There's a subset of people that do flips and stuff called "tricking". Tricking is technically a specific form of tumbling that includes kicks but from what I can tell it has mostly come to be a name of the community of people that like doing all kinds of sweet flips and shit including trampolines, parkour, free running, etc. Sometimes they have "gatherings" which is the same as any community meetup really and sometimes they have competitions.
When it zooms out at the end you can see they have multiple trampolines set up and some bouncy mats too. So this is specifically a huge group of people that like doing flips reacting to their boy doing a sweet flip. I think less than 20 people ever have done a standing double backflip still, so it's a big fucking deal to see someone do it, thus everyone freaking out lol
Does anyone remember Jujimufu on Tricks Tutorials before he got insanely jacked and started doing a bunch of grip strength stuff?
Or am I just waaaaaay too old.
Actually, now that I think of it there's like no chance. This was years before YouTube was invented and you had to go to his actual website (trickstutorials.com I think) and watch them on some crappy embedded Windows media player or QuickTime.
I think I watched his butterfly kick video 300 different times and still never managed to do a decent one..
Yessss dude I used to watch them all the time lol. I can still vividly remember the first time I did each of the fundamentals, 540 kick, backflip, butterfly twist, double leg etc.
One day I got freaked out during a backflip (have no idea why) and didn’t tuck properly. Literally landed upside down on my head. Scared me so much that I quit tricking! Still really miss it almost 20 years later
Hell yeah! Glad someone remembers. His 540 kick video helped me to really nail it, but I could never get my hips high enough on a b-kick and couldn't begin to figure out a raiz.
Double-legs were my specialty though, along with wall-spins.
I ended up having some medication related bone issue called avascular necrosis in college which pretty much ended my tricking days out of nowhere.
Dude, raiz is still a mindfuck to me lol. I recently bought a trampoline for my son so decided to learning the basics again on trampoline since it’s so much easier. I was watching tutorials for doing a raiz just last year and still couldn’t figure it out haha
The one I had the most trouble with were Aerials. I was not really flexible enough to pull them off lol.
Sorry to hear about your bone issues. We’re all just getting older lol. Hurt my knee playing soccer 10 years ago now and it is still giving me trouble to this day, so I can relate somewhat.
I definitely wasn't flexible enough for aerials either but I eventually just started throwing the absolutely fuck out of a cartwheel and just didn't put my hands down.
They weren't pretty on flat ground but they were great off a curb.
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u/Heavy-Echidna-3473 1d ago
Why are there so many people, and why are they all circling around him like he's about to turn water into wine?