How a Cult infiltrated Sports Community & implicated an International Sports Corruption Racket in Canada & abroad

Kerbit Collective Cult - An unofficial US funded Tricking Association in Canada
specialized in Trafficking

An eye witness, investigative report & historical account of the developing Canadian Tricking Community
10/1/2025 ~ ___________ ( Writing / Editing Currently )
Written by David Milner
( Champion Athlete / Pro-Canadian Tricking Activist / Sports Corruption Investigative Journalist )

Please be advised that this article contains adult themes addressing social issues that have impacted the global Tricking community
Parental Guidance is recommended

Planned September Updates 
- Tidy and condense information that's already covered
- No significant changes to report

Kerbit Collective Cult
Pro-American / Crypto-Focused & Anti-Canadian Regulation

- Sports Corruption in competitions has been detected in Canada
- A self proclaimed cult - "Kerbit Collective Cult" used unlawful and regulatory evasive means to conduct business across Canada and into Japan and USA
- Methods include Scouting / Recruiting using deceptive and coercive tactics
- The group functions as a de facto association / governing body and is linked to the US Tricking League informally. 
- A.I. has been used to mask the identity of the members who also conduct coordinated campaigns against individuals on social media. 
- Professionals, Coaches, Judges & other members in positions of trust & authority were witnessed to be part of the initiative
- (3) Extra-provincial organizations do not appear to be registered in Ontario or Canada, nor their agents yet all work together to support this initiative
- Crypto-Currency and an internet sub-network called Remilia Corps appear to be influencial
- Public awareness and education are being raised at this time and mitigating forces are being employed to protect Canadians & innocents abroad.
- Other Nations have been impacted and warnings have been sent.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Tricking
- Preamble
- Sport Corruption related Definitions

(Mostly Complete)
Part 1 - Canadian History - Original Canadian Tricking Gatherings 
2000 ~ 2017 - Toronto / Montreal / Vancouver Gatherings
- The Original Toronto Gatherings
- Team Invincible &the Original Tricking Tour 

Red Warning Onward
(Mostly Complete)
Part 2 - Canadian History - Development of Canadian Battle Events
2018 ~ 2021 - Local / Global Integration
- Canadian Gatherings adding Battles
- Kojos Trick Lab & "The Tour" re-brand
- Canadian / American events in Canada

Updating
Part 3 - Canadian History - USA Influence over Canadian Events
2022 ~ 2024
- The Road to Vertigo
- Tricking Movements [ Bing Bang Boys, Kerbit Collective Cult ]
- Unofficial Sports Organization - Corruption / Exploitation
- Canada involved in corruption in Japan & USA

Updating
Part 4 - Main Source of Corruption in Canadian Tricking
2022 ~ Present

Updating
Part 5 - Global History - Main Source of Corruption Internationally in Tricking
2018 ~ Present
- Global "Tour" involving Kojos Trick Lab affiliates

Updating
Part 6 - Global Societal Issues / Impact on Canadian Tricking Community
- Witnessed/Reported Potential Victims
- Athlete Protections & Privacy Rights

 

Introduction

Grassroots to Amateur & Professional Tricking in Canada

 

I began as a Tricker starting in the year 2007 and entered into the sport ( Tricking is a new sport .. about 25 years old here in Canada as of 2025 ) I witnessed the natural lifecycle of a Tricker & how communities form over time organically.

As time went on I gained education and awareness and recognized that Tricking has no current formal governing body, and that the development of the sport is still continuing to evolve & that communities and their businesses form naturally.
We learn by comparing the developments of other communities from other parts of the world and replicating or improving upon our own as time goes on.

Athletes that are attracted to tricking are highly competitive in nature, and in some cases come from a background where there is less education, and potentially difficult upbringings. There is no set regulatory body or protections for athletes.
The desire to meet others and fit in and learn is a natural draw for many learners to find other learners and so Tricking is rooted in community building and team development. 

Tricking can be a crutch and source for positive character and fitness development, and serves as a pathway for goal-setting and being proud to achieve one's accomplishments and generating successes as a solo or team oriented athlete

Other international organizations, some legitimate, others underground still, are connected to communities here in Canada & are influencing athletes with incentives despite the lack of formal structure or clarity in business, in some cases business aren't registered at all

It is necessary for Canadians to cooperate and first establish ourselves if we are going to make a leap from grassroots to professional, before we can cooperate with other sports organizations for the purposes of hosting competitions, for safety, regulatory and legal purposes

The purpose of this article is to bring awareness to this subject matter and ultimately to advocate for a Pro-Canadian, Officially recognized Team Canada & Legitimately sanctioned Canadian National Event for athletes that genuinely play for their country, and where athletes develop a sense of honour & respect for what the foundation of competitions represent.

I come from a place of sympathy because I understand how others could go down in the wrong direction as I have as a youth / young adult in the sport without a governing body or educational resource on behavioral requirements, and awareness of complex/lesser known laws.
I registered my company Utopia Tricking far later than I should and I work towards correcting the mistakes from my end - I know that others could possibly make similar mistakes as well which is why I try to bring preventative initiatives such as my activism in Tricking

Please see this as an attempt at trying to prevent the furtherance of backward or corrupt conduct in a sport that needs to develop strong ties with public and professional institutions with safety & integrity


Relevant Terminology
( The use of A.I. was used to pull up these definitions )

 1. Grassroots Level

Definition:

• Entry-level participation — community-based, local clubs, schools, or recreation centres.

• Focus: Participation, inclusion, skill development, and fun (not competition for money).

Examples:

• Local soccer or hockey leagues.

