Hooping… Architecture… Whatnot…
I have tons of info to download from Hoop Convergence but it going to take me some time to process and collect before I can start. My mind has been melted. I’ll try and have something up tomorrow.
Here is the official video of the Flow Show performance produced by Khan Wong. I actually found the video this morning through Ariane Conrad’s Blog. Ariane is co-author of Christabel’s new book Hooping, which has a little mini feature by me on contrast as pertaining to hooping.
Saturday morning before the Fire Expo, bright and very very early, a few of us did a demo for KRON 4 Morning News. Here’s the clip.
Thank you Isa for inviting me to be a part of this demo. It was fun, easy, and totally worth getting up early even though it was Saturday morning :)
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.