XSD at Rampulla's! Kicks, flips, tricks, parkour!

Hey everyone,

Hope you all enjoyed last weeks post about one of my favourite trickers! This week I'm going to talk about flips, kicks, and tricks in Rampulla's XSD class. This class is dedicated to combine acrobatics, martial arts, stunts, and parkour all in one. The class ranges from basic to advanced levels, as well as a wide range of ages. It's challenging and fun at the same time, because students work their butts off to learn a trick or move, and when they get it, the feeling of achievement is amazing. 

The one thing I have learned from teaching XSD is that everyone learns differently, and everyone is going to learn things at a different place. I've seen some students learn tricks their first try and others take years of training to get it down. The most important thing I tell them is that if you work hard, and continue to work hard anything is possible. It took me a year and a half to learn a back tuck, and I trained that move every single day. Everyone learns at a different pace. 

What I leave about teaching students, is that I get the chance to see them grow, I've seen students who first started who could barely do a cartwheel, and now they are doing cartwheel fulltwists like it's nothing. The transformation is amazing to see, it also shows what hard work and dedication can do. 

I love teaching XSD because it's what I love doing. I love being able to share my knowledge with people who are interested in the same thing I am. Tricking, flips, stunts, parkour and martial arts is my life. I want to be able to teach them everything I know and make them the best they can be in all aspects of their life. I want to be able to inspire, and motivate them every day. That's what XSD means to me. 

I put together a quick video of one of the classes that I decided to a small vaulting set-up. Check it out and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEtp5SV1I_s

Tricks, kicks, flips, from the best. Anis Cheurfa!

Hey everyone,

I hope you enjoyed last weeks episode of kicks, tricks, and flips. This week I'm going to be talking about one of my favourite trickers, who inspires me to trick. One of my all time favourite trickers, is Anis Cheurfa. If you're into tricking than you definitely know who he is, as well as his amazing style.

When I first started tricking I thought Anis was the greatest tricker, as I learnt more about tricking I began to like his style more, and more as I watched him. I started out liking him because he could do some of the hardest, and most difficult tricks at the time. He could swing through corks, like it was nothing, and spam dubs like it was nothing.

I began to truly understand his style, when I compared him to many other trickers. Almost everyone who tricks can do a cork screw, or spam a dub. It's not as impressive as it used to be. Anis has made his style so clean and crisp, every move he does looks perfect to the point that he must've done it a million times before. The reason I like his style is because when he does a kick, it's real, if he hit you with it, it would hurt a lot, and he makes sure his toes are pointed, and everything is done with perfect technique.

It looks as if he works on perfecting moves, instead of adding a twist, and I truly appreciate the way he perfects his moves, because he makes every move his own.

Take a look at this video and watch what tricking should look like!

This is what inspires me to be the best I can be!

Enjoy!!!!

Kicks!

Hey everyone!

Hope you enjoyed last weeks post on breakfalls and the video of me throwing myself to the ground in different ways. In this weeks post I am going to be talking about kicks! In tricking my favourite moves are always kicks, I find kicks so fun to do because your moving and spinning in so many different ways and unleashing a kick with the force to take someones head off. I think might have something to do with my martial arts background.

Now if you're like me you will find yourself practicing kick tricks all day long, because theres so much you can do with them. You can kick on the ground in the air, on your hands, and doing flips; the possibilities are endless.

The one thing I find these days in tricking is that people tend to pride themselves on doing the most amount of twists before they kick even if their kick only goes up to their waste. When I practice kick tricks I try to make each move distinct and sharp. I want to have full extension on my kick with pointed toes, and I try my best to get each kick as high as I can. Personally I would rather see a clean jacknife by Anis Cheurfa, then a cheat 1260 with a kick that is non existent.

Ways to improve the cleanliness of your kicks:

1. Stretch, stretch, and stretch. The more flexible you are the higher you're going to be able to get those kicks, and the more impressive they are going to look. (centre, and side splits)

2. Practice your basics, practice kicks on the ground such as your round house kicks, and hook kicks, and make sure you are point your toes, and getting full extension on the leg.

3. Kick a target! If you have something to hit while practicing basics or even trick kicks, your more likely to build up the habit of kick and snapping your kick as hard as you can.

4. Drill your kick tricks! Don't do it once and move on to the next move. Practice it until you can do it in your sleep.

5. Try doing it in combos, this makes it more challenging and more fun to do.

Here's a video of me practicing some kick tricks! Enjoy! Comment and Subscribe!