What are you working on now?

CAPs with an arm movement I came up with and for a day I could do it, and now I can't. It looked awesome!

I had a spontaneous, irreproducible move the other day, too. From a second degree twist two beat weave I did a turn in the wrong direction, wrapped one of my poi around the other arm, and continued the turn so it unwrapped in way more beats than I can normally coil up... Was weird.

Other than that, still working on the core list I posted elsewhere. Particularly plane breaking out of some flower patterns, and throwing hybrids into places I typically use parallel isolations.

I'm working on incorporating more of the tech I know into what comes out naturally when I poi to music.

Anti-spin wall plane flowers + those upward/downward stalls in that pattern= Not easy but at least the flower part of it is coming along!

What kind of wallplane antispin flower? I can think of 6 atm that would describe... And I'm not sure what kind of stalls you're talking about, mostly because of the flower and it's bothering me

I didn't know there was more that one... The stalls in the anti spin where one goes up and one down...

I assumed it was the one I'm doing in this video, at the point it should jump to (44 seconds in) but it could be another type. None of the others are so intuitive with vertical stalls, though. ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA-38pGgyv0#t=44s

Same direction split time wall plane antispin flower.

As you can see I do horizontal stalls with a plane change, but you can of course do it with just horizontal stalls and change the direction of the antispin flower. ^_^

Yes that is the one! I have been working with the vertical ones because of how much slop my upwards ones are. Also added floaters to the regiment and what I like to call "turn physics" where I'm working on all turn types in all planes and time signatures including pirouettes/pivots, but also jump and arabesque.

Thinking of making a tutorial on turn physics because no one has thought of it because it's helpful to anyone trying to find the sweet spot in many body positions, gotta figure out some more combos and explanations for it to be worthwhile though...

Shakin mah bootay! Lol actually just more body movement and footwork as well as varying what I do more and it's making progress. Because when I let completely loos I can get kinda repetitive and forget a lot of things and I'm working on not forgetting things.

Low reels. I can do stuff like fountains and spiral wraps (barely), but I am having some serious difficulty with these damn low reels. And buzzsaws too.

That's where it's at!!!

Unless you're a real tech spinner. Then you plant your feet, lock your hips, and do whatever takes the longest string of poi terms to describe. (This jab coming from the person who argues that 0 beat, one petal antispins are defined :P)

my life up the ! I can't do antispin flower turns cleanly anymore I never stopped practicing them, it just doesn't work anymore. Well, looks like I'm working on this now. Also, never try continuous spiral wraps with no gloves. It burned my wrist, not badly, but it still hurts.

There seems to be a stage like that learning certain things. I keep going "yay, I can do a forward btb 3bt!" the ten minutes later I try again and keep hitting myself before I can even make it through a spin. Things sometimes get unstable...

Yeah I could do it for about a month and now I can't...

When my body gets fatigued and my brain gets fried I think nature tries to teach me common sense by having me nearly bludgeon myself into oblivion (especially in this hot weather) doing moves I've pulled off many times I've noticed.

I'm in a new stage of learning where I tell someone "I can't do this kind" and try to demonstrate how I wasn't meant to do it only for it to come together on the first try...

Now I'm trying to practice what I preach when I teach people the basics "THINK LESS!!! FEEL MORE!!!" so I'm getting gutsier in practice. Mind over matter in most cases!

Orbitals, all about the orbitals. I pulled it off successfully for the briefest moment yesterday which was a surprise.

orbitals are amazing i have ben working on all kinds of variations including using orbitals as a transfer from move to move doing orbitals in different planes

I'm currently cleaning up my orbital somersault. I can finally get my legs all the way up

i would like to see that in a vid

ditto

I showed it off at the guild practice today, good reactions

Orbital somersault? That sounds badass. This I have to see.

I may get to makin a video today for a tutorial for EoN and maybe show some things at the end. But first I need to video myself doing it to see how it looks because I still haven't seen it

Edit: Ok I definitely have my terminology wrong. i definately cannot do a somersault. I think what I'm doing is a one handed cartwheel. Sorry for my bad terminology, I don't speak dance

Back to working on some hybrid flower variations I never really developed, including Jon's hybrid flower 360 thingy. Having difficulties with some of my plane switches (split-same in wall plane, horizontal stalls into split-same floor--obnoxiously finnicky transition), so still hammering away at those. Also I can occasionally pull off a btb weave turn, and trying to make them less occasional.

I'm finally making more noticeable progress in meteor after yesterday. God yesterday (first day of meteor) was getting really really frustrating. I still need serious work on keeping the heads separate with my left hand and learning to lead with the back of my hand was a real And spinning it in place is getting much better before it falls apart

Also, does anyone know where I can get wooden cubes? The person at the hardware store reacted like I was a crazy person looking for wooden cubes.

how bout childrens blocks? or would that be to big?

o0 quite too big. I went to the Lowe's nearby and got some 2x1" wood and 2x1/2" wood and I'm gonna make a couple 2.5" cubes out of it.

I finally made my first decent fire spinning video and I feel I should refocus my efforts on seamless transitions involving more static and pendulum type motions now able to analyze the view from the outside.

I'd love critiques to aid my choreo on technical and creative aspects so please check out my vid here (in video forum), on the facepage, or on my youtube channel "epitomeoflame" and let me know what you think!

Crossers. Coming along nicely. Nick's tutorials are amazingly helpful.