Drex's Tech Poi Blog #36: Carolingian Cross, stall intensive, footwork
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Channel: DrexFactor Poi · 2009 · People & Blogs
After seeing a Nick Woolsey instructional vid on how to do the triquetra the other day, I discovered a figure I really dug under the wikipedia entry for the word triquetra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra) called a Carolingian Cross, which essentially amounts to a compound interlacing triquetra. I've spent a good portion of the week dissecting the figure and trying to figure out how to render it with poi. Here are three of the options I've played with. Next, given all the stalls I've been working with since Firedrums, I've taken up a stall intensive, stalling both inside and out with all four corner stalls in the four basic combinations of poi motion. Most of which still need a little work, of course. Finally, a little bit of footwork and deliberate weight placement and how it affects the look of some turns.
