Tech Video Blog #42: diagonal planes and Noel's double-staff trick

A highly fortuitous meeting with Alien Jon in Barcelona led to the first trick here, combining plane-bending with a concept I was unfamiliar with called diagonal planes. Currently I can only plane bend with it or turn, but I suspect other tricks will begin to emerge using these techniques. Second, at Wildfire Noel showed me a double-staff trick wherein one alternates one hand doing antispin and the other hand sliding straight across the body along its own axis which creates an 8-step move that one can easily break out of into any number of other patterns. It was a bit of a mindfuck for me, but I taught it to a gentleman at NoWhere and it helped me finally get the motion down smoothly (or at least as smoothly as a guy who has only done double staff for a few months can get it). More to come!