Tricking (martial arts tricking) is the informal name of a relatively new underground alternative sport movement, combining martial arts, gymnastics, and other activities to create an "aesthetic blend of flips, kicks, and twists. Tricking incorporates a variety of moves from different arts such as flips from gymnastics, 540 kick from Taekwondo, butterfly twist from Wushu and double leg from Capoei
ra. Tricking is recognizable by its flashy kicks, complex flips and twists, and its highly stylized movements which separate it from other arts. An individual who practices tricking is typically referred to as a "trickster" or "tricker". Tricking began roughly around 10 - 20 years ago where Martial art forms/routines in tournaments took to an acrobatic level and have since developed in to a freestyle and intense combination of twists, kicks, flips and spins. Cairns Tricking is the tricking communutiy for the Cairns region, the facebook group came together only with in the past year and has united a handful of local Martial artists, Gymnasts, Dancers and other people to all take an interest in the underground sport of martial arts tricking.
