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Breaking tips for all you guyz and galz:.

originally cited from John's Site

Windmills

Basic Windmill: (aka Continuous Backspin) Legs spread, rolling from hands to shoulders to
hands to shoulders and so on. Legs are straight and spread and do not touch the ground. Legs
revolve in cirular motion vertically as body spins in circular motion horizontally. Only
shoulders, and hands touch the floor.

Mummy: (No hands)Hands crossed over chest, roll from forearms to shoulders to forearms
to shoulders, etc.

Pyramids: Shown Above - (No Hands) Hands on knees, roll from head to shoulders to head to
shoulders to head to shoulders, much like the shampoo. Can also be done by hopping from
shoulders to shoulders to shoulders, skipping the head.

Tips: Keep legs straight and spread. Build up speed by pushing off with hands, not by kicking.
Watch ya head! Be patient. There are an infinite variety of possible WinD MiLLs, bE
CreaTiVe...


Flares

Legs spread and rotating horizontally about the the body. Only hands touch the floor. Arms
are lifted to let legs through. Legs and hips actually rotate around shoulders which are the
central axis.

Tips: Requires good upper-body strength, and some flexibility. Stretching legs, shoulders,
and wrists and doing push-ups on a regular basis will help greatly. Kick legs high, especially
on sides. Knees can be bent in the back while learning. Swing hips out in a circle. Also Be
careful not to kick the hips up too high, what goes up must come down. Swing hips in a circle



Turtles

Balanced on only two hands with elbows placed in the gut, Bboy/Girl spins by walking in a
circular motion. Creates an almost figure-eight pattern on the floor as breaker spins.

Crickets - Bouncing Turtles - done by placing only one elbow in gut and pushing off ground
with free hand.

Their are many StYLeS of Turtles -

Tips: Practice balancing on hands without moving at first. This will strengthen the wrists,
arms and gut as well balance. Next learn to walk in various directions in this position. Once
these are mastered, spinning Turtles should come rather quickly, easily and without risk of
injury. Enjoy!


Glides

1. Depending on you being left or right footed. for me being right footed
this is how I do it. Start with your right foot on it's toe. Toe's pointing
right, so that your heel is up and is turned in.
2. As you step down it will look like your heel is going to land on your
left foot, at that time you slide your left foot out from under the heel of
the right.
3. as soon as your right foot's heel hits the floor your left foot should be
on it's toes facing out to the left with the heel turned in.
4. now comes the tricky part, depending if you want to go in a circle or just
keep moving in the same direction (which I like, cause you can glide in a
direction of a girl that is walking and it looks like you are kinda just
floating along beside her, but still facing her) Now let me try and explain.
5. Now that your left foot is on it's toe and your right is flat, the way to
keep moving the general directions is that you have to slide your right
foot on it's heel, yes that's right on it's heel at the same time your left
foot is dropping to the floor. where it gets tricky is that while gliding
your right foot's heel you have to switch it to it's toe as soon as it is in
front of the left foot.
6. at this time you right should be on it's toes in front of your left, which
should be flat to the floor. Then you just start over. Your right goes from
toe to heel while your left slides across the floor and back on to it's toe.


Coffe Grinder

This move is called the coffee grinder, or helicopter, or ball and chain, or anything else that peeps call it. Anyway this has to be like one of the easiest moves in my opinion. The only thing is that you gotta be sorta flexible.
1. Sit on the ground with your left leg bent, and your sitting on the heel. And your right leg is straight out in front of you, and your hands are on the ground on each side of you.
2. Lift up your left leg and left hand, and at the same time swing your right leg in a circular motion to your left side, under your hand and leg.
3. Bring your right leg underneath your body in a circle motion, then put your left hand and leg back down and lift up your right hand. Bring your right leg around under your right hand and then back to the starting position.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 as many times as you want.
You should do this move in your 6-step or something to make it look kool. You can get a kool stall out of this move. When you bring your right leg over to your left side grab the ankle with your left hand and hold it for a few seconds, then go back into the helicopter.


Up Rock

UpRoCk is wut a b-boy/b-girl does when they are standin up. This is one of the best moves to show your own style. These instructions are the way I learned how to uprock.
1. Start standing up with your left foot off the ground
2. Now hop to your left onto your foot and your right foot is off the ground
3. Now face to your right and hop back onto right foot
4. Now quickly hop on to ya left foot and kick your right foot out
Just keep tryin this over and over. It looks pretty sweet if ya do it right.


Elbow Pose

1. get in a turtle position.
2. push backwards with your hands onto your elbow, but when you push back at the same time kick your legs upwards to the sky while you push onto your
elbows
3) you should then be on your elbows.


Elbow Spin

The name says it all you spin on your elbow:
First you get on your elbow, the hand of the elbow you're using should be holding up your chin or anywhere else you want to put it (you should be in a position similar to a handstand)you must be able to stay in this position. When you get down the balance to achieve spin you must wind ur legs like you are doing a 1990.
This might feel awkward but if you could do a headspin or 1990 you should know how to do this. This is a difficult move and usually people just get 1-5 spins on it. To keep on going you could push of with ur free hand. When u land try to end it with a suicide or land on your feet.
How to wind your feet: to do this you must open your feet in a v shape and for
going counter clockwise kick ur left leg to ur right, then bring ur feet together. It feels awkward at first, but you'll get use to it.
Remember to were a long sleeve shirt or elbow padding when doing this.


Air Tracks

Alight here are the instructions for a move called the airtrack (which in my opinion is one of the hardest and most spectacular moves in breakdancing!)
To perform the airtrack it's best that you can perform multiple flares and windmills with ease...the reason you need to be able to do this is because an airtrack is basically a windmill in midair and you will need the flare to perform before the airtrack to gain momentum...(its almost impossible to do the airtrack by itself...most of the time you will want to perform a flare~airtrack combo)
This is for counter clockwise flares and airtracks
Start off by doing half of a flare...when you do this you should be in the back part of the flare with you hands on the ground in front of you and your legs spread apart behind you...now kick your right leg up and to your left behind you in a circular motion...at the same time look to your right (very important!)...right after you look to your right kick your left foot under your right foot (like doing a windmill except your body is off the ground)...when you twist too far to keep your hands on the ground swing your right hand around behind you...as soon as you lift your right hand give a very hard kick with your right leg going up and left and your left leg going under it (just like before...picture the motion for a windmill)...a millisecond after you let go of the ground with your right hand let go with your left hand (you have to make sure that it is a millisecond after you let go with your right hand...if you let go with both hands at once you will just fall to the ground)...when you lift your left hand you should now be in the air with your back facing the ground and your legs open like you were doing a windmill...as soon as you see the ground (that's why I told you it was
important to look to your right...so you can see the ground when you come back over) put your right hand down...then put your left hand down...you should now be in the position that you started the move in...from here you can go into windmills or another flare...
The most important thing when you do this move is to make sure that you stay about 45 degrees to the ground...if you go too high up you will land on your head instead of hand and if you go too low you will land on your back or your stomach...another tip is to make sure that you keep you legs open...if you close your legs you will spin more than you want to and land on your back...
some variations to this move:
double airtrack- an airtrack where instead of keeping your legs open you close them and spin around twice before catching your self on your hands.

Thats it for now kiddoes, more installments coming in the future~! Goodluck breakin buddies~!