Together Time, Opposite Direction

Learn from other spinners

• Flow Arts Institute: Tog-Opp A short introduction to the butterfly relationship with an embedded video.
• Noel Yee: Vulcan Tech Gospel The four-mode VTG framework, flower patterns, and links to fan and hoop teaching. This overview covers together and split timing.

History & sources

The 2005 discussion below names a regular butterfly as Together Time, Opposite Direction. Noel Yee includes the same relationship in his 2009 transition article.

These are dated examples of public use, not claims of invention.

• How do you define a weave? 2002 discussion using butterflies to distinguish timing and direction.
• Can you do this move? 2005: timing and direction defined separately, with examples of all four combinations.
• Prop Transitioning Article 2009: Noel Yee on transitions between the four timing and direction modes.