Flipping Over Esmee Denters & Free Sol

Recently I was at the Hit Factory in Miami with Justin Timberlake's new artists from his Tennman Record label with Chick Flips girl Belle. Esmee Denters is the #2 most subscribed and viewed musician on Youtube and Free Sol is the hottest band out of Memphis (bound to take the world by storm with their new album. (I heard some of their new stuff, and (LEAK!) there are some prominent guest appearances (maybe JT??? And a very famous R&B singer who's name begins with a T) on there with some INSANE beats, tight lyrics, and bananas... the whole thing is bananas! ... Apple and oranges, even.
I met up with Timbaland and his new artist DOE (the "Baby girl!' guy).
Here is Trick'd Out Tricking Webisode 6 which covers my exploits at the Hit Factory, and yes, I smoked a big, fat Cuban.

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Tricking & Skateboarding

Quick thought: tricking and skateboarding would be sick if one day combined into a major event. Boards, tricks, and chicks. Yes, a novel idea.

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.

Street Flips Endorses EA Sports and X-Box

Yesterday, I was at a party/movie shorts premiere in this Brooklynesque, underground-type venue in hipster trendy Williamsburg called Glasslands, when I was introduced to a guy involved with a pretty sweet start-up called Social Vibe.
Socialvibe.com is a social networking site in which members can choose causes like hunger or disaster relief and then choose corporate brands like Nike or Coca-Cola to sponsor them and their causes by posting the brand's ads on their other social network sites like Myspace or Facebook. Street Flips is endorsing EA Sports and X-Box to help fight hunger, for example. You can click their links on the blog's sidebar to the right to help those causes.

After what can only be described as an awkward night of movies and dancing to "I'm Black and I'm proud" on a dance floor in which I was the only brother, I woke up today in a kind of "What time is it, where the hell am I" disorientation.
A pretty decent night, however, in which I can't complain. Somehow I was on the agenda to trick and provided a bit of Street Flips entertainment to some freestyle poetry. What's more the owner offered her venue for us to host part of our Tricking Out NYC showcase this July. Also, I linked up with some cool chicks from this band called Suspicious Package. Interesting group of girls and some I look forward to collabing with in the future.
Anyway, back to Social Vibe. Go to the site, set up an account, save lives, make some better, feel good about it. I am planning on making Street Flips a sponsor once our school opens in August. Speaking of that, I want to thank everyone for their support and those who have made contributions to the school. The school's opening is definetly official at this point and I look forward to the launch and certainly the launch party. It shall be off the daaaaammmnn chain. Maybe I can get Suspicious Package to perform.

Street Flips Motion Capture Lab and School of Tricking

I am proud to announce that Street Flips will be opening a motion capture lab and school of martial arts tricks, flips, and breakdance in New York. With our vision to produce new and groundbreaking innovations, we decided to fuse together the digital and the action sports worlds, bringing together young athletes and future computer engineers to work together in a positive after-school environment where academics, performing arts, and sports could combine. The SF school will train young athletes in tricking, flips, breakdance, and martial arts, while their computer-savvy peers study their motions and learn to capture and enhance the athletes' motions and manipulate motion data with joint control capture capabilities. The school will annually produce studies on new performance arts to provide new information and other literature on motions and theories thereof regarding tricking, parkour, and breakdancing. The school will be opening this August in either downtown Manhattan or in Williamsburg in New York City.
For more information, stay tuned to this blog. Additionally, the SF School's website is currently in development but will be on the official Streetflips.com website by the end of the week.

Romeo in the Miami Heat Game

Street Flips is doing big things as of late. Romeo (a.k.a. "The Favorite" according to Groupie Magazine) just landed a huge gig for a Miami Heat halftime show. We'll be sure to include his performance in an upcoming webisode so everyone can see him rock the American Airlines Arena if you miss it on TV. Note to Romeo: make sure you don't tell the cheerleaders you're in high school. Many times, the team will go out and chill on South Beach and Romeo, when asked his age, will profess the truth, thus ending any fun for himself with a girl who wouldn't have known she was committing a statutory offense. All in good practice, my friend. Say it with me: "I'm 18."
Check out the Heat girl (pictured) on the far left, Romeo. Don't ruin your chances, buddy. Take a walk into your fate and live to reminisce in the event of your statutory fortune.

