Poi Dancing - Beyond The Basics

Dive into intermediate and advanced poi dancing with this 13-section progressive poi dancing course

What you'll learn

Build a strong foundation in the essential skills of advanced poi dancing

Requirements

You must already be playing and turning freely with with the basic variations of weaves, reels, windmills, and butterflies

Description

Join world-renowned poi teacher, Nick Woolsey, to take your poi spinning skills to a new level! Each section of this course includes 12-18 videos. The lessons will progress through a proven system of exercises, with the goal of enjoying complete freedom of movement and expression with poi. Nick will also post review and homework notes to help you stay organized focussed. Although most students spend one or two weeks on each section, you are welcome to go at your own pace. Your membership will last for years! The course curriculum will include, but will not be limited to: Group warmups and games for those who are playing with friends (recommended!) Strength and conditioning for poi The fundamentals and variations of poi-fu (arm and body movement for poi and flow arts, left/right coordination games, etc.) Footwork: Moving across the floor, the pirouette progression, the whirling progression, footwork with partners and groups, and more Planes Stalls Crosspoints Flowers and CAPs Performance Rhythm and timing Poi with your feet! The Horizontal Poi Progression Variations of Spiral Wraps To many “moves" to mention (this will often be pointers to existing “move" videos)! Nudity! Probably… well, maybe…. Oh so much more!

Overview

Section 1: Laying a foundation for intermediate and advanced poi

Lecture 1 Welcome to the Poi Dancing - Beyond the Basics!

Lecture 2 What to expect from this course

Lecture 3 Guidelines for submitting video questions

Lecture 4 Poi and your health: Warming up, technique, and stretching

Lecture 5 Ideas for warming up and incorporating the modes of movement

Lecture 6 Why and how to develop good poi-fu and posture for poi

Lecture 7 Footwork 101: pivoting and turning in a circle

Lecture 8 Stepping with turns while moving across the floor

Lecture 9 Circling your arms in opposite directions… like a ninja

Lecture 10 Introducing poitruvian arms

Lecture 11 Looking closely at how you spin the poi

Lecture 12 Ways to move the poi: Spin, extension, pendulum, extendulum, inspin, antispin

Lecture 13 Exploring Planes

Lecture 14 Left/right stall and reverse progression

Lecture 15 (Much) further with left/right stall reverse progressions

Lecture 16 Body tracing preparation: Reviewing the six-beat fountain

Section 2: Phase TWO

Lecture 17 Let's warm up our brains with a rhythm/coordination brain game

Lecture 18 Practicing turning footwork

Lecture 19 Poi Fu: Introducing Circular Stepping

Lecture 20 Poi-fu: Arms split-time same direction

Lecture 21 Poi-fu: Split-time same-direction through a FULL TURN on a WALL PLANE

Lecture 22 Introducing Switchy-Switchy

Lecture 23 Introducing crosspoints

Lecture 24 Introducing Jiggying

Lecture 25 Planes 201: Saloon doors

Lecture 26 Basics of rhythm: Upswing, downswing, inswing, outswing

Lecture 27 Exploring isolations

Lecture 28 5-beat weaves

Lecture 29 Forward 5-Beat Weave: Slow Motion from Above

Lecture 30 Backward 5-Beat Weave: Slow Motion from Above

Lecture 31 Tips on not getting dizzy

Lecture 32 Meet the tree: Using objects for visceral reference

Section 3: Phase THREE

Lecture 33 Warming up the body and brain with poi fu

Lecture 34 Exploring and understanding cardinal focus points

Lecture 35 Practicing circular stepping

Lecture 36 Poilates - Core conditioning for poi

Lecture 37 The Jedi Grip

Lecture 38 Combining ways to move the poi: Zero points and cool combos

Lecture 39 Playing with the planes of buzzsaw

Lecture 40 Exploring extended poi and flowers along a wall

Lecture 41 Planes: The one-beat windmill

Lecture 42 Body tracing: Archer weaves

Lecture 43 Challenge: Turning with weaves with clean planes

Lecture 44 Footwork: Adding back-step for traveling

Lecture 45 Playing with two pillars to improve planes

Lecture 46 Q&A: Poi-Fu: Practicing pivoting 180 degrees side to side

Section 4: Phase FOUR

Lecture 47 Warm up

Lecture 48 Flowing with Poi-fu

Lecture 49 Combining footwork and poi-fu

Lecture 50 Poilates 201

Lecture 51 Tips for practicing no-beat windmill

Lecture 52 Mastering 2-Beat Weaves: Surprisingly Advanced and REQUIRED for upcoming moves!

