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Isolations: Slow & Sensual Flogging

Here’s a technique you can use for slow and sensual flogging. It’s great for warmups, lighter bottoms, and warmups on lighter bottoms.

The technique is called an isolation in poi spinning, and it basically entails spinning in such a way that your hands and the flogger tails are rotating around each other, rather than the flogger tails rotating around your hands.

Without getting into the physics behind the movement, you can envision it as little choo-choo-train movements with your hands. First, get the mechanics into muscle memory by moving both hands in unison (together time):

Next, move the hands opposite from each other (split time):

It’s important to do these two exercises slowly and without the floggers, so you get a sense of how to trace a smooth circle with both hands.

Once you have the mechanics down, do the move with your floggers. First, together time:

And then split time:

When you do the move correctly, you’ll notice that the flogger tails don’t extend all the way and even flare out a bit as they’re spinning. This distributes the impact over a wider overall area and allows you to make more delicate, sensual strikes than if you were to simply whack away at full speed.

So now, you’re ready to try flogging using this technique:

This is pretty much what you need to know for this technique. But if you want to get really show-offy, you can add a weave while you’re doing these isolations:
And then flog slowly and sensually using the weave as well:
Put that all together, throw in a few other fancy moves, and here’s what your scene warmup might look like:

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