How To Break  2-Hip Turtle This is not the hardest of all the moves but it will take you a while to master. The main problem is being able to lie down and then lift your self up with your hands, so strength is quite important. 1. So first get your self on the ground into a press-up position, the elbows shouldn’t be sticking out to your sides, like in a press-up however, they should be jabbing your stomach. 2. Slowly lift your legs off the ground, so you are balancing on your hands. Damn painful ain’t it but keep your body as level as possible without your arse sticking out, or you will lose balance. 3. Now take small steps with your hands so you start to rotate. Take little steps at first making sure your body is still level. You should start to pick up speed after a while. To spin faster however transfer all the weight to one hand, then move the other hand in a arc of about 45 degrees, put that hand down and transfer all the weight to that hand, move the other hand in a arc in the same direction as the other and then place down. Keep doing this to gain speed. This is much hard than shuffling you hands around, as you must put all your weight on one hand. Once you can do all this you can do lots of things, try doing it with your legs bent/twisted for a nice cocky effect, or my personal favourite is to do it on a nice polished surface, then you can place a hat or towel under your strongest hand so when you get up to speed you can stop stepping with your hands and simply glide around. This looks real class as you look like your not putting any effort into it. But go to the walks section to see the masses of variations you can do of turtles. Walks Air Turtles Same as normal but your arms are straight, your legs should be bent right up behind you because it’s easy to tip doing this one. Buddha’s Love these little beauties, same as air turtles but you legs should be tucked under you so your knees are between your forearms like a Buddha. Hanglides Same as a turtle but you only use one hand on the ground and push yourself off with the free arm. You spin faster by bringing your legs closer to your body. Crickets Same as a hanglide but you hop around, this means all your weight is on one hand then you have to push weight right up, painful. Elbowglide Same as handglide but your hand is on your stomach and your elbow is on the floor. Fistglide You guessed it, same as the handglide but you spin on your fist. Sidewalks Again the same as a hanglide, but your elbow should not be tucked into your stomach it should be in your side, and the body is sideways. Six-Steps Right this ain’t all that easy at all, in fact I’m going to find it a bit hard to explain. But keep one thing in your mind when you do this 'GO SLOW', if you go to fast doing this at the start you will soon find yourself in a large knot that not even a scout would know how to do. Also if you go to fast before you have perfected the move you will find it won't look smooth. So going counter-clockwise:- 1. Get your self in a press-up position with your legs spread nice and wide apart. 2. Lift your RIGHT arm up in the air, anywhere will do (on your head if you like) and then drag your LEFT leg under you to where your RIGHT hand was placed. 3. Your LEFT foot should now be in front of you, now move your RIGHT foot closely behind your LEFT one, so your legs are now crossed left over right in front of you. Make sure your RIGHT leg is not fully extended. 4. Now move your LEFT leg in a small arc so your legs are no longer crossed, at the same time as doing this put your RIGHT hand back where it was and pick your LEFT hand up. 5. Now your RIGHT leg should be free to stretch out in front of you, so stick it out and sweep it around in a large arc past where your LEFT hand was placed. This should find your now bent LEFT leg being covered by the back of your RIGHT knee. Then bend that RIGHT leg around your LEFT leg so your RIGHT foot is touching your arse. 6. Put your LEFT hand back down, Now finally move your LEFT leg smoothly back to the press-up position, closely followed by your RIGHT leg which again returns to the press-up position. Headspins The name says it all, so be prepared to get a neck brace if I don’t explain this right. Basically there is no point in trying this until you can comfortably balance on your head. The best way to train for this is to do a normal headstand (handstand, but with your arms bent so your head is also on the floor) and wiggle your legs about all over the place to train yourself to balance. 1. Do a headstand and put your legs into a shape like helicopter blades. Make sure you feel balance perfectly before you move on. 2. Now slowly try to walk yourself around using your hands. Take really small shuffles and pay attention to keeping your legs in that helicopter position. Once you can comfortably make it all the way around (360), using quite fast steps with your hands move on 3. Whilst shuffling with your hands, whip your legs around in a circle, then stop and straight away whip again. You will be able to feel if you are doing this right as you will feel you’re self-getting faster. I would have thought at this stage you'll be getting annoyed because you keep falling over but keep at it. 4. You should now be going fast so here it is, move your hands off the floor so you are now spinning on your head, try to keep your legs in the whipping motion. You probably wont spin for long but once you have learned to spin fast, and keep your balance better you will be spinning on your head all day if you want. Just don’t do it on carpet or you may well find yourself going prematurely bald. Freezes These are not really all that difficult to explain but can be difficult. All you have to do is freeze your body during a move. Sounds easy enough but try doing one during a windmill or a head spin. The best freeze to practice I think is during six-steps, as your body is so knotted up its really easy to balance. The only real problem with freezes is that they look crap if you don't get out of them smoothly. Backspins This move is probably the best move to start out doing, all you need is a nice smooth shiny surface and you need to wear a slippery jacket, perhaps your dads old barber coat will do nicely. 1. Sit on the floor, you LEFT leg should be bent up with the LEFT foot flat on the floor. The RIGHT leg should be back in a 90-degree angle to your RIGHT side. Support your body with your LEFT hand. 2. Bring your RIGHT leg around in an arc in front of you, the quicker you flick your leg around the faster you spin. At the same time as doing this move from the sitting position onto your back, keep a tight ball and try to keep the spin on your upper back as you go faster. 3. As you go onto your back whip your legs in as fast as you can so you are in a very tight ball. You should now be spinning on your back. The smoother and faster you learn to do step 2 the faster you will go. Nikes 1. Stand up with your legs shoulder width apart. 2. Draw the largest circle you can with both your arms, do this in a clockwise motion starting with your hands at about 3 o'clock. 3. When your arms are swinging past 12 o'clock or just before, bring your right foot in close to your left foot. 4. Now as your arms come swinging around for the last section of the circle, drop your left arm and allow your right arm to carry on. Then move your right hand to where your right foot used to be and allow your left foot to jump to the side and up. Then follow the left leg quickly by your left leg. 5. Your whole body weight should now be on your right hand, spread your legs in the are to keep balance. Now bend your waist a bit so you can get you legs to look like a Nike tick in the air. Remember to keep your legs very widely spread. 2-Hip | profile    © ukhh.com 1999 - 2000