Information - About Just the Skills
Using This Website Effectively
This tutorial talks about the way the tutorials and such on this website are formatted, and how to best use them to your advantage. Yay! Hopefully this can provide you with some insight into my teaching methods, so you\'ll then be able to know just what each component of my tutorials are talking about.Articles - Tricking Technique Theory and Analysis
Building Tricks - Step by Step
A very meaty and lengthy article describing the step by step process involved in executing trick techniques. Plenty of illustrations and questions to get your mind working, and help you to comprehend the principles behind many a trick. Dive right in and try to glean a little information from this article, ho ho ho!
Getting Over the Bar
This article takes us away from the general talk of technique and mechanics and focuses more on a certain method of visualization that can help anyone improve the takeoffs of their tricks. \"Think of doing it like this...\" but what is this? Just read and find out! Not a very long articles, but hopefully it\'ll throw some ideas at you. Not everyone needs this of course, not by any means, but this should help certain individuals.
Take Off in Tricks: Foundational Principles
This is a very detailed and long article based on a few solid principles that are common throughout the majority of tricks. Especially for newbies, applying these can help out your progress greatly. By understanding these logical principles in dealing with individual tricks, you can better boost the efficiency of your tricks. That may sound sorta gimmicky, but it\'s the truth. If you can apply these correctly (if I explained them well enough, hehe), you definitely will notice some improvements in the ease, power, and efficiency of your tricks. These principles, combined with proper technique, are good stuff!Write-Ups - Minor Tricking Study and Resources
Effective Exercise and Nutrition for Teenagers
This is an abridged/edited version of my senior research paper. Get the facts on fitness, forget all those fad plans!
Please Gain Greater Flexibility
This is a message that needs to get out to the tricking community greatly. In fact, it needs to get out to all who are new or even some more experienced people who are making the eyes and hearts of other well meaning trickers SUFFER with their bent-legged blasphemy!
Style vs Technique?
At some point in the history of Tricking (and probably many other athletic activities), this whole style vs technique debate started. Can you have style without being a raw, untrained, ugly looking tricker? Can you have good technique without looking like a dime-a-dozen tricker? Let\\\'s put an end to this...
Teaching Others
The world has become littered with McTorials and people trying to teach just to try to look good or gain some sort of twisted self-confidence or whatever. No! There are good ways to teach and bad ways to teach. What are those? OH a MYSTERY. Let\'s have a look.
Tricking Presentation Outline
This is a basic brief informal little outline I wrote for my first semester of college English 101 class. It was a presentation I had to give on Tricking. I suppose making a research paper/presentation on Tricking isn\'t all too easy based on the lack of written information about Tricking out there. But, I guess here\'s a few ideas if you want to take anything away from it.
Using Proper Foot Positioning to Your Advantage
Here is an article detailing an observation I\'ve recently made that can impact your tricks for the better. A part of good technique, positioning your feet so you gain sufficient height and not too much travel to complete a technique well is most necessary! Check it out, it\'s a brief article and hopefully a little tip that can help you in your many endeavors.Editorials - Miscellaneous and Random Fun
The Random Cartwheel Guy
The RCG is a plague to many easy going trickers who don\'t want to be bothered by the annoyingness of the common man. Who is this guy? Why does he exist? Where is he going?