DrexFactor workshops in Springfield, MO - Mar 2012

Drex is coming to Springfield, Missouri this March 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, March 24
Intro to Poi, Part I
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
Prerequisites:
None
Horizontal Stacks for Poi
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
Prerequisites:
Stalls
Pendulums
Day 2: Sunday, March 25
Intro to Poi, Part II
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
Prerequisites:
None
Poi Hybrids
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
Prerequisites:
Isolations
Antispins
Pendulums
Come to learn and share! :)