breaking session lesson 2

okay okay boyz and gurlz, here we go, from teacher John
breakin session lesson duce

Air Swipes

Air swipes are extremely easy if you can do 1990s, or 2000s, but they can also sort of help you learn 1990s and 2000s. Start standing up, swing both hands to your right, then as hard as you can to your left and behind you. At the same time you swing to your left, kick up you left leg first, and then jump back onto your hands as if you were doing a diagonal handspring, or just falling into a diagonal one-legged bridge. Keep your feet in the air, only hands touch ground. Then swing your right leg over and around you left. You can land it one legged if you want, or you can make yourself stand back out of it and continue it. This move is not easy, practice doing the other swipes first so you know how your legs are supposed to go. It also helps if you can do a handstand. Don't stop breaking!


Halo

The best way to start halos is of course out of a windmill, being that halos are basically windmills without your back. It's a little more difficult to learn halos without the windmill, because you won't have any momentum. These instructions are for spinning counterclockwise.
1) Do a single windmill and catch yourself on your hands like you normally would do to set up for the next windmill, with your left hand tucked into your left hip and your right hand to the side, and rest the left side of your head on the floor.
2) Push your body up with both hands so that you are in sort of a diagonal headstand, and at the same time push with your right hand like you would for a handglide. This maneuver is called a headglide or an Icey Ice. Your legs should be automatically wound up to whip your body around, without you actually thinking about it.
Tip -- it's a good thing to practice a headglide, without the spin, out of a single windmill before going on to halos. Just windmill, catch, push sideways (but not up), and attempt to spin on one hand while the side of your head glides on the floor. Wear a beanie or grow an afro.
3) At the same time as #2, unwind your legs by throwing your right leg up first, then immediately throw your left leg up and around your right leg in a circular motion. #s 2 and 3 will be done all at once, very quickly. Remember, this is basically a windmill motion on your head, so think of it that way while you're doing it. Make sure you keep your legs split, as they have a tendency to come together, causing your body to drill.
4. You are going to let go of the floor with your hands when you start the headglide, one hand at a time. First the right hand lets go, but not until after you've initiated the glide and begun to turn over on your head, then the left, but the left hand should stay on the ground until you have spun around to the point where the left hand is forced to leave the ground. This should be automatic also. You then need to whip your shoulders around in a headspin-type motion after letting go and while your legs are swinging around as mentioned in #3, then you need to catch the floor first with your right hand before you complete the full 360 degree spin, then with the left hand, and your left hip should come to rest right back on your left elbow. From here you should be able to set up for another spin, by winding up your legs all over again.
Keep in mind that you must have a strong neck for halos, and your windmills should be pretty advanced. It's also good to warm up and stretch out your shoulders before practicing halos, because the rotator cuff is very sensitive and can be injured very easily from being twisted in directions that it's not supposed to go. The wrists, fingers, elbows, neck, and cranium are also at risk from doing this move. Headspins are NOT a requirement for halos, as is somewhat commonly believed, but being able to headspin doesn't hurt, because the more moves you have down pat, the more coordinated your body will be, and power moves are ALL about total body coordination.
Once you have good control of your halos, you'll be ready for double halos, and eventually triple halos. Lil Cesar and Orko could even pull quadruple and quintuple halos with a drilled technique back in the days.


Six-Steps

What up, new breakers?? A lot of you have been askin' about how to do a six-step, and have never gotten an answer, this is for you. The six-step is basic footwork that you should practice, everytime you break. You should be able, eventually to improvise your six-step with extra movments and steps (sometimes referred to as Techs) for style and originality. As you learn power moves (windmills, flares, etc), you should strive to be able to go into them from a six-step, and come out of them into the six-step (in addition to the other methods of starting and ending them).
For counter-clockwise six-steps, start from a push-up position with your legs spread (this seems kinda silly, but it's the easiest way to explain it, you can start from any position).
Lift your RIGHT arm, and move your LEFT leg through so it's in front of your RIGHT leg. Move your RIGHT leg so that your RIGHT foot is BEHIND the LEFT foot (your legs will be crossed LEFT over RIGHT). Move your LEFT foot in a small arc so your legs are uncrossed. At the same time switch your hands (pick the LEFT one up, and put the RIGHT one down.
Extend your RIGHT leg and sweep it around (wide) in a counter-clockwise arc so that your LEFT foot ends up covered by your RIGHT knee joint and your RIGHT foot is almost touching your butt (NOTE: Steps 3 and 4 shoud be done
in quick succession). Put your LEFT hand back down on the ground, and move your LEFT leg back to where it was in the push-up position. Move your RIGHT leg back to where it was in the push-up position, and you find yourself back at the beginning. Now, go back to step one, and repeat.
That's it. If you want go clockwise, just reverse all the LEFT/RIGHTs. One more thing, don't try to do this fast at first. Go VERY slow to get the technique down, and then increase your speed gradually. No matter how fast you go, if your footwork is sloppy, it's noticable.