Free Sol, the official music of Street Flips

Tricking is known for it's freedom of expression, and the lifestyle of a trickster, seen through many of the Street Flips webisodes, show it's boundlessness and unconventionality. Well, we all know that glitch-hop has been the proclaimed music of tricking (as if my blog dictates or even carries any musically authoritative weight at all); however, we must stop and take a look at a band that actually doesn't even have a genre. Free Sol. To the world and mass-media, this name way not ring a bell, but locally in my hometown of Memphis, TN, this name is widely known. However, the genre of music... no one even locally can quite put their finger on it. In the band's words, "Just call it music."
You could say it's hop-hop mixed with rock n' roll, the blues, and jazz. You could even say there are some chords here and there you hear in a country song. Some of their songs even have a bit of techno in it. There's a definite R&B sound to it in many of the songs as well. Though, overall, it's just good music. You may have even been bobbing your head to them without knowing in our third webisode of "Trick'd Out."
Like Street Flips, its style is in it's own box. It doesn't hear the popular tunes or rules. It follows its own way. It's in it's own world.
Give these guys a listen. You can find some samples from one of their albums (11:11) here.

Keep Your Pants On... For Now. Street Flips Apparel

It's time to flip the streets. Did you know that in New York City alone there are over 200,000 homeless people right now. Many people think it's a decision; however, is it impossible for your job to be lost due to layoffs, your house to be burnt down, and/or your health to be lost which could place you hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in debt from medical bills? Sometimes, homelessness just happens. But, keep your pants on.
Street Flips will be officially launching our urbanwear line of fashion in early June and many of our proceeds will be used by us to feed, cloth, empower, and provide homes for homeless people living in New York City. We won't be donating to a non-profit. We will be doing it all ourselves, going to ground-level, and giving the money and encouraging homeless individuals face-to-face and not just by blindly throwing money into a bucket or envelope. Personally, I rarely see all the money that is donated annually ever actually appear in the hands of the homeless, so we are taking out the action so we can make sure results are accomplished.
Currently we are in talks with a few clothing manufacturing companies and working on post-design for many of the first run of t-shirts that will be available. So, keep on your pants for now, but the shirt's got to go. Our new line of Ts is going to represent the free and limitless life of a Street Flipper/trickster as you see in our webisodes but also we wanted to figure out a way in which we could give back to the community. Our slogan for this line is: "We're not just flipping in the streets, we're flipping the streets."
Meanwhile, while you wait for our new line of apparel, check out one of our clothing partner's (All Souled Out) latest shoe designs and t-shirt runs.















It's time to start tricking out this world, and not just by wearing cool clothes.

Street Football, EA Sports, Tricking and... Stacey Dash!

Tricking is slowly but surely about to erupt onto the mainstream sports scene, and it appears that video gamers might be the demographic of the next generation of tricksters. I'm pulling the psychic card and claiming that by 2010, EA Sports will release a full-on high-action, street-flipping tricking game in which the gamer would play a New York hipster or Brooklyn gangster character who does nightclub tricking battles and fights bad guys with crazy Tony Jaa-ish flips and kicks in back alleys. Just imagine Street Fighter mixed in with Grand Theft Auto and EA's upcoming Mirror's Edge  (more details about ME below).

Maybe Street Tricking : Brooklyn ???

In the recent football game (or "soccer" game if you're American like me) released by EA Sports back in February, FIFA Street 3 , (as pictured above) the guys at EA incorporated tricking/parkour moves into the game. You'll see guys flipping and doing freerunning-stlyed stunts all over the place.  In addition, EA will be releasing a parkour/Street Flips-type game called Mirror's Edge at the end of the year.  These are all good looks for tricking, almost as good looking as Stacey Dash's latest magazine cover.

She's 42 by the way, and she makes a special (kind-of) appearance in one of our upcoming webisodes of "Trick'd Out."

