What'd you learn first?

[ThatOtherGuy]

We all know what the basics are, but everybody's different. Some people have an easier time with flips, some with kicks, I'm sure at least one guy somewhere just decided "I'm doing a backflip today" and just went outside and threw it and that was his introduction to tricking.

What was the first real move you tried to learn? What was the first move you successfully landed? Where'd you go from there? If you had it to do over, would you have started with something else?

It's story time. Make it fun.

[grymm_2187]

the first move i tried to learn was a back tuck but that soon changed after a head shot...so i went to a 540 and i was learning it in my living room...the first one i landed was an accident: i wasn't trying 540's but it somehow happened (i was trying to fix my tornado kicks) then i was doing them with relative consitance...now i cant do a 540 to save my ass

[thereid]

one day for some dumb reason i thought i'd try to run as fast i could and do like a handstand,just like that-fronthandspring-i did that when i was seven-way before i knew about tricking,gymnastics-or even what a FHS was-then seven years later i started tricks-and i guess u could say the first REAL move i learned was a 540-it was really easy for me but it looked really bad-i guess thats my story

[kjungsxii]

the first move i learned was a... 540 yay!!! then twist, then corkscrew a week later =)

[Vaughnya]

wallflip then backtuck then au batido and so on....working on sideswipe, cork, hypertwist

[jaron]

frontflip

[Howitzer]

Frontflip > back tuck > back handspring > front handspring

Haven't tried anything else yet.

[Spyder_V]

One day I told myself that I'd backflip, so I took a couple of friends to the football field at my school and we flipped for 4 hours until I finally landed one on the grass.

Thus, my first trick was the backtuck.

[Martialartsguyfl]

back handspring, btwist, then 540 and aerial then backtuck then btwist to cork lol

[Phil D]

i learnt the backflip first, then 540, although the 540 didnt come naturally to me and i still really have to force it out

[biyak]

cartwheel -> kip up -> 540 -> trickster aerial ( not good idea but its easy ) - >
front - > r/o back (ro just a normal back ) -> btwist - > dleg ^^

[Workerz]

My first trick was the Front Tuck, I didn't have the learn it I could do it when I started tricking, it was really crappy and low though, I landed completely crouched anyway then I did Aerial then Back Tuck.

If I could have my time again I would go out and learn a back tuck on my first day tricking to get my confidence up and then go through all the basics, I'd do 360c, 540 etc.

If only we could all start tricking knowing what we know now, I'm sure there's not many people who wouldn't change how they started if they could go back.

[Jesse]

i had picked up cartwheels, kips ups, all that easy stuff, plus double legs and backhandsprings before even being introduced to tricking. I was after wrestling one day when i was taught how to do a backtuck with a spotter, and 5 minutes later i was landing them. I also did martial arts at the time so it was sorta a great match for me

[Shelz]

back hand spring -- aerial -- brandy yeh thats it for now...

[Sephy]

Front handspring 1st, then a backtuck. then it just really moved on from there. Now I can do Backflips, back hand springs. and some other stuff but yeah anyway...

[prosteve037]

540 :punched:

[Towlie2110]

Kip up of course.

[Divum Ingredor]

Front-Hand Spring.

[se7en.]

Nothing, Handstand im trying Sideflips though

[SEAL]

frontflip i tried one when i was young and landed standing up and didnt try any other tricks till 5 months ago second trick was 180 frontflip then aerial then 360 front flip

[J.B. II]

i simply decided to go out to do a frontflip...

[J.B. II]

when i was 7...

edit: sorry, forgot branle.
BRRRRAAANLEEEEEH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tao]

Wow, no branling this time?
When I was 7 I learnt my first frontflip,too.
I was like 10 when I learnt the first backtuck for a wrestling move :D
Of course, I was just landing on my stomach.
After that I learnt wallflip and then other moves on a minitramp like 180 frontflip, sideflip etc. in school.
I was always into this tricking stuff, without knowing that it actually exists.
And then I heard of it and knew this is what I always searched for.

