Hey gang!
Drex here from DrexFactor.com and today I
want to drill down my top 3 favorite behind
the back tricks.
I rarely use behind the back tricks because
my arms are kind of short and stubby for my
height, but I have a few go-to moves that
I’m a big fan of and that I’d love to
share with you guys!
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I don’t know about you guys, but I often
feel like behind the back is one of the most
neglected types of poi tricks out there.
I know a LOT of people who’ve picked up
poi in the last several years who know how
to do a lot of fancy tech but never learned
any behind the back moves.
That said, I have also seen a lot of people
absolutely kill it when it comes to behind
the back stuff.
There’s a huge challenge to putting your
hands where you can’t see them and hoping
that your plane control is good enough to
get you through it.
Trick number 1: the 5-beat behind the back
waistwrap
The behind the back waistwrap is a big challenge
in and of itself, but I’ve got to admit
that I love tripping it out just a little
while longer by turning it into a 5-beat move.
There’s something about the twist on the
forward side that just feels so nasty when
you perform it.
That said, there’s something that always
feels awkward and uncomfortable about the
backward side, so you win some and you lose
some.
To get this one down it’s helpful to have
down both your behind the back waistwraps
as well as your 5-beat weaves.
Once you have both of these pieces you’ll
want to add that extra degree of twist to
each side of the waistwrap and make sure to
give your body an extra bit of twist as well
to keep the path of the poi clear.
Trick number 2: behind the back waistwrap
stalls
This is actually the trick that inspired this
post!
It’s a trick that Liz Knights uses all the
time in her spinning and for my money it looks
amazing.
Whether it’s doing the top and bottom stalls
together or getting more ambitious and shooting
for the up and down stalls together, this
is one of those moves that really shows that
you’ve mastered your behind the back tricks.
The big trick to this, of course is getting
the stall out of the hand that’s wrapped
behind your back because the range of motion
here is severely restricted.
For the bottom stall you can easily cheat
it by treat the stall as more of a pendulum
instead.
Just so long as it stops moving at the same
time as the top stall, your audience should
be none the wiser.
Want an extra challenge with this one?
Try turning it into a plane-breaking stall.
You can take that top and bottom stall and
swing both poi around in horizontal split
time same direction to stall again into a
buzzsaw.
Pretty cool, huh?
Trick number 3: Behind the back throws
This is an old Ronan move that I use all the
time and it never fails to get an amazing
reaction out of a crowd.
You start with a couple of isolated throws,
just catching the poi back in the same hand
that’s throwing it.
Now use just one poi and practice throwing
it with one hand and taking a step forward
to catch it with the other in the small of
your back.
Practice this going from left to right as
well as from right to left.
Then go ahead and try it with both hands at
the same time.
Do the isolated throw and step forward into
it, catching one of the poi behind your back.
You can also do this flicking the poi in opposite
directions or in split time same direction
depending on the effect you want to go for.
Try doing all three of these in a combo!
Use that split time same direction throw to
get into the 5-beat behind the back waistwrap,
then do stalls on either side for the cherry
on top.
Are you just starting to get into behind the
back poi moves?
I’m now offering a course on my website
that covers the basics of behind the back
as well as things like basic hybrids and isolations.
You can check that out at learn.drexfactor.com.
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