[bboy_shadowz]

hey, can anyone teach me to do the butterfly kicks? I saw them they look good, and well I'd like to know how to do them... my legs don't seem to got the right way.
--Peace
Bboy Shadowz

[Bboy Lee]

post a vid
there are a couple reasons for your problem
and maybe i could help if i could see what your doing wrong

[WOW-BOOM]

Get yot azz to www.bilang.com ther can you find guids and how many clips you want

[T-Kwan]

Hey guys i'm new here, but i learned the butterfly in kung fu when i was maybe in grade 1, i only started doing them again last year... so i'll try my best
so, here we go

1) this is not required but for beginners it may help for momentum so you can get those legs up; say...your direction is to the left and you will turn counterclockwise, do a little hop to the left using ur right foot (the pixie hop)
2)putting ur left foot down maybe a little more than shoulder length apart
3)bring your arms back a bit and swing your upper body down following a sort of U
4)when your upper body starts goin up again sweep your arms forward and swing ur right leg up hard while at the same time pushing off with the left foot
5)in the air it'll kinda be like those front float starry things that ppl do in the water and remember that the straighter you keep your legs the cleaner the move, the left leg should follow the right leg (it does for me anyway)
6)upon descent pull your right foot down and this allows you not to crash YAY! cuz crashing suxxors

Things to remember: swing that right leg hard on take off for momentum and air, the arms and upper body mechanical work is also really useful to torque yourself around and provides additional momentum, keep those legs straight!!!

now i gotta work on that b-twist

good tricking sites: yes www.bilang.com is super www.trickstutorials.com is also a good alternative, the got backflip, aerial, butterfly twist(btwist), doubleleg, etc etc so check it out

i hope this helps ya and good luck all (i really wish i had media to help)!

[T-Kwan]

hmmmz...apparently there's a different move called the butterfly as well...so i might just be "wrong" bleh sorry if i was no help at all

[Capoeira_Breaka]

OK, I am totally new to breakdancing, but I learned a move called the tornado kick when I first started in the martial arts. I heard that some Taekwondo schools called it the butterfly kick. If that's what you want I can show you a lot about it. Give me a while and I'll get my camera working and post a video.
Later!

[T-Kwan]

tornado kick is by all means not a butterfly kick...by the way, i think the butterfly kick i'm thinking of is the one that you guys are asking about in here

[bboychoy]

butterfly kick is where you spin horizontal, a tornado kick is where you actually kick...jump up vertically 360 and bring your left leg down then your right leg..thats what my uncle told me...

[Undgrnd]

no no youngin..butterfly kick isnt spinning horizontally..its the base of a butterfly twist. (your body is horizontal and your legs are kicking outwards but you dont spin).