Critique My Flares

What's bad about them or could be better? I want them to be the best of the best of the best best best best best!!! I will train hard and smart to get there!

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I'm for sure not the most qualified to give advice on flares, but I see some room for improvements.

You are bboy'ing the flares a lot, focusing on having a flashy look from the front while they drop very low in the back where you have to bend your legs in order to keep them going. Of course this whole discussion depends on how you want the flares to look.

The motion that is strived for on pommel horse is always circular. If you take shortcuts inside the circle you also cut of some of the potential energy, which you then have to input manually from muscle work.

So, to apply the notion explained above to flares, you have the perimeter of a circle in a plane 10 cm above the floor. When you transit through the front part of the flare you'll allways have one foot following the outline of our circle drawn. You are already doing this quite well, although you could extend your hip a bit further. Since the inertia is related to the radius squared, a small increase in the radius will give you a much higher moment of inertia, which, if you have the strength to keep the angular velocity up, will in turn increase your angular momentum, which is responsible for the gyroscope effect helping keep your body on the plane.

When you get to the back part of the flare, your goal is the same, though the means of achieving it is a little different. You should try and extend your hip ( right now there is a 90 degree angle between your stomach and thighs ), but in order to accomplish that you'll need to have your hips higher from the ground. You could try keeping your right leg a bit longer in its top position to allow the hips to raise higher. Pushing with your left arm and protracting the scapula as you transition from front to back will also help your hips up into the planche position. In general try going through a planche position every revolution, and keep your hips extended as much as possible.

i think this is a situation where all bboys who want to learn flare have to pass.

the biggest mistake is permitt to the rigth leg to fall down. after the kick movement the only thing (not really the only) wich helps you to maintain the hips high on the side is the rigth leg. some people prefer to maintain it near the head (hard swing and strength needed) and other ( as me) maintain it on the side making a sort of stretched "L" with the other leg.

important factor plays the transition side-back. since i've learned 2-3 circles on the floor and the tecnique of counterturning was assimilated i applied this tecnique to flare, the result is move the entire body (hips + legs in a straigth line with the leg wich is going on the back) on the back. often you can see that the ass is pulled back (by some movers) piking the hips before the transition side-back is accomplished.

the counter turning motion decrease the possibility to pike the hip and prepares the body for the transition side back.

remember that the movement must be symmetrich and rhythmic. same degree of side lean is required and the same if for front and back. at my home i've written 2 X on the floor and i focuse to put the hans always in this position. to reinforce the movemnt i also perform flares walking forward or backward or sideward. to elevate it on the back you can put a mat behind you forcing the legs swinging more high