[Bboy Crescent]

Okay david_hsingyu here's your step-by-step guide for turtles (CCW). I'll post this as a separate thread so others can read it too. Pictures probably won't help much for this move so you'll want to watch some videos and look at how the guys toss their weight around. "Flying Steps - Breakin It Down" is a good one. Watch the guy with yellow pants.

1.) First off, remember to breath when you're in a float position. Turtles don't last very long if you don't. When you're spinning don't hold your breath either. FLEX your ab muscles a little to prevent face from turning red or running out of breath. Before you start learning the turtle, you probably wanna be able to stay in that floating position for as long as you want. If you're tipping over on your face, close in your legs (bring feet closer to your ass). If your feet keep touching the ground, bring feet farther away from your ass. Find an equilibrium... it depends on how you place your arms. Forearms should be vertical and perpendicular to the ground; that will give you a good height.

3.) Now try start walking in circles slowly. Remember to DO NOT LET YOUR ELBOWS LEAVE YOUR HIPS! You need to keep your height with your arms or else you will lose your balance or your arms will simply collapse and you'll just go flat on the ground into a bellyspin. When you're walking in circles, shift your weight to the hand that's holding you up and lift your other hand off the ground. Just place your hands where it'll continue the spin. Keep practicing on this and build up speed... you probably won't get too fast so don't worry too much about it, just get effecient enough to be able to maintain your balance. Remember don't shift your weight too much that your tip over on the arm that's bearing your weight. When you're learning to walk, make sure your arms remain UNDER your body, not outwards or you will fall.

4.) If you have really good speed on that last step (possible) and good balance you can probably stop there if you're happy with your turtles. But if you wanna learn how to really toss your weight around you can go even further. At this point you're pretty much just perfecting your turtles. You need to learn how to wag your butt around and toss your head/upper torso in the direction of your spin. Your waist will be bending from left to right (vice versa) everytime you place your hand on the ground. If you want good speed right away, start your turtles from handspin position or from standing. Otherwise you can still start from your float and build up speed. Now I'm going to be describing everything in CCW. From the handspin position, you will wanna wind up your body. Look to your left and SPREAD your legs apart behind you, you will be pulling them in when you start the spin to gain more speed. Turn you hips in the direction you wanna spin, which is to your right if you're going CCW.

5.) Once you start your spin, pull your legs in immediately to get your momentum going. First hand placed on the ground is the right hand pointing forward (your left hand should already be on the ground from starting position and should now be pointing left). As soon as your right hand is placed on the ground, you wanna bend your waist to the right so your body goes into an "L" shape. Your weight should be resting on JUST your right arm now. Now your upper torso should feel like it wants to be tossed to your left. So lift up your left hand and throw your upper torso to your left while KEEPING YOUR LEGS WHERE THEY ARE. This motion should look like you're trying to draw a rainbow (starting from the right) with the top of your head. This is the part of the turtle where you can hop off the ground really high and get a TON of speed. (Looking to your left can help with speed) After you finish drawing the "rainbow", you left hand should be down on the ground somewhere close to your right hand facing backwards. Be careful not to twist your wrists here... AS SOON AS your left hand hits the ground, your body weight should now be on JUST your left arm. Lift your right hand (from down there by your right hip) and place it on the ground under your right shoulder with fingers pointing forward. Your left hand should now be pointing to your left. Your waist should be bent to the left if you kept your legs where they were and your body should look like a backwards "L". Now your hips are ready to be tossed to the right again...so go back to the 3rd sentence of this paragraph and repeat the process.

Other tips: Look DOWN when you're learning... It helps with your balance. Keep elbows tucked in... trust me it saves you a LOT of pain and gives you more height. When you're whipping your waist and torso (in step 5), focus on whipping harder every turn and getting as much speed as you can. You don't need to worry much about balance like you did before because your head and feet will be going up and down from the "rainbow" motion and your momentum should keep you on your hands... Turtle is all about transferring weight from arm to arm and whipping your hips and torso so concentrate on learning that.

Good luck. ~Bboy Crescent

[VooDoo_EliTe]

Yo crescent!

Nice turtle guide, i love it... better than what i read before! how long did this take u man... lol. U used excellent terminology and everytin... lol! fukin expert on move guides just like dat windmill one (dat 1 is great!) ... post your turtles video... it'll help others, and plus u added a mills video on da last move guide u made... i think it'd be great having a video of turtles with this move guide.... anyways PEACE OUT.... cya around bro...

[HJLau]

yea i agree wit VooDoo_EliTe. u make pretty good guides and u should add a short vid to this to show us newbies how its dun

all in all a good guide. but i do disagree with the, keep ur elbows tucked in at all times. u wont get speed that way. i can go twice as fast swinging my elbows as i "step" then transfering the weight back over that elbow.

[RandomTask]

I agree with kurupt the key to getting speed with turtle is by bringing one of your arms almost out from your body and placing it down while pushing so you can get speed.

[AzNbReAkA]

u jus keep on comin bak wit more, yea, u should get anotha video of u doin turtlz this time, those millz were nice

If you're tipping over on your face, close in your legs (bring feet closer to your ass). If your feet keep touching the ground, bring feet farther away from your ass. << by Crecent...

that is incorrect, you got it backwards.... If your tipping over on your face, You want your legs farther AWAY from your butt so the wait moves you off your face and backwards.... and if you are hitting your feet, you want to close your legs CLOSER to butt, so the weight is taken away from leaning towards the back... Other than that , good guide -
and I agree with everyone, I wanna see a turtle vid lol, I wanna see if mine are faster =o)

- Liquid -

[Bboy Crescent]

Yeah sorry my bad on that one. I did have it backwards... I'll post a video soon.

haha no prob dude.......
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Ill be looking forward to that clip lol

- Liquid -

[Bboy Crescent]

Yeah sorry my bad on that one. I did have it backwards... I'll post a video soon.

[AzNbReAkA]

..., i don think the modz r noticing this, they havn't commented on it once er nething, and as i type rite now itz the last thread on the 1st page, so basically i'm kinda bringin it bak up

[LongTheTranRen]

im speechless

MAD props to cresent

[LongTheTranRen]

and also, i find it easier to shift ur weight if you start out with alot of momentum

[word1]

when i turtle my body makes weird noises, esp. when transfer of weight occurs.
Like that armpit-fart noise thing.
Maybe its that, or maybe im squishin my intestines.

Anyone else?

lol, nope not me