I asked an artist in the new Cirque du Soleil show LOVE how he learned the air flare. It’s by far the best “floor exercise” I know.
A break dancer, he told me that he worked as hard as possible every day for 6 months before swinging out of his first air flare. After that point, learning the flares in series got easier.
Regular flares and windmills are prerequisite.
Many top gymnasts have tried and failed to add it to their Floor routine.
Click PLAY to see Bboy Ducky from Drifters/Expressions fly the flare as well as I’ve ever seen it done — or watch the clip on YouTube.
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its bboy not breakdancer
Morgan Hamm has stunning air flares.
http://www.makingtheolympics.com/videos/airflare_debut.html
[...] I’ve been studying how acrobats learn the air flare over the past few years. It’s the ultimate Floor Exercise not yet competed by an Artistic gymnast at an international competition. [...]
KYS (“The End”) can do one-handed airflares (one hand as in air straight; there’s also one-handed elbow airflares).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlhIdiRCs0&feature=related
Punisher does really nice airflares too. (And Cico.)
TCO, Gymnastics is at least 15 years behind breakdance when it comes to airflares or other acrobatics.
Morgan’s “stunning” airflare is nothing special, breakdancers have way more variations than that…I’m sure they will still call it “Hamm” just because he happened to be first gymnast who were able to do it in the competition.
Also, I found his airflare too slow…it’s not going to worth a lot if he did that in breakdance battle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGXo7bfdjV8
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