Tricking

A side stretch kick executed from a handstand position.\r\n\r\nA trick where a person kicks back one leg while putting the opposite corresponding hand on the ground. As you become inverted, you place your other hand on the ground and remove your initial base hand, kicking the leg you pushed off the ground with towards your ear. This all must be done while maintaining the handstand.\r\n\r\nThe Au-Batido is mostly characterized be the position of the perfomer when the kick makes contact, which somewhat looks like a frozen one-handed cartwheel. Due to this, there can be many ways to perform this trick.

A cartwheel without hands. The Aerial is a trick in which the performer leans his upperbody over his base foot, and kicks up his back leg while launching off of his base foot. As the body gains lift, the leg that kicks back transfers to the other side of the body, causing the body to rotate along the coronal plane, and to make way for the landing. \r\n\r\nThe chest should face the ground just before launching and just before landing the Aerial.

A backflip where an X-out is done followed immediately by a flash kick all before landing.

One of the many double full variations. \r\n\r\nA double full that is slightly over rotated and landed on the "hyper leg"\r\n\r\nif you twist left that is your right foot, if you twist right that is your left foot.

This "pop" trick is performed when trickster jumps into the air and rotates 1260° on a transversal plane while completing an inside crescent or round kick with the opposite foot as the P10.\r\n\r\nWhen performing the Pop 1260 Crescent/Round Kick, keep in mind that only 1080° of rotation takes place in the air. The kick is similar to a Pop 900 Kick, but you need to complete 1 extra 360° spin before the kick.

A single flip with three full twists. In this trick, the performer jumps up and rotates 360 degrees backwards along the sagittal plane (or about the x-axis) while at the same time spinning 1080 degrees along the transverse plane, before landing.

The first "cheat" trick. The 540 is a trick in which the performer executes a tornado kick and lands on the kicking leg.\r\n\r\nFrom a ready stance, the performer turns away from the target as if to perform an outside spin kick...instead, that action is faked, and the knee pulls upwards sharply as the performer jumps off his base leg. At this moment, a tornado kick is made ready; but instead of kicking it out like normal, the hips violently turn over and the kick is directed up and over in an arc-like fashion...leaving you to land on your kicking leg.\r\n\r\nDue to the nature of this kick, the soonest you can return to stance is after 540° of rotation from the initiation of the trick to the terminating of the same.

A trick where the performer places his base foot further away from his body, before dipping his upperbody down and back up in a "U" figuration. While he does this, his chest transfers from being over his back leg to being over his base leg. As the performer lifts his chest back upwards, he kicks up his back leg while launching off of his base foot. The combination of these actions should propel the performer into a flatspin. Once the back leg reaches the zenith of it's kicking motion, the base leg is kicked upwards as well while the back leg drops back down. The trick terminates by landing on the foot of the back leg and returning to stance.\r\n\r\nThe Butterfly Kick is a very sensitive trick, many things must be achieved to make it legit. While the performer is airborne the arms must be held out to the side. While kicking the base leg back, the chest must be facing forward while the navel is pointing downwards. There also must be a 180° flatspin while airborne.\r\n\r\n

The Feilong is a trick in which a person jumps off of both feet, from a ready position, turns 360° while executing an outside spin kick to the target, then delivering an inside kick to the same target before landing on the ground.\r\n\r\nThe definative action of a Feilong is to perform two kicks in the specific arrangement of "outside to inside". The most popular arrangements are outside crescent to inside crescent, and outside crescent to front.

Taking off both legs from a ready position, the practitioner rotates 540° along the transverse plane while executing an inside crescent kick and landing on the kicking leg. This move is very similar to the regular 540, but with a "pop" setup instead of the "cheat" setup.

A 360 (one) spin with an outside kick such as a hook or outside crescent. The performer begins in a "backside" stance and uses a "pop" takeoff to begin the move. An additional 180 after kick (post landing) may be added to return to stance.

The second "cheat" trick. The Cheat 720 is a trick where the performer executes an outside spin kick while spinning 540 degrees from the "cheat" setup.\r\n\r\nSimulating the Pop 720, the Cheat 720 still has 720 degrees of rotation from initial position to terminating position; however, only 540 degrees is performed in the air. The outside spin kick is fired off at the 360 degrees mark.

