Today what I'm going to be helping you guys learn is one of my all-time
favorite skills the flash kick. What is up everybody, Dom
here. I am in the gym where everything started
for me and a lot of my teammates this place has
birthed some of the most creative minds in acrobatics in tricking and
tumbling and this is a place we've all been
blessed to be able to call home for over 10 years now. Now while I am
completely self-taught. I do owe pretty much everything to this gym. This
is where my career started. This is where my
flipping journey started when I actually started to hone in on the skills that I
was teaching myself and learning outside. Once I finally started coming here, I was
able to train those skills. Now today in this gym where everything started for
me. I'm gonna be helping you guys learn some stuff.
A few things you need to know before trying a flash kick is you need the
prereqs like a backflip would help, a layout making sure you have
flexibility because this does involve you pretty much doing the splits.
Also, try to make sure that your gym is not 99 degrees.
My team Everyday Heroes is also about to have a big session here
in just a few minutes so I'm going to record as much as i can before they get
here and then obviously when they start to trickle in,
you guys will get to see some of them and watch some of them throw down but
essentially you're here to learn so make sure you're
paying attention to the good ol' flash kick
and then of course pay attention to all their amazing super cool tricks.
Now as I mentioned before, to do a flash kick you need to have some of the
prereqs. Now the number one prerequisite to
a flashkick would be the simple backflip.
Now to go from that into a flash kick, another thing that I touched on earlier,
is that you have to work on flexibility so
make sure that you're stretching quite often, working on your splits,
lunge stretches all that, to make sure you're nice and flexible all through
here so you can do the flash kick.
As you can see, I'm already sweating. It is
mega hot in the gym so I actually switched spots to different parts of the gym so
this gym is actually huge and it has a whole ninja gym as well,
which when gyms are open to the public again,
you guys need to come and check out open gym here because it's amazing. But
to come over here it's a little bit cooler and
it'll be a bit quieter as well. Now as I mentioned before,
there are different prereqs that you need for a flash kick: one being the back
flip and also a huge one is flexibility now
I'm going to show you just super quick and easy way to do
a split stretch that will help you stretch out all the necessary components
for a flash kick. So starting in a lunge alright,
this is going to be super necessary for making sure you can get that proper
split mid flip so that you don't end up
hurting yourself or tearing anything. So go from this lunge position try to
stretch all of this out here, straighten out that front leg alright.
Now you see how my back leg is nice and that foot is flat back there- I'm not
here - I'm trying to push that foot down trying to straighten out this leg. Reach
and then you may slide down into your splits alright. So
try your best, obviously, don't overdo it but you want to essentially get into
this position mid flip for a flash kick. So do this on
one side and then you're going to repeat onto the other.
Now same thing hit that lunge position opening up all this area,
trying to stretch as much as you can. It's good for your calves, your
hamstrings, your glutes so from here, you're straightening it out
and sliding down. Alright, now clearly, my left are not as good as my
right but that's just because i don't stretch my left enough.
So if you stretch enough on both sides, they should be equal.
Now what to do next would be to warm up with some good back flips.
Alright, so there's just a few - getting my core warmed up, getting my
legs a little bit more warmed up, and then we'll start doing some flash
kicks for you. So the flash kick is one of my all-time
easiest like party tricks for me. It's just one of the main tricks
that I like to do just for fun. It's one that I feel that I can do
anytime, any place, the most comfortable trick I have,
most likely, pretty much most definitely, the most comfortable trick I have.
Now it was not always that simple. Alright so originally, you know what a lot
of people start flash kicks, they'll do a backflip with a little bit
of a split, kind of land that one foot at a time, you
know, that's the goal one foot at a time, but
a good way to progress into it is : do that back flip.
Try to land again, one foot at a time, just try to split
more and more. Okay so, regular back flip
, now do that regular backflip but try to land a little bit split.
Alright so a little bit split, I'm so used to trying to stick
with my foot but try to stay in that spot right there. Boom.
