Whip Lesson Plan for Beginners

hello my name is Adam winrich and this is a video directed at beginning whip crackers a sort of a lesson plan as to what order you should try to learn your whip cracking there's a lot of single videos out there showing individual whip cracks this video kind of goes from cracked cracked crack to give you a progression as to in which order you should try to learn those cracks the whip I'm gonna be using is a 4 foot 8 inch performance hybrid whip I'll include some links in the description section that will let you know where you can buy one of these it's a good whip for beginners a lot of people are using them I use this particular whip in my shows all the time all right so let's do some whip cracking the first crack you'll want to learn is the Cattleman's crackles it's swing the whip up and bring it down notice I'm swinging the whip all the way up so it becomes all the way extended in the air and I bring it down I'm not doing a lazy lift up and slamming it down cuz that's how most people whip their ears or their back after you've learned the Catalans crack you learn the overhead crack notice I keep the whip up and in the overhead plane from there I'd recommend learning the reverse Cattleman's crack alright swing the whip up to the back bend my elbow let the whip get in front and then just bring my arm down to my hip I could mention here that some people wonder how do you make whip cracking look easy and I'll tell you the secret is to learn how to put just enough energy in the whip to get it all the way extended in the air that's the minimum amount of energy you'll need to get a nice clean whip crack so by doing just enough swinging to get the whip all the way extend it I can get a nice easy crack and make it look effortless and I saw what I just did there is something called a slow figure 8 so after you've learned the Cattleman's crack the overhead crack and the reverse Cattleman's crack you can do your first combo which is the slow figure 8 with cracks in front and then behind and from there I'd recommend learning the reverse overhead crack where I'm gonna swing the whip if I'm right-handed I'm swinging it in a clockwise motion and then I'll reverse the direction boom and get a crack swing and notice that I'm very keeping the rhythmic keeping a whip horizontal but once you learn the reverse overhead crack you can learn the slow figure eight in the overhead plane so now we've learned four cracks the catalyst crack Bursk adams crack overhead and reverse overhead and then you can practice changing planes going in between vertical and horizontal usually I will try to switch up a swing after I do the crack in back I'm doing so figure eight vertically then swing around do it horizontally then back to vertical another tidbit I'll add in here is some people are wondering like how many times should I be able to get a consistent crack before I feel like I've got a good handle on a specific crack something I've heard that jugglers will do where they want to be able to do a trick ten times in a row before they ever put in the show so I would say that's a good go to barometer or a gauge to use to figure out how good you are at specific crack can you do it ten times in a row and also with those four basic cracks I'd like to mention that you can add extra swings an extra body movement pretty easily in between each crack it's very easy to add a spin or do some turning and traveling like that so if you're a variety artists and you want to be able to add more movement and dynamism some dynamics to your whip cracking it's really easy to add spins with those cracks so that'd be the first basic lesson and then after that I would recommend learning the fast figure eight pretty much how I teach the fast figure eight is I start people on the back crack and go like that so I'm just gonna have the handle point it down my elbow pointed up lift the whip up and then bring it down quickly you can see I'm trying to form a little hairpin loop right there by my side once I got a handle on that crack I'll do a calamus crack and then take my time set it up and we can get that back cracked get that back crack and then you can start doing the doing them faster and faster combining them quicker until you're finally getting a fast figure eight once you've learned the fast figure eight I'd recommend moving on to the volley the volley is the whip going back and forth kind of like a windshield wiper basically my wrist is going to be tracing out a fast figure eight well my elbow is actually kind of tracing out a little oval so I'm also gonna some tracing it out I'm gonna go with my wrist down and then as I come back my wrist will come up over now you see in my elbow I got it bent kind of the side is just tracing out a little also when learning the volley what I recommend is don't try to just keep it going back and forth and slowly losing control and getting tired I would recommend starting with a fast figure eight then just slowly adding a crack or two so you can do maybe say three or four cracks consistently before you try to do a lot of cracks let's start with your fast figure eight and then just add front crack there see if you can do one two three and stop there and once you do three cracks and go for another crack in the back I think that's a better way to work on the volley than to just keep sort of having it go back and forth until it finally hits you in the wrist which it's kind of disheartening that little number I just there is doTERRA as a combo called the Queensland flash is faster figure eight and then ending with a Cattleman's crack all right so to quickly recap we've covered the Kalman's crack the overhead crack the reverse Cattleman's crack the reverse overhead crack switching planes with those we've covered the fast figure eight and the bali now there's a lot of other whip cracks out there that you can work on kind of in your learning the volley phase of your whip cracking journey and you can work on the snake killer also known as the drum roll or the singletons special under the feet like that or the Coachman's crack all other Victorian cut back like that and also the breakaway hot breakaway boom boom 1 2 3 crack we will write it also works for jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way lots of music you can do with your one whip once you've learned a few cracks now you've maybe learned a few other cracks the last set of cracks I'd recommend start working on which is probably the most difficult are the flicks flicks generally easier with a longer whip course can be done with most any whip with all the other cracks I probably shown you so far those cracks come from changing the direction of the whip like the Cattleman's crack you swing it up one way and you swing it down the other way with all the flicks the whip keeps going in the same direction and what gets the crack is a very precise boom wrist motion at the end it could be very tricky to get so a fun way to learn the flicks that I've been doing since I was a kid as I take a plastic water bottle I throw it on the ground and I just chase it around the yard doing various flicks at the bottle also I've spent some time with Chris Bar Great Australian quit maker and Chris told me when he started out working cattle this is how they taught him how to learn the flick they said put that bottle there on the ground and then if you want to start with the overhand flick just lift the whip up and throw it at the bottle in an overhand motion kind of like throwing a ball and just keep going and throwing the whip at the bottle and so you can get a crack and I should mention with the flicks how most of them work is you set the whip up opposite of where you want the crack to happen your arm is going to travel straight forward I'm bending my elbow then once my hand is in front and my arm has traveled as far as it can then boom my wrist is going to turn over and I'll point the handle at where I want the whipped crack so there's a bunch of different ways to do the flick this is overhand sidearm try to hit that bottle there I'm gonna hit the bottle I kind of hit the bottle you can also chase the ball around doing the underhand flick let's see if I get a good cracked ik yeah there we go and so chasing the bottle around the yard is a good way to learn the flicks and here's this a couple combos you can look use the flicks for once you've gotten good at them and you do a sidearm flick into the overhead crack Thanks so you can also combine the underhand slick with the academy's crack to do something called the cow and the calf also known as the woosh bang and let's see some and you can throw a reverse flick in there just try to get a good crack there just like that again just to recap the order and recommend working on your Cattlemen's crack overhead crack and then the reverses of all those cracks and then work on the fast figure-eight and then the volley and while you're building your skills with the volley work on some of the other single crack such as the Cattleman's crack or South not Kamen's crack the boom Coachman's crack also when you're working on those you can work on the tasmanian cutback which i forgot to throw in there where you crack the whip boom behind your back and i got the bottle with it see if i can i hit the yeah get that bottle with a tasmanian cut back let me hit it one more time I'm hitting myself in the back right now so I'll show you guys that nobody does everything perfect all the time and they say it didn't you want to say something like that in the last Jedi failure fail your powerful teacher it is something like that well anyway I hope this lesson plan helps you guys out there in YouTube land my name is Adam winrich thanks for watching

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 19 2018