Tricking history

[A1eXXX]

Hey guys=)
I need information about tricking history. Who was the first? What it was then? What communication between tricking and xma? And more...:wink:

[AjStyles]

Yes, i wanna know too. Who started tricking first i am not sure maybe sessh.
lols there are lots of question in my mind.

[Jon P]

There is no specific source but none of us would be tricking if it wasn't for the sport karate open form competitors of the mid-late 90s...
Anthony Atkins, Jon Valera, Kim Do, Arnold Chon, Mike Chat, David Douglas and so on...
People started throwing flips and extra spinny, twisty kicks into their open forms to get a one up on the competition--And over time the moves got more and more risky.
The first tricking websites were Yellwboy, Bilang (WCAT) and Trickbusters. They basically gave birth to the whole tricking sampler thing + the tricking community outside NASKA competitions. From there more and more sites and tricksters started popping up.

The original tricking samplers (other than NASKA guys) consisted of Yellwboy, Kim Do, Chris Devera, Kelly Magovern, Sammy Tu, Rick (tricksbusters) and a few more...which most of the guys are still around and on a team called Loopkicks..!
You can view all the old bilang samplers here (http://www.bilang.com/system.php?cat=videos&page=archive).

The thing is you can keep going back as far as you want by bring up things like, "David Douglas and the rest were just incorporating capoeira, gymnastics and wushu techniques that were around from hundreds of years into their karate forms and didnt invent anything"...but in all reality Martial Arts Tricking wouldn't have formed in the way it has if it wasn't for the all the form competitors drawing all kinds of techniques from a bunch of arts and combining them into one thing.

[Deezy(LoOpk!cks)]

bravo jonp you summed it up pretty much exactly how i would have ! (= nice

i might have added how the oldschool cats like valera, chat, kimdo, etc... were inspired by the likes of steve ho, ho sung n ho yung pak who were the big dogs at the time.

ernie reyes, charlie lee, joon rhee, john chung, cynthia rothrock were before them lol

its been around for a while

[J-kob]

Wow, thanks guys for the info, I really didn't know much about tricking history before.

Great thread. :wicked:

[eddy wang]

bravo jonp you summed it up pretty much exactly how i would have ! (= nice

i might have added how the oldschool cats like valera, chat, kimdo, etc... were inspired by the likes of steve ho, ho sung n ho yung pak who were the big dogs at the time.

ernie reyes, charlie lee, joon rhee, john chung, cynthia rothrock were before them lol

its been around for a while

lol dizzy have you met ho sung pak ?

[Deezy(LoOpk!cks)]

i always picked him in mortal kombat 2 n 3 when he was liu kang. does that count? haha jkjk

no but carmichael simon was telling me alot about him one late nite while we were having an oldschool sport karate video session. ho sung n his older brother ho yung were just so crazy for their time. jumped maaaaad high especially on their jump outside crescents