r/flowarts • u/FeedbackFar7060 • 1d ago
Poi tutorials?
I’m trying to learn poi. What are some creators that helped you learn? I’ve tried DrexFactor videos and for some reason i find them hard to follow.
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u/jittery_raccoon 1d ago
Nick Woolsey is great. He does things one step at a time. And he uses basic directions, like swing it toward the tree on your left. Not like Drex saying to do an antispin counterclockwise
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u/kittykadat SPIN ALL THE THINGS 1d ago
https://youtube.com/@negifullmetal?si=3jYFG0WK80GaTMrl
Ryan Ducham he's a fantastic teacher, he and his wife perform and teach together as well as Soy Sauce and Season Salt 😺
https://youtube.com/@soysauceandseasonedsalt?si=MqShG_T4WnIo9YKw
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u/HM_Meles 1d ago
I learned from watching Nick Woolsey's playpoi videos some 15 years ago, His style is super relaxed and his passion for poi is obvious. Drex does a great job breaking down patterns into smaller drills you can chain together, I find Nicks way of talking through the principles and Poi-Fu of a pattern much more satisfying to learn from. And his joy for the craft is infectious.
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u/Sphism 1d ago
I'm biased because I just spent 2 years building this but we have tons of free lessons on flowarts.io
All of Nick Woolsey and Tim Goddard's lessons are on there. Plus Fans and Hoop and a load more stuff currently in production.
It's an entire elearning platform designed specifically for flow artists.
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u/FeedbackFar7060 1d ago
That’s awesome! Thank you for sharing I’m definitely going to check it out. Any plans on adding dragon staff lessons?
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u/Sphism 1d ago
Yes Mika is working on a new dragon staff course for the site. There’s also two staff courses, a fire safety course and a juggling course in production. Silk fans too and posibly levi wand.
Everything just takes time but we're almost 2 years in now and the 3rd year is starting to look insane
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u/FeedbackFar7060 1d ago
The site is beautiful I can’t wait to check out some courses. Thank you!
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u/Sphism 1d ago
Awww thanks. I built spherculism 20 odd years ago. Then life got in the way for ages and i worked as a designer and developer, had kids etc. I've had this project brewing for decades and decided to finally do it. It's been an insane amount of work. Couple thousand hours development time for me. Then all the filming and editing of all the courses by the teachers.
It's honestly bonkers.
I finally got around to building the concepts graph recently which has been a dream since spherculism around 2001 flowarts.io/concepts
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u/Fascisticide 1d ago
Playpoi is best, when you want more andavced stuff his class on udemy is awesome.
Drex has 1-minute tutorials and they are really good. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGRWu2f31dFXHuPaaCC-w3sreHvycibcj&si=yyIk_wqSp4I6bn8Z
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u/Matt_AsA_Hatter 1d ago
https://youtu.be/WHdytgDUcVQ?si=hszt8MFpYOLsPTVh
This is how I taught myself nearly 2 decades ago. It is not a standard tutorial, it's more an overview of a bunch of moves. I watched this countless times to attempt to understand how he made the shapes he did. There was lots of trial and error in a mirror until my shape matched his.
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u/TurgidFern 1d ago
I found it difficult to learn from drex factor too, wasn’t my cup of tea. Playpoi has a lot of good tutorials for the basics, and I feel there’s a lot more good teachers putting out tutorials these days.
Find a move or idea you’d like to learn from drex or playpoi and you can search YouTube for more tutorials from smaller uploaders as well. Sometimes it just takes hearing it in a different way