This has totally blown my mind and opened up a bunch of new doors for me. Last week after the Temple of Poi Fire Expo, Bax, Ann, Lauren, Khan, Tuana and a I headed over to the Vulcan for an afterparty. It was a packed house with everyone spinning as always over there. Brian of Code Red Circus Conspiracy had Greg demo a Continuous Assembly Pattern (CAPs) with Poi. It took only a few minutes before I had this extension/antispin pattern figured out. Rephrasing this as CAPs made me rethink some of the other moves I’m already doing. At FireDrums, Matt (also of Code Red) mentioned that you could do it Split Time Opposite with doubles and then you would be getting (sorta) into hybrids. I’m super excited by all the concepts happening in this motion. I’ll try and explain more over the next few days. I busted my video camera so I won’t be able to post video for a few days.
This video by Alien Jon shows what I think is a Split Time Opposite Extension/Antispin CAPs. If I’m wrong on this terminology, please let me know. I can do this with my mini hoops now cleanly. It’s actually not all that difficult.
man, all these tech terms. . . ha! so if i’m reading your note right as well as watching the video correctly, you’re facing one way (and don’t turn), doing a half extension with one arm while the other does antispin (both moving from bottom to top, say) and then when you move them both from top to bottom, the hands switch, meaning that the one that was doing the antispin does the extension and the hand that was doing the 1/2 extension does the antispin and this is what is called CAPS? what a weird name. i’ve been doing this move for a while and i had no idea it was called caps.
I know… the terminology is a bit much here. It’s over my head. I do hope that hooper’s use poi terminology as much as possible though. Continuous Assembly Pattern makes a lot of sense for a whole lot of moves though. I was told CAPs is a term Alien Jon came up with for this type of pattern.
For the double version:
-Facing forward the entire time.
-Hoops on wheel planes (sides)
-left arm does 1/2 extension from bottom to top while right arm does 1/2 extension from top to bottom
-next left arm does 1/2 antispin flower from top to bottom while right arm does 1/2 antispin from bottom to top
From my conversations at FD, this version isn’t a hybrid. If you are doing antispin w/ one arm while the other is doing extension, then each stroke independently is a hybrid but as a whole it is not. I’m still trying to get down the Antipin/Ext. CAPs with one arm while doing a full ext. with the other. Mind Melt!!!
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awesome! sweet diagrams!!
ack. i just wrote a big thing but forgot to leave my email and wordpress ate it
okay so isa — your text speaks of a different move from the video
you are describing the variation rich is still working on with hands together, poi opposing each other with extension/antispin and switching at top and bottom.
as shown in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPQbsGU62s
^(hands together, poi opposite CAPS)
here is a video of just one hand/poi with a CAP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJBjY38DL6c
this is useful for learning
practice only one hand at a time and make sure that you’re doing exactly what is shown –
there are many flower+extentsion variations which are slower/easier and can be mistaken for CAPs.
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matt poki