The Power of Spinning Poi Slowly | Improve Your Poi Control

[@F34rwaffles]

Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast

[@blackberrybunny]

Hi Drex! I have to laugh, because as a blind novice, I am opposite--- I have NO problem keeping my arms far away from my body, haha. I have been hit SO MANY time by the poi, that I had to get safety glasses, but also, I am finding it difficult to keep my hands near my body. There is one drill you do where you are actually holding your hands at your chest, yet those Poi are moving and mesmerizing and just WOW! You are a pro! I am SO glad I found you-- you are teaching me so much. But it is very slow going for me, especially since I am visually challenged. I'm not a quitter though! And I have some soft sock poi arriving tomorrow, yay! Also, just wanted to add a note to let you know we made it through ANOTHER hurricane-- no damage, and we are safe. Our power went out at 2 a.m. and just came back on, 6 hours later. Two weeks ago, we were hit by H. Helene, and we had no power OR running water for 7 days. This time, easy-peasy! PHEW! AND it's kind of chilly outside too!

[@XAdriMine]

Yeaaah first example is Liz and I was definitely thinking about her when talking about slow and absolute control on the pois, nice one ;)

[@gaberialla]

Pendulums are definitely a good tool to slow down the poi and for transmissions. These exercises are very beneficial thank you for sharing this. I have learned that it is so important to slow down and listen to your body compared to just slowing down the poi.

[@LuckyVegasKid]

Thank you. This video really breaks down that wall plane split times that always look try hard for me.

[@Michael-Mepoke]

A lesson in time counting and a p.s.a on slowing down. 👏 ❤ I count deep inhales and exhales for time counting and meditation.

[@AdventuresofDeanna]

Great exercises to practice.

[@byo4648]

To spin, you gotta keep the base frequency of your chosen pendulum. Its just physics. Mass vs Pendulum length. And it is really up to you, what pendulum length you chose. Poi + Knuckle, Fingers or Half or Full Arm? Wait Even your whole shoulder with a puppyhammer-poi is possible. Basefrequency of your chosen Poi-Length determines what tricks you can do. Inspins are like some higher frequency mode, if u know a bit of acoustics. Just wave phyziks m8

[@byo4648]

Stalls are the change of poi-length actually. Isolations too, when the centre of rotation changes position at a relative speed of the poi. It gets even crazier when you start playing full isolations. you can make the poi look like its leading your hand. (not the usual way)

[@gianmarcocereda4553]

Slow is better --> Proceeds to buy 1kg heavy Pois :P

[@ronineidolon]

So this is rather challenging...