Wrist pain in windmill

[Flowers]

and other variants.

I'm trying to get this move down for the first time, and my wrist is giving me alot of pain. My guess is that it will go away after I practice more and build up some strength in that area.

Any one else who bboys or can windmill want to help me out with some knowledge?

[Yuri]

I would say to work on wrist strength and flexibility in general, hand balancing will increase wrist strength over time

work on getting a good turtle freeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXMjDUk98c this may help

my windmills are rubbish though

[Skilzat85X]

Take a big break from them, maybe like a week or so.

Condition your wrists with above exercises. Then, practice windmills. Rinse and repeat.

[saunders]

yea a lot bboy moves really build on wrist strength.
make sure you stretch your wrists properly before doing windmills n turtles n stuff.
doing a lot of handstands will increase wrist strength and reduce chances of injury, just make sure you stretch your wrists a lot!

[Ronnie]

i could actually hold baby freeze for a minute before i learn how to do windmills,
i suggest do some wrist/forearm workouts or you could try holding the baby freeze long enough,
if your wrist still hurts after this, your techniques for attempting windmills might be wrong.

another good workout is to learn how to do crickets, it really helps to connect multiple windmills

[carney]

Wrist pain!

This usually is a cause of going from normal day like to placing your body weight on your wrist! (obviously) There are a few things you can do though:

1. as mentioned rest!
2. try to warm up your wrists before and during bboying!
3. practice handglides and baby freezes for longer periods of time making sure your gliding well on your hand and not running your body around your wrist!
4.do pushups with your the top of your hands! (fingers point towards each other inwards with the top of your hands face down.

Goodluck! your wrists also might hurt from incorrect technique! once you have windmills get straight to forearm mills look way better and you only usually use your wrist to start the mill but get better and you can just drop into mills!

though if you said you had pain from jackhammers i would have to laugh! those things are brutal!

[Flowers]

lol wrist pain cleared itself up with a few exercises and continued attempts. thanks