So you've got a few poi tricks and maybe
even a few transitions underneath your
belt, but you just can't figure out how
all these poi gods on Instagram and
Facebook are pulling off these really
rapid combos. Well, this is the video for
you! Drex here from DrexFactor.com with
a new combo for the month of March. This may be
a little controversial but I'm gonna
call this a beginner combo--the reason
being that none of the individual tricks
in it is that terribly hard, but the
challenge here is going to be getting
through them in a rapid fashion. So this
one is not going to be as dancey and
that's totally on purpose. I want to use
this combo as a way to get some of you
beginners out there moving through your
tricks much more rapidly. For this
month's combo you're going to need the
following tricks underneath your belt:
Archer weaves, airwraps, spiral wraps,
crossers, and inspin throws. You can find
a playlist of tutorials that I've done
on all these tricks down in the
description of this video or up in the
cards if you happen to be watching it on
Youtube. i'm going to show you the combo
at full speed, then break it down piece
by piece and show to you again in slow
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So I know that it looks like a lot of
things just happened there, but don't panic.
It's just a bunch of tricks that all
happen to overlap on a single transition
point along your center line down near
your waist. So we're gonna start this off
with a spiral wrap and it's gonna be a
spiral wrap that goes around
counterclockwise. Why counterclockwise?
Well, because that is my dominant
direction of spin. If your dominant
direction happens to be counterclockwise
feel free to reverse all the directions.
It's up to you. But it's also going to
introduce us to a recurring theme
throughout this combo, which is every
time I come out of a move my next move
is gonna be that my right hand goes
underneath my left armpit to start up
that archer weave fountain, yeah? So it is
spiral wrap and the right hand goes
under and we take both hands over. Cool!
So I'm back with my poi going split
time same direction around my waist--this
is gonna introduce a second theme to
this combo, which is that whenever my
right hand poi goes down towards my feet
when both of my hands are down around my
waist that means that I'm about to make
a transition. In this case, the transition
I'm gonna make is that when my poi
passes by my feet I'm gonna use that as
a moment to start working on this inspin throw that's gonna go over my left
arm. I'm really kind of reaching around
as though I'm gonna wrap the poi around
my left arm but instead I'm gonna
release it and let it fly over top, yeah?
Cool! So once again when we complete that,
the next move is to get the right hand
under the left armpit and archer weave
fountain all the way up and around our
body. Okay, so this time something
slightly different is gonna happen: as
I'm doing the archer weave fountain up and
over, I'm gonna pretend like I'm gonna
keep going with it
and I'm gonna get into a really
interesting position because of that. So
as my right hand comes down and around
I'm just gonna bring both hands up to my
shoulders to enter into a crosser. Really,
when you're doing that weave and you go
through the middle point here, you're
already in a crosser for a half of a
second. You're just making sure that you
never bring your arms out of it, right?
Cool! So I'm in the crosser--you notice
anything about it? Mainly that my right
hand is underneath my left? This is
something that we've seen before
many many times. In fact, with every
transition we've done in this combo so
far. So with my right hand underneath my
left, I'm gonna start off by doing that
in spin throw up and over. I do this when
my right hand is in the front side of me
that's when it's facing my audience:
right there, yeah?
So when that happens I can just do
the toss and my left hand poi is gonna
come out and I'm gonna open back up.
Now as my right hand poi passes by my feet,
that's where I initiate the airwrap and
finally when it passes by my feet once
again I do a spiral wrap--in fact two of
them back to back. Because again: I've got
to get back to clockwise. So all that
together from the crosser looks like
this: as I'm performing the crosser I
wait for the right hand poi to be in
front and I do the inspin toss, airwrap,
and into the spiral wrap. It looks like
so much is going on there but just if
you look for that point where the right
hand poi is going down and know that
you're gonna make a transition there,
it's going to make this feel a lot
easier. Cool! So we got to both spiral
wraps it was awesome now we're gonna do
something even trickier: we're gonna go
back through all of these moves but in
reverse. So I'm gonna unwrap, I'm going to
airwrap, do the throw, wind up in the
crosser, and then switch back into the
archer weave. How does all of that work?
Well, from my spiral wrap right here my
first move as my right hand poi is going
down is to go into the airwrap again.
I've got another moment where the right
hand poi is going down and that's when
I reach around to do the throw. Now the
cool thing is, is that as I'm coming out
of the throw I have this opportunity to
get my right hand underneath once again
and that's gonna be where I initiate the
cross are from. You could think of this
as almost being that coming out of that
inspin throw, I'm gonna like try and get
into a three-beat weave but abort
halfway through so that I just wind up
in a crosser position, right? Now to get
back out of the crosser what I'm gonna
do is as my left hand is coming around
in front of me I'm gonna reach it down
and around and that starts off the
archer weave for me. I just finish it
off by having the two poi stall out to
my side like that. So I know that this
part near the end just seems super busy
and that's because it is: that's the
point. I want to get you guys moving
through these tricks really rapidly and
the best way to do that is to pick a
bunch of tricks that all overlap on the
same point and then just practice using
that point is a way of getting back and
forth between them. You could almost
imagine as though each of these tricks
is a card in a deck. In fact, you can try
that at home: write down the names of
each of these tricks and shuffle them up
into a little deck. See if you can come
through them in a completely different
order. Then
you'll have true freedom of movement
through all of them. Okay, so here's all
of it from the top we do the spiral wrap
counterclockwise, we come out of it, right
hand goes under left we do the archer
weave fountain up and around, come out of
it into an inspin throw, right hand goes
under the left we do that archer weave
fountain all the way around, airwrap,
right hand goes under left, we do the archer
weave fountain all the way around, make
like we're gonna complete it but do a
crosser instead. We hang out here for
two beats and inspin throw, airwrap,
spiral wrap one, spiral wrap two, now
let's go through it all again in reverse:
airwrap, inspin throw, crosser, and we go
back into the archer weave fountain, and we
just stop it off with a couple of stalls.
Cool! That's it. Let's see all that again
in slow motion.
Cool, so I hope this combo gets you
moving through your tricks much faster.
If you can, post a video of yourself
doing this combo with the hashtag #drexfactorpoi
on Instagram. I would love
to see your version of this combo. If
you're just starting off and need to get
more tricks under your belt, you should
check out my Spin Poi Like a Rock Star
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