aerial

[chris ruiz]

I am a newbie to tricking I have read the tutorials and have seen the move done over and over but a keep under rotating by the way I am in fair shape becouse I have been in taekwondo for 2.5 years now.I also know I have the jump hight for it but cant get a jump in on it thanks ahead of time.

[Phearx]

make sure ur throwing ur back leg up as hard as u can in order to give u that lift

[chris ruiz]

ok will try

[Nick B]

sess just posted a little tut in another thread, i'll dig it up real quick, it might help.

Thanx for the reminder, and I've also cleaned up my TT Inbox, so you're able to PM me now...

If you have a recent video of your Aerial, post it here, or send it to me in a PM, and I'll critique it and get back to you. But in the meantime...

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When I kick into an Aerial it feels very much like a cartwheel. I start with my hips square, feet about shoulder width apart (hips disecting the middle), and my toes facing forward.

Next, I raise both my hands above my head and slightly lift my lead foot off the ground about a couple of inches or three.

Once I've gained the potential energy from raising my arms and lifting my leg, I plant my lead foot back on the ground (exactly where it initially began), and push forward with my rear leg to create some forward momentum and establish a lean over my lead foot.

The moment my chest is directly over my lead foot's toes, I kick the back leg straight up behind me, and swing one of my arms downwards to pitch my body to the side and transfer the lateral kinetic energy into a rotational kinetic energy. Note: if you kick your left leg back, then it is your left arm that swings downwards in conjunction with your left leg; if it is your right leg, then swing your right arm...

The moment my rear leg kicks past the point where it would be parallel to the ground, then I provide lift with the lead leg by pushing off the ground with the ball of my foot. By doing this, I'm synchronizing the uplift I'm getting with my lead leg with the uplift I'm about to get with my rear leg (this is the most efficient).

Once the rotation is in effect, I isolate the forward and back movement of my hips (don't pike inwards) and continue the circular path in which my "kicking leg" took prior to launching. I keep eye-contact with the ground, and keep one hand near my head just in case bullshit occurs. As this happens my lead leg begins to adopt the circular path my "kicking leg" is taking. Once this happens, the angle of my legs should always be more than 90-degrees apart from each other (120-degrees is preferable), so that by the time you lift off the ground...your "kicking leg", the one you're gonna land on, is already halfway through it's motion.

By the time you're hips are directly over your head, your hips should contort so that the leg you initially kicked is about to land on the floor. Once it does, you terminate the trick just like you would a cartwheel...

In the meantime, I suggest that you do cartwheel on both of your forearms. This will test if you have enough hip flexibility to do an Aerial...

[Rayzer]

Its good that you read the tutorials, but in the end you have to do it on your own. There is no easy way to learn it...I think with this move you have to FEEL the move in order to land it properly. You can only get a feel of a move if you practise it enough. (It took me several MONTHS to learn the move...:ogre: sucks I know :tongue:)

So my advice: Read the tutorials one more time if you like but then just go out and try it! I think you'll learn moves faster by trying them allot than by the "reading turorial - try move once - failing - read tutorial again" method.

Good Luck! :good: