geometrical patterns with doubles

NB for later reference:
*= wick/ end of staff
/= shaft of staff
.=nothing, I had to put it in to get the right shapes so ignore it

so, I'm a big fan of playing with squares and triangles with doubles (although I'm still trying to get the hang of triangular antispin), but I happened upon an interesting idea while playing the other day:

basically its based upon Arashi's trinity idea: the best way I can describe the moves I was playing with (without a video) is to describe it as the two staffs forming two sides of a triangle. To start with, this is the most simple pattern I came up with:

(figure 1)
...*
../.
./...
*.....*

the staffs are in a triangular pattern: you then corkscrew them down to this position
*__* __*
so the wicks meet in the middle (ie, point isolated) at this point its necessary to lean back, matrix style as the staffs go over your torso and head

finally you corkscrew down to:

(figure 2)

*.....*
..../
.../
...*

making the upside down version of what you had at the beginning, before corkscrewing back up again.

So basically, the staff ends pass through the following points:

......*

*.....*.....*

......*
(figure 3)

however you could invert the top and bottom patterns, giving you:

...*......*

*.....*.....*

...*......*

(figure 4)

In theory then, then, if you do this in with the hands moving in opposite directions, you end up with a nice line when your hands are at the top/bottom of the pattern, which means you've potentially got a transfer into isolation:

......*
...../
..../
...*
../
./
*

(figure 5)

I'm wondering whether it'll be possible to manipulate the staffs into the outside positions: it'd be possible with isolations and maybe with snakes?

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