So, Crossfit isn't Crossfit this summer. It's Breakdancing preparation. When I started to get overheated and miserable, I thought, "Breakdancers can't be wusses. Suck it up." When I was doing push presses and my shoulders got tired, I thought, "Wow, I'm gonna be strong enough to bounce into a handstand and out again."
Some adventures can't be had right this second but take some work. If I was going to hike to Macchu Picchu (another adventure I'd like to do), I'd have to prepare my body. It's the same with breakdancing and with parkour (which I'd like to try some day as well). So Crossfit this summer is the prelude to an adventure.
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I'm no expert on breaking but from everything I know gymnastics is a much better intro to it than Crossfit.
If you can do frog stands and planches, you can basically cricket or do UFOs--and are at least ready to start learning how to windmill and do flares.
Crossfit might make you stronger--I don't know--but I actually don't like breakdancers that try to muscle their way through dancing.
I think if you want to get good at breaking, just do it. Don't put it off 'cause you're not strong enough yet.
Just reread this and hopefully it didn't, or doesn't, come across as bossy advice.
Please put it in the "a friend thinks I have a cool goal and tried to help" category.
Okay, thanks. And best wishes toward this goal and all your others!
No worries, Daniel. I knew you were just trying to be helpful. I do think a better level of fitness will help me. I am also doing gymnastics this summer. I hope what you call planches are different from what gymnasts call planches, cause it would be amazing if I ever got one of those. Girls almost never do. But I think there is something to what you say. Sometimes it is best not to plan and wait but just to being. Any advice on how I would go about learning this?
Yeah!
But first off, I'm pretty sure we're thinking of the same planches. To do UFOs or flares, you have to be able to do tuck planches.
They're hard.
You can break without knowing how to do those, however. And that's the cool part.
If I were you, I'd simply practice learning the basic 3-step and 6-step, while at the same time getting better and better at the basic freezes.
You can probably do a turtle freeze now and I bet within a month at least you could do a baby freeze. At that point, putting the two together, you can breakdance--at least on some level.
And from there you just have to see how much effort you want to put into doing all of the other stuff, which requires more strength, or doing it smoother, which requires practice.
There's some good stuff in the forums at bboy.org but actually youtube has a ton of good videos. Check out boredazn1207's channel.
Anyway, while I'm hardly an expert on any of this, I think everything you'd be doing here is exercise--and it would be exercise specific to what you want to do, with each small achievement being a reward that you get to experience immediately. That sounds cool to me...
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