Top Moves Glossary [A-B]

aerial	define
basically a cartwheel completed without touching your hands to the ground. aerial is also a generic term for any inverted movement without the hands touching the ground.

aerial cartwheel	define
See aerial

aerial handstand    [Jessica Migulioni]

define

I just thought of something really cool. Everyone can do cartwheels with no hands and round-offs with no hands etc. Here's a description: Basically like a half flip, when you finish you should be where you started. It's kind of hard to explain but I tried. If you get what I am saying write your description. Thank you. [Jessica Migulioni] Quickly kick to a no handed handstand but instead of flipping over, go back to the ground where you started your aerial handstand. Like Jessica said, It's a bit hard to explain. [Danielle]

aerial sideswipe	define
See aerial switch

aerial step-out    [Matt250R]	define
a cool move I just thought of: start like a normal aerial, but then at the top of the spin, twist your body and kick out so you finish like a front-flip stepout. [Matt250R]

aerial switch	define
like a regular aerial except you switch your legs in the air so that you land on the opposite leg than the one you normally would land on.

aerial twist    [BBoyStift]	define
A hypertwist with an aerial setup [BBoyStift]

aeriola    [chris de vera]	define
[chris de vera] start by doing a butterfly twist/kick setup, step back with the front foot(the one in front after the twist setup), and go right into an aerial without setting that foot down. You will travel backwards when doing it. This is Chris De Vera's move-he calls it an aeriola.

air track	define
a high difficulty bboy move that is basically a windmill in the air.

airplanes    [obk]	define
See windmill windmills with your arms straight spread out to the sides as high as you can get them.

angels    [obk]	define
See windmill windmills holding your belt.

apple jacks    [Steve Izzi]	define
When in a squat position jump back on your hands and pike your lower body with your legs spread in a "V" shape. It looks like a jump split kick, but on the ground. [Steve Izzi]

arabian	define
A front tuck while turning 360 degrees in the air backflip 1/2 twist front tuck started backwards. for example, performing a front tuck from a back handspring. starting backwards, spin 180 degress into a forward somersault

arabian step out	define
See webster

armada    [misteka]	define
See round house kick

armada dupla	define
See double leg the capoeira name

armada pulada	define
See jumping roundhouse the capoeira name

au batido	define
starts like a cart-wheel, but only one had goes down then the opposite leg kicks straight over and in the direction that the cart-wheel would have gone. sometimes called a capoeira kick or hand plant. 1990 au batido: it is basically a handstand into an au batido aka "L" kick or "K" kick [dragonmaster607]

au com passo    [Aranha]	define
a capoeira variation of a one handed cartwheel, in which one or both legs hit your opponent in the temple. usually only the last leg will hit, and only with the heel for maximum efficiency. this is a very confusing attack, but is highly effective when done right. usually someone hit by this is knocked unconcious. [Aranha]

au cortado sem mao    [Aranha]	define
See slanted aerial the capoeira name

au de costas    [Aranha]	define
See slanted cartwheel a capoeira cartwheel performed while dipping the legs back into almost a bridge in the rotation, without touching them to the floor until the au is complete.

au esquisito    [Aranha]	define
See slanted cartwheel a capoeira cartwheel performed while dipping the legs back into almost a bridge in the rotation, without touching them to the floor until the au is complete.

au giratorio    [Aranha]	define
in capoeira, our name for a movement similar to a cartwheel is, au. au giratorio is a variation that adds a one handed spin to this. very similar to the b-boys "1990's" movement. [Aranha]

au malandro    [Raw-B]	define
See au batido

au sem mao    [Aranha]	define
an aerial cartwheel that launches with a dip from a common horse stance. keeping your eyes on your opponent throuought the movement, as is key in all of capoeira. [Aranha]

au spina    [montoya]	define
See cartwheel

axe kick	define
the kicking leg comes straight up in front and than quickly down striking the target with the heel.

axe kick aerial	define
an axe kick immediately into a standing aerial. the kicking leg doesn't stop, but keeps moving as the first leg in the aerial. made famous in NASKA by Anthony Atkins.

axe-wheel    [Scott]	define
a back round-house kick capoeria style, but without putting the hand on the ground. in other words, do a back roundhouse kick from a normal standing position, but swing your head down towards where your right leg used to be, bring your right leg straight up, over, and down. the no-kicking leg is always grounded. [Scott]

b-spin    [smoke - created by Bart]	define
See spin-up

baby suicide	define
See suicide falls

baby windmills    [obk]	define
See windmill windmills with legs curled up and crossed at the ankles. no hands used.

