Butterfly twist8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Once you spot your landing, you can unravel from the coiled position. Spot your landing, and then reach for your landing. I unravel almost to stand upright at the end, which likely won't happen. I've been doing this trick long enough to have most of it unconsciously programmed, so don't take too many notes from these final slides. Landing spotted and I eject the landing gear. Where the head goes, the body follows. I'm tight and my head is searching for the ground right now so I can spot my landing. You have enough to think about already, so for the legs it's all about throwing the back leg up high and jumping with intensity. Your body will settle into something comfortable over time. I'm not consciously thinking about them, nor do I ever unless I'm trying to do a specific trick. Your legs will do funky things in the air. Just a fraction of a second hello! to the grass, not a memorizing stare down. My friends and I discovered, one day, that stalling for us was all about taking a glimpse at the grass right after takeoff and right before spinning. For most of us, when we need to stall, that's a little bit beyond what we're looking for. One is to truly do a butterfly kick and then twist over. Now, this stalling business isn't exactly easy and I have two classifications of stalling. Seriously. As for how to coil? I usually think about bringing my right arm to my heart and striking over top my body with my left elbow. If you hit a position like this, all that's left is coiling your arms to your body and turning your head. In this slide, you can see my torso is still facing the ground and yet my entire body is off the ground. If you're having trouble with height or with getting horizontal, check your jumping leg out. See my jumping leg? It actually…uhh…jumped? This is tricky to do for starters. Once you start twisting, your height gaining is all but over.Īnd to show the stall, here's another video. The first part of getting more height and stalling is actually coming to full extension. Stalling the twist basically means getting as much height as you can before initiating the twist. One thing to consider is stalling the twist, which is something you might hear others tell you to do. The only thing that happened since the last slide: me jumping and then coiling my arms to my body tighter. Tricking is all about transition of momentum. Wide arms at the moment of takeoff is a good thing. This gives you more power for the spin itself because you can coil them inwards to your body. For any twisting trick, one of the keys is to keep the arms wide at first. Compared to not lifting it at all, it's a big difference.Īlso: arms. I know it doesn't look like I'm lifting it high, but I'm trying to. Doing so not only gets you height, but it also keeps your body horizontal to the ground. The goal here is to lift the back leg as high as possible. ![]() This is the butterfly kick's last moment of similarity. With the U dip not only down and up, but also across my front leg, my torso is now on it's way to be closer to the house than my lower body. ![]() It's going to dip across my front leg and my torso will end up closer to the house. My body starts in front of my legs (my torso is closest to the camera right now). I harp on that in the butterfly kick tutorial, so recheck that if you have to. Not only does this get you height it also gets you rotation provided you dip across your body. Everything is still back, but I'm getting ready to dip into the U and play that funky music.ĭip into the U. Although everyone is different, I like to keep my shoulders back a bit when I throw the swing.Īh, just like in the butterfly kick, that lead swing leg opens before it plants into the ground. If you're comparing your video against mine, be sure to examine what your shoulders are doing in relation to the swinging leg. Pace is starting to heighten here to prepare for the violence. Keep your head calm, keep your body relaxed.Īfter the turn, everything is back as the lead leg swings out. When I was first learning this trick, one of the mistakes I kept making was going hyper speed into the takeoff. I'm letting this takeoff give me momentum, but I'm controlling things. See how I'm pretty much straight up and down? That means I'm coasting into the trick. I get momentum from a little spin, as do most people. Weight is all on my right leg and arms are back, too. Revisit that tutorial here if you need a full refresher. For my money, it's only 1/4 of the butterfly kick and it feels like a completely different trick, which is why you don't even need to know how to butterfly kick clean in order to have a nice and fancy butterfly twist. ![]() Recommended prerequisites: butterfly kickĭescription: The butterfly twist is considered to be a butterfly kick with a 360 spin. ![]()
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