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Hey Mike.

I am having a very hard time with jackhammers. Do you recommend that I learn turtles first?
David

Hey David, you know that depends, have you gotten handspins down so you can balance
on your wrists and have wrist strength, if so the jackhammers are closer to that motion while
the turtles are kind of a shifting of the body weight from side to side on each elbow....a trick
that helped me was the leg sweep before getting into the jackhammers as explained in
Volume 2 this caused my body motion to go around circular so all I had to do was just put
my body on my wrist and keep the momentum going with the other hand...let me know how
it goes. Breaker Mike

My name is Jason. I just recently ordered volume one of your "how to breakdance video". I have improved a
lot. I'm getting more and more fluent with the six step, popping, and the wave. The move I want to learn the
most though is the windmill. I think that it is one of the best dance moves I've ever seen anyone do. So far I've
been practicing for an hour everyday on all of the moves shown in volume 1. I practice the windmill the most
though. I get discouraged a lot of times... but I know that I'm not going to learn it over night. I would be so
thankful if you could give me some tips on how you learned the windmill yourself. I'm running out of them
myself... lol. Please e-mail me at It would be a real encouragement hearing from the man himself... you.
Thank you for your time in reading this e-mail.

Hey Jason thanks for writing, I really feel what your saying, so i'm going to go back to my beginning and tell
you my body was aching from practicing windmills, either the side of my knee would be so bruised or my hip
bone or that place where you stick your elbow into your stomach it was discouraging but let me tell you,
keep going you'll get it. What helped me was concentrating on rolling higher on my shoulder when i went on
my back that gave me more room to place my elbow back in my stomach when I rolled around to the
front...also where your practicing helps as welll... as I remember practicing on a marble floor or wood floor
seemed to be better...number one protect your bruises I wrapped a flat kneepad on my hip bone so i could
keep going on and bought the biggest knee pad for the side of my knee..and always remember keep your
legs in V position...I hope this helped... you can do it don't give up...just wait till i tell you how I got no handed
windmills...but i'll leave that for later.

keep spinning,

Breaker

Hey Breaker? I am 13 yrs. old and only bout 5'4 105 lbs. I really want to learn how to
break dance but I was wondering about sumthin. For the moves do you have to have
a certain strength level to do them? I mean Im a lil guy but I want to break dance. I
dont know if certain moves need certain amounts of strength. If you could please e-
mail me back at *********** , I would really apprecitate it. Thanx man

Thanks for writing sorry for the delay been on a very busy show schedule but wanted to make
sure to get back to you, trust me on this one it's mostly technique not strength with proper
technique you can do just about everything, remember Bruce Lee ...not a big guy compared
to today but incredible technique...if you need another example when I first started I weighed
about your weight and was shorter than you sooo keep going, you will get it.

keep spinning

BREAKER

Thanks for writing ....ahhhhhh yes the dreaded headspin pain...to tell you the truth in the
begining it seems like it will never be bearable...but don't worry it does....now to help
you, put a kneepad in your cap or skicap when starting this will help you thru the bruising
process and soon you can get away with a computer mouse pad or just the cap
itself...but be ready for the dry scalp and the skin graphs that come from dry scalp
coming from your head...all part of the process...but don't over do it cause I have had
friends who develop a calous on their head which basicaly means baldness so take it in
proportions when practicing..let me know how it goes.

keep spinning,

Breaker

I was wondering where, i could buy or what would be a good surface to learn to break
dance on., I have a tiel floor in the basement but I nearly bust my ass on it 10 times a
day, i have noticed people have portable mats that are somewhat cushy. If you know
where I could possibly buy one It would be of great help.

thank you

CUrran Johnston

Thanks for writing, most people buy linoleum which is vinyl flooring that you can get
from any Home depot or carpet store a 10' x10' or larger size should be fine. You can
place card board under neath the linoleum for some cushiness... Make sure you spray
some spray furniture wax on it to stop the stickiness, not to much though that it makes
it to slick.

Keep spinning

BREAKER

looks as though most of the break dancer shown on the site are males, maybe all. I'm a girl
really enthused about learning to break dance and wondered if I'd learn just as easy from the
videos and have the strenghth to pull off all the moves???

thanks

Alexis

Thanks for writing Alexis, ,yes girls are very capable just concentrate on technique..good
technique will over come some strength... some moves will take a little more time but to let you
in on a secret my sister first taught me how to Pop which started my career :)

keep spinning

BREAKER

Hi i have a question to aks about an injury i made a wallflip 2 months ago and had a
normal landing but with my feet and hands.at the next day at morning my right hand
started to ache and after that i wasnt able to train 100%. I want so specialize the turtle
and some floats because i have a normal weight but very much power (strenght). My
question is how long do you think should i wait with trainig till my hand is 100% healed. I
mean i dont feel any pain now but im sure if i start to train some turtle moves it will start
again and then i can wait again some weeks.ok thx for my answer

Hey Mike,

I have been learning your moves from volume one for a year now. I just got volume 2 for
Christmas along with a great empty room with linoleum to practice on. I have a quick question. I
have just started practicing headspins, so far I can do a head stand but without my helmet it
hurts. I don't want to have to go on the dancefloor with a helmet on so I was wondering if It is
possible to toughen up your head through practice so you that you can stand the all that weight
on your head without much pain.

I see you on volume one (breaker clips) do a windmill to a backspin to a headspin without a
helmet (very awesome by the way ;-). Do you just deal with the pain or does it not bother you. I
know you get a lot of questions but if you could write back that would be great.

Thanx