Kojos Trick Lab

New fun tumble from the other day + some old clips from Portugal last year! I'm addicted to starting tumbles with gainer or gainer full 😩 shits too fun Find my favourite KTL training shorts at the @kojostricklab online store! The ones in this video are the white 'move' series ones! #kojostricklab

When the combo starts everything else stops 🕰️ #Tricking #Kojostricklab #martialartstricking #movement #flow

It’s no secret that as you get older Tricking gets much MUCH harder… But that doesn’t mean you can’t keep enjoying it, keep improving and feel great! It does take a lot of effort and organisation though. Here’s some simple tips that have really helped me to continue enjoying pain-free Tricking in my 30s: 1. TRACK YOUR SESSION VOLUME! Filming everything you do is a great tool for this as you can keep track of exactly how much you do in a session. The right amount of combos/tricks really depends on your fitness & Tricking level but once you start tracking it you can start making changes to avoid excessive soreness. Personally, I used to do 60-80 passes per session but now I aim for 40. Whenever I get carried away and do too much then I can feel destroyed for a whole week rather than just a little soreness the next day. 2. LEAVE THE SLAMS AND BAD LANDINGS IN YOUR 20s. It’s not easy to have entire sessions without falling but it is possible once you humble yourself and slowly advance through progressions when you’re truly ready. Sure it makes learning new movements take longer but it’ll lead to more progression in the long run as long recovery times and a high risk of injury will slow you down much more than taking a few extra sessions to progress to that next step. 3. MAKE YOUR CONDITIONING SPORT SPECIFIC! Being older means longer recovery times and more responsibilities. This doesn’t mean you can’t progress it just means you need to be efficient with your time and energy. Your conditioning should be highly specialised for Tricking and your specific weaknesses. Time spent and fatigue accumulated through heavy lifts that don’t benefit your Tricking could be spent on something that does. There’s a lot more to say about this topic that doesn’t fit in a caption but I hope this helps! 🧪 #tricking #kojostricklab #martialartstricking #flips #movement

STRUGGLING WITH BTWIST? 😮‍💨 This drill is a gamechanger! Instead of having to think about all the details at once this drill will FORCE you to: - Swing your chest through a big range of motion - Lift your chest in the take off - Engage your left hip (right for right twisters) - Keep tension from take off to landing All of these things are crucial for an easy Btwist and this drill simply won’t work out them 🧪 Check out our website for 100s of in-depth tutorials full of progressions that really work 🔥 Filmed by: @david_pardoe #Kojostricklab #tricking #martialartstricking #Btwist #butterflytwist

Give it a go! It’s easier than you’d think 💭 This Trick originates from capoeira and is used in many disciplines including Tricking, Dance & Freerunning. Whether you’re training one of these disciplines or you just want to learn something new I’d highly recommend trying it out! For 100s of in-depth Tricking tutorials and our follow along 16 week beginners course check out our website. Link in bio 🔗 #Kojostricklab #tricking #martialartstricking #raizscissor #reversãosemmãos

FLEXIBILITY IS KEY 🔑 Hip positioning through your take off is without a doubt the most important part of gainer switches. If your hips don’t move through a big enough range of motion at the right time in the take off you physically can’t: - Rebound from your plant leg - Arch your back right from the ground - Maintain momentum between swings Getting that correct hip motion in the take off is much harder if you’re close to the limit of what your flexibility level allows. If you’re at the level of swingthroughs or beyond and want to accelerate your progress DM me about private coaching 🧪 #tricking #kojostricklab #gainerswitch #gswitch #martialartstricking

Some tough twisting moves from Friday, nice to check in on the hard moves to see that they're still there! Tricking is so broad and all encompassing, it makes it hard to properly hone everything that I wanna all the time, but that is why I even fell in love with it in the first place and it continues to push me as much as it does. There's always so much to do. Learn how I approach twisting with @kojostricklab I have a whole video tutorial of how I learnt to break down twisting on trampoline and translate that same technique to the floor! #kojostricklab #quadcork #tricking #london #overgravitygymnastics

WHICH IS BETTER? 🤔⬇️ These are a few of the pros and cons of each from my perspective: Open bracket pros: - Anyone can win a championship if they can make it to an event and perform well enough - Audience excitement is built as a bracket progresses producing iconic memorable finals - The very best trickers are guaranteed to meet each other and battle at some point in the bracket Open bracket cons: - The best match ups happen later in the brackets when the athletes are more fatigued - Trickers have to preserve energy for later battles rather than just going all out - Open brackets can take a long time and often include one sided and low level match ups which aren’t exciting for the audience Matchmaking pros: - Title matches are much easier to promote as you know who will be competing - Trickers can go all out straight away as they don’t need to preserve energy for later rounds - Every battle can be exciting if match ups are selected correctly Matchmaking cons: - Championships cannot be won through raw skill. This system creates gatekeepers who decides what opportunities trickers recieve. This can be heavily influenced by personal bias especially if there isn’t a clear publicly disclosed system for how match ups are selected - Far fewer elite level Tricking battles will happen each year - We may never see the current top two trickers compete against each other while they are in their prime as this must go through a gatekeeper. Open brackets make these match ups inevitable Comment any pros or cons that I missed! #kojostricklab #tricking #martialartstricking #trickingbattle #flips

Can you think of a more impactful new trick? 🤔 In 2019 @shosei_iwamoto invented the Macaron… This trick opened the floodgates for a whole world of new psuedo double flips and had a huge impact on Tricking as a whole. But was it the most revolutionary? #tricking #kojostricklab #martialartstricking #macaron #frisbee

This is why… ⬇️ Spotting over your shoulder in the take off helps a lot with underflipping issues: - You’ll drop your shoulder sooner allowing you flip around a lower centre of gravity. This means your legs and hips don’t have to travel as far so you’ll get to your landing faster 🌪️ - It allows you to swing your right arm (if you twist left) diagonally downwards in your take off. This gives you more flipping momentum 💨 - You’ll have a smaller blind spot in the trick which increases control and confidence in the movement 🔥 For 100s of deep dive tutorials check out our website! Link in bio 🔗 #kojostricklab #tricking #freerunning #cork #movement

Two friday warm up clips from this year's @temple_gathering ! Always a blast to visit Paris and train with everyone there! Filmed by the maestro @uszatyphoto 📷 Learn the first move of this video - cheat1260 with my video tutorial on @kojostricklab One of my most in-depth tutorials as this is a personal favourite move of mine! #kojostricklab #tricking #acrobatics #flips #martialarts

Some slows from last year's @oslomovement OMFG Consider coming for this year's edition, I'll be there as well as many other amazing athletes! Learn every trick you see here with @kojostricklab tutorials! The website has individual tutorials on almost every tricking move out there! #kojostricklab Shot by the man @zb.flips #flips #acrobatics #tricking #capoeria