Showing posts with label floats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label floats. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Tech Video Blog #37: Yuta stalls with floats, hybrids, cateyes, and more footwork
More fun with Yuta stalls! Specifically, it turns out that they work just as well with floats as they do with top and bottom stalls, opening the door to doing them in tandem with isolations, extensions, hybrids and cateyes. Also, some more footwork and danciness inspired by nightanddaydance's excellent response to my last blog. Had to trim a couple tricks out to keep it under 10 minutes, but they should be making an appearance in a later blog.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Fun with Yuta stalls
It's my dirty little secret that I've been working my ass off on my stalls to make those Yuta-style plane shifting stalls cleaner. While I can do them just fine if my right hand is on bottom, when my left hand is on bottom, the horizontal plane wobbles a depressingly wide amount. An interesting exercise I began playing with today was doing a pair of top-stalls, Yuta-stalling behind me, coming out as though in a bottom stall, bottom stall again, Yuta stalling once again, and coming out as though from a top stall, then reversing the whole thing.
I doubt that makes much sense written out--when I video it, that should help clarify. In the meantime this leads to another cool place: if one approaches the zero points in between the plane shifts from the perspective of being the apex of a pendulum stall/float, some fun possibilities start to emerge, such as using Yuta-style stalls to switch between hybrids--no bullshit!
If one is doing the standard extension vs. isolation hybrid poi in same direction/same time motion, you can use the point where the poi are coming up from the bottom of the circle as the point of stall/float and go straight into a Yuta stall around to the other side of your body. Once there, you just have to let your hands drop to go into another hybrid or you can switch spinning same time/same direction static spin or isolations just like you would with a normal Yuta stall. I haven't practiced a lot in front of mirrors, but so far it looks like switching from hybrid to hybrid is slightly problematic because the poi don't have enough momentum behind them to stay horizontal at the end like they would in a standard Yuta stall, so switching between the standard Yuta stalls and hybrids looks to be the more efficient way of doing this.
Needless to say, this also opens up the possibilities of doing the same thing with floats! :)
I doubt that makes much sense written out--when I video it, that should help clarify. In the meantime this leads to another cool place: if one approaches the zero points in between the plane shifts from the perspective of being the apex of a pendulum stall/float, some fun possibilities start to emerge, such as using Yuta-style stalls to switch between hybrids--no bullshit!
If one is doing the standard extension vs. isolation hybrid poi in same direction/same time motion, you can use the point where the poi are coming up from the bottom of the circle as the point of stall/float and go straight into a Yuta stall around to the other side of your body. Once there, you just have to let your hands drop to go into another hybrid or you can switch spinning same time/same direction static spin or isolations just like you would with a normal Yuta stall. I haven't practiced a lot in front of mirrors, but so far it looks like switching from hybrid to hybrid is slightly problematic because the poi don't have enough momentum behind them to stay horizontal at the end like they would in a standard Yuta stall, so switching between the standard Yuta stalls and hybrids looks to be the more efficient way of doing this.
Needless to say, this also opens up the possibilities of doing the same thing with floats! :)
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