• School or community centre sports programs.

• Recreational weekend leagues.

Purpose:

• To introduce the sport, build basic skills, and promote social/community engagement.

2. Developmental or Competitive Amateur

Definition:

• Organized competition beyond casual recreation but still non-professional.

• Athletes may compete regionally, provincially, or nationally but do not receive salaries.

• Often linked to amateur associations or provincial sport organizations (PSOs).

Examples:

• Provincial championships.

• University/college sports (U Sports, CCAA, NCAA).

• National amateur tournaments governed by sport federations.

Purpose:

• To develop athletic performance and competitive standards.

• To prepare athletes for professional or elite pathways.

3. Semi-Professional

Definition:

• A middle ground where athletes may receive some payment or sponsorships, but not enough for full-time income.

• Leagues are often commercialized but smaller scale.

Examples:

• Minor hockey leagues, semi-pro soccer or basketball teams.

• Regional circuits with prize money but not large salaries.

Purpose:

• To bridge the gap between amateur and professional levels.

4. Professional Level

Definition:

• Full-time athletes and teams who compete for money, sponsorship, and rankings.

• Governed by professional leagues, associations, and commercial contracts.

• Heavy regulation, media involvement, and global audience.

Examples:

• NHL, NBA, MLS, MLB, UFC, Formula 1, Premier League.

• Endorsement and broadcasting revenue drive operations.

Purpose:

• To maintain elite performance and entertainment value while ensuring athlete contracts, wages, and rights.

 5. International / Elite High-Performance

Definition:

• The top tier of national and international representation — athletes selected to represent countries.

• Governed by national federations and international governing bodies (e.g., IOC, FIFA, World Athletics).

Examples:

• The Olympics, World Championships, Commonwealth Games, etc.

Purpose:

• To showcase the highest level of athletic performance and national pride.
  
  

Registered Business Types (Canadian)

Role                                                                                  Common entity
Individual athlete                                              Sole Proprietor or Corporation
Sports team                                                                       Corporation
League / Competition                                               Corporation or NPO             
Amateur governing body                                                 NPO / RCAAA
Athlete Agent                                                                     Corporation
Promoter                                                                            Corporation
Brand/IP                                                                        Holding company
Player Collective                                                                Cooperative

 

Definition of a Sports League

A sports league is an organized group or system that manages regular competition between teams or individual athletes who play the same sport under a common set of rules.

Think of it as the framework that keeps a sport structured, fair, and ongoing.

 1. Basic definition

A sports league is:

“An association of teams or athletes that competes in a structured schedule of games or events, governed by shared rules and overseen by an administrative body.”

It provides the schedule, rules, ranking system, and governance for ongoing play.

2. Key features of a sports league

Membership - Teams, clubs, or individuals that register or qualify to compete.

Governing Body - A central authority that sets rules, resolves disputes, and enforces discipline (e.g., NHL, FIFA, NBA).

Competition Schedule - A structured calendar (regular season + playoffs/tournaments).

Rules & Regulations - Standardized competition rules, conduct codes, eligibility rules.

Ranking System - Standings, points, or win-loss records to measure performance.

Revenue Model - Ticket sales, media rights, sponsorships, licensing, etc.

3. The Legal Framework

Sports leagues are typically governed under contract, association, and competition law.
They can be:

• Sanctioned (approved) by an official governing body.

• Independent (unsanctioned, private, or commercial).

This legal recognition determines how they can interact with other leagues — or if they must remain exclusive.

4. Major Types of Sports Leagues

Grassroots / Community Leagues

• Run by municipalities, schools, or local clubs.

• Focused on participation and development, not business.

• Usually open and non-exclusive — players can join multiple leagues.

• Governed by local recreation boards or community associations.

Legal note: Minimal regulation beyond liability and safety standards.

Amateur Leagues

• Governed by National or Provincial Sport Organizations (NSOs/PSOs) — e.g., Hockey Canada, Athletics Canada.

• Must follow the rules of the national federation and international federation (e.g., FIFA, IOC).

• Players are usually restricted from participating in non-sanctioned events (to maintain eligibility).

Example:
If you play in a non-Hockey Canada league, you can lose eligibility for sanctioned tournaments.

Legal relationship:
Amateur leagues are exclusive to their governing body but can feed into professional systems via drafts or talent pipelines.

Collegiate / University Leagues

• Governed by academic athletic associations (e.g., U Sports, NCAA, CCAA).

• Athletes must maintain amateur status — cannot be paid professionally.

• Players often move from college → professional leagues once eligibility ends.

Legal relationship:

• Crossovers between collegiate and professional leagues are sequential, not simultaneous.

• Players risk eligibility if they sign professional contracts too early.

Semi-Professional Leagues

• Hybrid systems — may pay stipends or partial salaries.

• Operate outside amateur restrictions, but often recognized by NSOs.

• Often serve as feeder systems or development leagues for professionals.

Example:
Canadian Premier League (CPL) in soccer or minor hockey leagues under the CHL.

Legal relationship:
They can affiliate with or license from professional leagues but maintain separate governance.

Professional Leagues

• Operate as private businesses or franchises.

• Governed by commercial contracts, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), and competition law.

• Exclusive memberships — teams and players sign contracts that restrict outside participation.

Examples: NHL, NBA, MLB, UFC.

Legal relationship:

• They can license, partner, or affiliate with lower leagues (e.g., AHL with NHL).

• Cross-league competition is usually blocked by contracts and exclusivity clauses.

International & Olympic Federations

• These are umbrella organizations (e.g., IOC, FIFA, World Athletics) that govern global competition.