The Next BIG Thing in Sports Entertainment

Remember when extreme sports and the X-Games exploded into the mainstream in the late 90s? How about when streetball and And1 became the next new sports craze in in the early 2000s. But what about now? What's next?

The answer: Tricking. It's a new wave of extreme flipping mixed in with martial arts and breakdancing moves. 

Over the last ten years, thousands of "tricksters" have popped onto the tricking scene and tricking is headed towards being the next big thing in sports entertainment.

But why tricking? Gymnastics never hit it BIG.

Well, tricking ISN'T gymnastics. It's much more laid-back in style and the flips and twists have a completely different appeal to them. Plus, as far as tricking spreading, with the advent of video sharing websites like Youtube and Divshare, people have been able to learn flips and flashy kicks in their backyard and a whole subculture of tricksters has arisen all over the world, from Finland to Japan-- across the ocean to the US and down on to Brazil. It's becoming a favorite international pastime and it's becoming more and more competitive with new teams and battles (through online video and in real life). Plus, it doesn't have the men-in-tights factor as gymnastics does.

But what about a market?

Who doesn't like to watch people flip all over the place and compete for who can do the coolest combination of tricks?

So, who's pioneering this?

Street Flips, along with many other small companies and tricking teams are working to expand the sport and spread the love of tricking. 

So, when will this finally hit it big time?

Once a large company like ESPN features the sport or a company like Nike releases commercials featuring tricksters to promote their products with flips off of walls, spinning kicks, crazy flips, and insane moves that make people say "Woooo, what the hell was that?!!!"

Whoever jumps on this first will be behind a sports and entertainment revolution that will be only be as insanely revolutionary as the tricking battles themselves.

"The Other Hef" is Trick'd Out

Look who's got the ladies turning tricks. Meet honorary trickster Richard "Dickie" Hefman aka "The Other Hef." Even though he probably can't flip with his gut weighing him down, his sexy, limber girlfriends wouldn't have a problem.
Click the thumbnail below to view the official trailer.

Dreams can come true.

Can You Trick in Bed?

Perhaps tricking is a new mating call. Recently, I was throwing some flips and tricks in NY when I was approached by girl who had been watching. For the purposes of the subject matter, we'll say, appearance-wise, she was certainly "trickable."
She asked me if I was doing cappoiera and explained to me: "I loooovvvveee cappoiera!" Well, seeing as she was "trickable" and all, I decided to humor her by giving her the whole story of how it was actually called "tricking" and the sport derived and took many influences from Cappoiera, in addition of course to several other performance artforms and sports.
We flirted awhile and then she asked me quite simply and with a barbie doll's poker face: "Can you do that in bed?"
After my initial moment of shock, followed by a moment of deep cognitive inquisition into the her question, I answered, "If the ceilings are high enough, but I won't settle for anything shorter than loft-height."
She smiled; and I did as well--but in a right now? kind of way. And I thought I might have said it, but wasn't sure until she answered.
"If you can trick me into it," she replied.

Okay, so the story is complete BS. But, the answer is yes, you can trick in bed and I was doing so during the course of that dream. All you need is your imagination, and that's not only for tricking. Maybe you could even use the assistance of a certain magazine to help inspire you... I don't know. Whatever you like. The man (pictured above) seems to prefer magazines over the chick... who actually looks similar (magazine-down) to the girl from my dream.

GUY GETS HIT BY CAR VIDEO

I'm giving a little extra this Friday with my second blog of the day. Here at Streetflips, we flip over cars...but this guy takes things to a whole new level by willingly getting hit by one. I looked at it a few times and feel it may be fake-- maybe it happened much slower and then they sped up the footage while editing. But, boy, does he bounce of the car pretty high! If they are tricking us, they are fellow tricksters of an unknown sect and helping in efforts to bring our sport to new levels in extremely unconventional ways.
Anyway, the kid got hit by a car and you deserve to laugh at him. Happy Friday.


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By the way, here we are flipping OVER cars.



