Half Turn Axe

[Kyukodo Gaz]

Can anyone help me with this? I would post a video but I actually don't know where to start!!!

I am just about getting a nice arabian and can back tuck nice and high, I believe these are the pre reqs. But what do I do next. If I push off an axe kick mid back tuck I just flash, and if I pull a kick out during my arabian I just face plant in the nice foamy pit :ouch:

Any help with a breakdown of this technique would be greatly appreciated. Ans can someone tell me if this is the technique Emig does from standing..?

[Kyukodo Gaz]

It's under half twist axe on club 540.com by the way, just in case you call it something different.

[Djp]

I would also like to be able to do this move any help any one? there is no tutorials out there and it is a very cool and unique move. oh and your site rocks gaz

[TKD_Andy]

doesnt tye hill do a really clean one in his vid?

i believe gymnasts would call it an arabian walkout.

[Jason6377]

i think maybe he meant the weird martial artists one, you know the one steve terada does all the time

[Munks]

Hey, im not sure wat move you are refering to...i think i can do it if it is wat i am thinking of, could you explain the move? not sure wat a half turn/twist axe is?:eh:

Edit: Is it like a Arabian Walk Out?

[RaRe]

basically you are coming out of your round off, and not even doing a half turn, into a side sault but grabbing your leg and rotating over then coming back to starting position.
I would personally learn a side sault out of round off and then slowly introduce the leg grab.

[Kyukodo Gaz]

If anyone wants a vid, check out www.club540.com. It's listed in the tricktionary at the bottom of the homepage. Terada does it all the time yes.

Cheers RaRe, I will have a go at that on Monday. Like I said, I really haven't got the faintest idea where to start because I can do nothing like!

I would describe the move as:

come out of your round off and execute some sort of turn to face the way you are travelling. (It is like an arabian but you are not tucked at all).

grab your kicking leg as you split during the twist and hold it at your head height. As you begin to descend, drop the leg you are holding straight down in an axe like motion. You land stood facing the way you were travelling.

I'm sure Matt Emig nearly does a standing one in the CLN samplers.

Anymore help would be greatly appreciated. Visit the page above if you need a vid or click here http://www.club540.com/tricktionary/halftwist_axe.mpg

In that clip Terada lands facing the back, but normally you would turn the axe around to face the front. (He lands sideways and could just twist his hips anyway to face front.)