Hey gang Drex here from drexfactor.com coming
at you with a brand new combo for the month
of February.
This is going to be an intermediate combo,
both because of the number of tricks that
he uses, as well as a little bit of dance
flash that goes with it.
For this month's Combo, you're going to need
the following and tricks under your belt stalls,
stall chasers, archer weaves, windmills, spiral
wraps, and horizontal stacks.
You can find a playlist to all these videos
down in the description or up in the cards
if you happen to be watching this video on
youtube.
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I'm diving deeper, deeper for you down to
the bottom, 10,000 emerald pools.
The inspiration for this one actually came
from listening to the song that it's set to,
which is called 10,000 emerald pools by born.
Now, the really easy way to find all of your
cues in this choreography is to listen for
the snare hits.
There is always going to be an accent on one.
So let's start from the top and see how it
goes.
So to start off, your feet are together and
your hands are by your sides and your head
is down.
So basically you're stepping out with your
right on one and two and is your left foot.
Three and four is you looking up.
Now we're going to spread out our arms on
five and six and look to your right hand on
seven and eight, and our next move is going
to be a stall that takes a right hand over
by her left, and we're going to step up with
our right foot like so.
Then we're gonna come right back to where
we started with our right hand off to the
side.
Next the right hand is going to go down and
around to catch the left-hand in a reverse
weave.
You're going to do an antispin archers weave
over to your right hand side.
You need to arrive here by the time that next
snare drum hits.
So let's unpack that for a second because
the anti spin archers weave can look a little
intimidating, but you actually use the exact
same technique to do it that you do the inspin
archer weave going around the other way, so
rather than at this point looking to slide
your right hand up to your left to go up and
over, you're instead of going to slide your
right hand down your left as you go down and
around.
Likewise, it happens when you have your right
hand on top of your left hand, right here
to slip down and your left hand winds up on
top over at your right hand side.
From here, we're going to take that next half
a measure to go down and around in an inspin
archer weave.
You already know this one, so don't sweat
it too much.
So from this reverse archer weave we're going
to go straight into a spiral wrap right in
front of our bodies that hits right on that
snare drum once again, and now we're going
to hold this for about half a beat and then
pop out of it with our left poi stalling down
in our right poi stalling up.
This is where we're going to start up with
our stall chasers to initiate our stall chasers
our right hand poi is going to come down and
around and catch the left and we're going
to stall the left up over to our left hand
side, now when I stall the left hand poi up.
I'm also going to step up with my left foot
and touch it to my right knee in passé.
Now I'm going to go back and do the other
thing going to the other side so the poi carries
the right up and over and I step my right
foot up to my left knee in passé once again.
Cool.
We're going to do a third stall chaser.
The right hand poi is going to come down and
around, and as the left-hand poi stalls up,
I'm going to have my entire body face over
to stage right with my knee pointing there
and my focus shifting down towards the floor.
From here, that left-hand poi is going to
come around as though it's going to carry
my right hand poi back up into another stall
chaser, but it's not.
What we're going to do instead is we're going
to switch that top point into a set of together
opposite stalls.
It's going to look like this.
Boom, so once we get to this tabletop place
at the very top, we're going to switch this
into a set of horizontal stacks, namely the
Mel.
I'm going to have my right hand come around
to my left, back to the center, left to the
right, back to the center, and I'm going to
finish it up with my right hand coming over
to my left.
Now when I had that final moment, where my
right hand comes over to my left.
I'm going to turn that actually into a float
stall that goes down.
My entire body is going to crumble down to
the ground as it does, and as I come back
up I'm going to switch into a windmill and
finally finish the whole thing off with a
spiral wrap.
Now the spiral wrap happens, you guessed it,
on a snare hit, and as I do that, I'm going
to crumple my entire body down to stage right.
OK, so here's all that from the top.
I start with my hands to my side and my head
down.
I step right, left, my head comes up, I stall
the two poi out, and I go check over at my
right hand.
Now I stall.
Come back out.
Reverse archer weave antispin around in spin
archer weave forward and I do the spiral wrap
on the snare hit.
Hold it for one beat.
Come out and stall, stall chaser one, stall
chaser two, stall chaser three.
I look away.
I come up, switch the stall, do the horizontal
stacks to the right back to the left, float
down, come back up, windmill and spiral wrap
down and diminish down to stage, right on
that last snare hit.
Wow.
All that.
OK, let's see that again in slow-mo.
I'm diving deeper, deeper for you down to
the bottom, 10,000 emerald pools down to the
bottom, 10,000 emerald pools
Underwater, time is standing still you're
the treasure, dive down deeper still.
All I need is you.
You're all I need to breathe.
All I need is you.
Cool.
I hope you guys dug this one.
It is definitely on the dancier side and I
hope those of you guys out there who are playing
around more with flow arts movement are going
to get a lot out of this one.
I would love it if you learn this combo: take
some video and post it to instagram with the
hashtag #drexfactorpoi.
I can't wait to see you guys's version of
this.
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