• Recognize national federations (e.g., Hockey Canada → IIHF).

• Only sanctioned athletes can compete internationally.

Legal relationship:

• Cross-over requires mutual recognition between federations.

• Unapproved (“breakaway”) leagues may result in suspension or ineligibility for sanctioned events (like the Olympic ban threat to Super League soccer clubs).

(More) Relevant Sports related Definitions

( Canadian definitions, but may have international cross-over )

Definition of Governing Body in Sports

A sports governing body is an organization that sets the rules, standards, and structure for how a particular sport is played, managed, and developed — usually at the local, national, or international level.

It’s the official authority that regulates competition, safety, eligibility, and integrity in that sport.

1. Legitimate sports governing body behaviour

Sports require a central authority to maintain fairness, safety, and standardization.
For example:

• Setting rules of play and equipment standards.

• Organizing competitions and ranking systems.

• Regulating doping, discipline, and eligibility.

• Ensuring athlete welfare and safety protocols.

This is legal and fair when:

1. Purpose: The rules are made to ensure fair play and integrity, not to exclude rivals or enrich insiders.

2. Transparency: The processes are open — e.g., published rulebooks, selection criteria, and appeal mechanisms.

3. Accountability: The body is democratically structured (members can vote, decisions can be appealed).

4. Fair access: Anyone meeting objective criteria can participate.

5. Public interest: Decisions align with athlete safety, integrity, or sport development — not private gain.

Example:
A national gymnastics federation requires all judges to pass a standard certification exam.
→ That’s governing behaviour: it ensures consistent judging standards, not economic exclusion.

Definition of Sports Corruption

The most neutral and internationally recognized definition of sports corruption comes from intergovernmental and sport integrity organizations such as the

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and INTERPOL.

Here’s a concise, internationally accepted formulation:

"Sports corruption refers to any act or omission that improperly influences or attempts to influence the outcome, integrity, or fair conduct of a sporting activity for undue advantage—whether financial, personal, or organizational."

This definition can be broken down neutrally as:

• “Any act or omission” — includes both active misconduct (e.g., match-fixing, bribery) and passive failures (e.g., willful ignorance or cover-ups).

• “Improperly influences or attempts to influence” — focuses on intent and effect, not just legality.

• “Outcome, integrity, or fair conduct” — applies broadly, from athlete performance to administrative decisions.

• “For undue advantage” — covers financial, political, reputational, or other unfair gains.

Definition of Fraud in Sports

1. Legal Definition (Canada)

Under Section 380(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada, fraud means:

“Everyone who, by deceit, falsehood, or other fraudulent means, whether or not it is a false pretence, defrauds the public or any person of any property, money, valuable security or service...”

So if you lie about identity, team status, qualifications, or purpose to get money from a public fund (municipal, provincial, or federal) — that’s criminal fraud.

2. Examples in a Sports Context

Fraud could include:

• Claiming to be an official team or federation when you’re not;

• Using someone else’s identity or title to qualify for funding;

• Forging documents or inflating budgets for grant applications;

• Misrepresenting event participants or affiliations to receive travel, sponsorship, or government support;

• Hiding conflicts of interest or private profit motives while claiming “non-profit” status.

All of these amount to obtaining money or benefits under false pretences, which is a criminal offence and can also result in civil liability (you can be sued to return the funds).

Definition of Conflict of Interest

If a judge, organizer, or official has any connection to an athlete or team, even informal, that relationship can:

Bias their scoring or decision-making, or
Create the appearance of bias (which is just as damaging).

That’s a conflict of interest (COI).
It doesn’t matter if the team is “unofficial” — if there’s a personal, financial, or coaching link, it must be disclosed and managed

A judge has coached or trained an athlete privately
A judge is a former or current teammate of an athlete (even unofficially)
A judge or organizer runs an affiliated gym, crew, or media brand that benefits when a certain athlete wins
A “crew” or unofficial team coordinates scores or outcomes with officials

That’s textbook conflict of interest and can fall under “corruption of competition integrity” in sport ethics frameworks

Definition of Match Fixing

Match fixing is the illegal or unethical act of manipulating the outcome or specific events within a sports match before or during play, usually for financial gain or competitive advantage.

Key elements of match fixing:

• Predetermined outcome or event: Players, referees, coaches, or other stakeholders intentionally influence the final result or parts of the game (e.g., number of goals, point spreads).

• Involvement of insiders: Those with the ability to directly affect the game (players, officials, etc.) are typically involved.

• Often linked to betting or corruption: Fixers may profit through illegal gambling markets, or someone might fix a match to help a team advance or avoid relegation.

• Violation of sporting integrity: It undermines fair play and the trust of fans, athletes, and governing bodies.

Definition of Money Laundering

Money laundering is the process of taking money obtained through illegal activities (such as drug trafficking, fraud, corruption, or organized crime) and making it appear as though it came from legitimate, legal sources. The goal is to “clean” the money so that it can be used openly without raising suspicion from law enforcement or financial institutions.

The Process Usually Happens in Three Stages:

1. Placement – The illegal money is first introduced into the financial system, for example by depositing it into a bank account, buying casino chips, or mixing it with legal business earnings.

2. Layering – The money is moved around through complex transactions to make it difficult to trace. This might involve wire transfers, multiple bank accounts, offshore accounts, shell companies, or buying and reselling assets.

3. Integration – The money is reintroduced into the economy as seemingly legitimate funds. At this point, it might be used to buy real estate, luxury goods, investments, or businesses without attracting attention.