A trick in which a person jumps off of both feet, and executes a spinning outside crescent and an inside crescent at the same time.\r\n\r\nThe Doubleleg is identical to the Feilong in terms of take off, aerial rotation, and landing. The only difference is the way both feet come up and over the body. In a Feliong, it comes up one at a time. In a Doubleleg, both legs come up at the same time, mirroring each other as they sweep through the target. \r\n\r\nThe moment both feet are outstretched in front of the performer, in a piked position with the feet pointing straight up, is the most important moment in the Doubleleg. This single frame is known as "the doubleleg position", and must be entered and exited in the same way as the standard Doubleleg to constitute what it is to do a Doubleleg.

A trick in which a person performs a Backflip with a front stretch kick coming out of it.\r\n\r\nWhen doing the Flash Kick, it is important to push the hips out before you begin to kick the leg through the target. The moment the body is completely upside down, with the "flash leg" extended and pointing striaght up, and the trail leg lagging behind is the key moment in the flash, and is known as the "flash position".

Commonly pronounced as "rise" or "raise", a Raiz is a Gumbi without hands. A trick where an Aerial is being kicked around versus being kicked back. The Raiz can also be depicted as a Gainer executed from the "cheat" setup.

A Pop 360 executed from the "U" dip within the "butterfly" setup. The Illusion Twist occurs when a person dips down in a U-like formation, just like in a Butterfly Twist; but instsead of wrapping across and twisting off of the base leg (like in a Butterfly Twist), you simply turn and execute a Pop 360 instead. When done correctly, it gives off the appearance of a "twisting" technique, without it actually being one.\r\n\r\nDespite being a variation of the Butterfly Twist, the Illusion Twist is actually not a twist (a horizontal spin) at all. However, the Butterfly Kick is still a prerequisite.

A Gainer-hook. A trick where a person executes a Gainer, but pitches to the side a little bit and executes an outside spin kick (usually hook or wheel) with the trailing leg.\r\n\r\nThere are generally two ways to execute this trick: 1) kicking the swinging leg straight up, or 2) kicking it around and towards the shoulder like a kicking a ball. The first method produces the type of Moonkick you see in the vid above. Doing the latter produces the "Chuta Na Lua", which is the original Moonkick.

The Gumbi is a transition where a cartwheel is being kicked around versus being kicked back.\r\n\r\nUsually performed on the opposite side as a cartwheel would be, the Gumbi is entered from a Capoeira wheel kick known as "meia lua de compasso". As the leg kicks back, the hand that is free reaches behind the head and over the base hand, landing on the floor and supporting the weight of the body. The back arches hard, pushing the hips forward and creating a "slingshot" effect while landing on the kicking leg.\r\n\r\n

A trick in which a person performs a Gainer with a front stretch kick coming out of it. It is essentially a Flash Kick from a Gainer setup instead of a "pop" setup.

A 540 (one and one half) in air spin followed by an inward kick such as a roundhouse or inside crescent. The performer starts in "backside" stance and uses a "pop" takeoff to begin the move. An additional 180 may be added after the kick (post landing) to return to stance.

A "cheat" trick in which the performer executes a Doubleleg. Stemming from the tornado kick, the Parafuso occurs when the cheat leg of the tornado kicks all the way up like a spin outside crescent while jumping off of the base leg. Once the cheat leg lines up with the target, the base leg is brought up and over, slamming into the cheat leg and driving it through the target.\r\n\r\nA good Parafuso will produce a clapping sound from when the base leg slams into the cheat leg. This sound should occur at the Doubleleg position.

A Raiz Switch. An inverted 540. The Sideswipe occurs when an aggresive switch is used just before the spine aligns with the ground dslugng the execution of a Raiz. This creates a swiping motion that denotes the characteristic of any "swipe" (a hypering inside spin kick done while inverted). This trick is landed in the same fashion as as a Flash Kick.

A Feilong executed from the "U" dip within the "butterfly" setup. The Illusion Twist Feilong occurs when a person dips down in a U-like formation, just like in a Butterfly Twist; but instsead of wrapping across and twisting off of the base leg (like in a Butterfly Twist), you simply turn and execute a Feilong instead.

This move is executed by starting a one-handed cartwheel, and springing off the hand into a twist to finish the trick.