for reliable reversals you can reinsert back into your baseline patterns.