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Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Breakdance moves:

Tips: turn your palm outside when twisting, in order to increase the speed and be more steady.

Hendglide: twisting on one arm.
Stand on your arm, straighten the legs, and push off with another arm. This move is much more easier then crack and other moves. All you need is to keep the balancy and to have a slippery material on your arm.

Varants: Horizont - twisting on one arm, the another arm is put near and the body lifts up.
Twisting on one side - you lean now on your side, the belly is perpendicular to the floor, not parallel.

Alligator
It is a special move, and it will make you sweat.
First step: preparing
You have to improve the stand on arms. If you have a lot of place at home, take a round stool. Make sure that the stool is steady. Lean with one arm in stool's center, so that the angle between body and arm is 45' or less. Bend your body, make a step backwards (warning: the body remains straightened) and push off the stool in order to turn, substituting another hand. Lean steady on your arm. In case you have done all corectly, you will rotate in circle. Change with speed your hands, but don't stop leaning on them. This was the first method.

The second method: if you have a window at your house, you sertainly have a window-sill there. Take away the lumber from it. Lean on two arms, the fingers are moved apart, the hands are straightened. Try to walk on your arms, change the lean from one arm to another.

These simple exercises will help you to become familiar with Alligator and Flares.
Second step (Floor): Imagine that you have a middle square on your floor. Try to get with your arms in square corners: one arm folows step by step the another arm. Push off and make the move like on stool, but faster. At the beginning it will look terrible, but every day's trainings would help you to reach good results.

Injures:

you strongly risk to have armache because of such kind of moves. The man got down from the tree in order to procure the food, not to twist Alligator :) You can also strongly graze your palms.

Moves, correlated in some way with Alligator
UFO (Buddha) - the same twisting as in turtle, but without elbow's leaning: the legs remain in the same position, but the arms are straightened a little.
Wolf - legs stay togather, arms by their side.
Upper - like the wolf, but the arms are between the legs.
Space - like the UFO, but with crossed legs.
Crab - turtle on splits - it is like the upper, but legs are in parallel with the ground and wide moved apart.
Airbody - the most difficult turtle. Arms aren't leaninig in your belly, but are simply under it.

Swipes: It consists of simultanious arm and leg swing ( if you make a right swipe, then the swing must also be in the right side). In swip the leg is permanently in "air". You make the swing and move your arm at each turn. The most important: to keep the body straightened, so that the pelvis is high and straight.
The types of swipe:
- touch down on one leg
- touch down on both legs
- elbow's swipes