Tricks Discriminate

Not all tricks were made for everyBODY and you know what, that’s okay! 

One of the things I teach in my everyBODY training is that tricks discriminate. The truth is that every trick we are inspired to try, that we double tap <3, that we save to our wishlist and that we ask our instructors to teach us was made by a specific person for their specific body and ability. 


Tricks are specific to their creator and their movement ability and body at the time of creation. Their strength, mobility, flexibility, stability, balance, coordination, confidence and creativity at the time of creation/discovery of a trick is the foundation of that trick. It’s like forcing yourself to wear shoes that are too big or too small – don’t do that! 

So yes, feel free to try things on and make alterations that work for your bodily variables, but stop trying to force your body to do things the way that others do them. Instead, try to discover:
1. the types of tricks and movements that feel good and align with your body preferences
2. make safe movement alterations that allow you to mold the trick to your movement and body

I said all of that to say: sometimes it’s not your ability, how long you’ve been training or working on a trick, your technique, a hack you haven’t discovered, or the quality of instruction. Sometimes it’s just the trick.