Where are you from? What university too?
Let me know especially if you are in or near Manchester.
I used to swim when I was at highschool, never to a really high standard, but I did give the school's best swimmers the shock of their life once. I've always been swimming since my earliest memories, I used to enter every highschool gala competing against the other house groups in the school, and always did it for enjoyment. Only race I was ever in that was won, was a relay, and I swam the bad leg.
Anyway, unbeknown to them I started to train, eventually finding my way onto the Bury and Elton town team. Come the last gala I was to enter (final year in Highschool) people were saying "Why do you always enter every year? You
never win anything!" I said nothing other than "because I enjoy it" (if you know british highschools, you'll know admitting you enjoy something school-related isn't the coolest thing you can do - I got some very funny looks for that)
Anyway it came to the day of the gala and I was ready to race. Only, I'd been swimming in a proper league, and was used to proper starts. The teacher starting the race wasn't. He actually started the race when i was still sorting myself out on the block. By the time I started my dive, the other racers were already surfacing off theirs.
You can probably imagine the look of shock on the face of "the best swimmer in the school" - after such a nice dive (I know it was good - I watched him make it - lol) and his track record of winning everything - when he finished the race and stood up to cheer in victory, and saw I was already standing there, goggles off, and smiling.
THAT was a satisfying moment.
Anyway - bboying. LoL.
I've seen people from all kinds of backgrounds come into bboying. The one thing they almost all have in common, is how the 2nd week they turn up saying "I've been in agony all week!" See bboying uses some muscle groups that just aren't used the same way in other activities.
Don't worry about not being a gymnast. The simple fact is that most gymnasts who turn to bboying, suck. They think they know it all because they've got acrobatics down nice, but they can't dance, have a REALLY rigid look (because that's the gymnastic way) they point their toes in EVERYTHING which looks WACK and usually aren't willing to listen to and learn from a person who can't do half the tricks they can and no formal training.
Hope it goes well for you, as Massochist said, get the DVD on here - it's the best video instructional you're likely to find.
Tops, Drops, Footwork, Freezes (Baby and Chair primarily)
Concentrate on that stuff first - when you can do them easilly and not need to think about them much, THEN work on the flips and spins.
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