A type of skill that most people trying to learn tricking and tumbling is twisting.
Now that type of skill is done in all kinds of different ways.
Today I'll be teaching you how to do a single full, which is kind
of the basic way to get into more of the other types of twisting.
So corks, things like that, but full, double, full, triple full, and
then working your way up into all the crazy different twisting skills.
So some good prereqs to have before trying a full twist would be a regular back
flip so a back tuck and a layout because when you're doing twisting, preferably
you would want your body to be nice and straight in a very nice tight shape.
So that's where you want that layout to come into play
and not so much of the tuck.
So have a tuck before a layout and then a layout, and then you
can work into your twisting.
So today I'm going to be teaching how to do a full twist with the
help of my teammate, Darnell and my little brother, Braden.
He ended up all the way over there.
If you do happen to have a trampoline at home, I'm going to show you some
quick drills that can help you just learn how to break down the full twist.
And then from the trampoline, we will be moving it onto the floor
and we'll use Brayden a little bit to help kind of show you how your
body should be looking in the air.
And then we'll demonstrate some fulls for you.
At home, if you do have a trampoline, you could put something onto your
trampoline, like any kind of mat.
I know a lot of people aren't going to have like these types of mats,
eight inches and stuff laying around.
We use couch cushions, a lot of people use mattresses, whatever that's okay.
Use those things, but this is some easy ways to break down how to do the full.
So first I'm going to do a back flip onto my stomach.
It sounds kind of crazy, but hear me out and watch it.
So as I do it, I'm going to start my flip.
I see the ground and I make sure that I land onto my stomach.
Now it is important that when you do this, you try to land nice and flat.
You do not want to be landing with your back arched at all, because
it's not going to feel very good.
So try to land nice and flat.
After that, what you're going to do is a half twist, so as you do this, as you
start your flip, what you were going to do for me, I'm a righty twister.
So I'm going to drop my right arm and that starts to turn my body.
Most of you guys will be lefties.
So with the lefties, Darnell will be helping out that part
cause he's a lefty twister.
Like most people, I'm just an odd ball, that twists to the right.
So either way to still pay attention to what I'm saying, I'm going to drop
my right arm because I twisted my right and that'll help me do my half.
turn.
So I dropped that right arm.
I could do it with both arms up, but dropping that right
arm helps me turn my body..
And they'll do that for you one more time.
Once you're super comfortable with that, try that a few times.
Then you can start moving on to doing the full twist onto your stomach.
Now, again, it's very important to try to make sure you land nice and flat.
You don't want to lay in with your back arched you want to try to be
as flat as you can, because you don't want to hurt your lower back.
This is just a drill that I'm suggesting you can try.
If you don't feel comfortable doing it, obviously you don't have to do this.
It just helps out for a lot of different people.
So if you think this one looks kind of cool and you want
to try it, give it a try.
Now the full twist.
So when you're doing this, it is important to make sure that you are spotting.
So you're spotting your landing.
One thing to not do when you're doing, doing these skills on the
floor is obviously throwing your head back because it makes you arch.
I do look for the floor a bit with this, just to get.
good air awareness when you're starting to learn the twisting.
So as I do it, I go up, I can see the mat and then I twist
my body to land back onto it.
So I go up, boom.
Darnell has actually never tried this drill , so he's gonna, he just tried
just now, but he's going to show you guys what it's like on the left-hand side.
Got that half nice.
And now the full.
All right.
Landed with the back a little bit arched so now, you know what it feels like.
Oh, his knees knocked.
My knees are literally numb..
Oh, no.
Well right now, I'm going to try my best to use my little brother
to give you just a little bit of an example , he's obviously super short.
He's only six, but I'm going to try to use him really quick to show you just
the motions of the full really quickly.
We'll see how it goes.
He's still pretty new to this.
So we're going to try to remember.
I said you got to jump and turn and land onto my arm.
Okay.
So ready?
Jump and turn.
The goal is for him to jump do a half turn and land into my arms this way.
Boom.
So he just did his half and then from here, he's going to bring his arms in
to his belly and then boom.
So I don't know.
I don't know how well it's going to work with him.
He's still learning.
He could do really good cartwheels, really good round offs ,and splits
and stuff, but it's not quite advanced enough yet for the fulls.