Why It’s Illegal:

Money laundering is a crime because it helps criminals benefit from illegal activities and continue operating without being caught. It also harms the financial system by enabling corruption, organized crime, and terrorism.

In Most Countries (including Canada):

Money laundering is a serious criminal offense that can result in imprisonment, heavy fines, and asset seizure. Financial institutions are required by law to report suspicious transactions and verify customer identities to detect and prevent laundering.

Definition of Tax Evasion in Sports

Tax evasion in sports is the same crime as tax evasion anywhere else — intentionally hiding, misreporting, or misrepresenting income or facts to avoid paying taxes — but it shows up in sport-specific ways because of how money flows in athletics.

The core definition (applies to sports too)

In Canada (and most countries), tax evasion means:

Knowingly and deliberately deceiving tax authorities to reduce or avoid tax owed.

Mistakes, confusion, or bad bookkeeping ≠ tax evasion.
Intent is the dividing line.

Why sports are a high-risk area

Sports involve:

• Prize money

• Cash payments

• Short events

• Multiple payers

• Sponsorships and appearances

• Cross-border travel

That makes it easier to hide income.

Definition of a Cartel in Sports

1. Economic or Structural “Sports Cartel” (Legal/Antitrust meaning)

A sports cartel in this context means a closed or collusive system of sports organizations that controls access, resources, and opportunities in a way that restricts competition — similar to how a business cartel controls a market.

A sports cartel is a network of governing bodies, leagues, or associations that coordinate policies or practices to limit fair competition, restrict athlete movement, or monopolize event organization for economic or political benefit.

Common characteristics:

• Exclusivity: Only certain clubs, teams, or athletes are allowed to compete or be recognized.

• Coordinated control: Decisions about who can host events, join federations, or receive funding are tightly controlled by a few leaders.

• Suppression of rivals: Independent groups or “breakaway” events are punished, blacklisted, or excluded.

• Collusion on pay or eligibility: Agreements between teams or leagues to cap wages or restrict transfers.

• Monopolization: The group monopolizes sponsorship, broadcast, or government funding channels.

Legal issues:

Under Canadian and international law, such behaviour can breach competition law:

• Canada’s Competition Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-34) prohibits price-fixing, market allocation, and collusion.

• The EU, UK, and U.S. antitrust laws have also prosecuted sports bodies for cartel-like conduct.

If all major tricking event organizers secretly agree to blacklist independent athletes or refuse to sanction non-member events — that’s cartel behaviour in an antitrust sense.

2. Criminal “Sports Cartel” (Organized Crime meaning)

In a darker sense, “cartel” can also refer to a criminally organized group infiltrating or controlling parts of a sport — similar to a drug or betting cartel, but focused on power, influence, and money laundering through sport.

Traits of a criminal sports cartel:

• Control through coercion or threats: Using fear, harassment, or defamation to control members or silence critics.

• Corrupt event management: Manipulating competitions, prize pools, or judging.

• Shell organizations: Creating “fake” events or front companies to move or clean money.

• Cross-border coordination: Using international affiliations to obscure financial flows or legitimacy.

• Retaliation or exclusion tactics: Targeting whistleblowers or journalists.

These groups might appear legitimate (e.g., “sports associations” or “communities”) but operate like organized crime networks.

3. Regulation vs Cartel

The difference comes down to legitimacy and purpose.

A legitimate sports regulating body:

• Exists to govern the sport

• Acts in the public or participant interest

• Is transparent and rule-based

• Applies rules neutrally

• Is accountable (internally or externally)

A cartel masquerading as a regulator:

• Exists to protect insiders

• Restricts access to benefit members

• Uses rules selectively

• Conceals coordination

• Extracts economic rents unfairly

Definition of a Criminal Organization

There isn’t a single, universally accepted legal definition of “underground criminal organization,” because laws vary by country and jurisdictions usually use terms like “criminal organization,” “organized crime group,” or “criminal enterprise.” However, the term “underground” typically refers to the secretive or covert nature of the group.

A general definition:

An underground criminal organization is a covert, structured group of individuals who collaborate over time to commit serious crimes for financial, political, or territorial gain, while deliberately operating in secrecy to avoid detection by authorities.

Definition of a Cult

A cult is generally understood as a group or movement that is centered around a shared belief system, often led by a charismatic leader, and that tends to use manipulative or controlling practices to maintain influence over its members.

Cult vs. Religion or Supportive Group

Not all intense belief groups are cults. A legitimate religion or spiritual group typically:

• Allows personal freedom and outside contact.

• Encourages individual thought.

• Has transparency in finances and leadership.

• Does not punish questioning or dissent harshly.

A cult, in contrast, often suppresses individuality and critical thinking, demanding devotion over personal autonomy or well-being.

Definition of Human Trafficking in Sports

Human trafficking in sports refers to the exploitation of athletes—often minors or vulnerable individuals—through force, fraud, coercion, deception, or abuse of power for profit or control. It can happen in both professional and amateur sports, and is often linked to international recruitment, illegal migration, labor exploitation, sexual abuse, or forced athletic participation.

This is increasingly recognized by organizations like UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) and INTERPOL, which highlight sport as a vulnerability point for trafficking and exploitation.

Definition of Romeo Pimping

A “Romeo pimp” is a term used in law enforcement and anti-trafficking work to describe a pimp or trafficker who uses romance, affection, and emotional manipulation—rather than immediate threats—to recruit and control victims.

It’s one of the most common grooming methods used in human trafficking.

