Hey gang!
Drex here from drexfactor.com, and today I'm
going to show you some of my favorite tricks
for learning polyrhythm hybrids.
So it probably goes without saying that polyrhythm
hybrids are among my favorite poi tricks whether
they be in the form of antibrids or triquetra
versus extension.
These are a cornerstone to my personal spinning
style and I would love to show you guys how
I do them.
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So for as cool as they look, polyrhythm hybrids
come with a little bit of a challenge associated
with learning them, namely that with everything
that you've done with poi up until that point,
the poi have been counted off in the same
number of beats.
Whole point of polyrhythm hybrids is that
one poi is doing more beats than the other
one, just learning how to do this in and of
itself can be something of a challenge, so
let's see if we can work with that problem.
So go ahead and start off in a reverse butterfly
like this and what I want you to do is try
and see if he can get two beats in with your
right hand poi for every one beat that your
left hand poi is doing.
One way you can go about this is to do it
only in short bursts, so say as I'm just going
in straight reverse butterfly right here,
I can try really quickly just doing two beats
with my right hand and then again and then
going back to a normal pace.
After a while, this should start to feel comfortable
enough that you can decrease the number of
counts that you're doing in between each time
you go to double time with your right hand
and eventually just keep it stable the entire
way.
Another way you can do this is to and try
and count off the poi as though they're like
music.
That is: instead of thinking of straight eighth
notes like one, two, three, four, you think
in 16th notes, that is one and two and three
and four, and that way you should wind up
with one poi that's traveling twice as fast
as the other.
Of course, it's incredibly important to be
able to do this with both hands, so after
you drill this with your dominant hand for
a little while, try doing it as well with
your non-dominant hand and see if you can
keep up the same pace.
Okay, so how do we actually apply this to
a real hybrid?
Well, we're going to start off with triquetra
versus extension, aka the Mercedes.
The first thing you're going to need to have
under your belt here is to be able to do both
timing and direction combinations for opposites
that is together, opposites and split time
opposites because we're going to switch back
and forth between the two.
So we're going to start off in together opposite
with our hands over to the left hand side
of our body and we're going to pass both poi
and hands up and over to the right hand side
of our body.
In fact, you can go back and forth like this,
just playing around with getting your hands
back and forth to each side of your body.
Stop over on the right hand side of your body
and let the poi in your left hand go limp.
Now, pass both of your hands over to the left
side of your body, keeping the right hand
poi moving the entire time so you should wind
up in a position where both of the poi are
moving in split opposites for a second.
Get back over to the left hand side and now
you can bring your left hand poi back into
together opposite.
Okay, so the entire thing is we start in together
opposite over to the left hand side, go over
and then drag over and then drag over and
then drag over and then drag.
Really what you're trying to do is find that
together opposite feel again, once you get
back to the left hand side of your body, but
then just drag that left hand poi underneath
your hand as you go from right to left.
You can think of that as being more of a pendulum
than an extension, but as you speed it up,
you're gonna find that a triquetra and extension
totally emerge out of this trick.
Okay, so how about now we tackle my personal
favorite polyrhythm hybrid, that is static
spin versus triquetra.
Now this one's going to be a little bit more
challenging because the triquetra's going
to have to go much, much, much faster.
So, we're totally gonna find that many of
the techniques that we use for learning the
extension versus triquetra are also going
to work for static spin versus triquetra.
In fact, I want you to start this move off
by doing a together opposite reverse butterfly
with your hands one poi's width apart.
From here, you're going to let your right
hand go up and over to the left hand side
of your body and let the poi in your left
hand just drop.
It's really important to try and maintain
that relationship between the poi head and
your hand as they both go over top in this
move.
Okay, so now that we're over to the left hand
side of our body as that left hand poi is
just sitting there drooping, we're going to
pull it across as we let the right hand poi
go over our hands going from left to right,
so it's kind of a drag going back to our right
hand side.
From here, we're going to try and get that
left hand poi to pop up and over once again,
going to our left hand side, dragging it underneath,
and then popping it back over.
Try and see if you can keep this continuous
popping up, dragging under, popping up, dragging
under, popping up, dragging under, popping
up, dragging under.
Again, once you speed this up, a really, really,
really cool trick emerges.
One of my favorite things about this trick
is if you perform it at speed like this, no
matter what type of poi you're using, persistence
of vision usually kicks in and your audience
can see the triquetra clear as day.
Cool, so I hope this helps out some of you
out there who are working with polyrhythm
hybrids.
We have barely scratched the surface of what
can be done with these.
There are plenty of opportunities for switching
timing and direction combinations, as well
as exotic hybrids that go all over the map.
If you're interested in learning more those
polyrhythm hybrids, you should check out my
Beyond the Basics course at learn.drexfactor.com.
It covers all of these hybrids and includes
several more as well as tips on how to do
isolations, pendulums, behind the back stuff,
you name it.
What polyrhythm hybrids are you struggling
with?
Let me know down in the comments.
Did I forget your favorite?
Let me know.
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