Essential Information!
  • 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
Week/Phase ONE
  • 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
Week/phase TWO
  • 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
Week/Phase THREE
  • 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
Week/Phase FOUR
  • 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
Week/Phase FIVE
  • 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
Week/Phase SIX
  • 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!