It is possible to hurt your neck with this one, so be careful. Practice your handstand to get balance and build up your neck muscles.
Ok, in order to do this move you need confidence back and neck strength
and to understand some physics. There are 2 important things you need
to know. 1, the faster you are, the more balance you have, don't make
me explain the physics of it, just trust me. You'll understand what I
mean by the end of step two anyway. I'll explain the second thing
later...
[1] Find your 'sweet spot' on your head, this is where you'll be
spinning. You find this by just standing on your head, positioning
and repositioning yourself until you find a spot where you're
comfortable. You should be able to rest on your sweet spot for 5-10
seconds without your hands before moving on and be comfortable in the
position.
[2] Alright, by this time you'll already be comfortable with the
feeling of your neck lodged into your back and the blood rush to your
head, if not, go back to step one. Now, get up into a headstand, wind
your legs back in the opposite direction you want to spin and WHIP (not
kick) them as hard as you possibly can and close your legs (this will
give you more speed and hence more balance, like I was saying before).
Work with this until your get 1 and a half to 2 rotations. This will
be the most difficult and time consuming part of learning this move.
You'll learn that the faster you go the less you have to worry about
balance and that it'll only hurt the first 5 times or so.
[3]Once you've got about 2 spins down with decenet speed, try and open
your legs, catch yourself by tapping the ground and then kick again.
Kicking again is tricky, because you don't kick at first; the fact
that your upper body will stop moving but your legs wont will kind of
drain the last of the speed you have, and THEN you'll feel this kind of
gap right before your body is pulled again by the extra force, and that
is when you kick. You'll probably want to keep your legs open for the
extra style once you've got the spped you need. The added momentum
will give you a lot of speed, and before long you'll have a lot of
rotations down.
[4] Now, you don't want to have to keep tapping and kicking forever, so
after about 4 or 5 times, you can use the tuck method. Now for that
extra bit of physics. The reason you go faster with your legs closed
as opposed to open is your turning radius is smaller and so you have
the same force applied over a smaller area when your legs are together.
So, once you have a lot of speed with your legs open, you can kind of
cheat physics. When you're spinning with your legs open, you have a
lot of force moving your body over a large turning radius. But when
you pull your legs together and bend your knees, you turning radius is
reduced significantly, and the force you have moves much faster over
the smaller radius. So all you need to do is tuck your body for 2 or 3
rotations and you'll gain speed, and then for some reason which i don't
understand, when you open your legs again, you'll have a lot more
momemtum. This way, it is possible to spin on your head perpetually
without having to kick again, and this is how people are able to pull
of those amazingly long headspins.
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[ February 02, 2002: Message edited by: Metroid Killer ]</p>
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