The Origins of Tricking

In the beginning, there was Aum.

Just a sound in the dark.

Soon Aum got bored.

Shortly after we got light and shit.

Light and shit started to fuck with eachother until planets smashed on to the scene. Then whoever somewhere sometime did some shit and BAM humans.

Humans have been blessed with a goofy star shaped body and a giant gravity canvas to play with. Starting in the earliest of days came the most basic of movements.

We don't know who landed the first forward roll, or the first cartwheel.

But we do know that we stomped that shit.

(Though odds are good that monkeys actually beat us to those tricks, but fuck monkeys)

Imagine the sights, you're outside of a fucking cave where you live, it's warm and sunny out. Last night you killed a Triceratops so you and your tribe will eat good for weeks. This is your off day.

Your best friend Tu walks over to you and asks if you've seen Kah.

You don't know, you haven't seen Kah since the hunt.

Kah walks from behind an oversized prehistoric tree.

Together you, Kah, and Tu form a triangle. (A polygon =D )

You can't remember who started it but someone was making goofy noises and clapping his hands. (Which has just been discovered a week ago) Then before you know it Tu and Kah were pacing back and forth in front of the cave. Soon Kah jumped as far as he could at Tu. That was some tight shit. But Tu kept his cool, he had one up his sleeve too. Tu ran forward and jumped as far as he could PLUS he did a 180.

holy shit

Tu brought the house down with that. But it wasn't enough. You start making louder banging sounds as Kah winds up his arm. He's never tried this before but he's certain it'll work.

He reaches for the floor!

One hand touches, THEN THE NEXT!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT KAH IS UPSIDE DOWN

he falls over and catches himself with his feet. Kah stuck it.

Tu started walking away smiling while making a cutting motion with his hand at his neck.

I'm sure in the very first days, it was simply Tricking at it's purest form. They didn't have dance yet because they'd have to figure out music before dance. They had survival and then slowly but surely, excess skillsets became available to the human. Starting with Tricking.

At its earliest core Tricking was simply who could do the coolest shit. Caveman didn't know much, but they knew when something was cooler than something else. Mice are cool, but Tigers are way cooler.

Along the way things started to get more complex.

Styles emerged, and with it swag. Which to all those who were there that day later regretted it and it was widely viewed as a bad idea. Tu and Kah quickly became at ends with one another. Competeing to see who could be the coolest caveman in cavesville. Soon word spread of this thing you could do when you were bored. Every village had at least one dude who could do some cool ass shit.

As Tu and Kah continued their rivalry schools formed placing rules on just what exactly it was they were trying to do.

Then came the copy cat schools who were basically just doing the same thing but they changed a little bit of it, or they incorporated a new prop into the mix.

Fast forward to the rise and fall of many nations all the way to modern day.

Tricking by itself was almost forgotten, despite being incorporated into every art form across the globe. We had Gymnasts, Acrobats, Tumblers, Martial Artists, Dancers, Athletes, Olympians, Skiers, Skateboards, etc etc etc etc All we just trying to do the coolest shit possible.

The Sport Karate Saga
Bruce did the shit he did, and then everyone wanted to be Bruce Lee so Martials Arts because a massive industry in America. Dojo's formed all over the place, in really odd places too, I guess it was pretty easy to open a dojo back in the day. In the late 80's sport karate started to get really popular around the United States and the rest of the world. (At the same time, Capoeira was spreading as a healthy activity across south America.)

One of the divisions of sport karate was a creative forms shit mabanger. At first it was supposed to be really strict to the original Kata, and what was Pure Martial Arts, but eventually the judges got bored with that shit and it slowly evolved into what was basically once again "who can do the coolest shit". (the trick back then was at least pretending like your trick was a martial arts attack)

Dudes like George Chung were kicking ass in the forms, and then started throwing aerials in there. It was unprecendented, no one had used a gymnastics move in a kata before, but here it was. Would the judges allow it?

Fuck ya they did, cuz it was fucking awesome.

You can kick ass AND do crazy flips? They loved it.

The bar kept getting raised every tournament. People were coming up with tricks in their secret dojos trying not to let people see so they can blow everyone away when they throw it at the next tournament. If you stole someones move you were a biter. This competitive rivalry went on for a bit until it started to out grow the tournament itself. Everyone at the tournaments wanted to learn to trick, and the ones that knew how wanted to be the best at it.

Soon some of these early trickers realized they would have a lot more time for training their tricks if they didn't bother with the rest of these Karate tournaments anymore and dropped out. Others had more supportive senseis and they stayed. But this passion for outdoing yourself grew even beyond the Martial Arts communities as word got out that being a real life imaginary ninja was actually possible.

As it turns out a lot of other communities were experiencing the same phenomenon happen with regards to their structure. Gymnastics saw a lot of drop outs explore the bounderies of creativity. Dance saw a shift towards hip-hop and break dancing. Soon all these people started to meet at Gym Sessions and after school Dojo's to train together. As the internet became more available to everyone word very quickly spread to kids all across the Earth. Anyone could be a Tricker. Legends started to pop up out of nowhere doing ridiculous things.

Then shit happened and it's still happening right now

The Future of Tricking
Nigga ya'll Writing this shit right now