- Welcome to the Poi Spinning Beginner Series!
- Guide to making, buying, and holding practice poi
- Important Theory on Warming Up, Stretching, posture, and your health
- Directions, orientation, and how to follow these videos
- The first thing you should do with your poi...
- The second thing you should do with your poi: Hit yourself, a lot
- Warming up while exploring the Modes of Movement
- Swinging, spinning, and controlling the plane of one poi
- Crossing one poi forward
- Crossing one poi backward
- Turning freely with one poi
- Same-direction same-time turns: high and low
- Same-same turn: poi down behind the shoulders
- Same-same turn: poi up behind the hips
- Crossing both poi together, forward and backward
- Crossing poi forward split-time (2-beat weaves)
- Give backward split-time crossing a try
- Using the world around you for poi feedback
- Summary of phase ONE
- Posture and Poi-Fu for Poi
- Introducing Poi-Fu, starting with "Poitruvian Arms"
- Turning back-and-forth with arms circling split-time same-direction
- Circling your arms in opposite directions
- Stall and reverse #1 - Getting started
- Exploring the modes of poi movement
- bending planes, and split-time butterfly
- Smoothing out the same-time turns
- Practicing all the variables of same-time turns
- Learning same-time butterfly, starting with the arms
- Exploring same-time butterfly further
- 3-beat weave lead-up #1
- 3-beat weave lead-up #2
- Keep exploring freedom with one poi
- If you are having trouble controlling your planes.... find the Berlin Wall!
- Summary of PHASE TWO
- Practicing poitruvian arms
- Poi-fu: Turning with arms in split-time same-direction
- Stall and reverse #2 - Getting smooth
- Introducing Jiggies
- Crossing one poi front to back, over the head
- Introducing Reels (Looping the same-time turns)
- The forward 3-beat weave
- Forward 3-Beat Weave: Overhead Slow Motion
- Backward 2-beat weaves
- Backward 3-beat-weave lead-ups
- Split time turns in front
- Controlling poi with the arms crossed
- Getting cozy with the super important thumbs-inward-behind-the-back position
- Exploring how to circle the hand and poi on a plane
- Q&A: Developing backward split-time rhythm
- Summary of phase THREE
- Warm Up
- Practicing turning footwork
- Practicing poi-fu: opposites and same direction split time
- Reviewing turning in a circle: How many steps? Where's the weight?
- Stall and reverse #3 - Wall plane
- Practicing the reels and chase the sun
- Adding poi to poitrivian
- Introducing crosspoints
- Backward 3-beat weave
- Backward 3-Beat Weave: Slow Motion from Above
- Split-time turns behind
- Threading the Needle with Butterfly
- Thread the Needle: Inward and Outward: Slow-Motion from Above
- Further with split-time butterfly, inward and outward
- Tips on not getting dizzy
- When to whirl and when to shuffle
- Q&A: Answering a great question about crosspoints
- Summary of phase FOUR
- Turning through a full circle, arms split-time same direction on a wall plane
- Poi-fu: Introducing split-time opposites
- Learning the split-time reels
- Exploring the 3-beat weave
- following the weaves with your body
- Butterfly over the head
- Getting started with Mexican Wave
- Getting into windmill from poi passing the toes
- Windmill: Slow Motion from Above
- Learning corkscrew
- Corkscrew and windmill... are basically the same thing!
- Turning between the weaves from hanging poi (if the last approach didn't work)
- Turning between the weaves... by hugging little teddy bears
- Turning between the weaves: Troubleshooting a common mistake
- Q&A: More on keeping poi same-time
- Q&A: Keeping planes controlled while turning with reels
- Summary of phase FIVE
- Epic poi-fu warmup and exploration of the modes
- Pirouette progression continued
- Poi-fu: Split time opposites: getting ready to turn (the secret!)
- Keep working on reverse right, reverse left patterns
- Turning with poitruvian poi
- More in-depth video for learning split-time hip reels
- Split time hip reels, counterclockwise!