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Yo what's up! This my breaking "moves" page and on here, you'll find instructions and techniques on how to do harder moves. Unfortunately, I did not include the air traxs, or flares because I can't execute them yet and I don't want to give you any false instructions. Anyway, I'm working on my flares(Forget air traxs for now, it's suppose to be the hardest move in breakdancing.)and when I execute them, I'll tell you how to do the moves. If you want to know how to do some bad ass power moves, go to the bottom of this page and you'll find links to the windmills, 1990s, and headspins. Anyway, enjoy what I have on my page for now.

THE TURTLE AKA THE FLOAT

PART 1:

I love this move. It's kind of tricky to learn, but people are amazed when they see it cause it looks so impressive. A float is basically balancing on your two arms and walking around in any kind of pattern you want. A lot of people think that in order to do a float, you have to be strong, but the hard part is balancing yourself on one arm while moving the other. Anyway, this is what you do: Start out in a kneeling position with both of your knees on the ground, and your thighs spread. Find the part of your hand thats opposite of your fingers, or your wrist, and place your hands down on the ground with your wrists facing each other, so your fingers point outwards. Your hands should be kind of close to each other, and now this is the part you have to practice in order to be comfortable walking around. Bend your arms, and jab both of your elbows into your stomach(I found it easier to balance by jabbing my two elbows right above my hipbones). Now, lean foward even more until your face is only about an inch from the ground. Most of your weight should be on your elbows now, and both of your legs should still be bent with your thighs spread. Now, most of your weight should be off your legs now, and if your legs are not in the air yet, lift them up by using your upperbody. If you simply strech or try to bring your legs higher in the air, you will automatically lift yourself up with no problem. If you followed the instructions correctly, you should, now be in the air with no parts of your body touching the ground except for your two hands. I suggest you keep on practicing this until you are extremely comfortable with balancing yourself on two hands, and you can move on to my next set of instructions if you can hold that position just about forever. Are you ready....Ok!!!! Move onto part 2!!!

PART 2:

Ok, now I'm supposing that you've got the balancing stuff down cold, and you are ready to move. I going to give you instructions on how to move in a clockwise direction. You should practice this slowly first, and after you are comfortable walking around, try to move faster. First, go into the position that I described in part 1, and (*) shift all your weight onto your left elbow. Your right hand should still be on the ground, but you shouldn't feel any or hardly any weight on it. Simply direct your body to your right, and you body should start to go towards the right. What's happening right now is that you are turning to your right on your left wrist. When your left wrist cannot rotate anymore to your right, move your right hand back, and shift all your weight onto your right hand. Now, direct your body once again to your right, and rotate on your right wrist. When you can't rotate anymore, move your left hand a bit foward, and shift all your weight onto your left. Now what do you know!!?? You're back on your left agin, ready to rotate to the right, and then shifting all your weight to the right. All you have to do now is repeat the instructions from the (*) sign. If you can execute this move with no problems at all, then you can try to do this move in different forms. While turning, you can constantly kick in and out with your feet, or, you can follow the same form but strech out your legs and walk around. This is harder than kicking or the original form but if you pratice this, it will help you develope upperbody strenth and give you some mad abdominal muscles. If you get any of these three forms down, you can go take the dance floor at a party and show off your turtles and maybe even try to impress a hot girl...(Just kidding, don't even think about it).

THE HANDGLIDE

Part 1:

If you can do the turtle, you should be able to get this move with no problem. Unlike the turtle, a handglide is a move where you spin around in circles on one elbow while using you other free hand to push. The harder you push with your other hand, the faster you'll spin. This moves is easier than the turtle, but it requires a little more balance. A turtle looks a bit more impressive than this, but this is a good move for beginners and you can use this to gain speed to start off some power moves. This is what you do: First, get into the position I described before you go into the turtle (The position where your thighs are spread while kneeling on both knees, and so on...If you don't understand this position, refer to the instructions I gave for the turtle). Now, jab which ever elbow you are comfortable with balancing on into your stomach, and try to balance yourself. Use your other hand(The hand that is not supporting your weight) to balance as well. Right now, your position should be just like the turtle's except there's only one elbow supporting your weight and your free hand is right next to you. Like I said with a lot of moves, you've got to be comfortable in the position that you are in. So, practice holding this position until you basically don't even have to concentrate on balancing yourself. Do not move onto part two until you can hold the position for just about forever. If you are ready..ok!! Move to Part 2!