Here’s what the term means in clear, safe, non-graphic language:

A Romeo pimp:

• Pretends to be a boyfriend

• Shows affection, attention, and support at first

• Gradually builds emotional dependency

• Then shifts to control, isolation, and exploitation

• Uses love, guilt, obligation, manipulation, and emotional pressure rather than overt violence (at least early on)

This method is also called “boyfriend-style trafficking.”

Common stages (used in many police frameworks):

1. Targeting

   • Looks for vulnerability (low self-esteem, financial stress, unstable home, etc.)

2. Grooming & Romance

   • Presents as the “perfect partner”

   • Gives gifts, attention, affection

   • Makes the victim feel special and understood

3. Isolation

   • Encourages cutting ties with friends/family

   • Makes victim dependent on the “relationship”

4. Manipulation & Control

   • Uses emotional leverage:

     • “If you love me, you’ll help me.”

     • “This is just temporary.”

   • May introduce threats gradually

5. Exploitation

   • Pressures victim into prostitution, escorting, online sexual activity, or other commercial exploitation

   • Frames it as a "sacrifice for the relationship"

Definition of Sex Tourism

If a business appears legitimate (for example, travel, entertainment, “hospitality,” or “massage” services) but the real purpose is to facilitate sex tourism, that is generally considered covert or organized exploitation, and it raises serious legal and ethical issues.

Here’s how this is usually understood, at a high level:

What it means

• The business acts as a front: it hides or downplays its real function.

• The underlying activity is arranging or encouraging paid sexual access, often targeting tourists.

• In many cases, this overlaps with pimping, trafficking, or exploitation, not normal tourism.

Why it’s a major problem

• Deception: Customers, workers, or authorities are misled about what the business actually does.

• Exploitation risk: Such setups often rely on vulnerable people (poverty, migration status, power imbalance).

• Trafficking concerns: Front businesses are a common way trafficking networks operate.

• Harm to communities: It can normalize abuse, corruption, and inequality.

Definition of Blackmail Operations

A blackmail operation refers to a deliberate scheme or campaign in which a person or group obtains or threatens to reveal damaging, embarrassing, or incriminating information about someone in order to force them to do (or not do) something—typically to gain power, money, compliance, or influence.

Key Elements of a Blackmail Operation

1. Targeting: An individual or group is chosen—often someone with something to lose (e.g., reputation, career, legal status).

2. Collection or fabrication of leverage: The blackmailer gains access to sensitive information (real or falsified), e.g.:

   • Personal secrets

   • Illegal activities

   • Compromising photos/videos

   • Scandals or misconduct

3. Threat: The blackmailer threatens to publicly expose the information unless demands are met.

4. Coercion: The target is pressured into acting in the blackmailer’s interests—financially, politically, sexually, or behaviorally.

5. Execution or prevention of exposure: If the target complies, exposure may be withheld; if not, the damaging info may be released.

Definition of Shadow Government

A shadow government can mean different things depending on the context—some legitimate, some conspiratorial, and some specific to political systems. Here are the main recognized meanings:

 1. Legitimate Political Meaning (Parliamentary Systems)

In countries like the UK, Canada, Australia, and others with Westminster-style parliamentary systems, a shadow government (or shadow cabinet) is a formal and legal part of the opposition.

• It consists of senior members of the main opposition party.

• Each “shadow minister” mirrors a government minister (e.g., Shadow Minister of Finance).

• Their job is to scrutinize government actions and propose alternative policies.
  This is a normal, democratic institution.

 2. Illicit/Conspiratorial Meaning

In political discussions or conspiracy theories, a shadow government refers to:

A secret, unofficial group believed to control or heavily influence government decisions behind the scenes without public accountability.

• Often thought to involve powerful elites, corporations, criminal networks, intelligence agencies, or foreign actors.

• This usage is speculative or conspiratorial—claims of such a “shadow government” are often unproven or exaggerated.

 3. Clandestine Control by Criminal or Foreign Networks

In serious national security contexts, a shadow government can refer to:

A covert network (e.g., organized crime, extremist groups, foreign intelligence operations) that infiltrates or unduly influences official government structures.

• This is discussed in corruption, foreign interference, or state capture scenarios.

• In political science, this is sometimes referred to as state capture, deep corruption, or parallel power structures.

 4. Emergency or Resistance Structure (War/Occupation Context)

In resistance movements or war conditions, a “shadow government” may refer to:

An underground or exiled leadership preparing to take control if the current government collapses or is overthrown.

Definition of Terrorism

An intimidation racket refers to a scheme or organized operation where individuals or groups use threats, coercion, or violence to:

• control people or businesses,

• extract money (“protection” payments), or

• maintain dominance over a territory or activity.

This is closely related to extortion and protection rackets — both criminal offences in Canada and other countries.

Definition of Protection Racket

A protection racket is a form of organized extortion in which a person or group demands payment or compliance in exchange for protection — usually protection from harm that the same group threatens to cause.

Here’s a breakdown:

1. General Definition

A protection racket is:

A criminal scheme where individuals or organizations obtain money, property, or services from others by claiming they will protect them from danger — typically a danger created or controlled by the perpetrators themselves.

In simple terms:

“Pay us, and nothing bad will happen to you.”
(The “bad thing” usually being the very harm that the racketeers would inflict.)

2. Typical Features

Threat or implied violence - The racketeers threaten to damage property, hurt people, or interfere with business.

Offer of protection - They promise to prevent those harms — if the victim pays or cooperates. 

Recurring payments - Victims often pay regularly (weekly or monthly) for continued “protection.”

Organized structure - Usually operated by gangs, cartels, or criminal organizations.

