How to Start Tricking | The Beginner's Checklist | The Ultimate Beginner's Guide For the Best Start!

[@sachaAlex]

Why are there not over million of views? This is the very best video on tricking for beginners. Nothing like "how to get your first backflip", really the absolute basics. I needed this so bad. Thank you, kind sir. You are one of the very best!

[@snowluminix]

This was the first video I have seen from you and you should have seen my confused face when I saw the views and subs.. you sound like a true professional and not even for a second did I think you were a smaller channel. Honestly, such a great video! Hope to see more from you in the future.

[@ZakFerguson]

Thank you SO MUCH for the kind words! I shot 5 Videos that night and I felt out of my mind by the end, so I'm glad it came out coherent lol. I will keep working to get those numbers up! Thanks for watching! I appreciate the support and I wish you good luck in your Tricking journey!

[@BrandonChengYT]

This was super helpful! Thank you, and keep up the good work!👊🏻🔥

[@alanmoussan]

Bro thank you so much! Let's Start in these great phath of knowledge and Wisdom, thank you from México bro 🍃🙏

[@ZakFerguson]

You're so welcome! I'm glad that I could help you from all the way over here!! 😁

[@hadihussin3839]

You sound like a Skyrim greybeard you play Skyrim XD

[@soundbreakermusic]

thanks man, i used to do trampolining when i was about 12, and had a solid standing full and front flip off one foot (i forget the name) years later i’ve become a calisthenics athlete however i want something to do with my legs. i hope to reignite my passion for flipping, thank you!

[@mildredmelan]

This video is awesome brother! Can you progress enough in grass and sand without a gym. Or do you have to have access to a gymnastics gym to become a decent tricker

[@angelyeldellbey]

I am getting back into tricking/free running/ parkour after years...I lost all my flips 😅 I started with a blow-up mattress on grass which helped for a while, but finding a gym, even a gym with floor mats makes all the difference because they usually have different types of equipment you can use to set your tricks up. For example, when I was learning the Webster, I needed a block to step up on for the first few weeks so I could get enough height. Maybe if you can find a bench or something in the park, that can also work!

[@nobodyshere5994]

I like to trick both directions, but I train more my good side

[@benja_iriso]

quite a helpfull guide, thanks a bunch!! I only got 1 question. ¿how do I know I learned a trick and im ready for the next one? for example, I can do a normal cartwheel, i dont think its a "perfect shaped cartwheel" but its still a cartwheel, so ¿should i keep practicing cartwheels and get better shape on them or move on to one handed cartwheels? the same happens to me with tornados, scoots, and other tricks

[@jamesrock9446]

Thanks for the vid, I find the progression of the cartwheel to a cart-double to make sense. I'm definitely working now towards learning the cart front, along side the front flip. I can land the first few attempts of the front flip then the rest of the day I'm just landing squat or on my bottoms.

[@bruce.vanderveen]

Very interesting and helpful to understand what the basics of tricking are! It's actually kind of difficult to find this info on the internet. Question: do you have a different progression that you recommend for freerunners, since freerunning has most of the tricks in tricking except for the kicks?

[@ZakFerguson]

No, that is the universal progression in my opinion. Each different move has a specific progression based on the background moves you have. For example if I know someone has done parkour or freerunning and I'm teaching them scoot, I will say "Just do a step vault/safety vault 180 on the ground." And they get it immediately. That kind of thing. But like I said, this is the easiest progression base you could have in my opinion. You will have to learn your kicks unless you just don't want to kick. But you should just "fill in the gaps" of whatever you don't know using these progressions.

[@bruce.vanderveen]

I think I get what you are saying: if a freerunner wants to learn tricking, he would still need to learn the same basics. What I am wondering is: what if someone wants to learn just freerunning tricks? Would you still teach them all the basic kicks if their goals were just to learn cheat gainer, cork, cart full, b-twist, a-twist, etc.?

[@ZakFerguson]

Yeah. But ok got it. Yeah I would just omit the basic kicks and tornado, swing hook and pop 3. Pretty much everything else would be the same. Bkick will lead to Btwist, Aerial, Atwist, Frisbee and many others. You can then use Frisbee to learn ChGainer and ChGainer+Btwist or Atwist to get Cork etc. It's like movement Alchemy.

[@bibigabuyo1654]

Thanks a lot man.. awesome guide

[@ZakFerguson]

You are very welcome! I hope it helps! 🙏🏻

[@korrigandelombre8850]

very interesting programm for beginner... not a verybegginer i done btwist, it was my first tricks but i think i need more basics

[@ZakFerguson]

You can ALWAYS work more on your basics! 😀 I'm glad you like it.

[@anonymouse311]

I love this video ! Do you have in depth video on the basic spin, that s harder than it looks (or maybe it is my dispraxia idk) but would be lovely to have more detail on that) Also what does mean spotting ?