Lecture 53 Review and master 4X4 fountain as a mirrored progression

Lecture 54 Turning in the weaves high and low - where it can go

Lecture 55 Dancing with Poi: Rhythm and Reels

Lecture 56 Flowers and CAPs

Lecture 57 Introducing the whirling progression…

Lecture 58 Footwork: Turning on concrete safely

Lecture 59 Introducing clockwork: Tick-tock

Lecture 60 A fun tip: Practicing split-time with a friend!

Section 5: Phase FIVE

Lecture 61 Warm up with pirouette progressions and rhythm

Lecture 62 Warm up part 2: Poi fu progressions

Lecture 63 Moses progression

Lecture 64 Combining 4X4 and turning with weaves high/low

Lecture 65 Switchy switchy into wall-plane flowers

Lecture 66 Adding arms and poi to circular stepping

Lecture 67 Jiggies behind the back

Lecture 68 Combining types of poi movement: swing and spin + poi fu = wow

Lecture 69 Isolations continued

Lecture 70 Antispin flowers

Lecture 71 Rhythm and timing continued

Lecture 72 Keep working on tick-tock: Some places to go

Lecture 73 Feedback on behind-the-back jiggies: flexibility and being comfortable

Section 6: Phase SIX

Lecture 74 Warm up

Lecture 75 Poi fu brain games: going further

Lecture 76 Basic CAPs (Capped Antispin Patterns)

Lecture 77 More on 4-petal antispin… adding turns!

Lecture 78 Nick's favourite stalling pattern

Lecture 79 Back to horizontal buzzsaw and UFOs

Lecture 80 Lead-ups to spiral wraps: Bounce off of arms, then wrists

Lecture 81 Mastering Mexican Wave : Focus on Crosspoints

Lecture 82 Planes: Saloon doors 3 (OLDER VIDEO BUT GOOD TO WATCH!)

Lecture 83 Switchy-Switchy into wall plane flowers from the side, way better video!

Lecture 84 Rhythm and timing: 2-in-1s

Lecture 85 More on turning and whirling with inspin

Lecture 86 Split-time moves sequence…

Lecture 87 The MISSING reels…

Section 7: Phase SEVEN

Lecture 88 Warming up: Introuducing 3-beat weave with your feet

Lecture 89 Making sure you can turn with wallplane splittime opposites

Lecture 90 Poi-fu: Buzzsaw fingers continued: Let's go 3D!

Lecture 91 Footwork: What and Where and When: Making safe decisions and habits

Lecture 92 Turning on cement continued

Lecture 93 Playing with various lockouts from weaves

Lecture 94 Bullet stalls up and down: Using a wall to develop good habits

Lecture 95 Unpacking turning in the weaves with straight planes

Lecture 96 4-beat corkscrew

Lecture 97 Introducing Swoopty-Swoops

Lecture 98 Introducing Tangles, hyperloops and air wraps

Lecture 99 Rhythm and weaves - the choices you can make

Lecture 100 Behind the back weave #2

Lecture 101 Backward Behind-the-Back Weave: Slow Motion from Above

Lecture 102 body tracing the 6-beat fountain

Section 8: Phase EIGHT

Lecture 103 Poi-fu for capped swoopty-swoops

Lecture 104 Introducing the idea of… the ARM CONE!

Lecture 105 Turning with straight planes: A summary of variations and benefits

Lecture 106 Smoothing out the 5-beat weave

Lecture 107 Rhythm when combining 4X4 and turning with weaves

Lecture 108 Making sure you can do 4-petal flowers

Lecture 109 Learning CAPs

Lecture 110 Body tracing: Adding tracing along the torso

Lecture 111 Sky view of reviewing 3-beat vs 5-beat weaves

Lecture 112 Sky view of air wraps

Lecture 113 How air wraps and hyperloops can be understood as the same thing

Lecture 114 Skycam view of split time arms poi fu

Section 9: Phase NINE

Lecture 115 Spiral wraps

Lecture 116 Flowers: 6-petal? 8-Petal? 5-petal?