Exersize

Well, if you want to learn upper body strength, a plange is NOT the best way to start off. A plange basically looks like this: arms straight (locked), planted shoulder-width apart, body perfectly horizantal, legs split or closed. Looks sort of like a h orizontal handstand. This is one of the hardest floor poses you can do, especially the closed-leg one. But what I suggest you do is start off with easier poses. If you can't already do it, start with a turtle or cricket position. If you can already do tha t, then try doing those two poses and pushing up to a handstand, and repeating. If that's too easy, then try straight-arm poses, like UFO (buddha) or air turtle positions. Or you can do an "L" position, which is where you're sitting with your le gs together in front of you, and then with your hands to your sides, pick yourself up and hold it as long as you can. Or is that also too easy? Then try this. Do a UFO or air turtle position and push up to a handstand. Try to keep your arms as straight as possible . Also try pointing your hands in different directions while you do all these poses. It works different muscles . Here's another one. If your fingers are strong enough, do an "L" pose on your fingertips, then bend your legs and pull yo ur body up to a handstand, and then drop back through to an "L" pose. Or if you're really flexible, keep your legs straight when you do this. After you can do all that, you're ready for planges and beyond.


Hand Glide

Yo, what's up! Have you ever seen someone spin on one hand and wonder "how do you That???" Well here is the answer! (This discription is to go Counter clock wise. Reverse the LEFTs & RIGHTs to go clock wise) In order to hand glide you nee d to know how to balance on two hands first! 1) Place both your elbows right next to your belly button. 2)Then have your legs bent like frogs legs are 3)Apply all your weight on your two arms and try balancing. Practice balancing in this turtle possition with two hands until you think you can ballance on it for a long time! 4) After that, get a peice of cloth, rag, bennie or cotton glove under your LEFT hand then tuck that LEFT elbow next to your belly button. 5) now use the Right hand which is doing noth ing at the moment and start paddling with it so you are spinning on your LEFT hand! (CAUTION) Do it slow at first or you may fall and pain will inflict you! 6) After you got spinning on your hand really good, add style in to it! While you are paddling gai n as much speed as you can then place your RIGHT hand on your back or head. So all you will be doing is spinning with no paddling and will be spinning with the momentum!


1990

First you find out which hand you want to spin on, your left hand or your right hand (usually the stronger hand). Now you are ready to begin.
Right hand: You start in a standing position. Then you cross your left leg over your right leg. Now you want to try doing a cartwheel with putting your left hand down first then your right. When you are doing this you want to kick up with your right leg then your left (this may feel akward at first but if you do this correctly it makes it much easier). Instead of doing a complete cartwheel, you want to stop half way and balance on your right hand. If you crossed your legs correctly you should be ready to
start spinning. just push off with your left and bring your legs together. You sould spin in the clock-wise direction and lead with your head. The TRICK to spinning is that you have to spin on the correct part of your hand or else you will not spin at all. You want to spin on the lower part of your palm, there is kind of a hard bone there, and you also want to lift up you fingers so that they do not cause friction. If you have trouble lifting up you fingers it helps to bend your elbow a little bit. It may be hard to do at first but the better your body is balanced over your right hand the longer you will spin.
Left hand: You start in a standing position. Then you cross your right leg over your left leg. Now you want to try doing a cartwheel with putting your right hand down first then your left. When you are doing this you want to kick up with your left leg then your right (this may feel akward at first but if you do this correctly it makes it much easier). Instead of doing a complete cartwheel, you want to stop half way and balance on your left hand. If you crossed your legs correctly you should be ready to
start spinning. just push off with your right and bring your legs together. You sould spin in the counter clock-wise direction and lead with your head. The TRICK to spinning is that you have to spin on the correct part of your hand or else you will not
spin at all. You want to spin on the lower part of your palm, there is kind of a hard bone there, and you also want to lift up you fingers so that they do not cause friction. If you have trouble lifting up you fingers it helps to bend your elbow a little bit. It may be hard to do at first but the better your body is balanced over your left hand the longer you will spin.


