Tricking

[JiayoJames]

Tricking or Martial Arts Tricking, is a fairly young sport that has only really been acknowledged as an activity in itself for the last ten or so years. Practitioners combine various advanced kicks, flips, and twists from several martial arts and gymnastics, and blends it together to form a set of movements (tricks). One of the things that stands out most about Tricking is the aim of comboing moves (a fluidic series of moves performed sequentialy using transitory techniques).

It is not "idiots that imitate Trickster's name.  Jamester, Rickster.  It loses meaning now that the dick sucking fuckster made a dramaster post and left" as Atemu asserted. Also, I didn't leave, I was asleep. Thanks for insulting me.

So yeah, anyway, no that that is out of the way, has anyone here heard of Tricking before? Or perhaps there is even someone who does it (not likely (except Jamesters, but I don't thik he visits here anymore)).

If you haven't heard of it and want to know more, here is a video of me and a friend Tricking (I am the one in shorts):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YGfRoVWhiKI

 

[iceplosion]

You're not bad, your friend is horrible though, did he just start doing this?

 

[Ratty524]

Wow I've never headster of a sport called Trickster I thought you were talking about Dickster who keeps saying "Shut up Rat Boy!" to me... Ster on RMXPUniversester.

Interesting, so it's like some form of karate?

 

[iceplosion]

From what I gather it's not really martial arts in any traditional sense but more showing off using flashier techniques and gymnastics movements. (Do people still think of karate first when they hear
martial arts? I really thought that wasn't done anymore.)

This might help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricking

This actually sounds like fun and as someone with eleven years martial arts training I have to say I find this an interesting way to exercise, especially if you could show off with things like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-8INMGbN0

 

[JiayoJames]

Haha yeah Team Ryouko is everyone's favourite team when they first start. :P

And yeah that's exactly right, it is 100% a performance sport, so although martial arts experience is a huge benefit to people when they start, Tricking really has no martial practicality; it's all about having fun.

Oh yeah I should also mention, that although both videos linked to so far have been in gyms, the majority of Tricking is done on normal grass. You don't need access to a gym to Trick. In fact, that's one of my favourite things about it... you don't need any kind of expensive equipment or special locations to train, you can do it any time, any where. All you need is your body.

Iceplosion if you are interested in starting then I recommend you visit: www.trickstutorials.com

It has great tutorials for the foundation tricks, and also is the largest Tricking community so you will probably be able to find other Trickers in your area to train with. If you have eleven years MA experience you will probably pick it up really quick! Also feel free to add me on MSN if you have any questions or even if you just wanna chat haha: JiayoJames [at] hotmail.co.uk

Ps. Team Ryouko are really good, but if you want to see IMO the best in the world, check this guy out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qjivdHCrXg