6th March 2015

In today's lesson a Break Dancer called Kofi came into college, he gave us a high quality breaking workshop. We began warming up using a lot of  time working on our core strength so we could give it our best in the workshop. We done this by doing continuous drills of core workouts such as sit-ups crunches and planks. The first thing we worked on was our butt spins, we did this by learning different techniques of gaining speed, this included going from being spread out to pulling ourselves in which created speed or by starting from a kick. After we all felt comfortable with these we went on to trying to do head stands, we learnt how to do this by first having only our toes and forehead on the ground and then replacing our toes with our hands and gradually being able to lift our legs and arms higher into the air.
                                                                     

- This was what it looked like before you lift your legs higher. Some people were also brave enough to lift their hands.


After we worked on these we worked on different ways of getting straight into them, this involved going from butt spins and rolling over our shoulders or sweeping our legs round from a press up position and then rolling backwards into it.

We then split up into groups and worked on our forward rolls, we worked on being able to chuck ourselves past a certain point before putting our hands down and then going straight into a head or hand stand.

we then went over 1, 3, 6 snd 8 steps and perfected our technique and hand placements,

At the end of the lesson we had a bit of a freestyle session, we then went on to a freestyle circle where we showed everything we had learnt in the lesson combined with other skills and styles.                                              

I really enjoyed taking part in this workshop, it is a new style and one that i really enjoyed learning, i like the fact that there is a lot of individuality involved and a lot of tricks that look amazing when done right.