Why Do My Air Flares Look Weird As Balls!?!
Started by jamesters, August 1, 2012 · 4 Replies · 2,413 Views
the movement is good, some reasonable reasons:
- your butt is too high, airflare is about 45° in this way when you jump from one arm to the other the body is forced to move in a circles. start the airflare with your body more diagonal.
-head in let to arch your back and maintain a vertical line
-you need more lean on the rigth arm. lean on it having the chest and abs looking the ceiling and the head pointed to the sternum, then when you feel that you are falling try tu jump/fall on the aother arm
-the legs kick to high, pass the right leg near the floor then swing it up
-your are passing your rigth larm over the head, consider to pass it above the chest
-put your starting hand (the left) intra rtotated of 90-100° this let to your body the necessary rom in the wrist to generate the swing. if the rom avaiable is little the quantity of torque you can generate is limited.
the motion is not bad, the depth on the airflare comes with practice but CORRECT practice. you can approach drawing 2 parallels lines on the floor. start the airflare putting 2 hands on one line, then swing and jump putting the left arm on the other line. the idea is 2 airflare to complete one circle, max 3-4 airflare.
you can also do airflare jump as a trick put your rigth hand on the line, lean as in the pike freeze the kick up above you maintaining tha ass at 45° (above not out) and catch with left hand on the other line. no problem if at the beginning the jump is vertical, try to do it more deep every time. when you can reach a decent depth you can try add some motion..
the depth is very important in order to catch the circle motion then the jump or the swing. you can do airflare less opened but be sure to round a circle. everything i cited is useful to improve tecnique
What alex says is pretty much correct. You can however do high airflares and still rotate correctly. What you are doing here is that you are rotating too much on a horizontal axis(similar to a handstand pirouette) and then you jump. Take a look at the position you are in before you jump at 0.02. There you are all the way over your right arm and you are forced to jump in the wrong direction. You need to let your lower body rotate more so you will be jumping away from your arm. A very simple trick you can do which helps for this, is to try to actually feel that you are in a handstand(slightly slanted so you are not completely vertical) position before transfering to 1 arm for the jump. That gives your lower body time to twist more so you will be forced to go more in the right direction. Like alex says, ideally you will turn 180 degrees, so that your will jump to a paralell line of the one you were starting on. This guy breaks it down pretty well
Notice the direction the hips twist. They turn toward his side circularly which forces the movement to go in a circle. He also goes very high when he does it so slow but still ends up perfectly. Its this sideways hip rotation which is hard to understand, and was for me the key to learning it.
Awesome! I tried applying such advice, tell me if this is better or worse now!?!?!
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Getting there! Now you start to move in a circle. With the technique you are using it will probably benefit you to go for learning many rounds like they are now, even though the circle will be very big. When you start to get some serious control down its not too hard to change them so you manage to stay in one place and complete a circle with only 3 or so airflares. Some people learn the other way with perfect form from the beginning but have a hard time getting multiple rounds. Keep working at them and build towards 10 rounds. Do work on the form as well, but keep it secondary.