bob5000
Jul-09-07, 07:11 AM
ok i dont know if theres already a thread on this sort of topic but i just need some sort of proof.
story:
ok so my friend (who does not trick and does not do ANY sports) says tricking is gymnastics. i always thought it was martial arts. but some people i asked and Wikipedia says its its own sport, so im starting to consider that. my friend says that its not martial arts because you dont defend yourself and said you wont ever see someone use it in a fight and if you want to see what real fighting is then look up judo. i kept telling him that tricking has a lot of kicks but then he makes up some "tricker" vs "judo"guy situation saying that judo is REAL martial arts (since he saw youtubevideos of it and now he thinks its hardcore), but i try to tell him that there are a lot of different variations of martial arts, but i cant get that through his thick head. after i tried telling him that its it own sport (after looking it up) he still didn't believe me and said ask anyone. i asked every tricker on my AIM buddy list, and all of them either said it was a sport with a martial arts root, came from martial arts, or is a martial art. or said it was its own sport. he still doesn't believe me because he says asking trickers doesn't count because all of them will just say its martial arts because they think they want to look "cool" by saying so. (his example for it is: "if you ask a counterstrike nerd if counterstrike is a sport he'll say it is becasue he wants to look cool" [or something like that] though thats not a very good example) he thinks its gymnastics because it has a lot of backflips. and telling him that a 540 is a kick isn't gonna get through him because its not liek hes gonna know what the hell that is. also he doesn't believe wikipedia because he says its all fake since people type it up themselves and put bullshit. but i cant get through him about the whole gymnastics events and "routines" whereas martials has "forms". but then i also dont know how to support it being its OWN sport...
everytime i try to explain something he just says im retarded or stupid or something and says i dont know anything. he has some sort of "leadership" personality that makes so that any friend he makes becomes his like... shadow that thinks believes and thinks they know eveything he knows so all his other friends (who are somewhat my friends) all say im retarded and stuff and that tricking is ONLY gymnastics and all that good stuff. he gets mad at me easily because im one of the few who stand up against his thoughts and actually disagree
ok i know this is a tricking discussion forum so i dont wanna sound like some highschool drama girly girl sooooooo,
my question is:
is tricking a martial art gymnastics or its own sport? (i would like some sort of explanation for it too. i know this is a tricking community but i think this is a good place to ask and if i ask random people in a random forum they're all going to be like "wtf is tricking")
story:
ok so my friend (who does not trick and does not do ANY sports) says tricking is gymnastics. i always thought it was martial arts. but some people i asked and Wikipedia says its its own sport, so im starting to consider that. my friend says that its not martial arts because you dont defend yourself and said you wont ever see someone use it in a fight and if you want to see what real fighting is then look up judo. i kept telling him that tricking has a lot of kicks but then he makes up some "tricker" vs "judo"guy situation saying that judo is REAL martial arts (since he saw youtubevideos of it and now he thinks its hardcore), but i try to tell him that there are a lot of different variations of martial arts, but i cant get that through his thick head. after i tried telling him that its it own sport (after looking it up) he still didn't believe me and said ask anyone. i asked every tricker on my AIM buddy list, and all of them either said it was a sport with a martial arts root, came from martial arts, or is a martial art. or said it was its own sport. he still doesn't believe me because he says asking trickers doesn't count because all of them will just say its martial arts because they think they want to look "cool" by saying so. (his example for it is: "if you ask a counterstrike nerd if counterstrike is a sport he'll say it is becasue he wants to look cool" [or something like that] though thats not a very good example) he thinks its gymnastics because it has a lot of backflips. and telling him that a 540 is a kick isn't gonna get through him because its not liek hes gonna know what the hell that is. also he doesn't believe wikipedia because he says its all fake since people type it up themselves and put bullshit. but i cant get through him about the whole gymnastics events and "routines" whereas martials has "forms". but then i also dont know how to support it being its OWN sport...
everytime i try to explain something he just says im retarded or stupid or something and says i dont know anything. he has some sort of "leadership" personality that makes so that any friend he makes becomes his like... shadow that thinks believes and thinks they know eveything he knows so all his other friends (who are somewhat my friends) all say im retarded and stuff and that tricking is ONLY gymnastics and all that good stuff. he gets mad at me easily because im one of the few who stand up against his thoughts and actually disagree
ok i know this is a tricking discussion forum so i dont wanna sound like some highschool drama girly girl sooooooo,
my question is:
is tricking a martial art gymnastics or its own sport? (i would like some sort of explanation for it too. i know this is a tricking community but i think this is a good place to ask and if i ask random people in a random forum they're all going to be like "wtf is tricking")