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After years of physical therapy to manage living with 47 degree scoliosis, by complete accident Connor found the Dragon staff and quickly became obsessed with replacing PT with flow. He spent going on 7 years creating custom 3D printers while designing and redesigning the Dragon staff from the ground up to be able to control all of the variables and more. He has since shifted focus to creating classes, using that engineering background to determine how to best record, communicate, and teach all of the things learned along the way, otherwise what was the point? Thus he hosts a completely free all-welcome weekly class and burn session in Nashville Tn where flow is "harder" to find due to politics and pyrotechnic laws. In regards to flow I enjoy exploring very techy Dragon Staff and rationalizing moves all down to basics in order to be able to expand on concepts in unique ways, particularly with legwork, tosses and vertical static moves.
Connor from Understaff3D

After years of physical therapy to manage living with 47 degree scoliosis, by complete accident Connor found the Dragon staff and quickly became obsessed with replacing PT with flow. He spent going on 7 years creating custom 3D printers while designing and redesigning the Dragon staff from the ground up to be able to control all of the variables and more. He has since shifted focus to creating classes, using that engineering background to determine how to best record, communicate, and teach all of the things learned along the way, otherwise what was the point? Thus he hosts a completely free all-welcome weekly class and burn session in Nashville Tn where flow is “harder” to find due to politics and pyrotechnic laws. In regards to flow I enjoy exploring very techy Dragon Staff and rationalizing moves all down to basics in order to be able to expand on concepts in unique ways, particularly with legwork, tosses and vertical static moves.

Levi-Wand with a Dragon Staff
This Class goes over performing Vertical Static moves and how to use their unique floating aesthetic to embody the spirit of Levi-wand. Vertical Static is whenever the staff is staying up and down with no spinning end to end, but is still rolling. T-Rolls are the most common move that falls into this category for reference. The main concept is that the performer will always have at least one hand at/near the midpoint, making their arm the “”leash”” for the “”Levi Dragonstaff””. Most basic Levi-wand moves can be imitated this way with varying difficulty. These moves take a little bit of Levi-Wand mindset to create illusions to the highest potential, however techy boxs, drawing shapes, as well as super cool tosses are available