I know this move exists in several styles but I don’t know the name. Basically, you are lying on your back on the ground and you flip up to land on your feet. There seems to be at least two versions, one where your hands are on the ground just above your shoulders and you use them to push off, and another where the hands aren’t used at all.
Anybody know what this move is called and have a description on the mechanics of how to do it properly?
that’s breakdancing not MA 
I can do the version using the hands w/ no problem. But I can’t seem to do the “no hands” version at all. I’m just not getting the mechanics behind it, I guess.
By the way, regarding the breakdancing comment (I know it was a joke, but…). I think this move appears in drunken forms more than anywhere else. Does anybody know what it’s called in Chinese forms? I doubt they call it a “kip”…
It’s called a kip up in America, probably a gymnastic term moreso than a Chinese one.
Check http://www.geocities.com/ox_pasture/Tricks.html for mechanics and an animated GIF.
I found one website that says the Chinese refer to this as a “carp kick”. Not sure if that is true or not, but it’s something…
carp kick , kip up same thing.. for no hands it requires strong abs and utelises the back of the shoulder and momentum to get you off the ground. throw back your legs to your chest then spring forward and up and tuck your legs under and behind you, bringing your feet to where your ass was basically.
Starchaser is from jamaica, so he must smoke pot. Dont listen to him. Potheads dont know anything.
:rolleyes:
don’t trust any advice u get from anyone who studies shaolin-do
they don’t know anything.
:D:p
“they don’t know anything.”
We instead know everything!
:rolleyes:
correction..they know everything about nothing.
but nothing about anything.
And anything about everything, and we have now walked in a circle!
Lets put that together.
We know… everything about nothing, and nothing about anything, yet anything about everything!
I think we may have just made our own proverbial wisdom here starchaser.
And we breakdance too.
lol
ok we’re all idiots, leave it at that, but occasionally we give good advice.
maybe.
We know everything about nothing, and nothing about anything, yet anything about everything!
Ive read that so many times… My brain is starting to hurt. I still dont understand.
Im still not sure what I know now.
“And we breakdance too.”
lol… actually…
Tiger drop = worm crawl
Kip up = Forgot, but its used lots in breakdancing
Crane sweeps = very similar to flare’s… If I knew more breakdancign Id make more comparisons.
maybe pot would help…
but i don’t have any.
disclaimer: (drugs are illegal and bad for your health, we here at kf mag do not support the usage of banned or illegal substances)
movents in breakdancing are similar to, and possibly derived from, shaolin kungfu , capoiera angola among other sources.
Unless you are in the netherlands.
" maybe pot would help…
but i don’t have any. "
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Actually, I have this one dance vid that pays homage to kf and kf movies as where some moves comes from
kip ups
front sweep-helicopters (breaking ground work)
and some wushu acrobatics… etc.
Yeah, I know I wasn’t able to do a kip up before.. stopped trying, I should give that ago again…
try landing in ma bu as opposed to legs together.