Tutsdays: Knight shows Shoulder Stretches

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Poi Shoulder StretchAndrew Knight shows us an important shoulder stretch and reminds Flow Artists that stretching is important to maintain our bodies while we flow. Knight is a trained Yoga Alliance RYT200 instructor trained from Beth …

Tutsdays: Double Staff Pressure Traps & Violining

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Tyler Spades brings us some interested double staff on staff contact moves. Pressure Trap The first move is a pressure trap from Adam Lobo. You use three points of contact between your elbow, your wrist and your …

Tutsdays: Club Passing

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Jeremiah Johnston and Eli March show you the basics of club passing.  Don’t start with six first. Start with one each. The person you are throwing to is your target. Practice throwing to your target with …

FAI Tutsdays: The Horizontal Ollie w/ Poi

  [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Josh Tempest breaks down the horizontal ollie in today’s tutsday feature. It starts off in horizontal floor plane split time to the left out in front and to the right.  Once you enter split time, …

Tutsdays: Together Time Same Direction

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Togeher Time Same Direction, often abbreviated as tog-same, is when both hands are next to one another and are parallel the whole time. This timing and direction is like drawing small circles at the same time …

FAI Tutsdays: Dragon Staff Chi Roll to Jesus

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Krisstina Hawks from Ninja Pyrate brings us a breakdown of the Chi Roll to Jesus dragon staff move. Take the staff with your left hand and place it on your right shoulder letting it pendulum over your shoulders. …

FAI Tutsday: 3 Poi Stack Swaps

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Eli Harrod brings us 2 useful 3 poi tricks called stack swaps. For the first trick, start a wall side weave with 3 poi in your hands . Tuck the pinky side in your armpit getting the …

FAI Tutsday: Split Time Opposite Direction

Split time opposite direction is when the hands pass the bottom beats at different times and are moving in opposite directions.  Both hands meet on the sides of the body. Clapping on the sides can help this pattern make sense. This motion of this pattern feels a lot like double dutch. In addition, if you do taga, you can turn …

FAI Tutsdays: Club Multiplex Tutorial

Jeremiah Johnston delivers a recap of this club tutorial from Pyrotrainia. From this video, you will learn how to throw a good multiplex. A multiplex is when you throw multiple clubs up into the air at the same time with one hand. So, if you throw two clubs up into the air with just your right hand, that’s a multiplex. …

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FAI Tutsday: Contact Juggling Butterfly Drills

Richard Hartnell lives at the Vulcan in Oakland, California. His career in object manipulation now carpets the USA’s west coast and stretches across the Atlantic Ocean into several European countries. In 2008, Richard was a co-founder of the Bellingham Circus Guild in northwest Washington State. In 2009, he relocated to the Vulcan, a collective of movement artists in Oakland, California. He presently …