Tricking is a quite new underground martial art that is not focus on fighting, more on acrobatic kicking and jumping in a martial art artistic and stylish way. There are no specific rules like in other martial arts and the tournaments look like break-dance tournaments. Tricking has many moves but the most common ones are back flips, 540 kicks, in air double kicks and many more awesome kicks as you will see in the videos. All the movements are executed with style and complex combos of different fighting styles. The guys and girls call themselves “trickster“ or  “tricker”.

Tricking incorporate a variety of advanced martial arts styles in an acrobatic way and is therefore difficult to historically track back. Most of the practitioners are from various martial art styles and acrobatics and thought themselves the art of Tricking. The name of Tricking become popular with the internet  by providing them worldwide platforms to share ideas in the beginning of the 21st Century.  The use of Youtube videos increased the popularity all over the world.

There are two blurry categories of style, the first one is more based on martial arts tricks, meaning incorporating kicks and the second one is more into gymnastic, meaning more flips in a freestyle acrobatic way. It is incredible how much strength and body control Tricksters have to train to be able to perform this type of tricks.

Training is difficult because there are not specific facilities for Tricking. Most of the tricks are done on normal underground like on streets or in parks. Training is therefore done in a safe environment of gymnastic training facilities with mats, plyometric flooring, trampoline or jumping jamporees. The safer environment can be used to become trained in the more complex movements.

One of the most spectacular modern martial arts, awesome body control!