Despite having many interests and hobbies, I’m always looking
for new stuff to learn.
It was late 2010 then, in my last year in high school;
I used my magic skills to get me through awkward socializations (I’m an
introvert) but I was still a nerd. Bored from watching magic routines in
YouTube, I turned to backflips and the like (who doesn't like flips and shit?!). I encountered Jujimufu’s Scorch
sampler and add the fact that I’m a power metalhead, I was interested in what
this Juji calls ‘Tricking’.
Ever since then I’ve been watching tricking videos.
It wasn’t until March 2011 that a friend of mine taught me how to backflip.
Learning the backflip became my ticket to tricking. I didn’t know what I was
entering then; I just wanted to have fun. But soon I found myself saving money
to be able to pay for the expensive gym fee, walking considerably far distances
to get to grass areas, studying body conditioning to improve my body, spending
more and more time watching tricking videos and tutorials- tricking was taking
over my life.
Soon I was trying to balance my freshman year in college with
tricking, cross training with traceurs and bboys, and took great interest in
native and international martial arts. Tricking found its way to my heart and
settled there comfortably.
By this time, my self-concept has changed, it has
adapted to my ever-growing need to know and learn and tricking, I’d like to
believe, facilitated ways for me to get into other fields of knowledge. I
wasn’t the nerdy kid who used sleight-of-hand and magic to gain friends, I was
slowly maturing, taking interests in concepts I found boring before*. I became
more and more interested in making myself physically and mentally stronger- I
started dreaming of becoming a synthesis of the Grecian ideal and intelligence,
and soon training to achieve that synthesis.
This is the impact of tricking to
me: tricking isn't just a sport or a hobby, or a subculture I’m a member of-
tricking is a lifestyle and an implicit school of thought (that tells you to be
forever open-minded and aim to always best yourself). When the time comes that
I’m too old to trick, I will still call myself a tricker, for I was and is,
only that I don’t trick anymore. I hope that you find what tricking means for
you, and you work hard for what tricking is to you. No two tricking journey is
exactly the same and as cliché as this may sound, I hope you be safe and wish
you luck in your journey. I pray to the powers that be that you, and I, receive POWER! POWER!!!
It was late 2010 then, in my last year in high school; I used my magic skills to get me through awkward socializations (I’m an introvert) but I was still a nerd. Bored from watching magic routines in YouTube, I turned to backflips and the like (who doesn't like flips and shit?!). I encountered Jujimufu’s Scorch sampler and add the fact that I’m a power metalhead, I was interested in what this Juji calls ‘Tricking’.
Ever since then I’ve been watching tricking videos. It wasn’t until March 2011 that a friend of mine taught me how to backflip. Learning the backflip became my ticket to tricking. I didn’t know what I was entering then; I just wanted to have fun. But soon I found myself saving money to be able to pay for the expensive gym fee, walking considerably far distances to get to grass areas, studying body conditioning to improve my body, spending more and more time watching tricking videos and tutorials- tricking was taking over my life.
Soon I was trying to balance my freshman year in college with tricking, cross training with traceurs and bboys, and took great interest in native and international martial arts. Tricking found its way to my heart and settled there comfortably.
By this time, my self-concept has changed, it has adapted to my ever-growing need to know and learn and tricking, I’d like to believe, facilitated ways for me to get into other fields of knowledge. I wasn’t the nerdy kid who used sleight-of-hand and magic to gain friends, I was slowly maturing, taking interests in concepts I found boring before*. I became more and more interested in making myself physically and mentally stronger- I started dreaming of becoming a synthesis of the Grecian ideal and intelligence, and soon training to achieve that synthesis.
This is the impact of tricking to me: tricking isn't just a sport or a hobby, or a subculture I’m a member of- tricking is a lifestyle and an implicit school of thought (that tells you to be forever open-minded and aim to always best yourself). When the time comes that I’m too old to trick, I will still call myself a tricker, for I was and is, only that I don’t trick anymore. I hope that you find what tricking means for you, and you work hard for what tricking is to you. No two tricking journey is exactly the same and as cliché as this may sound, I hope you be safe and wish you luck in your journey. I pray to the powers that be that you, and I, receive POWER! POWER!!!
First sampler yo!
*I’m a metalhead. Jujimufu, my diety, is also a metalhead. He listens to Viking metal, and with Tatsumaru the Norse god of Tricking, makes Viking-themed tricking samplers. This inspired me to listen to Viking metal and study Norse mythology and history- solidifying my lifelong interest in high fantasy and swords & sorcery. Soon I found myself curious of my own ancestors; what did they believe in? How did they live their life? Also, with my dad raising me up with historical stories instead of fairy tales, it was natural that I’d be immersed in my country’s pre-Hispanic history. And here I am now, an avid reader of all concerning the group of islands the Spanish (but he’s Portuguese) explorer Magellan landed on.
