Going into the backspin
Here are some ideas of how to get into the backspin from various other moves.- Toprock: Either coin drop into a backspin or toprock -> 6-step -> backspin on step 2 of 6-step. Instead of bringing your 2nd leg in under your ass in 6-step, use it to start the backspin.
- Footwork: 6-step to backspin. Read above.
Tips To Help You Spin Faster And Longer
These are just some tips I have found useful when learning.
These are just some tips I have found useful when learning.
- Since you want to spin on your upper back, it is best to kick your legs over your head as much as possible, so it brings you from the sitting position onto your back. You'll know what I mean when you try it out; just kick hard. (And upper back is udner your shoulders
and above the part where your spine pokes out when you bend your back.) - When you kick your second leg up, make it go parallel to the ground for as long as you can. When you get to the point that you kick your second leg you should be bent back a lot but just off the ground, with your right leg over your head and your left arm still on the ground, but this time to the left of you. Kick your left leg over your left arm and then up. This helped me a lot when I was learning.
- If you want to spin faster and longer, make yourself as small as possible, and keep your head off the ground.
- How do you balance better, you say? Well, remember when you had to kick your first leg in a circle above you and make your second leg follow? When you kick your legs, don't just kick it in a circle and pull them in towards you when they pass above you. Make sure you kick all the way around in a circle, so the momentum will force your body to balance.
- Remember: It's 99% leg motion momentum! Your hands are just there to ease you collapsing onto your back, not to push you.
- Do 1 nutcracker rotation so essentially you hop once across your shoulders
- Point at your opponent (though kinda hard to focus)
- Continue into windmills?
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