Part 2:

First, in order to spin, you're going to need a piece of cloth to cover your supporting hand so you can spin. After you've gotten something to spin on, get into the handglide position, and slowly lift up your free hand and place it right next to your head. Now, slowly attempt to spin by pushing off with your free hand. You should at least get 1/4 of a circle. Keep on practicing spinning until you can take away your free hand and just spin on your supporting hand. The longer you can spin without your free hand pushing off, the phater it looks. Well, now that you've learned a handglide, you can try to link it into turtles, or go from a turtle into a handglide. You can even link the handglide into windmills!!!

CRICKETS

In order, to do this move, you should have your handglide down cold. The cricket is a move that's exactly like a handglide besides the fact that the hand that is supporting you weight actually comes off the ground. Basically, it's a hopping handglide. To perform this move, simply get into a handglide position. Then, use your free hand to push yourself off of the ground and direct your body so that you are turning in the air. Once you landed, you should be facing a different direction from your starting position. Try to get at least a 1/4 of a circle every time you jump. If you have a rather weak stomach, you should tighten your stomache when you do this move. Crickets are harder that the handglide, but they also look better.

HEADGLIDE

To me, this is perhaps the easiest move out of the turtle, crickets, and handglide. This move is really easy because it's so much easier to balance with the help of your head. This move is simply a handglide with the help of your head. All you have to do is do a handglide, except put your head down on the ground and glide across your forehead. It's really easy. The only hard part is that you have to jab your elbow higher and closer to your head so you can angle your body to be able to spin on your hand and glide across your forehead at the same time. This move looks the best if you strech your legs straight out instead of pulling them in like you did in the turtle. You can't do too much with this move. It's not a very good move to be linked to, or be linked into something. You just have to find some way to use it.

JACKHAMMER

This is a fairly hard move. It's like a handglide and a cricket, but you're not using your free hand at all. Your free hand is place behind your back, and you are strictly bouncing and hopping up and down in a circle with one hand. This move requires more balance that any of the glides (Besides the elbowglide which I don't know how to do either). To execute this move, get into a handglide position, and put your free hand behing your back. If you can't hold yourself there, then keep on practicing until you can balance yourself on one hand without the support of your free hand. Now, do what you would do in a cricket, except that fact that you can't push off with your free hand. Thrust your whole body upwards, and also push off with your supporting hand. As soon as you land, you should be facing a different direction, and you are going to push yourself into the air again. Simply continue this motion until you mess up or up to the point where you want to stop. This move took me a lot of practice to get and it's tough to learn. However, this move looks really cool, but I think that the turtle looks the best of all.

GYROS

This is a great move for people who are ready to move on to the more advanced type of breaking. It's not hard, but it's also not as easy as a footwork or a mini-flare. This moves looks similar to the mini-flare, but it's tougher than a mini-flare. In a rotation of a gyro, your legs will be really wide in the air, and your legs are going to be a lot higher. You body is also going to twist more, so one rotation of the gyro actually covers 1/3-1/2 of a circle. If you can do a gyro really well, you should be able to complete a circle and a half with 2 rotations. This is what you do:

(The directions will be for spinning clockwise)

First, start out in a crab soccer position. Lift up your left foot and strech it straight out. You should now be supporting you weight with your two hands, and your right foot. (*) Now, place all your weight on your left hand, and jump as high as you can into the air using your right foot. Do not use your left to jump because it will affect your direction of spin, and make it end up looking like a swipe. Once your are in the air, spread your legs, and kick up as hard as you can. In the meantime, lift up your right hand, and bring it over so it ends up being next to your left hand, and then lift up your left hand, and swing it over to you left so that your hands are in the same position as they were in the crab soccer position. Your legs should automatically follow, and you should end up in a crab soccer position again. To continue these rotations, simply lift up your left leg again after you've landed, and repeat the instructions from the (*) sign.

THE CYCLONE

This move is the hardest move out of all the moves that involve spinning your legs such as a swipe, mini-flare, or gyros. This move is also known as an "air gyro" because it's a gyro that you jump into from an uprock, not a footwork or a crab soccer position. Your body is also close to becoming verticle when you do this. This is what you do:

(Like the gyro, these directions will be for spinning clockwise)

First, simply start out with an uprock. In the middle of your uprock, kick your left leg up so your left leg and your right leg make a 90 degree angle. In the middle of that kick, jump up with your right foot and whip your upper torso to you left. (*) Your body should be twisted, and you will be airborne. Strech out your two hands, and land on your two hands. Spread your legs, and turn your hips to you right. At this point, you should be on nothing but your two hands, and your legs should be spread and HIGH in the air. If you twist your hips hard enough to your right, your upperbody should follow, and you will end up in a crab soccer position. To cintinue this, simply jump up from the crab soccer position, and twist your body to your left and repeat the instructions from the (*) sign. This is a good move to use because it's really impressive, and it gets you into a crab soccer position, where you can go into a lot of moves from there.

1990

Windmill

Headspin

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