GUYS FLIPPING OVER CARS

THE STREETFLIPS GIRLS

You may recognize the girl to my left from America's Next Top Model. This is part of SF's ongoing effort to promote tricking as an extreme sport by adding the hot girl factor. Of course, the extreme and danger factor were already in the bag, but without hot girls promoting, it's just not on the money. To see what I'm talking about, check out Grind TV's mamitos.
This is also a shameless effort to give you a reason to read this blog.
Recently, I spammed my 1,500 Myspace friends to bring them to this blog, so I must have sexy content on top to make them say errr.... cool. If you're coming from Myspace, be sure to bookmark this page or subscribe on the right menu as I update this with hot content daily.

Below you will find our exclusive photos from the first Streetflips Girls photoshoot. Enjoy. This may or may not be suitable for minors... depending on whether you live in New York or not.

A Glitch in the Tricking Matrix: The Soundtrack to the Sport

When I first heard Glitch Hop, I closed my eyes and there I was. I was running through the streets of New York City, flipping over taxis, corkng on the sidewalk, doing wall flips every chance I got, breakdancing into flips in the middle of the street, popping out backside 9s, C720s, random tornado kicks, and raizing to random cork variations. Then, the music stopped. I opened my eyes, and I was back at my computer in my small apartment in Brooklyn.
It was destiny. I was using StumbleUpon and randomly surfing the web, going from random site to random site, when I stumbled onto http://www.last.fm/music/edIT.
It was love at first site (pun intended).
Here's how I see it: Skateboarding started with this punkish music feel. Breakdancing with hip-hop. Tricking needs a soundtrack.
Tricking's a hybrid sport, glitch hop is a musical hybrid.
Let's get married, Glitch Hop.
Team SF & Tricking 2.0=Glitch Hop.

TEAM SF and the Online Tricking Community

TEAM SF is proudly the most hated name among other tricking teams in the US and abroad. This originates from our teams' movement. Let's call this movement "Tricking 2.0" because it is being greatly driven by forums, Youtube, and various sites on the internet and is an evolution of the sport. Tricking 2.0 represents a new wave and breath in tricking that separates Team SF in many ways from the already established (old) tricking mentality which is non-competitive, strictly rooted in martial arts, and tightly-knit to only certain people. By definition, tricking is a mixture of martial arts, breakdancing, parkour, and gymnastics. Tricking 2.0 focuses on all of these aspects intensely as opposed to mostly just the martial arts aspect. We'll call the old tricking mentality "Martial Arts Tricks" because it's firmly and primarily consistent of kicks with a few flips thrown in. Tricking 2.0 is an extreme sport in which there is an element of danger. For example, Tricking 2.0 is not limited to spring floors and can occur on the street, in grass, on a basketball court, on the freeway, or in your own home. Also, taking from the element of parkour, Tricking 2.0 promotes flipping and kicking over things in the environment like garbage cans or cars and flipping and tricking off of things like ledges ad balconies. In addition, there is more of a flipping and dynamic twisting element to Tricking 2.0 to which Team SF promotes.
Team SF is still involved with the already established tricking community because it is evolving sure enough, but our mentality of tricking is very much different than the way it is now with MA tricks. For this reason, and like change usually does, there are many conflicts between our team and many of the MA Tricks teams.
Does this render us in any aspects? Not really. If anything it helps. People talk trash and make demeaning comments on tricking forums about our teams and we counter, but for reasons that most people that are arguing don't understand. We want the competitive nature among teams, without that there is no sport, no reason to watch, no interest. Tricking 2.0 pushes competition.
Also, we have been revolutionizing what can be done with tricking. Before it was just something tricksters did at gatherings and with their spare time, Tricking 2.0 is a lifestyle.
With our bi-monthly webisodes, we show how our team is trying to further popularize tricking by spreading the know via nightclub performances, battles, sports sponsors, and touring. With our webisodes, other teams have also been inspired to do so and trailers have been released using the same term "webisodes." We feel this is a step in the right direction and feel if the sport keeps heading in this direction and we can get more kids involved through our non-profit organization, Tricking Above the Influence, we can make tricking an alternative to inner-city kids to recreational drug use and abuse. Also, this will put a sport into free-minded youth who can bring their determination and hunger into revolutionizing tricking to whole new levels.
And that's why Team SF is the most hated name among other MA tricks teams.