How 2 Windmill 101
Windmill Glossary
Genies -- windmills with your arms crossed over your
chest.
Nutcrackers -- windmills with your hands covering your nuts
(or whatever else you might have down there).
Airplanes -- windmills with your arms straight spread out
to the sides as high as you can get them.
Barrels -- windmills with your arms rounded in front of you
(like you're carrying a barrel).
Sumos -- windmills grabbing your knees.
Eggbeaters -- windmills with your hands high on your hips.
Confusions -- windmills with your hands over your ears and
elbows straight out to the sides. This one causes death.
Body glides -- same as supermans.
Baby windmills/coffins -- windmills with legs curled up and
crossed at the ankles. No hands used. Coffins are the same
but without crossing your ankles.
Tombstones -- windmills with legs closed and body in "L"
position. No hands used. Invented by Babak the Flying
Monkey.
Cannonballs -- windmills done in cannonball position with
arms wrapped around knees. Like jumping into a pool.
Eggbeater babies -- baby windmills with hands high on hips.
Invented by Infurno.
Double windmill -- while doing windmills without hands,
skip your back once and a do full rotation on your head
(NOT a halo).
Body flairs -- hopping supermans/body glides.
Windmill
Sit down on the floor with your torso and your RIGHT leg at
a 90 degree angle with your LEFT leg bent at the knee so
your left knee points straight up and your left foot is
flat on the floor. Now place your right palm on the floor
to the right of you and slightly behind you and lean and
twist your upper body to the right, going towards the floor
(bending your right arm altogether) to where your right
shoulder and right/front of your face are almost touching
the ground. Your right leg should still be straight, and
your left leg bent. Now, a CRUCIAL move, you are going to
"stab" your LEFT elbow into your stomach, between your
navel and your left hip-bone, closer to your hip-bone. This
is SO important, because your left arm is going to support
all your weight. Now, twisting and leaning, stabbing your
elbow, put your LEFT palm flat on the floor with your
fingers pointing to your left. At this point you can
visualize how your left arm will support your weight.
Next, the one, two, three kick. At this point you should be
leaning to your right, with the frontal part of your upper
body ALMOST facing the floor, and very close to the floor,
with yor left arm ready to catch all your weight. ( Elbow
in belly!) O.K. Your LEFT leg, which is still bent, is
going to be kick ONE, your RIGHT leg kick TWO and your LEFT
leg kick THREE. During this sequence, your body weight goes
to your left arm. Now kind of finish turning your lower
body over to where you are practically horizontal to the
floor while KICKING your LEFT (bent) leg up into the sky
(about 4 feet or so if you're average size) while pushing
off HARD with your RIGHT foot (your STRAIGHT leg) (LEFT
elbow in belly) Kick two-Kick your RIGHT leg (outstretched)
HARD to your RIGHT (your legs will be OPENING)At this
point(in full motion!) you should be facing the floor with
your legs open and your bodyweight on your LEFT arm (elbow
in belly!).
Kick THREE-this is where you develop your first
bruises!-During kick three, a lot of things happen at the
same time. KICK your LEFT leg HARD to your RIGHT, going
UNDER your right leg. Your legs should still be open, with
your right leg "circling" (imagine your legs are a drawing
compass and your pelvis the pivot) AT THE SAME TIME of this
kick, your entire body needs to roll onto your LEFT side,
BUT your left upper body only should touch the floor (not
your hips or legs!)This means, on kick three, your LEFT
shoulder should touch (Hit?) the ground right about where
your LEFT fingers are (I crushed mine several times) Now
you should be rolling onto your back, of course your left
arm no l onger supporting your weight. At this point, I
STRONGLY urge you to pull your legs in and do a BACKSPIN.
Many veteran will tell you the same. The reason being you
should be able to do what I've already described with
relative ease before moving on. But when you're ready...
O.K. Once you've got the previous down, do the following:
After kick THREE, you roll onto your UPPER back and quickly
roll over your RIGHT shoulder to where you are going to
face the floor again. At the same time, though, your RIGHT
leg will be KICKING "Backwards and to your right". Just
remember the pivot and the compass thing. As you are
turning to face the floor, quickly STAB your LEFT elbow
into your belly, just as before, because your left hand
will have to support you. ( You know the routine). You are
now at the most difficult phase of this deal. Linking them,
when you stab your elbow put all your weight into it. As
your legs come around, you will most likely hit your LEFT
foot on the floor and get pissed because you can't get past
there. Never to fear! Learn by "PAUSING" your windmills.
When your left foot hits, just use it (LEFT FOOT) to push
upward and OH!, you're back to KICK ONE with that push
upward! Proceed to kick two and three and so forth, and
when you come around again and your left foot hits the
floor, well...do it again! And keep doing it that way.
Trust me, one day you'll shock yourself and put three
together without hitting your left foot on the floor! Once
you get this style down, you can move on to STOP stabbing
your elbow. It might take a while, but you'll get there. I
know this is a long post, but I tried to be as detailed as
possible so you guys can learn. To those that can do
windmills already, this might seem like a stupid
explanation, but I know all beginners will appreciate the
detail.