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05-19-2004, 10:01 PM
Classic.
What you've gone through is what everyone goes through. When you experience those things, you know you're normal. I know how you feel. The whole "Should've, would've could've" thing. The "First time in a circle" thing. It's feels weird at first. Because you really don't know how to feel.
Remember this man. When you break at proms or dances or something like that, you're b-boying in front of people who don't know the art. These people love the flashyness of b-boying. Something that they cannot do, they marvel it.
B-boying isn't about the power moves. More about the style, and the music rather than the power moves. But, I'm not gonna go through that. I'll get to the point.
First off. Don't get discouraged because you're not doing so great. One's progress through life always fluctuates. It's never at it's peak from start to finish. And that's what makes life so interesting. The fact that we don't know when it's going to fluctuate adds the tang into our lives. When it fluctuates to the peak, it makes us feel good.
B-boying is all about the patience and commitment. So is everything else you want to achieve. If you aren't committing to the art, or you're too impatient and want to learn the move as soon as possible, you'll never get it. Because you won't understand how the move works and what it feels like when you go through it.
Windmills. They take time to learn. Like every other power move. Why? Because our bodies are not used to such movements. Through practicing, our bodies become more adept with the conditions that we want our body to go through in order to achieve what we want to do, and then finally, one day, you do it. And when you do it, you'll understand it. And when you understand it, you can do it again and again.
Just because it's taking you a long time to get these mills down, doesn't mean that you'll never get them. The easy way out is to quit.
My suggestion: Use the summer to learn those mills. It's not going to take you a year to learn all power moves. If you work at those mills everyday, you'll get them. My friend spent every single day of his summer trying to perfect his mills. He'd bang up his knee, tear his groin muscles, smash his back, and any other kind of relevant injury. But, y'know what the thing is?
He got his mills down in 1.5 months.
No joke. From the start of the summer, to mid-August, he's been learning mills. That's the fastest I've ever heard of anyone being able to learn a powermove. It's ridiculous. And now, when he does them, you can see the power in his legs. It's almost as though when he does them, his legs are so strong he could even fly in the air. They're THAT clean.
It's all mental. It took me 4 months to get mine. On some days, I'd get so angry at myself, that everytime I'd smash my back on the ground, and I was agonizing in pain, I kept going in frustration. I used my own frustration as my motivation. It set my mind in pursuit of one goal: Perfecting the windmill.
Then, one day, in drama class, I'd go on to my routine. Since my teacher doesn't really care, and there's all this space around me, I would warmup and everything, and continue learning my windmills. On carpet, something you believe won't work. And then, boom. 2 rotations. I got up, started jumping, grabbed my hair, and ran around. I went nuts. I kept going and going. 3 rotations. 5 rotations. As I did more and more, I become more and more determined.
In summary, you may feel like crap now. But once you get them down, you'll be so happy that all that practice actually paid off.
Air moves us.
Fire transforms us.
Water shapes us.
Earth heals us.
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