Video Tech Blog #48: split-time stall switches, plane-shifted CAPs, double staff

My apologies if you read this in blog form or are subscribed through my feedburner feed--for some reason iTunes has not been posting updates to my blog for weeks and I'm finally at the end of my options, so I've deleted every post leading up to the point where iTunes stopped keeping track of my feed and I am hoping that when I reenter my old entries that they will appear once again on iTunes. This does, however, mean that you're about to get 7 entries you've seen before. Once again...I apologize :-P

After an awesome couple weeks hanging out with some of my favorite poi spinners on the east coast, I've gotten to learn a lot about split-time stall shifts in the style of Rastaxel. Insignia has been taking these and adding a plane-bent flourish in the middle. I showed this pattern to Baz and he came up with an over the arm stall. I added a Yuta stall shift to Baz's motion and though it looks sloppy I've been having a lot of fun with it. I think I may have prematurely christened the spherical CAP--I described it by the pattern it adds up to rather than its component pieces. With that in mind, here is a possible approach one could use to create spherical CAPs by isolating the poi heads when entering a Yuta stall switch. Finally, a couple fun double staff constructions based upon my own monkeying around and an interesting plane-bent idea Lucas showed me over the weekend. See you guys after Burning Man!