 

3. Under Canadian Law

While “protection racket” is not a specific named offence in the Criminal Code of Canada, it falls under several serious crimes:

• Extortion (s. 346)

  Using threats, accusations, menaces, or violence to obtain something from another person.
  → This is the core of a protection racket.

• Intimidation (s. 423)

  Using threats to compel or prevent lawful action.

• Criminal organization offences (ss. 467.11–467.13)

  For participating in or directing organized crime.

Canadian History - Part 1 

Original Tricking Gatherings

 

Canadian Owned & Operated

Tricking started off as an internet based sport

It's culture & history are recorded online and various archives are the museums and schools where athletes can seek to & receive their education. The internet is used for athletes to discover one another and find or build communities to participate and train in the sport. It is unique in that contributors come from various countries, from various disciplines & contribute in different ways

Here is the development of the Toronto Gatherings & Battle Events from all around Canada, and what is rightfully Canadian contributions to Tricking

1990s - Ox Pasture

So far a Toronto based team called OX Pasture is the first known group of practitioners to develop Tricking in Canada

See their original training videos here

2000s - Team Ryouko & Joe Eigo

One of the earliest known Canadian Trickers is one called Emerson Wong and he and his friends came together to form Team Ryouko in the early 2000s

Chris & James Mark, Ilan Rosenburg, Jeff Ong & Allen Keng to name a few founding members

Together they produced team samplers, with Chris Mark being the symbol of the team and face of the organization

See here

Joe Eigo was also a Toronto based athlete who was pursuing this new form of movement and had his own interpretation of the sport as well

See here

Both Team Ryouko & Joe Eigo put out content on youtube and their videos went viral, creating a burst of awareness for this sport called Tricking and helped to put Toronto on the map as a hot spot for Tricking

Team Ryouko would create a martial art program called XSD in the early-mid 2000s

2003 - The Original Toronto Gathering 

Tricking emerged from American sport karate during the 1980s and 1990s. By 2000, eXtreme Kicks Contests (XKC), associated with the North American Sport Karate Association (NASKA), provided an early competitive platform. Participation appears to have been limited to association members.

Online videos helped bring the discipline beyond formal martial arts. Self-taught practitioners, known as “backyard trickers,” trained independently, while TricksTutorials.com became an international hub for tutorials, videos and discussion. Canadian practitioners participated in this emerging online community, forming teams and organizing informal meetups.

In 2003, Toronto’s Xen Dynasty member “Shido Xen” organized the Toronto Gathering, an early gathering independent of karate sanctioning. It brought together primarily self-taught trickers, including TricksTutorials founder Jujimufu and participants from Canada, the United States and Europe, for training sessions across the city.

The Toronto Gathering became an annual tradition, helping establish gatherings as a central part of tricking culture. Similar events developed internationally, including California’s Loopkicks, connecting local communities with a growing global network.

A few videos of the Toronto Gatherings
Source:
https://youtu.be/Vkzb-8A3uzw?si=bUE5wmlB1WzVowWq

 

2003 - Team Loopkicks

Tricking has had a thriving culture in the United States since before Canadians got into it, but one of the best compliments and credit that was given to Canadians by the Americans was the recognition of having inspired the original Loopkicks Camp after the founders saw and wanted to replicate the original Toronto Gathering

Loopkicks became synonymous with Tricking itself in the early 2000s

For people who were just getting into the sport, it was well understood that if anyone wanted to participate and learn to Trick, that the Loopkicks Camp was a place that anyone could attend and many from around the world did attend and received the most up-to-date knowledge and learned from some of the best in the world at that point in Tricking history

2007 - Creation of Team Impulse

A team called Impulse was originally created at one of the gyms where a member of Team Ryouko named Allen Keng had been hosting his own program called

MWF Night Madness ( Monday / Wednesday / Friday Night Madness ) 

Team Impulse formed naturally when the writer (David Milner), Nicco Miranda, Yusuf Ahmed, Adam Piatkowski, Peter Nguyen & a few others trained together at a gym called Steeles West, participating at the MWF program

There they began to train and form a friendship group, progressing and graduating from the environment eventually 

Within a year Team Impulse would go on to explore other open gym programs around the city of Toronto and trained in various locations

( The writer even attended Birchmount Gymnastics, home to the Original Toronto Gathering )

The primary videographer/editor at the time that Team Impulse was being created was a man named Nicco Miranda,

and it's safe to say that Team Impulse started because of him and his edits of the next generation athletes in the MWF community

See the below video for reference of Steeles West gym & community environment Nicco was involved in

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYaDjTjg518

2007 - Team Ryouko Summer Seminar

 

Team Ryouko began as a group of martial artists and dancers, later using its growing profile to establish structured training programs. Through partnerships with facilities including Sunny Tang Martial Arts Studio, it offered registered, seasonal courses organized by skill level. Its eXtreme Skills Development (XSD) program incorporated tricking alongside broader martial arts and stunt training.

In 2007, Team Ryouko became the Toronto Gathering’s second host, according to the author’s account. The author attended as an XSD member and competed in a battle that may have been among Canada’s earliest organized tricking competitions. He also recalls Team Impulse members Yusuf Ahmed, Peter Nguyen and Patrick Wu attending.

Team Ryouko subsequently opened Ryouko Martial Arts in Scarborough. Although footage of the 2007 event has not been readily located, the video below features Taylor Chung, whom the author recalls winning the competition. 

Although XSD incorporated tricking, it was a distinct training program. Its summer seminar combined a tricking battle with stunt-oriented instruction, reflecting a local approach as the wider discipline developed beyond formal martial arts structures.