back double full	define
a back layout with two complete twists (720) in the air before landing facing the same direction that the layout was started. a layout backflip with a 720 degree turn in it; a layout with two rotations in it.

back flip    [tyrann w.]	define
jumping and rotating backwards and landing on your feet. body position can vary like in tuck or layout backtuck: back flip with your legs tucked to your chest. done standing or in tumbling pass.

back full	define
a back flip with a full twist (360 deg.) in the air completed before landing. a back flip, not necessarily a layout with a full 360 degree twist in, out or during it a back flip with 360 twist in it (while upside down). [misteka]

back half twist	define
a back flip with a half twist in the air. the move is finished facing the opposite direction because of the 180 twist. also called a back half. a back flip with 180 degrees twist in it (while upside down). [misteka]

back handspring    [randy]	define
a backflip with hands touching behind as legs come over and down. [randy]

back kick	define
a kick directly backwards without rotating the standing leg or body except to twist enough to see the target.

back layout	define
a backward rotation through the air with the body straight (as opposed to tucked or piked). executed from a round-off on the floor.

backsault suicide    [nab44]	define
See suicide falls

backside 44    [misteka]	define
two persons facing each other, then doing a backflip and smacking feet together in the air. [misteka]

backtuck	define
See back flip

barani	define
a front flip with a 180 in it. A round-off with no hands sometimes spelled or pronounced as brandy or berani.

barrel roll	define
See butterfly twist

barrels    [obk]	define
See windmill windmills with your arms rounded in front of you (like you're carring a barrel)

beija flor    [Aranha]	define
a capoeira movement similar to the au batido, but both legs are brought down simultaniously. [Aranha]

bencao    [Aranha]	define
See front pushing heel kick the capoeira name; sometimes also a front kick

bencao pulada    [misteka]	define
See jump front kick the capoeira name

bicycle kick    [Sakimaru]	define
Do at least 3 jump front kicks all in the air. [Sakimaru]

bilang twist    [scott sumner]	define
a butterfly twist to one knee [scott sumner]

bio    [scott sumner]	define
a bio is a misty flip but tuck. [scott sumner]

bio double    [i k o n]	define
A bio flash but you throw two kicks instead of the single flash. [i k o n] An aerial with a quadruple pike twist. Legs are spread, and the arms are tucked into the back of the performer's pants. Originally a Tyo-Leea kick used when the martial-artist's hands are tied behind his back. Some say it's impossible, but I've seen it in a fight before. [Wepping-leb]

bioair    [jordan]	define
a charlie kick out of a bio flip. set up for a doubleleg and do a back flip, but split the legs and do an extra quarter turn so you land in an aerial. [jordan]

blade kick    [Brian]	define
A standing backflip-kick. Use a 2 foot take-off, do the kick as soon as possible, keep kicking leg straight and bend the other leg, land on the kicking leg. [Brian]

blitz    [Juju]	define
to rush an opponent [Juju]

body flare	define
See flare

box splits    [Kate]	define
See side splits

break out	define
in a form a move or a short serious of moves performed as an introduction. usually a signature move that a competitor performs before each of his or her forms.

broncos	define
from standing position, you jump into a slanted handstand, then kick back into the standing position.

bushido flip kick	define
a front-flip executed with legs spread and while holding a sword or staff, called bushido after Japenese samurai code of conduct.

butterfly hook    [Sakimaru]	define
Do a butterfly kick but when the last leg comes around do a hook kick. [Sakimaru]

butterfly kick	define
A kick where the body is kept horizontal to the ground as one leg then the other comes up straight and past horizontal. Common wushu move.

butterfly stomp    [Dragon & Phoenix Tricks]	define
a butterfly twist with multiple kicks in it. the butterfly twist is done with the legs bent at a right-angle and then straightened out, one leg at a time, to do stomps in the air, while parallel to the ground. this is all done before landing. also, unlike a butterfly twist, this moves forward in the direction of which the feet are pointing. [Dragon & Phoenix Tricks]

butterfly twist

define

basically a butterfly kick except the body twists one turn with the legs straight. A common wushu trick, muchlike the butterfly kick, where the body spins, parallel to the ground, with the legs rigid, like in a horse-riding stance. the body makes one horizontal rotation in the air adding a kick into or out of the twist is common variation. another possibility is landing in the splits after the twist.

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