ROFL, I don't think they're doing that to "trick" their opponents... They're just doing acrobatics mixed with martial arts (freestyle tricks).

Take it from me, parents just don't understand.

Yeah, if you check the wikipedia article linked above, it describes Tricking as "a type of acrobatics derived from martial arts such as sport karate incorporating techniques found in gymnastics, break dancing, and similar disciplines."

So even the (semi) official description acknowledges that it's more acrobatics than martial arts.

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I admire greatly the gymnastic skills involved, but this is not martial arts.

It's entirely possible that some of these guys actually are martial artists (most likely TKD), but what's on show here is not martial arts.

It's gymnastics, maybe movie stunt fighting at best, but calling it "martial arts" is a stretch too far.

Still pretty impressive though.

When I read "tricking" I automatically thought advanced feints - how wrong I was. It's really just gymnastics with an occasional kick.

In any sort of fighting martial arts, flips, which inherently turn you upside down with your back to your opponent, equals a fast lesson in how hard the floor is.

If there was a *foley channel, this would belong there.

Bolo is the quintessential "bad guy" in many martial arts movies (probably most famous for Van Damme's Bloodsport, at least outside of Hong Kong)

It looked to me like he was just looking to shut up some pussies trying to sound hard. That's a good thing.
This new Angry Black (old HS Character, not a racial slur) should have asked Howard to set up a boxing/mixed martial arts match so there would be no assault, I bet ICP would still have balked.
I always leave the ICP show after Ms. Potato Dick and Gunt. Irritating Clown Posers never did anything for me. C-C-C-YEAH!

Thank you enoch!! Hey, check out the thumbnail. So awesome!!

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All a child needs to be able to learn and discern are fundamentals of critical thinking in the form of basic/complex problem solving in the immediate world around him/her, and the basics squared.

By basics squared we mean the 3R's and about four foreign languages and maybe some musical training, kids can sponge that up and more in the proper environment. You need to thrown in practical tool-making with the daily training, and maybe some martial arts fundamentals.By the time they are seven (age of reason), you'll have MENSA material on your hands, and the makings of a real piece of work.

If you are into history and want to use it as a platform, leave any teaching of religions to the basics and leave the god-as-a-backdrop out of your curriculum. Your kid can make his own choices about the great unknown later, yer preparing a Renaissance child for a steam-punked future that's moving faster than any parent has the capacity to digest, anyhow...Your take on God will only complicate matters.

That moustache just lends an air of authority to everything he says.

I don't have kids, but I do teach a kids martial arts class once a week. At the end of every class, I would award a lollipop to whichever kid worked the hardest. One week I ran out of lollipops, so I gave the kid a koshi nage (hip throw). Since then, I offer them a choice of lollipop or koshi. 9 times out of 10, they choose the koshi.

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You know, you have a serious disability in fake martial arts. By the time you unleash your 7 finger death strike, your opponent's 5 finger death strike is complete and off the mat. In or out of the matrix, I feel bad.

Unless you have 7 total across both hands, which gives you a serious upper finger. If you have 6 fingers on one hand and 1 on the other, you have the nearly unbeatable 1 finger death punch. Only beatable by the no finger death punch.

This understanding is only possible in the matrix, so now that you know that, enjoy my comment.

Yeah, not what I was expecting at all. I wish I'd gotten into competitive, full-contact martial arts as a kid. Maybe my parents saved me a few years of mental functionality, but I've always had a passion for some physical challenge.

But skinnyskinnyskinny. The choreography really doesn't fit her build. And like she said, she was just getting started with the martial arts stuff.