The art of swingthroughs! Tricking, kicks, martial arts!

Hey everyone,

This week were going to talk about an advanced style of tricking that most people want to attain at some point in the tricking career. This week were going to be discussing swingthroughs. Swingthroughs are an important part in tricking because it enables you to link moves with put your foot on the ground. It's very difficult to do and you have to make sure your flips, and tricks are up to par before trying swingthroughs or you could hurt your ankles and knees pretty badly.

Some of the best ways to start swingthroughs are to attempt them from scoots or t/d raise because they are moves that meant to set up a swingthrough. These are probably the two easiest ways to get started. Once you feel like you have a good set, start chucking gainers, and than eventually corks. I always suggest trying to practice the move until it becomes second nature, and then moving on to something harder. It's always best to have clean consistent tricks rather than huge, land them 1 in 10 tries kind of tricks.

The next step to swingthroughs is to try them out of a twisting move such as a btwist, cork, or even full twist. Once you feel comfortable swinging out of almost any move try doing more than one. Such as cork swingthrough cork, swingthrough gainer. Build yourself up until you can swingthrough continuously at ease. Swingthroughs are very difficult to get down solid, but once you learn them you feel like a beast when you're throwing down tricks.

I hope you guys can learn from this, and inspire some of you to do swingthroughs! Level up and keep on tricking. Here's a link to a video of me practicing swingthroughs! I'm still learning how to do them penis as well, so hopefully you can watch me fail and stick some tricks! Keep practicing those flips, kicks, and tricks.

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!!!!

Check out bo staff martial arts tricking!

Hey everyone,

Hope you all enjoyed last weeks blogs about trick kicks! This week I'm going to be talking about bo staff tricks. Ever since I was a young kid studying Martial Arts, my favourite weapon was always the bo. 

I loved watching action movies with bo staffs in them, such as those really corny chinese movies with Jet Li in them. I started using the bo staff at the age of 7 when I was a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do. I would do private lessons with my instructor all the time, just so I could kick ass at tournaments. 

When ever I do bo staff tricking I try to create the most fluid way of doing a trick or move. I don't want to stand there and just do the trick because then I become a baton twirler, and that's not so cool. 

So what I try to do, is make all my movements stand out by finding cool ways to get into them and cool ways to finish them. Instead of standing there and doing a neck roll, I doing a 360 spin as I do the neck spin, to make it look more impressive.

Ever since I've started to doing flips, and tricks, I also like to implement them into my bo tricks. Sometimes I'll do 540 kicks in the air while spinning the bo behind my back, which looks really cool. Another thing I'll try to do is spin and throw the bo in the air and catch right before I do a flip, the transition into the flip ends up looking really cool. 

In the video below, you can check out some of the new bo tricks I have been working on. If you guys like it, subscribe for more videos, and comment what you would like to see next! Come back each week to check out Martial Arts, tricking, and parkour!

Enjoy!

Hard Ground Training

Hey all,

Hope you enjoyed last weeks tutorial! This week I'm going to talk about ways to help you improve your tricks. Most people train their tricks on sprung floors, and use matts to land on. Yes! That is the safest way to learn and practice a trick. What trickers also tend to do (note: nothing wrong with this) is trick in their bare feet.

The point I'm trying to get across is that when most people train, we tend to train in the perfect environment where everything is easy to land and get height. Sprung floors give you tons of height if used properly, and matts cushion our landing. What also makes training easy is doing it bare foot, because there is no extra weight on your feet to slow you kicks and flips down.

The next point I'm trying to get at is, if you want to make your tricks more practical try doing them outside with shoes on to make your training more difficult. Training with shoes on will help increase your vert because you're adding weight to your feet. It's an easy way to push yourself to the next level.

What I also suggest doing (only for advanced trickers) is trying to do your tricks on concrete with shoes on. Training on concrete will strengthen your muscles tenfold because there is nothing to bounce you up or absorb your landing. When I train on concrete I only do tricks I'm 100% sure that I'll land every time. This isn't the place to try new skills, it's the place to strengthen your body, and improve your tricks.

In the video below I'm training on hard ground, with shoes on. It personally helps me level up, take a look and try it for yourself (only advanced trickers :P)