[b-boy Syth]

Hi everyone,

So, your sick of your half-flare or not getting enough rounds? Then ante-up and read my guide, you should use this as a supplement to other flare guides (sparkz or anubis').

Here are some points other guides won't tell you:

1)Firstly, flares must be started really quite hard. They have to be done above a certain speed if you don't have le planche strength.

Think of this, when you windmill, you have to kick hard to start off, you can then build momentum until you feel yourself spinning fast and then it is easy to carry the momentum because you have to apply much less effort to continue them.

Flares is the same thing, that initial swing (or few swings) make the flare!

2)Start the flare by swinging your leg in a wide circle WITH ur hips. Basically enter the front of the flare with your leg swooping low and wide with your groin (yes, like in virgin flares) and swing this leg out and around HARD!

When you are coming round the back, you should swing out with your lower leg from the tiptoes (again like in the virgin flares)

so the motion in your head will be something like: swing with groin-out and around, swing out to tiptoes-out and around, swing with groin-out and around, swing out to tiptoes-out and around...and so on

3)ADDED to this motion of swinging legs you must also be trying to lift your ass at the back. In order to do this, when flanking to the back, lean and try to step forward.

The reason you need a high back is simple, the back of your flare must look almost identical to the wide spread you had when you started. If your legs are bent it is like trying to start a flare low and with bent legs, it's hard to carry.

4)so basically, a high spread back is essential (actually more spread than height, height is good for combos tho) as your legs have to be as they were when you started the flare, you have to kick THAT hard when ur coming round to the front again too..

5)For a clockwise flare, the key kicks are these: Enter with right and groin(hips) flank it out and around, exit with left(right out to the tiptoes) with ass out and around, enter with right...thats it!

I hope these tips will help you a little.

Also, flares are much easier with flexible legs, so if you can do the splits it is an advantage. They don't take that long, trust me, I went from zero flexibility to splits in 2 months, simply by stretching before every flare session.

Do the splits as far as you can, then bounce ur ass up and down to stretch the legs out (put your hands on the ground)

So, key points:

1)Flares must be done above a certain speed, this largely depends on your strength.

2)Remember the groin-in, toes-out idea.

3)There is a stretching legs element in the flare, basically while your leg is near your head, the other one should be kicking out and stretching as far as you can.

4)Practice, flares is one of those moves where you can't just do them knowing the technique (although it helps to understand a flare), you have to condition your body, so practice daily (trust me flares are a daily practice move)