Just thought it'd be a cool idea to try with him.
He kind of just started to get the hang of it.
So we'll see how well it goes now on camera.
Also he got into the drinking fountain that is made.
Specifically for water bottles and that's why he is all wet.
But yeah.
All right, go ahead.
Oh, come on, go ahead.
Little bit.
Okay, one more time.
You got it.
Remember, jump up and land on to belly.
Ready?
Jump half turn kinda.
You're getting better at it though.
All right.
So Samantha, this is my manager, Sam, and she is not acrobatic inclined.
And she's terrified we were going to try with Sam, but you're just like
this, squeeze your butt a little more, little bit more twisted.
That's why he's there.
No, I saw Brayden do it, but I do it a little bit differently.
Like I'm taking you here and then doing the whole thing.
They he's having him jump halfway.
I'm done.
Okay.
So we can do it, but get back up there.
You can't reach for the floor as soon as you reach for the floor.
Yep.
So after you started spinning, you just bring your arms in because as
soon as you reach for the floor, your body weight starts going that
way and I can't hold you up anymore.
So once I, once you feel me start bringing your hips over,
you just pick your arms up.
You're learning.
Good.
Okay.
But your arms are going in the opposite direction that I'm twisting.
I'm twisting you to the left and your arms are going to the right here.
And me being like in the air as well.
You got this.
I don't do.
She's done forward rolls before.
Yeah.
This is not the same at all.
All right.
Okay.
So you say you're twisting before.
Oh, wait, do I get all the way?
So I'm done.
So what'd you want to think you want to get
started here?
so is it hip twist?
And then, so you want to think.
Yeah.
That's why you're awesome.
Because if you notice, if you start pulling before your
hips go, you see, I stuck out,
you got this, Sam stay nice and tight.
no, you just got to make sure you stay nice and tight, especially at
the end straight up like pencil.
Like no, like hollow.
Because notice how, when you, when we got to land new portion, you were
like that, Oh, I need a whole myself.
Yeah, that was it though.
So an important lesson learned there as you saw with Ms.
Samantha is just make sure that as you're doing these skills you're setting, so
arms are going up first, you got to stay nice and tight and then make sure that
you don't start twisting right away.
A very common issue when learning how to twist is twisting way too soon.
You need to make sure you're setting, getting those arms up and
then lifting your hips and getting your legs up before you actually
start pulling in for that twist.
And then also making sure that as you're landing, you're still trying
to stay in a nice hollow shape.
So you're in this nice tight pencil, like shape when you're doing your
twist instead of being loose.
That was way higher than I thought I'd be.
I felt like asked him, like I laid at Stena straight up.
Oh my gosh.
I didn't realize that'd be up that high.
So Darnell was just showing us how to, take your twisting a little bit to the
next level with a one and a half to two and a half and then the goal is to
do a triple at the end, but, but yeah, advanced twisting and advanced twisting.
So one more time just to reiterate, make sure that as you're doing any
sort of twisting skills, you're focusing on making sure you set.
You've noticed that in the different drills that I had done and Darnell did
with Sam, what I was trying to Brayden , and even like watching the clips of myself
or Darnell, just focus on making sure that you set up before you start to twist.
Make sure you have that prerequisite of doing an actual layout beforehand.
So, you know, you can focus on keeping your body nice and tight and straight.
And if you do happen to have a trampoline, you can work on those different drills.
If you have someone that can help spot you and just walk you through those
simple steps of actually like holding you and turning your body nice and
safely, you can always go that route.
If you have access to a gym, you can always train into a pit.
You can train on your trampoline.
There are all kinds of different ways you can work on this.
You can.
See, like a little bit of a difference in technique between the way I kind
of do it and how Darnell does it.
So you can mess around a study myself, study Darnell, study some other
people and just kind of mess around and see what works best for you.
If you feel like you learned a bit today, make sure you leave a like, and
then also leave a comment of something else you'd like me to do tutorial on.
So I can read through those comments and make sure I can get
you guys some new skill tutorials.
I know I covered twisting today, but I do have some other super fun tutorials.
Some of my favorites to look at are my gainer tutorial, flash kicks, valdez.
So make sure you go and check those out as well.