Chick Flips

The Beautiful Belle from Chick Flips on the Street Flips Squad helps me out as we give you our first tutorial on how to do a back flip. This is lesson number 1: Just do it.

By the way, I know it's been a few days between posts and I understand some of you regulars were scratching yourself like 207th St. crackheads with anxiety as you waited impatiently. I was in Miami at the Hit Factory working hard so I can hardly work. But I'll be posting video footy soon so you can see what you missed.

Also, last week's goal of the hot girl teaching a tutorial: mission accomplished. 

Hot Chicks Teach You a Flippin' Lesson!

Imagine walking into a gym to train and - GREAT MOTHER OF MAXIM MODELS!! Lying there just like Vida Guerra, "stretching," your instructor is getting ready to give you a private lesson.
New Street Flips marketing strategy: Get hot girls to host tutorials on tricks and flips. I am on a mission to find some of the most beautiful and limber chicas in New York and Miami (apparently I have a dual-residency now) and have them help people all over the world learn flips via Youtube... while wearing bikinis. Maybe it could help spread the love of tricking to new demographics. And, for tricking sake, if I have to endure spotting and filming half-naked beauties to get our sport out there, then, I guess a man's got to do what a man's got to do.

Stacey Dash in Trick'd Out Webisode 5 Premiere

Stacey Dash is actually in this webisode of "Trick'd Out" for a little under a second. Can you spot her?



Caption for the people still using dial-up, mobiley viewing from your video-disinclined cell, or people just interested in text: Me, Tony, and Romeo were kicked out of the Adventura Mall in Miami last week for tricking and gathering footage. Beforehand, we visited the Trump to determine which condo we would get and how much money it would cost us once we get our big endorsement deal. My motto: fake it until you make it. The Trump International has an amazing view of Miami Beach as you can see.
By the way, the original webisode 5 will actually be webisode 6 and it will premiere June 1 featuring our first chick trickster. Be on the look out.

Hitchhiking to the Tricking Battle in Miami

Saturday morning I set out from my aparment in Brooklyn to catch a 3:00 flight to Miami. There were a few airline complications at Westchester County Airport (a.k.a. I missed my flight). I always fly out of WCA in White Plains, which is about thirty-or-so miles outside the Big Apple, because it's less hectic, less crowded, and you can usually meet a beautiful girl from Westchester who drives a Benz and lives off daddy's money. 

Because WCA  is such a small airport, Airtran only had one flight departing for the rest of the day and it was bound for Orlando. Close enough to Miami, right? I changed my ticket and 2 1/2 hours later at 9:30 PM I found myself rideless, friendless, and broke in Orlando, home of Disney and Sea World. So, what do you do when you are in a city 230 miles from your destination and you don't have money or an actually plan to get where you're going? You trick.... And enjoy the hell out of the adventure.

I did a couple flips on the side of the road a mile from the airport and caught a ride on a local bus for zero-fair and was dropped off near the Florida Turnpike, a direct route to Miami. At about 11 PM I found myself bound south, walking down the turnpike with my thumb up, watching cars speed by. I called a couple friends every hour on the hour as a safety net to send out a search party in case I was molested by a junkie disguised as a palm tree or robbed at gun-point and shot by a senior-citizen hooker. It could happen. Have you seen Monster? But I live in Brooklyn so I'm automatically arrogant enough to think nothing can happen to me and what haven't I seen before, flicked off, and walked past in the subway? 

I made it about eight miles down the road when I was picked up by a cop. He offered to take me to a truck stop so that I could catch a ride with  trucker from there, seeing as I had no money.  He drove me back to within two blocks of where I started. Back to square one.

To make a long story short, I woke up a lot of truckers at 3 AM, made electronic device barter offers in exchange for a ride South, made a couple deals, went to sleep behind a gas station under a palm tree, smoked my first Marlboro (it was that kind of night), woke up at 11 AM, missed my rides, tried to make other deals to no immediate avail, waited around until 6 PM, caught a free ride on a local bus to a Greyhound Bus Terminal that was closed, caught another local bus going the other way to downtown Orlando's Greyhound, bartered off an old digital camera in exchange for a $47 ticket to Miami, met a guy who worked for ESPN Magazine, networked to get Streetflips involved with some upcoming magazine events and shoots, met a beautiful girl, got on the bus, texted the beautiful girl halfway through the trip, got to downtown Miami at 4AM, walked five miles to Miami Beach, watched the sunrise as I laid across the sand and the waves rushed up to against my feet, passed out, woke up, confirmed the tricks battle against Danny Graham tomorrow, and came to the Apple Store to blog about it.

Just another day.