During this period, Xen Dynasty’s presence declined, while Team Impulse, the author and other emerging practitioners became increasingly active in Toronto’s tricking community.

Source:
https://youtu.be/prJuAbUT9zI?si=ooLvZQhB1Aug-nda

2008 - David's Solo Tricking Tour

Between 2007 and 2009, the writer expanded his connections beyond Toronto as tricking’s international gathering circuit developed. He met Akron tricker John Vanek in 2007 and trained with him at Steeles West. Team Ryouko’s Emerson Wong later introduced him to open training at Scarborough Gym Elites. Online, Scotty Skelton, Vellu and Rasmus Ott were among his leading influences.

In 2008, the author travelled to train with Vanek, videographer and event organizer Benjamin Atkins, and Everyday Heroes leader Daniel Pitlock across the American Midwest. He recalls receiving honorary membership in Everyday Heroes and the emerging Ninja Turtle Bomb Squad (NTBS).

That year’s Loopkicks Camp connected him with an international field of athletes. He regarded its battles as an informal equivalent of a world championship, rather than an officially designated title event. Those connections led to winter training in Sweden and Denmark with DisasTrickz members Teddy Agnvik, Rasmus Ott and their communities.

The writer returned for Atkins’s Midwest Gathering in 2009. These relationships helped shape NTBS, a team associated with the development of prominent American tricker Michael Guthrie.

During this period, athletes from the NASKA circuit increasingly participated in independent gatherings combining training, battles and performances. In Toronto, hosting responsibilities passed from the generation associated with Xen Dynasty and Team Ryouko to Team Impulse.

The videos below, uploaded by other contributors, feature the author, identifiable by his black hair, including in two thumbnails.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Iwrgv4rRQ

https://youtu.be/6_6awXU5sKg?si=5MwlkrPExfbgB9yd

https://youtu.be/Zd9mJ3glWig?si=eeQNsGjAra3MIKsz

 

2010 - Toronto Panda Gathering & The Original Tricking Tour

In 2010 Team Impulse hosted their own version of the Toronto Gathering

Yusuf Ahmed became the 3rd host of the Toronto Gathering, inviting many of the trending athletes of the time, including many that the writer met in the USA & Europe It wasn't a battle event, but it did serve as a destination to a proto-type version of a Tour

NTBS also made it's way to Panda Gathering

Many of the international athletes within the same age demographic as the writer at the time ( 19 or so ) came to Panda Gathering

This marks a transition that solidified this newest generation as the primary community for Trickers, and the image of Tricking had changed from Martial Arts based to Backyard Tricking ( a balanced style of Tricking that wasn't too leanient towards martial arts, gymnastics or dance )

Panda was showcased in an edit by Pronobozo, a musician that collaborated with Yusuf Ahmed

Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4pBDk_BxOA

2010 - Team Invincible

In the early 2010s, Team Invincible emerged as a prominent international tricking team, following a generation associated with Loopkicks athletes Anis Cheurfa, Daniel Graham and Jeremy Marinas. Its roster included:

• Scotty Skelton — Australia; captain

• Michael Guthrie — United States

• Vellu Saarela — Finland

• Rasmus Ott — Denmark

• Phill Gibbs — Australia

• Kyle Skelly — Scotland; competitor and media professional

• James Daly — Australia; creator and lead artist

Members competed and judged internationally, becoming influential figures for a new generation of trickers. The author credits Toronto’s Panda and Kanga gatherings with a supporting role in the team’s development and touring connections.

In 2010, Ott and Saarela attended Panda Gathering after appearing at Jason Mello’s Drednt event in New York, documented in the video below. Skelton and Skelly attended Kanga Gathering during the following year’s tour.

Anime and video games also shaped the team’s cultural identity and associated event themes. The author identifies Dragon Ball Z, particularly Skelton’s fondness for Goku, as a reference relevant to later developments discussed in this account.

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXhV3wKiEm0

https://youtu.be/yk7_5T5ddaw?si=FAvi9yD_fW5rZXmG

 

2011 - Kanga (Toronto) Gathering & Tour continued

In 2011 Yusuf Ahmed hosted another event which was similar in scale to Panda Gathering, called Kanga Gathering

In a similar fashion, Kanga brought in many international athletes who would go on the Tricking Tour

The focal point & primary guest athletes on the original Tour was mostly for Team Invincible & those that they went on the road with

The Tour featured a prominent athletes named Scotty Skelton and Kyle Skelly

2011 - NTBS & The Tricker House ( on tour )

As previously stated,
what started off as a group of friends training together in 2008 at sessions and small-scale gatherings in and around the MidWest region of the United States, eventually evolved into a team (NTBS), and later the original members began to live together in Ohio at a place called "The Tricker House"

The writer was invited to live at the Tricker House, but declined the opportunity ( as a Canadian focusing on personal and career life outside of Tricking )

Team Invincible captain, Scotty Skelton would attend the Tricker House after visiting Toronto during his tour, which also featured Kyle Skelly as well as Michael Guthrie later on

2011 - Bubble Tea, Tempura & Tundra (mini) Canadian Gatherings

Another one of Yusuf's series of Toronto Gathering events, this time limited primarily to the members of the local Toronto Tricking Community

Yusuf would eventually move to British Colombia to pursue a career in the stunt industry not too long after these events

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wArf9UJRP-M

https://youtu.be/rBC4Bf3spuI?si=mkI8BncanFpUBEgB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QtfNygNIL8