Lecture 117 Flowers and CAPs: Introducing triquetras

Lecture 118 CAPs continued

Lecture 119 Swoopty-swoops continued: Poi-fu plus extension/antispin switchbacks

Lecture 120 Flowers with two poi: the rhythm

Lecture 121 Playing horizontal to understand CAPs and flowers

Lecture 122 Turning continuously through buzzsaw and switchy-switchy

Lecture 123 Sky view of lead ups to hyperloops

Lecture 124 Sky view of lead-ups to orbitals

Lecture 125 Lead ups to hyperloops via barrel roll inversions

Lecture 126 Pendulum weaves

Lecture 127 Sky view of jiggies and pirouettes

Section 10: Phase TEN

Lecture 128 Stalls and changing directions: Think INSIDE the box!

Lecture 129 Improving whirling in same-same and split-time opposites

Lecture 130 Getting ready for The Matrix - Controlling 4-beat corkscrews

Lecture 131 More on The Matrix

Lecture 132 Split-time Opposites : Rhythm & Turning & Buzzsaw

Lecture 133 Antispin fountain

Lecture 134 More spiral wraps

Lecture 135 Spiral wraps around one hand

Lecture 136 More on CAPs

Lecture 137 Turning with opposites flowers

Lecture 138 Turning with split-time same-direction flowers

Lecture 139 Body tracing: Arm tracing the 4x4 fountain

Lecture 140 A split-time/same-time partner exercise… you'll need a friend!

Section 11: Phase ELEVEN

Lecture 141 Another sky view of hyperloops and orbitals

Lecture 142 Wall-plane isolations yumminess

Lecture 143 Triquetra/extension switchbacks

Lecture 144 Time flies

Lecture 145 Infinite Spiral Wraps!

Lecture 146 Reviewing backward behind-the-back weave

Lecture 147 Reviewing forward behind-the-back weave

Lecture 148 Rhythm and timing of bouncing the poi off the body

Lecture 149 The full Tick Tock

Lecture 150 Tick-tock looping

Section 12: Phase TWELVE

Lecture 151 Dialing in horizontal poi with a table

Lecture 152 "G's favourite move"

Lecture 153 Meltdowns

Lecture 154 Stall chasers

Lecture 155 Swoopty-Swoops conclusion

Lecture 156 clover flowers and other stuff with split-time poi meets split-time arms

Lecture 157 G’s inspin/antispin stalls

Lecture 158 Waist Wraps

Lecture 159 Spiral wraps behind the head

Lecture 160 body tracing: adding additional arm traces

Section 13: Phase THIRTEEN

Lecture 161 Mastering Time Flies

Lecture 162 The Clap… plus turning in Prayer

Lecture 163 Antispin Buzzsaw Wall-Plane Flowers

Lecture 164 Combining x flowers and + flowers: Required for advanced poi flower combinations

Lecture 165 5-beat weaves: Only practicing the final move is a barrier to mastery

Lecture 166 Swoopty swoop variations

Lecture 167 Stalls, Plane Changes, and Performing in the Round

Lecture 168 Isolations and Shoulder Snakes

Lecture 169 Clarification about stepping-in-circles technique

Lecture 170 You do NOT have to be flexible and skinny to do a BTB weave. Here's proof!

Lecture 171 Using the world to spot for whirls

Lecture 172 Mastering antispin and stalls using targets

Lecture 173 More body tracing

Section 14: Answers to Video Questions

Lecture 174 Answer to Jake's Question about Flowers

Lecture 175 suggestions for things to practice with one arm

Section 15: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE

Lecture 176 Tips on making video questions

Lecture 177 Tips on using Udemy.com

Section 16: Bonus Section: Poi Flowers Extended!

Lecture 178 3 poi circles makes 4 antispin loops, or 2 inspin loops. Here's why.

Lecture 179 Combining 4 inspin/antispin combinations using poi fu!

Lecture 180 Airwraps: Slow Motion from Above

Lecture 181 Airwraps: In-Depth

This course is for anybody who is already comfortable with all the basics of poi