i watched Bboy Banshee's collapse video guide and it looks like his elbow leaves his stomach and his whole forearm touches the ground first. then he kicks and rolls over his shoulder onto his back. how do you do that?
Breakin' was something that society didn't know about, it was something too new for them to even understand, and because of their ignorance to it and lack of knowledge about it, they got scared, and the first thing they do when they get scared about something is to try and stop it...