Poi Masterclass Swansea

Name: Poi Masterclass Swansea
Start: 2025-10-19T12:00:00+01:00
Location: CIRCUS ERUPTION

Schedule

Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

CIRCUS ERUPTION | Swansea, WA

Sunday Poi Intensive Masterclass
For all levels of poi manipulation (Very Beginner friendly!): With basic weaves and butterflies, we’ll get you moving and flowing like a pro. If you need a refresher please come along to the warm-up and we'll drill through the essentials! If you're already a pro at these, then jump in and join any of the workshops.
Rather than learning individual tricks, we’ll be dissecting and digesting several frameworks you can build off for months to come. Perfectly timed for that long winter with no parties to spin at!
Beginner: Come and Learn
Expert: Come and be Challenged
Essential Prerequisites: 2 Beat Weave, 3 Beat weave, Butterfly (Both directions)
Please bring a set of poi you feel comfortable with. Ball handles will be more suitable for this workshop than finger loops, especially if you want to learn to let go of your poi!
£30 full day / £10 per session
If you want to come but money is an issue please reach out. No-one will ever be turned away through lack of funds.

There is a 20min break in between each session for questions, feedback and rest.
Timetable
1pm Warm up
1:30pm Body Tracers
2:30pm Isolations
3:30pm Throws
4:30pm Partner Poi
1pm Warm up
Avoid the nasty crunching shoulders that affect every veteran poi spinner by joining in with the communal warmup! Get your body warm and limber ready for a hard day of poi sessions.
We’ll warm up your whole body, then run through all the prerequisite tricks for the session.
Body Tracers 1:30pm-2:10pm
Body tracers are a category of moves that allow the poi to seemingly melt through your body, twisting in impossible patterns around your body. This session will teach you the essential skills to create an endless pattern of body tracers, with poi spiraling along your body just missing yourself over and over.
Beginner Goals: Learn to control your poi so they can just miss your body over and over again, every time. We’ll take those 2 and 3 beat weaves and turn them into mind melters, using plane control.
Experienced Goals: Take all those lessons one step further by incorporating tight plane control to create tracers out of an even wider library of tricks.
Isolations 2:30pm-3:10pm
Poi isolations are seemingly impossible. They give the impression of weightlessness through a constant cancellation of forces. As a category of poi spinning, they take an incredibly long time to learn, and there are countless mistakes that can impede your progress, or even make you regress!
Beginners: Understand the illusion, and take first steps to maintaining it for long periods of time.
Advanced: Gain greater control of the pattern. Learn to control the speed, orientation and location of the pattern, as well as entries and exits, and ways to blend isolations into other common patterns such as flowers.
Poi Throws 3:30pm-4:10pm
Let go of your poi! Learn to create wow moments and tension in your performance as your poi float through the air. There’s a whole world of tricks available to you once your poi are no longer glued to your fingers. The only problem is, 2 weighted objects attached with a malleable tether with a weight of its own is one of the hardest mechanics problems you can be given in any physics exam. We’ll explore how you can circumvent this issue, and drills you can use to gain control of your poi as they hang in mid-air.
Beginners: Learn the essential throws and grips required to easily maneuver your poi through the air.
Advanced: Work on throw combos and timings to create interesting visual patterns in the air with your poi.
Partner Poi 4:30pm-5:10pm
Perfect for first timers, no partner needed! We’ll pair you up with an appropriate partner and get you started with simple partner poi weaves as well as exits and entries. This workshop will help you understand the timing, movement and partner work required to weave around each other while never making contact.
Beginners: Get to grips with essential footwork and basic weaves
Advanced: Learn more complex weaves as well as understand the language of how to flow together.
Although we are lucky enough to use the circus eruption building this is not a circus eruption event.