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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Breakdance moves: Spins

Stand on arms, twist the body(first turn your right arm and lift the left leg). When the right arm is down on the floor, change the arm with the left one. When the right arm is on the floor, make a leg's swing as in HeadSpin
Twist the body to the left and push off the floor with your right arm, after you make the swing. Lift your legs and straighten them. The body's twisting must be long. Twist only on your palm's lower side.

Spin types:
99 - alternate arm's changing              Elbowspin                       To arms spin
                  

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

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Spining ( power ) moves:

Backspin(twisting on the back). The swing is this move plays the most important role. The dancer is sitting on the floor. The left leg is straightened forward. The righ knee is bended. Then the dancer straighten the right leg with speed and turn it to left over his left leg, which remains motionless. The legs are crossed: the right one is on the left side over the left leg. The legs are still straightened. The dancer turn fast the left leg under the right: now legs form an angle. Dancer starts twisting on his back: he lift the legs and croosses them, in order to
increase the speed. Twisting must be made not on your buttocks, but on your shoulder-blade.
While twisting you can jump on your back or lift to upper side of your shoulders  in order to increase the speed.

Spining ( power ) moves:
Fall on your back, tumble back, lifting your body on your arms, then fall again, etc. This move must be done in a circle.

Spring:
Fall on your back(don't lean on the arms), then jump forward on your legs.

Floats:
1. Turtle - running in a circle on arms.
Try to lean your elbows on the belly and to lift your body. If you are not in good form you wouldn't do this. At first, you must learn standing on one arm, let another arm just keep the balance. Train both your right and left arm. When you will be able to stand on your right and left hand without any support you can do the turtle. Don't forget about speed - it is easier to perform a fast turtle and it looks very cool.

Cricket - jumping turtle.
Stand on one arm, another arm helps you to jump. The closer the free arm is to your body - the faster you are moving. The hands touch the ground by turns.

Jackhammers - jumps on one hand in a circle.
Learn jump on your single arm - jump with your whole body and touch down whithout thouching the ground.
First, choose the direction to twist. Then, bit by bit try to stay on a single arm. After you learn staying on one arm, try to float on an arm, pushing off with free arm (you must have a material under your arm, before you do it). This move is named HandGlide. You have to learn at east 4 turns from one push. The most difficult moment in Jackhammers is to catch the body after jump, that why try to complicate the HandGlide. For example, try to do it with straightened body. Such moves help to advance the coordination and belly muscles. Now you can start jumping. You have to push off the ground by triangularis and belly muscles - only in this case your body remains alongside to the elbow. Don't jump too high, otherwise you
risk to damage the wrist. First time you may do 1-3 jumps, but regually trainings will conduct you to professional level!