Upper Body Stretches for Breakdancing

Video Transcript

"First thing we are going to start with we are going to start with a little bit of stretching. So go through a warm up running in place and everything. Try to get your legs just say like clockwise or shoulder part right here just say 3-9 and everything. You don't really want to lock your knees right now cause it is not really needed it or anything like that you can be flat footed for this right now. Right now what I'm going to do is just start with the shoulders moving back really slow, just try to keep this going, going pretty well. Try to get you about 10 reps in everything that you are doing, try to hold your stretches for at least 25 seconds to 30 seconds that would be pretty good for you and everything. Start with your neck now we are just going to do like a little bit of combo right here we are going to go right to left, back and then forward and then hold for a little bit, now if you can feel that as you going down and put your shin into your chest you are going to feel like that kind of pull in the back of your neck and everything is going to open up your traps and everything for you. So I'm going to start here like this 1,2,3,4 and as you are going to 4 try to relax your shoulders as much as you can so you can get that full you know stretch through the neck and everything. So 1 more time 1,2,3, and 4 and hold just like that. Next thing you want to start with next you are going to start with your wrist cause you definitely need to stretch your wrist out there is a lot of impacting to your wrist and there is a very great chance that you can like end up with arthritis as many times as you do this and as many times as your hands hit the flour or anything like that so you really want to stretch your wrist out. So we are going to start with a basic wrist stretch going down, you want to take that same wrist and you are going to pull it up. As much as you can try to relax your arm you don't really want to touch your arm if you don't need your biceps flexing or anything. Pull it back. Next thing we are going to move into is we are going to stretch out the hamstrings so we are going to start with our right leg we are just going to pull it to the side just like this. Try to hold some people are going to have a lot of bad balance on this that is okay it is one of those things that actually happen. There is a little trick that I learn in school just concentrate on something by holding your earlobe. Switch. "