Baqueta
26-Dec-2003, 07:36 PM
If you want to learn a back or front tuck, a butterfly twist, a double leg crescent, an aerial, or something like that, but don't know where to start, I can show you a way.
first you've got to have good basics. Obviously you can't get a front tuck (aka front flip) if you can't do a forward roll. Basics. You have to sort of build your way up to what you want. Also, handstands handstands handstands! The better your handstand the cleaner a bunch of other moves will look. And one last pointer would, have goals and objectives. Write down what you want to learn and write down by when you want to learn it. For instrance, right now I'm trying to learn an envergado (aka armada dupla or double leg crescent). I started out small, with a tornado kick. I turned the tornado kick into a parafuso, which is like a tornado kick, but instead of the legs being straight out crescent kick-ish, I have the first leg crescent-ish and the last one sort of like a roundhouse and I'm leaning back more. After that will be a 540 tornado kick, which is the last leg landing not the first leg. And then I'll attempt the envergado. There is a process. Us gymnasts call this progressions.
Now how do you train? You can train anyway you want, as long as you're organized. I switch off programs between back tumbling and front tumbling every other day. And remember repeptition is the key to engraining something in your head. Instead of numbering how many times you do something, give yourself a time limit to practice the move and then move to the next thing.
This is my "floreios" workout:
Front Tumbling
Pike press handstand 10
Straddle press handstand 10
Handstands 5 mins
Pole poses 25
Front handspring 5 mins
Front tuck 5 mins
butterfly kick 10
Aerial 5 mins
Envergado progressions 20 mins
Back Tumbling
Pike press handstands 10
Straddle press handstands 10
handstands 5 mins
pole poses 25
backhandspring 5 mins
back tuck 5 mins
butterfly kick 10
Aerial 5 mins
Envergado progressions 20 mins
You may have noticed that the butterfly kick is there. Why, you may ask. Because somewhere in the near future I want to learn a butterfly twist, so I'm perfecting my b-kick so when the twisting time comes I'll have an easier time.
Hope this gives you self taught people a sort of easier time in training.
first you've got to have good basics. Obviously you can't get a front tuck (aka front flip) if you can't do a forward roll. Basics. You have to sort of build your way up to what you want. Also, handstands handstands handstands! The better your handstand the cleaner a bunch of other moves will look. And one last pointer would, have goals and objectives. Write down what you want to learn and write down by when you want to learn it. For instrance, right now I'm trying to learn an envergado (aka armada dupla or double leg crescent). I started out small, with a tornado kick. I turned the tornado kick into a parafuso, which is like a tornado kick, but instead of the legs being straight out crescent kick-ish, I have the first leg crescent-ish and the last one sort of like a roundhouse and I'm leaning back more. After that will be a 540 tornado kick, which is the last leg landing not the first leg. And then I'll attempt the envergado. There is a process. Us gymnasts call this progressions.
Now how do you train? You can train anyway you want, as long as you're organized. I switch off programs between back tumbling and front tumbling every other day. And remember repeptition is the key to engraining something in your head. Instead of numbering how many times you do something, give yourself a time limit to practice the move and then move to the next thing.
This is my "floreios" workout:
Front Tumbling
Pike press handstand 10
Straddle press handstand 10
Handstands 5 mins
Pole poses 25
Front handspring 5 mins
Front tuck 5 mins
butterfly kick 10
Aerial 5 mins
Envergado progressions 20 mins
Back Tumbling
Pike press handstands 10
Straddle press handstands 10
handstands 5 mins
pole poses 25
backhandspring 5 mins
back tuck 5 mins
butterfly kick 10
Aerial 5 mins
Envergado progressions 20 mins
You may have noticed that the butterfly kick is there. Why, you may ask. Because somewhere in the near future I want to learn a butterfly twist, so I'm perfecting my b-kick so when the twisting time comes I'll have an easier time.
Hope this gives you self taught people a sort of easier time in training.