A little bit of a split. I will make sure that I list for you guys all of my
recovery and strengthening tools down below so you guys can check out
some of the products and the good things that I use to help
to keep my body flexible and super strong for these types of flips.
So go from that little bit of a split to a bigger split.
Boom. Right now, that's essentially a flash kick. Now the goal is to start the
split a little bit sooner. I try to do it more at the top okay so i
go up, split up top, and then watch that foot
follow all the way down to the ground.
Boom. Now without ankle and strength flexibility
and strength, there would be no way that I could land on that one foot so hard
taking all of my impact and stepping back down. So again,
flexibility, strength in these joints will be your
best friend. Now from there, you just start splitting
more and more but most importantly, it's just to make sure you have that
flexibility and very important that you have the ankle
and knee strength. So a lot of these skills they look
super simple and at the end of the day, they will be for you. For me they are, but
it's only because I've done it thousands of times so it will be that easy for you
but you need to make sure you're stretching,
strengthening those joints, then you can start working on
the skill more intensively. Now after you get a little bit more
comfortable with the flash kick, like I said,
the base is a back flip and then you start with a split. Now you will notice that I
do my flash kick a little bit different than the traditional backflip
with a big split in there. I treat it more like a whip with a split. Now whip
is more of a similar to a backhand swing
with no hands or like a low archy whippy layout. So I do it that way
for a very specific reason. I like to watch and see exactly where my foot is
going- the foot that I'm landing on. So a cardinal rule with backflips, now if
you watched my backup tutorial before, you know the big rule is don't throw
your head back. Now that is super important for a backflip when
you're trying to do skills that take you high into the air. With this one,
I do throw my head back because my goal is to whip over quickly.
So it's a little bit different. You'll see me break that cardinal
backflip rule but that is because it is super super important for this
skill for me to do it the most comfortably.
When I do it , I make sure that as I go, the reason I whip my head back is I try
not to go too high in the air and I want to be able to watch and see
exactly where my foot is going to land. I can see the ground and know exactly
where I'm going to land so if I'm doing it on a line.
I can look see that line and land on it. So when you see me do them on the
edge of maybe nothing too high, nothing crazy
, a building way up high but you should be doing them on like ledges near
water or with like a ten-foot drop or
something where if I do fall or you know slip. I might get hurt but i
wouldn't be seriously injured. The reason that I'm throwing my head
back and looking for that foot to where it's going to land is so that I know
exactly where I'm going to land. Alright I'm
pretty hot, I'm pretty sweaty now, but just to reiterate some of the stuff that
I've said before - make sure that you are focusing on your
flexibility, strengthening those joints, specifically your knees and ankles,
alright, just so that you can make sure that as you land that one foot at a time,
that your leg is strong enough to hold the weight. Start with
the prereqs, stretching, doing backflips and then working into doing that split
mid back flip, landing either you know, both
feet at the same time and then working your way into one at a time and then
just making that split bigger and bigger. Then you'll get more and more
comfortable with the flash kick, my favorite skill
, something super simple, and I hope that it will be
now super simple for you guys. Alright gonna go back to the other side now
because I know some of my teammates are here so
I'm gonna start throwing down with them. I'm gonna record some stuff in there so
you can watch me, watch them kind of do some cool, fun
tricks.If this tutorial was helpful to you,
just make sure that you comment down below anything else that you guys would
want me to do a tutorial on, something else that you would like to learn
because I'll be reading through that and making sure that I can
, almost went into the darkness, but i will be
watching those and reading those comments just making sure that
I can start doing more tutorials based on the skills, you guys want to learn.
So with that being said, let's go see some tricks.
Alright, I am now back home, that was super fun uh not as many
teammates showed up as expected but we still had a lot of fun, messed around a
bit, didn't train too hard but yeah I hope you guys enjoyed the
tutorial and then enjoyed like just some of the little fun
stuff that I was doing with the teammates.
Make sure that you comment down below as I said before if you want any
other skills for me to do a tutorial on I'll be looking at those comments
and taking that into consideration for when I do tutorials in the future.
Thank you guys for watching, love you all,
Adios