Pendulum circle toss pattern

With double-ended poi, time a toss so that the head you were holding goes straight up and the poi continues along the same pendulum path. Catch the opposite head at the horizontal position, fall into spinning the opposite circle. Now you can repeat the mirror image of this toss pattern. All of this is one handed, so now see how you can combine it with the other poi. Hint: you are free to change the way your hands are crossed wile the poi is in the air, so you can catch in a position you couldn't normally spin to in one beat.
posted by Alien Jon on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - link to this photo
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TANKBOY
TANKBOY
online 77
Mon, August 6, 2007 - 10:22 AM
more or less inswing tosses.....right?

moreover, at the moment of stall, you dont have to pendulum in parallel to the direction of the circle, but can use it as a fun plane bending tool! :-D
Alie...
Alien Jon
offline 220
Thu, August 9, 2007 - 1:46 PM
It could be done in various ways with an inswing here or there, including coming through the inside plane above the shoulders, but inswings are not the basis of this movement. It is based on a pendulum where you lift the handle 2x the length of the poi so that the poi head continues to trace a circle. It could also be done at 1x the length of poi so you get a linear isolation of the head.
Alie...
Alien Jon
offline 220
Thu, August 9, 2007 - 1:48 PM
Oh, yeah and I agree wholeheartedly that using pendulums to plane bend is fun!

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