Moonkick like a flashkick?

[El_Retardo]

Is a moonkick the same thing as a flash kick except kinda off to the side? Also, is it possible to moonkick without the J step thinger? I'm sorry for the noob question.:dead:

[poliver]

Flash gainer with dropped shoulder. am i right?

[Swartz]

No no no.

Moonkick is a gainer flash where you turn your body midway and finish the flip with a dropping kick, kinda like an axe kick or whatever.

People are just calling shitty gainer flashes (slant gainers) moonkicks now and too many dumb people are accepting it haha.

A flashkick is just any backflip that involves the spread of your legs, where one leg is kicking and the other drags behind.

A moonkick then is similar to a gainer flash (not the same though) and a gainer flash is also a gainer flashKICK.

In order of simplicity from simplest to more complex:

Backflip
Flashkick
Gainer Flash
Moonkick (more like a variation of the gainer flash)

J-step is one takeoff of many. You could do the flip going straight forward, with a reverse hop step takeoff, etc.

Basically to summarize:

Answer to your first question: NO.

Answer to your second question: YES.

[tracekillz]

well put swartz. i like to do mine standing :] it looks real powerful if you snap your kick at the end with a hook or something.