Love the tricks and how they go perfectly with the music . Love the dance that comes into play~

Love how the dynamic of the poi changes with the music.

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Love how much energy was put into this. Love how expresive this chereo is. Love the tricks that you chose.

Love the different level changes with the tricks. The tricks went so perfectly with the music ~

You are giving all you got...i see that!. Hey bro. Congratulations on finding something you are actually investing time in. Ive been wanted to pick up my guitar for a moment and am stalling....i will pick it up today. ❤

I have to say Cyrille is the juggler who has influenced me the most; he changed my life.

Love how slow and drawn out the moves are. Such beautiful chereo ~

Love how slow this chereo is when it starts off. Especially love the tricks you chose for the chereo. Everything flows so smoothly. This chereo reminds me how important it is to allow yourself to land in your body while slowing down so you can tend to your body's needs ~

Love the energy you put into this a discount lo e the combination of the tricks with the dance moves ~

I watched the video about chroegraphy every day but didn't realize they were being uploaded as shorts especially since me and everyone I know go out of their way to avoid interacting with shorts. Glad to have a backlog tho

Love the moves and very expensive chereo

Love the energy and the dance moves. Especially love how the tricks bring everything together ~

Love how the energy is synced up with this song. Love the tricks you came up with ~

Love how much energy is in this chereo. Especially love the dynamic changes and the shifts in the dance techniques. This is absolutely beautiful ~

Love the moves, the tricks flow so smoothly together

Spot on as always.

Wow that one is beautiful

Love how dynamic the chereo is and love the volume changes. Especially love the dance incorporated into the chereo. Amazing tricks like always

You got this. You deserve your respect because you earn your respect then others see how you treat yourself. You are clearly working on your inner work.

Absolutely love these tricks so much. Thank you for sharing this. Love the windmills and stalls in the chereo ~

Love this so much and all the tricks look so cool together. It's such a pretty flow ~

That’s some crazy coordination, man! I wish I could do stuff like this, but the only dance I can do is the ‘suburban white dad shuffle’ 😭😭

How can you determine the change within the landscape of poi, when you have a real lack of knowledge the whakapapa of poi.

Your dedication to poi has created ripples far beyond what you might see. As someone dealing with anxiety around practicing in public, watching you own your craft with such authenticity gives me permission to keep growing, even when it feels intimidating. The negative voices don't diminish the profound impact you've had on students like me. Thank you for continuing to share your art - it matters more than you know.

This is incredibly beautiful and watching this makes me want to cry bc that's how beautiful it is ~

Such an interesting piece of chereo. Love it

Never have seen this

Love how expresive this chereo is. And some of these tricks look so similar to what we did in the live stream classes. Love how you made this into an exotic piece.

Absolutely beautiful chereo. Love how expresive this is. The tricks go beautiful with the music

I find this really inspirational! I'd like to adopt what you've done here. Cheers, Drex!

I’m so proud of you and I’m happy you’re proud of yourself. Keep being you~ it’s a beautiful thing to see.

Great video. Thanks for sharing what’s going on with you in your life as a result of being an artist and internet content creator. Fascinating and evoking empathy on hearing about the human condition in dealing in with all the various groups, and people in your life and society norms (and yourself!) one encounters or goes up against when having a unique life as an artist or within the Arts. I’ll be thinking about this for some time this week.

this is amazing! this deserves more attention, keep up the good work!! ❤❤❤

Thank you for sharing this. Honoring and witnessing you. It is definitely very hard creating chereo to a full song and not just 30 seconds of a song. I am so proud of you in continuing to do this and not give up because it may seem hard to do. I was told by someone close to me that we do not have to try to please everyone or try to keep up with society’s expectations. It is okay to slow down and listen to your body in the moment.

Absolutely love this and the music goes perfectly with the tricks. Excited to see how this turns out in the bigger chereo portion

This was like watching a crack head perform whatever activity he thinks he's doing in his head in the middle of the street on my way to work lol

This what I tell my parents I’m doing when I’m actually out there doing drugs w the homeless camp behind the fence on 4th street

Very expensive chereo and definitely could tell you had to get some big feelings out. The tricks were absolutely beautiful like always.

I couldnt agree more on what eveyone missed with the late 2000 early 2010 poi giants - movement. The same thing happened with G (one of my biggest inspirations), everyone went crazy over plane breaking for a good while but in the same tree-rex style, whereas i was always more influenced by his reel/trace movement combos and musicality. I think a lot of this came with the shift from the European scene to the American scene. When i started many of the most influential poi artists were European - Cyrille, Thomas johansson, G, Ronan - and they all had more focus movement/dance/musicality/clean patterns. As they dropped out of the scene in the early 2010s that seemed to largely go wtih them.

Absolutely my favourite video you've ever made. After the history of poi.

This is a nice insight :) Enjoyed watching!

Thank you for sharing this. Loved seeing your warm up before you do chereo.

Lot of thing to say in this video (sadly like the rest of most of your content...) I am into poi since 2008 so i can't disagree with the impact of cyrille on the flow community and i am completely ok with what you say about him and how he changed the whole perspective of what was poi at that time. Although, first, i couldnt hold my self from being triggered when you say that he brought a circus influence in it after claming so much on social media that circus and juggling killed flowart and tech poi but that's your logic not mine Second, why bringing other artist to compare them with cyrille and even better with their ig video and a video pf cyrille on stage?(and without their permission to be in the video i am.pretty sure) I saw two of them on stage and one is a good friend of mine, so i can garantee that what you see on social media is clearly not a good relfection on how they move on stage. I mean it wont take.long to get all the space when every single post has to be filmed in vertical and it doesnt recquire to use a lot of leg movement am i wrong? dance can be minimalist as well and this is my opinion but i'd rather see someone that find a balance in his movement and dance intentions with clean moves than watching you acting like taylor f****** swift on crack on each your post. Second, are you trying to affirm yourself by comparing yourself to cyrille? To compare like that with yourself and others and even worst, rank more or less every one just show a terrible mindset and probably a big lack of confidence deep inside you could have just talked about cyrille but no you had to push it too far once again. Your vlog looks like your dance, vulgar and over exagerated and watching this one made me remember why i was avoiding your content another mean european circus artist Ps how does it feel to get your own treatment? Don't bother to answer, i won't give a single f*** anyway So long sucker😘

I'm new to learning contact poi but I remember the glowstick days of the late 90's. It's great to see where and why poi has evolved. I find these types of videos very informative in my flowart journey. Thanks for taking the time to put this together!

First, congrats on the new? Channel? What happened to drexFactor? Second, I think that looking at this only from the perspective of poi is kinda limiting the view a bit. Multuprop artists tend to be inspired by other prop manipulators and jugglers and the french circus scene and especially circus schools push for movement and performance space heavily. You can look at circus artists before and after studying in French circus schools compared to other European (and Russian) circus school and see a noticeable difference in style and performative languages. Nit to mention the great video essay of jay Gilligan comparing European juggling with American juggling. Adding to that within the realm of poi. I think that thete wouldn't be a cyrille without Rónan and Maelle (and Rob bluecat?) and Keith Marshall and the ministry of Manipulation. (have a look again at the RomaRo video) I think that this scene and these artists influenced his vocabulary quite a lot. It was pretty apparent when we got to host Rónan and Cyrille year after year at the IJC of 2009,2010 and connect the dots between the two. As for flowers, cyrille taught me how to exit an opposite crosser in wallplane by doing an inspin flower, so I know he knows how to flower too 😉

What a great track

Another great video thesis. Food for thought for sure.

Nice

Thank you, Drex. I know these types of videos take a lot more thought and editing work to make, and tend to not have the virality. However, this level of critical observation and clear communication is what moves the field (as diverse as it is) forwards. Imitation might be flattery for some, and learning to mimic others is how we've explored the world thus far. Yet doing what they did marginally better only goes so far. I feel authenticity requires more -- depth, digging, time extending the rabbit holes -- of oneself to be past the capacity for doing, and into the making. (Re: When I said you were in a different part of the map... ) you're doing the work, and it shows. Kudos.