Drex is coming to the Atlanta area this February to teach and share some basic and tech poi skills!

I'll be teaching 2 classes both Saturday and Sunday that span skill levels from rote beginners to hardcore techies. Check out the breakdown below:

Day 1: Saturday, February 25

Intro to Poi, Part I: 1:00-3:00 PM

Learn the fundamentals of poi! In this class, we will be building from the ground up to create an understanding of the basics of poi motion and how it interacts with the human body with an emphasis on the habits that will lead to good technique down the road.

Skills learned:

• Timing and direction
• Turns
• Weaves
• Thread the needles

Horizontal Stacks for Poi: 3:30-5:30 PM

Pendulums, antispins, extensions, oh my! Take any move you know and love and use only half of it, mix with quarter-time stalls and floats, and bake till you get your hands and poi heads to line up in any number of creative ways. Stacks are versatile and fun! Come learn a few of them and see how they can be integrated into other tech.

Skills learned:

• Inspin, Antispin, and Extension stacks
• Hybrid stacks
• Stack classification
• Compound stacks

Day 2: Sunday, February 26

Intro to Poi, Part II: 1:00-3:00 PM

A continuation of Intro to Poi, Part I--here we will take the basic ideas from the first class and learn to apply them to basic flow, gaining the ability to move with the poi. This will include some basic transitions between the moves in the first class and an emphasis on turning and movement.

Skills learned:

• Stalls
• Turns in all timing and direction combinations
• Basics of flowers
• Fountains and corkscrews

Poi Hybrids: 3:30-5:30 PM

From the unit circle to polyrhythms, hybrids are what happen when our hands perform different poi moves simultaneously. Here we will examine these concepts, as well as how they can be integrated with flowers and horizontal stacks into what I've been calling "hybrid families"--learn how to flow with this type of tech!

Skills learned:

• Unit circle hybrids (isolation vs extension, cateye vs extension)
• Polyrhythm hybrids (triquetra vs extension, triquetra vs pendulum)
• Hybrid families

Come to learn and share! :)