Poi dancing - beyond the basics by Udemy
Dive into intermediate and advanced poi dancing with this 13-section progressive poi dancing course
Course Highlights
- Build a strong foundation in the essential skills of advanced poi dancing
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
16 Topics
Welcome to the Poi Dancing - Beyond the Basics!
What to expect from this course
Guidelines for submitting video questions
Poi and your health: Warming up technique and stretching
Ideas for warming up and incorporating the modes of movement
Why and how to develop good poi-fu and posture for poi
Footwork 101: pivoting and turning in a circle
Stepping with turns while moving across the floor
Circling your arms in opposite directions... like a ninja
Introducing poitruvian arms
Looking closely at how you spin the poi
Ways to move the poi: Spin extension pendulum extendulum inspin antispin
Exploring Planes
Left/right stall and reverse progression
(Much) further with left/right stall reverse progressions
Body tracing preparation: Reviewing the six-beat fountain
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Let's warm up our brains with a rhythm/coordination brain game
Practicing turning footwork
Poi Fu: Introducing Circular Stepping
Poi-fu: Arms split-time same direction
Poi-fu: Split-time same-direction through a FULL TURN on a WALL PLANE
Introducing Switchy-Switchy
Introducing crosspoints
Introducing Jiggying
Planes 201: Saloon doors
Basics of rhythm: Upswing downswing inswing outswing
Exploring isolations
5-beat weaves
Forward 5-Beat Weave: Slow Motion from Above
Backward 5-Beat Weave: Slow Motion from Above
Tips on not getting dizzy
Meet the tree: Using objects for visceral reference
14 Topics
Warming up the body and brain with poi fu
Exploring and understanding cardinal focus points
Practicing circular stepping
Poilates - Core conditioning for poi
The Jedi Grip
Combining ways to move the poi: Zero points and cool combos
Playing with the planes of buzzsaw
Exploring extended poi and flowers along a wall
Planes: The one-beat windmill
Body tracing: Archer weaves
Challenge: Turning with weaves with clean planes
Footwork: Adding back-step for traveling
Playing with two pillars to improve planes
Q&A: Poi-Fu: Practicing pivoting 180 degrees side to side
14 Topics
Warm up
Flowing with Poi-fu
Combining footwork and poi-fu
Poilates 201
Tips for practicing no-beat windmill
Mastering 2-Beat Weaves: Surprisingly Advanced and REQUIRED for upcoming moves!
Review and master 4X4 fountain as a mirrored progression
Turning in the weaves high and low - where it can go
Dancing with Poi: Rhythm and Reels
Flowers and CAPs
Introducing the whirling progression...
Footwork: Turning on concrete safely
Introducing clockwork: Tick-tock
A fun tip: Practicing split-time with a friend!
13 Topics
Warm up with pirouette progressions and rhythm
Moses progression
Combining 4X4 and turning with weaves high/low
Switchy switchy into wall-plane flowers
Warm up part 2: Poi fu progressions
Adding arms and poi to circular stepping
Jiggies behind the back
Combining types of poi movement: swing and spin + poi fu = wow
Isolations continued
Antispin flowers
Rhythm and timing continued
Keep working on tick-tock: Some places to go
Feedback on behind-the-back jiggies: flexibility and being comfortable
14 Topics
Warm up
Poi fu brain games: going further
Basic CAPs (Capped Antispin Patterns)
More on 4-petal antispin... adding turns!
Nick's favourite stalling pattern
Back to horizontal buzzsaw and UFOs
Lead-ups to spiral wraps: Bounce off of arms then wrists
Mastering Mexican Wave : Focus on Crosspoints
Planes: Saloon doors 3 (OLDER VIDEO BUT GOOD TO WATCH!)
Switchy-Switchy into wall plane flowers from the side way better video!
Rhythm and timing: 2-in-1s
More on turning and whirling with inspin
Split-time moves sequence...
The MISSING reels...
