Advanced Isolations: Point Isolations and Isolation Weave?

I don't think Yuta is "rocking the cradle" in either vid. I tried to find which of Nick's youtube tutorials I remembered "rock the cradle" mentioned, but I haven't located it yet... if I do I'll post a link.

I think he is talking about going into some form of 1st degree inversion (barrel roll), and stalling both poi on the arms to reverse directions. It is a bit like the windup that Rovo is so fond of... but Rovo's is an airwrap tangle to stall on both arms... Rock the cradle is barrel roll to stall on both arms (my best guess).

Arashi showed me something like that like 4+ years ago when he was showing me isolations and inversions... at the time it just melted my mind.

-Alien Jon

This is the video which mentions the rock the cradle move, which seems to be more based around inversions to me but I'm not sure. Incidentally the video is about isolated weave

Yoni - thank you! that was the video indeed. And Nick specifically mentions yuta. And he is grabbing the string/chain... at least nick is.

Edit: I think yuta might be cradling the chains at some point. Found this video on youtube which slows down the isolation.


Okay here is my beat count:
One front wallplane
Two opposite side regular beat (with body turned to match wallplane)
One front wallplane
One same side regular (with body turned to match wallplane)
repeats...

And he's just doing it with insanely good precision.

Does that seem right everyone?

He dosnt touch or grab the chain once, he`s doing isolations if he grabed the chains he`s arm wouldn`t have the same motion.

This is 2005 so the isolations is not the best ones but surerly he doesn`t grab the chain but he touches it by misstake once when he`s doing reversed weave but that is becase it`s god damn difficult to keep the planes and not hit your arms with the other poi when doing reversed.

That`s my 5 cents, but on the other hand it`s not me playing so to get a fefinitly answer, ask Yuta

no yuta isn't grabbing the chain's, it's just that his control is absolutly perfecto. i've seen this technique of his live and his not touching the chains

Various colors of flame can be accomplished using various fuel mixes, though these can be extremely dangerous and cause chemical burns if handled improperly; definitely an advanced practice but one I hope to pursue eventually, get me some flashy protective gear ;-)