Balance In Twisting

[Brauss]

My twisting is bad. I seem to lack stability and balance in the air and often fall over because I am leaning too far to one side.

I am right handed, and I feel more comfortable twisting to the left, as I have more power going that way and spin faster, but my twists are more balanced twisting to the right. In my video I have included both.

I would really like some advice on my twisting. I have tried standing twists, run up twists and run up two-footed twists. Which technique works the best with a run up twists - two feet take off or one?

What do I need to do to make more twisting more balanced, and not fall off to one side. I always lose my balance in the air and this is my main problem. Any other advice is also welcome, but I mostly want to resolve my balance and stability in the air whilst twisting.

Thank you very much.

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Also which way should I spin considering I am right handed and spin faster and more powerfully to the left...but I seem to be more stable to the right?

[xrobbatesx]

the reason why is because your not wrapping tight, bring your arms in harder, push those legs straight and put your ankles together...

[Skilzat85X]

Most right handed trickers spin to the left (counter clockwise) actually.

To work on your balance, it's best to progress incrementally, rather than trying to shoot for the most twists while trying tweaking little things along the way.

That being said, practice spinning just 180 degrees. Then 360 degrees. Then 540 degrees. Make sure you can do each step well before moving on to the next. Throwing yourself into the air trying to spin your max isn't going to help. If you're just starting to lift weights, you don't grab the bar trying to constantly rep your maximum weights every time. Build into higher spins. Start with small spins, adjust to those, learn how to balance them, then just add more spins on.

[Brauss]

Clockwise is to the right...so I'm confused as to which way to spin from that answer.

I was looking for more technical advice rather than 'practice from the start'.

[Skilzat85X]

Clockwise is to the right...so I'm confused as to which way to spin from that answer.

Oops!

I was looking for more technical advice rather than 'practice from the start'.
That was technical advice, haha. I can't try to pick off little technicalities when it's obvious the foundation isn't there.

Technicality starts at the foundation, you need to start from the foundation. Right now you're trying to spin as much as you can but you don't know how. If we saw your basic spins, I.E. 360 or 540 degree ones, we could easily point out the foundational problems, and you could probably figure them out intuitively as you practice them (the point of my first post). But when you try to throw yourself at a technique you can't really do, the technical stuff just isn't there. Post your smaller, controlled spins and we can help.

That is to say, if we see the prerequisite spins that you actually can land, we can teach you how to land them better, and landing them better will allow you to use the same technical principles to land more rotations. Of course, by practicing the basic foundations you could just figure it out by yourself, but since you want to help so much, post them here.

[Brauss]

Wait - before I record myself, you mean I should spin to the right? As in the way my left arm would spin?

[Skilzat85X]

Just spin the way that is most comfortable for you.

[tricker383]

skilzat you are a very tolerant and patiant man. I think it is a skill to be able to be patient with someone like this. I will be taking a leaf out of your book and applying to to my life :)

[Skilzat85X]

I'm not being thaaat patient haha it's not like he was trying to be malicious or anything. Although I will concede patience is a very helpful virtue!

[leinad_gsxr]

lol thread ended skilzat wins again on technical advice <3