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Reverse Six-Point Florentine / Three-Beat Weave Full Tutorial
Flogging in reverse (striking upwards) can be quite the experience for your bottom. Since the floggers are swinging up from underneath, you can make impact with the meatiest parts of the butt cheeks in a way that you just can’t when striking downwards. Plus, if you’re extra-mean (or extra-naughty, depending on how you wanna look…
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Six-Point Florentine with Handled Floggers
Last time, I posted a full tutorial on six-point Florentine, also known as the three-beat weave. If you use traditional handled floggers, here’s a quick tip on how to adjust your grip so that you can execute the move more cleanly and smoothly.
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Six-Point Florentine / Three-Beat Weave Full Tutorial
This tutorial is intended for both floggers and poi spinners. If you’re brand new to either poi or two-handed flogging, I start with the basic moves you’ll need and build on them until you get to the weave itself. This tutorial is also intended to help those of you who can do four-point Florentine (also…
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Florentine Timing Exercises
Do you sound like a galloping horse when you do Florentine? Or are you struggling in general to do it smoothly and consistently? If so, here’s a series of progressive exercises to help you with your rhythm and timing. The first set of exercises is for four-point Florentine, also known as the two-beat weave in…
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Rhythm & Timing: Use a Metronome for Consistency
Every human has a “default” speed that their body prefers to operate at. This doesn’t mean that your muscles can’t move faster or slower. It just means that you have to put thought and effort into moving them outside your default speed. Default speed becomes obvious when doing Florentine because it is rhythmic and repetitive…
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An Alternate Way to Learn the Three-Beat Florentine Weave
Note: I’ve now put together a full tutorial using the techniques summarized here. As such, I consider this page mostly retired at this point. I taught a finger flogging workshop at Kinky Things last weekend, and several people specifically asked for tips on getting down the three-beat Florentine weave. They knew the positioning. They knew…
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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…
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Buzzsaws: Focus on a Single Point of Impact
Here’s a move to use if you want to focus your flogging on a single point of impact. (Hint: nipples and genitalia are prime targets for this move.) The move is called a buzzsaw in poi spinning. Note that this move is only doable with finger floggers, and they also have to be cut short…
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Redirects: Quickly Change Directions When Flogging
The cool thing about finger floggers is that you can easily (well, easily … with some amount of practice) flog in both a downwards and upwards direction. Once you have that down, here’s how you can quickly and stylishly reverse the direction of your floggers. In poi spinning, the move is called a bounce. But…