- Introduction
- Footwork and Turns
- Poi-fu: Circling your arms through the basic modes
- The Poitruvian Progression
- Playing with Planes
- Flowing with same-time turns and reels
- Flowing with Weaves, Windmills, and other Split-Time Same-Direction Patterns
- Mastering 3-Beat Weaves
- Flowing Freely with Corkscrew and Basic Horizontal Spinning
- Flowing Freely with Same-Time Opposites and Butterfly
- Flowing freely with split-time opposites and butterflies
- Flowing between moves and modes with Stalls and Reverses
- Crossy-Crossy
- Playing Along the Tracks
- Using a Wall to Learn to Turn Continously with Straight Planes
What you'll learn
- Move confidently and gracefully with all the fundamental movements of poi... as long as you put all the lessons into practice!
Description
Mastering the Poi Basics is for those who know most or all of the basic moves of poi (weaves, windmill, butterfly, etc.) but who can't flow comfortably and confidently with them yet.
We will take a detailed tour of all the basics as defined by Nick Woolsey. As we go, we will look at several foundation-level concepts about mastery. You will learn to beautify your planes, rhythm and timing, footwork and turns, and to disassemble and explore the moves so that you can become truly expressive with them.
There are about 15 videos at the time of publication. You should be able to go through all the videos in a couple of weeks, but putting the concepts into practice will take months. In fact, to truly achieve "mastery" with all these concepts would take years. Fortunately, playing with any of these concepts will immediately begin to impact your poi spinning in positive ways.
This course will help you to feel empowered with the poi moves you already know, and it will prepare you to go onwards into intermediate and advanced poi.
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About the instructors
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Nick Woolsey
Poi Teacher
Nick Woolsey is a poi-dance pioneer and a cult-celebrity within the global poi-dancing community. Thousands of people have attended Nick's poi workshops and retreats, and tens of thousands more have learned from his online videos. He is now collaborating with professional dancers and circus artists in Vancouver, BC, to bring a new level of online video resources to the poi and flow arts community.
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Nick is an amazing teacher! Even when you think you know the moves, there's always some fresh ideas and unusual angles. Playing with inner tether in 3-beat weave? Tracing a flight of a butterfly? Add turns, try different timing? You are in for a treat and surprises. Not to mention charisma and decades of experience!
Nick Woolsay is not only amazing teacher, but in fact an outstanding poi spinner who mastered his skills to the peak level - I believe. And it's not only that. In his lessons, he teaches the technique itself - step by step, as well as their details - for improving quality. Along the way listing important factors in the course of practice to memorize them in order to proper learn later on. All this to give the gold in the end, to forget the whole techniques and start to feel free in a flow of dance. All this in a good mood, without pretending. Nick Woolsay is a fully devoted passionate, true POI master. Thank you again for that Jurney.
Thank you so much Nick for putting this serie on Udemy ! A great summary of all the possibilities, the progress we can make, and all the advices! So good to have this after the beginners serie...and before the beyond the basics course :)!
Good basic run through of understanding some terminology and moves to work towards, i've purchased other courses and looking forward to them!
Awesome!
Nick Woolsey is great! He gives a good look at different variations of basic moves & shows what to expect in his Beginner Series course. I'll definitely be taking his full Beginner Series course! Thanks for all you do, Nick!