15 Topics
Warming up: Introuducing 3-beat weave with your feet
Making sure you can turn with wallplane splittime opposites
Poi-fu: Buzzsaw fingers continued: Let's go 3D!
Footwork: What and Where and When: Making safe decisions and habits
Turning on cement continued
Playing with various lockouts from weaves
Bullet stalls up and down: Using a wall to develop good habits
Unpacking turning in the weaves with straight planes
4-beat corkscrew
Introducing Swoopty-Swoops
Introducing Tangles hyperloops and air wraps
Rhythm and weaves - the choices you can make
Behind the back weave #2
Backward Behind-the-Back Weave: Slow Motion from Above
body tracing the 6-beat fountain
12 Topics
Poi-fu for capped swoopty-swoops
Introducing the idea of... the ARM CONE!
Turning with straight planes: A summary of variations and benefits
Smoothing out the 5-beat weave
Rhythm when combining 4X4 and turning with weaves
Making sure you can do 4-petal flowers
Learning CAPs
Body tracing: Adding tracing along the torso
Sky view of reviewing 3-beat vs 5-beat weaves
Sky view of air wraps
How air wraps and hyperloops can be understood as the same thing
Skycam view of split time arms poi fu
13 Topics
Spiral wraps
Flowers: 6-petal? 8-Petal? 5-petal?
Flowers and CAPs: Introducing triquetras
CAPs continued
Swoopty-swoops continued: Poi-fu plus extension/antispin switchbacks
Flowers with two poi: the rhythm
Playing horizontal to understand CAPs and flowers
Turning continuously through buzzsaw and switchy-switchy
Sky view of lead ups to hyperloops
Sky view of lead-ups to orbitals
Lead ups to hyperloops via barrel roll inversions
Pendulum weaves
Sky view of jiggies and pirouettes
13 Topics
Stalls and changing directions: Think INSIDE the box!
Improving whirling in same-same and split-time opposites
Getting ready for The Matrix - Controlling 4-beat corkscrews
More on The Matrix
Split-time Opposites : Rhythm & Turning & Buzzsaw
Antispin fountain
More spiral wraps
Spiral wraps around one hand
More on CAPs
Turning with opposites flowers
Turning with split-time same-direction flowers
Body tracing: Arm tracing the 4x4 fountain
A split-time/same-time partner exercise... you'll need a friend!
10 Topics
Another sky view of hyperloops and orbitals
Wall-plane isolations yumminess
Triquetra/extension switchbacks
Time flies
Infinite Spiral Wraps!
Reviewing backward behind-the-back weave
Reviewing forward behind-the-back weave
Rhythm and timing of bouncing the poi off the body
The full Tick Tock
Tick-tock looping
10 Topics
Dialing in horizontal poi with a table
"G's favourite move"
Meltdowns
Stall chasers
Swoopty-Swoops conclusion
clover flowers and other stuff with split-time poi meets split-time arms
G’s inspin/antispin stalls
Waist Wraps
Spiral wraps behind the head
body tracing: adding additional arm traces
13 Topics
Mastering Time Flies
The Clap... plus turning in Prayer
Antispin Buzzsaw Wall-Plane Flowers
Combining x flowers and + flowers: Required for advanced poi flower combinations
5-beat weaves: Only practicing the final move is a barrier to mastery
Swoopty swoop variations
Stalls Plane Changes and Performing in the Round
Isolations and Shoulder Snakes
Clarification about stepping-in-circles technique
You do NOT have to be flexible and skinny to do a BTB weave. Here's proof!
Using the world to spot for whirls
Mastering antispin and stalls using targets
More body tracing
2 Topics
Answer to Jake's Question about Flowers
suggestions for things to practice with one arm
2 Topics
Tips on making video questions
Tips on using Udemy.com
4 Topics
3 poi circles makes 4 antispin loops or 2 inspin loops. Here's why.
Combining 4 inspin/antispin combinations using poi fu!
Airwraps: Slow Motion from Above
Airwraps: In-Depth
Poi dancing - beyond the basics
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