Leg Swipes

1. First you get in a position like you were gonna do a bridge (on all fours with
stomach facing the ceiling)
2. Next you lift your left hand up and kick into the air with your left foot.
3. this should bring you into the air so do the same with your right side.
4. Then land with your left hand and leg, and next your right hand and leg.


Jack Hammers

Here's a lil explanation to ya'll on how to do jackhammers. I think this is also a variation of a handglide...but harder.... In this move you hop on you're hand in da handglide position so the hand the supports you're whole weight actually comes off da ground. So you jump around in circles.
[1] First try then spinning motion. Get in da handglide position and by using only you're left hand (which is in yo stomach) try to turn a lil' bit. Sort of turn you're hand from you're wrist so you are clearly turning. Do this back & forth. After that you should try hoppin'.
[2] So once again you are in da handglide position. Now by using you're legs and you're free hand for help try to jumping in this position. this move is called The Cricket.
[3] Once you've got that down cold then try jackhammers. Now you put you're free hand behind you're back or something. you don't use it for any kind off help. So you're one hand does everything : Hopping, balancing and turning. You're legs shouldn't touch da ground at all.
It's possible to f*ck up you're knees while doin' diz one 'coz they are GOING to hit the ground when you practice this.
This move is NOT easy...And NOT for beginners. You can hurt you wrist pretty seriously if you can't hold da handglide position. You should pretty much master the position!! Keep practicing & Keep it real!!!



Walks

These moves are just variations of the Turtle or float.
VARIATIONS OF THE TURTLE ! (Walks) :
Air Turtles - arms must be straight, hands placed shoulder width
apart, legs must be bent and curled behind you ! Try to walk in
circles to really make it look better !
Buttwalks - arms must be straight, your hands must be shoulder width
apart, your body bent in an L position wit legs in front of you. It's
meant to look like a floating buttspin If you spin around !
Merry Go Rounds - just like an Air Turtle, but your body must be
straight and your legs split apart and straight. try and keep your
toes pointed ! It's much harder to walk with your legs straight in the
Merry Go Rounds , so let your legs give you a really strong initial
whip that will give you momentum ! It's basically up to your hands !
V Walks - Your arms must always be straight, hands shoulder width
apart, legs again straight and split, and your hands are placed
between your legs (Your legs should rest against your forearms).
Pig Walks - These are just like the V Walks but this time one arm is
inside the legs and one on the outside of the legs ! To make this look
better walk around in a straight line then go straight into a spin if
you feel lucky !
Their are so many different types of variations of walks and turtles.
Try making a few up yourself to really impress some people!
See ya gotta go breakin' Bye from Piglet !!!!!!!!!!


Sky Scrappers

Hey breakas!! This move is one of my favorites, its called the skyscraper.
My friend taught me this one day and I been bustin it out ever since.
1. Stand up straight arms by your sides. (This part is a little
weird to explain) Bring your right arm up to your face, then swing it in a
circular motion behind your head, turning your body to your right.
2. Put the right hand down and jump up into a handstand, twisting
your body and putting your other hand down.
3. Now lift one hand and turn, put it down. Lift the other, turn a
bit, put it down. Keep doing this over and over, til you get tired.
Its basically walking around in circles in a handstand. You can skip
the first step but I think it looks kool, gives it some style.


Roller

Ok this move is real hard to start with but look really cool when its
mastered.
Its a bit like a continuous airtrack but only horozontal rather than angled
and you do it from turtle, back to turtle.
1. Adpot Turtle position, have your left arm in stomach and right arm out
to the side.
2. Jump with your hands, using your push & shoulders & legs to rotate.
3. Land on your back but have your legs ready to kick up and spin [like
starting a windmill], now jump by kicking with your legs and
hands[optional] and land back in turtle.
This move looks really cool if you missout the bit opn your back and just
jump form turtle to turtle

(hope you guys are learning as much as meeh, which is actually zero, but hey~! it's fun to imagine myself doing it!! Neway, at least it gives me something to blog about =D )