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Yeah, the breakaway is kind of what you describe, though the third crack after the fast figure 8 is not really a flick. You have to let the whip come under itself and then pull the whip to your left (if you're right handed) to get the crack.
It's not something I really figured out until I saw someone do the breakaway in person.
You're series of 'katana' videos got me thinking about what I'd want to see a martial artist whip cracker do, so I think I'll try to put something up in the next couple days.
I got your comment on my videos, I actually do everything i do with my right hand with my left hand...... but for some reason i havent got any videos up of that... gotta get on that.
I used to have a bunch of vids up and deleted most of them... all thats up now is realy just the Kat stuff.
Ive been working on a whip "form" or kata as its called in martial arts. what i have been doing is walking thru my sword form and then translate the sword cuts into whip cracks..... not all of it translates well, but we're workin on it