[Towlie2110]

i couldnt beilive there was no branleh

[MJLover]

Wallfip.. Which I've now bailed in may and have lost all technique it seems.. :(

[lastmanstanding]

360 spin. hmm. actual tricks? kip-up.

my first decent trick WILL probably be FSH

FSH, is, on a side note, the abbreviation for a certain female hormone.

[anerky]

540 then backflip

[sesshoumaru]

Given my background, alot of basic tricks were already taught to me as martial art curriculum. My dojo went over Jacknives, 540's, Btwist's, Gainers, Back Tucks, and all of that...so I guess my first trick (that I had to go out and learn on my own) was the Shuriken Cork, which was called "Dynamite Heel" upon it conception...

[Nielsnierusu]

Shuriken Cork[/B], which was called "Dynamite Heel" upon it conception...

Hmm, what is an shuriken cork/Dynamite Heel ??... man sessh you have so much other words for tricks and stuff (example: Seiryuukenjutsu,...) and when i try to google that to learn more about it, i can`t find anything :eh: ... where did you got these knowledge?...

By the way i`ve started with bhs and backflip :smile:

[sesshoumaru]

Hmm, what is an shuriken cork/Dynamite Heel ??... man sessh you have so much other words for tricks and stuff (example: Seiryuukenjutsu,...) and when i try to google that to learn more about it, i can`t find anything :eh: ... where did you got these knowledge?...

By the way i`ve started with bhs and backflip :smile:

That's great to know that you didn't find any information on Seiryuukenjutsu, and I only say that because it's a rare form of Iga-Ryu Ninjutsu. Hardly anybody would know anything about it...

There are some videos of me doing the Shuriken Cork all over the place! Just look/ask around for it! The only reason why I have so many alternate names for tricks is because I've been doing them before tricking really got popular.

Take the Sideswipe/Teradaswipe for example:

I originally executed it as a Gainer Flash from a "cheat" set-up...so I'd spin around and crescent kick the target, then, without putting that "kicking" leg down, I'd Gainer Flash the same target! Later on Steve Terada started doing it (which isn't the exact same thing as mine, but close enough), and he called it a Sideswipe/Teradaswipe or whatever. Since more people were exposed to Steve, I had to change the name of my trick from Gufuu/Tatsumaki-ura Geri (Typhoon Kick or Tornado Upper) to a Sideswipe...

I'm not happy about it...but it's more important to have uniformity rather than credit, for a particular trick.

[Mateus]

540 was my first trick....Sessh dont U train capoeira?

[Dragonic MiKe]

Aerial :smile: after countless bails onto that knee.

Then Backflip, then 540.

[sesshoumaru]

540 was my first trick....Sessh dont U train capoeira?

When it comes to MA, I train just about everything!

Nice GM Swipe Dragonic...nice!

[tf-flip]

my first trick i learned would be a frontflip
I was threatened by jeff3 aa Craig D that if i didnt do it then id be beaten up ahaha
I believed him
and i landed it on my ass first try
and then got it 2nd attempt :) i think

[Mateus]

omg... im still workin on gettin those legs straight in gms......

[Dragonic MiKe]

Cheers sessh. Thanks for making the tutorial on it, it's a fun move. :smile:

edit: sig'd.

[Rook]

Brandy, before I even knew what tricking was. Trying thousands of round-offs and randomly did one with no hands. :D

[J.B. II]

branlecannon was my first bran-le-fu move.

[SuperChimp]

i learned how to walk before any tricks happened

[JKT]

Kipup to handspring.

[Snejk]

I would have to say frontflip. At a very young age I tried to throw one, landed on my ass and as the clown I was, I would always throw them when center of attention.. A few times would I land them on my feet. I was 8 or so back then... Other contestants would be fronthandspring in the same manner.

After starting with tricking I guess backtuck is the first move I "learnt". I still feel bad when I say that I "know aerials" because to me they look awful, more like some weird kicky move.. :P

[Madyson]

540. Now I know that there were easier places to start, but whatev.

[simon]

Frontflip.
Frontflip 180.
Backflip.
Aerial.