[mali-bootay]

yo i need help on my 1-legged swipes. ive been workin on them for a few days and i need some tips and stuff so plz give them 2 me. tell me how to get higher and to make it look cleaner cuz even though i think im technically doing them, they dont look good at all, so plz help.

P.S. the part of the vid where i fell to the side, i leaned too far to the left and lost my balance.

[Pommy]

You need to actually use your right leg ... kick it up high (but not too high) [I take that back, don't kick it to the right] instead of just hopping with it .. and straighten it out.

Also, when you're facing downward, swing your left leg up and to your perspective left left (that would be right relative to your body if someone watching from behind you, looking at the top of your head) and keep the swing going after you land on your right for continued momentum.

Swipes are upper body twist -> legs twist -> upper body twist -> legs twist etc

Make sure that your legs are back in the starting position before lifting your arms ... gives you more of a windup.

..and try not to turn so drastically ... like ... it's hard to explain, but if you keep your rotations 45 degrees or less, you have a lot more spring, which means more momentum, which means more swipes.

[mali-bootay]

check out my progress. im doin a lot better but i still have a lil problem with not gettin as much height as i would like. please help me.

[Bboy-BaNsHeE]

looks like u gots the movements, but to make it look smoother and kooler u wanna bring ur legs up higher once ur in the pushup position facing the ground. and make sure to let your upper body swing first and then u bring ur legs around, you dont want it to be one motion its 2.

[Bboy-BaNsHeE]

heres a video of sum guy doing clean 1 footed swipes....he teaches you how to do em in 5 steps if u want the whole swipes video just pm me and ill be glad to send it to ya

[MuffinJuice]

dont wana be harsh but im gona jump to the point.



you curl up into a itty bitty ball, the hop over your extended leg. your back is arched the entirely opposite direction of what it should be. to eliminate this. attempt a cloud hump.

hump toward the sky as hard as humanly possible. if you can, i suggest trying to jump into it, but your jump into it was foreign to me. you curled up too much in that too.

they'll go a lot higher if your pelvis goes higher. what i mean is. look at that video in the post before mine. then look at your swipes. pause it when he's got his belly to the cieling. then pause a video of yours when your bellys to the cieling. notice how big of a difference there is. his belly is flat and his back is horizontal to the floor and cieling, while your belly is curled and at a huge angle to the floor. your chest is toward the wall. it should be toward the cieling as well.


they were cool looking like the way they are, im actually gona go learn them like that cuz they look stylish. but if you're looking for what the guy in the video above has, or mine too, you need to cieling hump and uncurl your tummy tum tum. (sorry im weird in the morning)

lemme see your progress. you've done real well so far.

[MuffinJuice]

http://www.bboy.org/forums/attachmen...&postid=313712

[Shreddin Eddie]

yea that clip right there is the one i was looking for to show him...i seen that kid do them before..hes pretty good

[Undgrnd]

for a single one footed swipe going cw should my hands be planted on the ground first before i kick off with my left foot?