[@Styl632]

I twist to my right but cartwheel to my left so I get confused when I try to do an A Twist or smth

[@User-Cedartree]

I twist to my left but cart to the right

[@JTCLAN1]

Man, I just got into tricking back in September alongside taekwondo and I feel so intimidated when I go to train every Friday with other trickers. I have prior experience in martial arts doing hapkido and kickboxing and my kicks are pretty decent but not up to tricking standards. I feel so discouraged all the time especially with flips.

[@Boomproof]

This is so good!!

[@guaytiewruea]

This was very helpful!❤❤

[@ZakFerguson]

I'm so glad!

[@MultsElMesco]

You sold me witht that mugendramon at 5:51

[@ZakFerguson]

Digimon FOR LIFE. I'm running two DM20th as we speak. I hope you enjoy the channel and I can help you learn a lot!

[@MultsElMesco]

@@ZakFerguson Yeah man! I actually started tricking a few years ago but I got in really bad shape with the pandemic. So I was looking for some way to start again. I've seen a couple of your videos now. Thanks for the content! (Also, it's always good to know about other digi fans)

[@unit333angel]

This was superrrr helpful!! Thank you!

[@ShandonBrown-wn5vc]

Hey bro i was just wondering, did you film all of these in one day it seems like it

[@ZakFerguson]

Haha "day." Yeah. In the next one you will see. I started at like 10pm and finished at like 3-4am 🤣. Then I've been up til 4 every day editing.

[@osamardi7836]

Omg man you have an insane drive

[@ZakFerguson]

@@osamardi7836 Haha thanks! I'm definitely stubbornly honorable about my word. "I said I'm going to do it, so I'm going to do it." Lol meanwhile my brain and body are like 🔥🤯🤬😫

[@ShandonBrown-wn5vc]

@@osamardi7836 i agree with you 100%

[@ZakFerguson]

Thank you 👊🏻

[@hamzasarwari8317]

actually feeling motivated to commit to learning:)

[@GinoTrickz]

Thanks

[@ZakFerguson]

You are very welcome! I'm glad to help ♥️

[@bp6h]

Merry Christmas to me cause I get this video! 😂 (Jkjk merry everything to you!) I got my homework cut out for me! Great series. Also, shoutout to whoever did ur intro music! It’s dope!

[@ZakFerguson]

Glad I could provide! 👌🏻🎅🏼🎄🎁 The song is "Raining" by Killrude. It's from Epidemic sound. He makes a lot of good music!

[@JulioFCollado]

I will trust this blindly. Thank you so much... I just wanna spin and stuff, it's beautiful

[@ZakFerguson]

You can do it! Let me know how you progress!

[@3dHeat]

So great tutorials and so low amount of likes and followers. It's not fair! Thanks for your hard work, Zak!

[@ZakFerguson]

Thanks so much! We'll get there 💪🏼♥️

[@dylanberry_bbb]

Crud I guess I’m not allowed to dub anymore cause I can’t cart front 😭 😂

[@ZakFerguson]

👮YOU VIOLATED THE LAW!! lol It's only a progression to get there that you can choose to keep doing or nah haha.

[@rahhh_rahhh21]

This really helped!

[@CptnHarlock]

Step one Pivot on one foot and Spot your target Both legs Goal is to do 2 spins and Not Put your other Leg down.

[@ZanesClips]

I twist better to my right but do cartwheel,arial,tornado kick and the other tricks better to my left.Should i learn to twist on my left to match with the tricks?

[@ZakFerguson]

You should adapt to whichever feels more natural. Normally I would suggest that you re-learn all your tricks on your natural twisting side. But if you know all of those tricks already, you might actually just twist left and you think you twist right. In the end, it's your call.

[@ZanesClips]

@@ZakFerguson Ok thanks. I will probably learn to twist to my left.

[@SpartanTraderHQ]

Fantastic video man! Do you think someone can learn tricking at 40 if weight lifting regulary and low bodyfat? Asking for a friend haha :P

[@bluenen8197]

i know this is such an old video but someone please help me!! i can't figure out which side i'm supposed to trick on! I do mainly parkour but have gotten into just a little bit of tricking and am really confused 😅 i twist to my right, cartwheel (naturally) to my left but can do both sides, all my vaults are on my left side with my left hand, i sideflip and roll on my right and with my right shoulder, and am righthanded. If someone can figure this out, please let me know. I am so confused. Thank you!!!

[@ZakFerguson]

You should twist left because most of those motions are actually twisting to the left. When you say you "twist right" what tricks or moves do you mean?

[@bluenen8197]

@@ZakFerguson twist right just means when i stand on the ground and do a 360, i naturally go to my right, i haven't gotten into very many complicated tricks using twists yet

[@bluenen8197]

also thank you for replying so quickly, does this mean i should relearn a sideflip on my left side??

[@ZakFerguson]

@@bluenen8197 You're welcome ✌🏻 And your choice is basically: Learn everything you listed on the other side. Or Just twist left haha. Evidence points to you preferring to twist left based on all of the other tricks you listed.

[@bluenen8197]

@@ZakFerguson ok, thank you so much!! that's a really big help, btw your videos are awesome and have helped me so much, not even to mention how much of an inspiration you are to people like me, part of the reason i found and began parkour :D