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.

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.

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.