What would one call a sport that combines martial arts, gymnastics, and breakdancing to create amazing feats of skill? Eighteen years ago, the double corkscrew was created when people took a one-footed backflip from the martial art Capoeira and added a double twist. This was the birth of the unfathomably cool sport known as tricking. When people ask what tricking is, they will most commonly be answered with a mix of martial arts, gymnastics, and breakdancing. However, actual trickers hate this answer, because it does not describe the sport they love in nearly enough depth. Tricking is not just a sport. It is a way for participants to express themselves through flurries of kicks, flips, and twists. This stylish sport is a way for people to seem as if they are bending reality. …show more content…
It is a lifestyle. One simply does not get that understanding from ‘a mix of martial arts, gymnastics, and breakdancing’. One day in 2010, a 16-year-old kid from Kansas landed the world's second triple corkscrew. His name was Michael Guthrie. Ever since that eventful day, Guthrie has been pioneering tricking and has become the best in the world. He is what every tricker aspires to be: “If Goku were alive, he’d be watching Michael Guthrie videos on YouTube” (Wolfman). (For future reference, Goku is an anime character. Just imagine Superman, but Japanese, and with crazy hair). Guthrie takes tricks from the dreams of others and makes them a reality. He inspires trickers all over the world to push for tricks they once only imagined, because he is the perfect example of what a tricker could be. However, exactly what tricking will evolve into in the future remains to be seen. Tricking could be a future Olympic sport because it requires athletes to push themselves past physical limits, has an organized competition system, and requires a quick