Just the Skills - Tutorials, Articles, and Knowledge for Tricks
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Just the Skills is a website to help you learn, understand, and perform various Tricking skills. I hope the information provided here can help you understand some of these concepts, techniques, and principles. And hopefully you'll also think the site is pretty.

Always enjoy yourself learning these tricks, all these moves are very fun! The more you can do, and the more you can do right, the more fun it is! The website is in a constant state of being updated, because every single one of us is always learning! Enjoy!

New Site Launched!
March 01, 2010
Tada! After a couple months of works, here is your new site! Quite a few improvements over the old one, no? Hopefully you'll find this resource even more helpful than the last iteration. There is a bunch of new features! Why not try out, have a look around? If you want to access some of them, quickly make an account on the site and you'll be able to do anything and everything! We also hit 100,000 visitors! :)

Check out the two new tutorials for Front Flip and Parafuso, and also the new article "Style vs Technique!"

If you have a...[more]ny problems, leave feedback and I'll get them taken care of. Check out the "Using This Website Effectively" article for more information on the site and it's new features. Take care! Thanks for stopping by! :) [less]


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    March 01, 2010
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    Parafuso
    February 22, 2010
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    540
    February 01, 2010
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    February 01, 2010
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    Axe2Aerial
    February 01, 2010
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    Aerial
    February 01, 2010
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    Cartwheel
    February 01, 2010
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    Tornado Kick
    February 01, 2010
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    February 25, 2010
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    December 11, 2009
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How Important is Knowing Tricking's Technical Details? - Dated: 01-03-2010
Your intuitive reaction to that question might be to say "Hmm, well this entire website is about the technicalities of tricks and having a full and accurate understanding of Tricking techniques and their consistent applications...so the answer is 'Very Important'."

Actually, it's not particularly important at all, usually. Or should I say, essential.
Now, just because I'm saying it's not important doesn't mean that it doesn't make you smarter, a better teacher, and generally more credible. But when it comes to the grand Tricking scheme of things, knowing even a book's worth of Tricking technical knowledge isn't necessarily going to help. Of course an understanding of some technical things is essential. But is the level of technical knowledge that is, say, present on this site, needed to become good at tricking? No.

If you look at most of the popular "favorite" trickers out there, who are capable of so many tricks and combos, you'll see most of them don't really know many deep technical details about their techniques. Of course, they're performing the deep technical details as they do tricks, but they don't have to know it to do it.
So just remember to have a balanced view of technical Tricking knowledge. It will most likely help you improve faster, yes. Is this necessary to improve? Not really.

So you may ask, why make a site like this then? Just because it's not essential doesn't mean that the knowledge isn't there. To illustrate, it's basically like any other form of science, physics, for instance. Every action you take is governed by the laws of physics. Do you have to know the theory and mathematics of the physics of the universe in order to live life? No. Do you have to study physics and understand the scientific principles behind life in order to live a meaningful live in this universe? No. But can you study physics to increase your understanding of the universe and perhaps benefit your life in certain areas? Yes.

More than that, there a whole lot of misconceptions in regards to Tricking techniques out there. Some people teach invalid concepts, or some people might just not understand what they're doing wrong, or why they can't land something. To that end, knowledge is always better than misinformation. So, this site hopes to cover as many bases as possible in regards to technical Tricking knowledge. I am a personal advocate of the proliferation and intake of knowledge in all aspects of life. Some people just aren't like that, and that's quite fine for the most part. So use this information however you see fit.

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