What I do is tricking.
Tricking is a young sport, hasn't been around for a very long time, much like skateboarding
or anything like that, but it's starting to make its move forward into the public eye
within the past four or even five years.
What started it off was it was martial artists who were doing jump kicks and jump split kicks
and kind of doing these katas with some type of aerial kicking eventually evolved to incorporating
gymnastics, even some b-boying, some capoeira, and we kind of built our culture off of the
essence of those things.
We kind of take and choose what we saw would be cool and kind of incorporated it into our
forms and eventually it started to step away from being on a platform of competition in
a form and just became like its own thing, tricking became its own sport away from martial
arts.
People now start to get together and do tricks and build off each other and say, hey, well
what if we do this or, you know, hey, like when we were filming, can you do this even
more or is it work like that and that's kind of how we built off each other and we started
developing this little sport that started off as something you do in the grass or at
the beach or, you know, with some friends in a school, karate school, to now it's like
something you see in music videos and movies and it's in commercial.
It's getting out there.
So my favorite stuff to do really is, you know, anything from like snapper swipes, which
is like our 540 into a twist, even switch swing-throughs, gainer switches, cork swing-throughs, variations
like that.
I'm into all that stuff a lot.
I like variations, you know, I like to be able to do one move but also be able to do
that same one move at least three to four different ways, you know, so that way you
have a lot of variety to run with and play around with.
But usually whenever I trick, when I do corks, when I do butterfly twists, even if I do like
a round melt fool, a cargo fool, I like to incorporate some kind of kicking or some kind
of martial arts into it.
It kind of gives me a practical feel to it, you know, it's not like I'm just kind of flipping
and twisting like gymnast, you know, to me it kind of keeps it alive that it's martial
arts and not just parkour or gymnastics or something like that, it gives it its own feel
because even though we twist similar to gymnastics and capoeira, it makes it different when we
throw round kicks and hook kicks into it or side kicks and it kind of gives a raw feel
to it.
That's my style.
I like to try and stay away from doing too much of the twisting or too much of the gymnastics.
I like to keep it in with the martial arts still.
So we can see the round and the stars.
So we can see the big stars.