2012 - Taiga (mini) Gathering

In 2012 an event exclusive to pretty much just members of the Toronto Tricking Community was organized by Nicco Miranda

It was part of an initiative to rename Team Impulse to include more members and went by the name "The Tricker Friends" eventually

It did somewhat follow the name convention established by Yusuf which was animal themed ( Panda, Kanga, Taiga )

Mini Gatherings are essentially local meetups rather than events that involve multi-province/state attendance and/or international participants

Tricking was competitive but still did not contain battles yet

This was to continue to develop the culture of Tricking in the city and invited new participants and included new guests to participate in the activities

Source:
https://youtu.be/r7viyeqtqgA?si=3og5SO7m3avvQlnq

2012 - Kick Flip Twist Gathering Montreal

The Montreal Tricking community has been around for a long time and has always supported the Toronto Gatherings from the very beginning, 

the next generation ( same generation as the writer ) launched their events as well and Team Impulse showed support as well

The writer continued to film & make community edits

Source:

https://youtu.be/ESw3vJXFL0I?si=ilnPMlOySAWCSvV-

2012 - X Swipe World Tour

The XSwipe World Tour appears to have been around from 2012 ~ 2014

It featured many of the trending athletes of the time who participated in the original Tricking Tour in 2010 & 2011

This was a tour that continued to support the development and showcase Tricking to the world, focused on the relationship of Team invincible and the group of travellers that accompanied them

It appears to be unrelated in terms of management, mainly focused on Europe but did appear to include stops in the USA

The XSwipe Tour is an evolution that expanded upon the original Tour that was primarily limited to Canada & USA

Canada was not formally part of the XSwipe Tour

This information is relevant to the development of the sport taking place outside of Canada and where Canada is in relation to it

It did include battles which were becoming more accessible to non-karate practitioners, and members of Team Invincible would go on to Battle / Judge if the writer recalls correctly

Sources:

https://invincibletricking.co/pages/about-us

https://youtu.be/4wh-eQGEd48?si=vhib_eIANlvp_RLD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrhy2Q2aTx4

https://youtu.be/4wh-eQGEd48?si=KrBn5Y-K0adPiGxG

2013 - Toronto Team Sampler

Continuing the tradition of making Team Samplers and representing Toronto to the greater community

The writer undertook the initiative of arranging the members of Team Impulse of the modern day to submit clips and compiled a Team Sampler

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Ck0lVGP24

2013 - Hunter (mini) Gathering

The Toronto Gathering returned in 2013 for the Hunter Gathering, which was dedicated to special guests Alex Hunter & Nick Fry 

The event took place at Ryouko Martial Arts & the 1st version of the Monkey Vault

It served as a continued tradition of hosting athletes who were connected to the development of the Toronto and ever expanding Canadian Tricking Community, featuring visitors from Montreal, though it did not have a battle element and served as just a get together for the purposes of training

Mini Gathering organized by David Milner

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SxRqaLVZM4

2014 - The Saiyan Gathering

In 2014 the writer and Team Impulse continued the tradition of the Toronto Gathering, this time the theme was inspired by the popular japanese anime "Dragon Ball Z" called " The Saiyan Gathering " with special guest Scotty Skelton of Team Invincible & members of Everyday Heroes from the USA

Ottawa, which was a newer Tricking scene came out to the event, in addition to members from other provinces

This was the year that marks David Milner becoming the 4th host of the Toronto Gathering

Below is an edit of the event created by the Montreal based team who is best known by their modern day name Air Handlers Montreal

The event was intended to be a continuation and honour the tradition of the Panda Gathering & Toronto Gatherings

This event had no battle component and was not part of any tour

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWYc9vTY-Mw&t=5s

 

2015 - Goblin (mini) Gathering

Unable to locate footage of the event at this time, but this was hosted at Ryouko Martial Arts by Toronto Trickers to celebrate Emmanuel Skretas' birthday in 2015

2016 - Saiyan Gathering II

In & around late 2016 or early 2017, the writer was approached by a member of the Toronto Tricking Community named Daniel Teixeira, an athlete who is definitively one generation apart from the writer ( approximately 10 years younger ) and who was a fellow training partner

An informal team that marked that friendship was called Team DX ( David Milner & Daniel Teixeira ) who also were informal ( honourary ) members of an american team called Everyday Heroes

Daniel Teixeira expressed interest in bringing back the Saiyan Gathering and requested permission to carry on the name
The writer provided encouragement and so Daniel Teixeira elected himself and became the 5th host of the Toronto Gathering in 2016

Eventually, the event was hosted, and the new generation of Everyday Heroes & Toronto Trickers ( and old ) attended to carry on the tradition

Though these events were competitive, there were still no battle elements to Canadian events being a priority yet

Based on observation, the event did not celebrate any members of Team Invincible at the time and was not connected to the tour at all

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOBF3ikVAM

2016 & 2017 - A Good Ol' Canadian Gathering

Braeden McPherson hosted a Canadian Tricking Event in Vancouver, BC & Toronto, Ont in 2016 & 2017 respectively

This was a continued build up of Canadian Tricking Events featuring athletes from various provinces and continued the build up of Canadian Culture & the interconnectedness of provinces working together to host events and build the sport

Vaios Skretas was a co-organizer of the Toronto edition

The event resembles the Toronto Gathering as it consisted of participation of athletes that had previously been attending those events

The writer cannot confirm if there was a battle element to these events

Please see the below

Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pH8qh8xP10

https://youtu.be/mffjhuXty-g?si=dZ7eN9nAIxkMMjBI

2016 - Montreal Gathering

Canadian Community continuing to develop

A collab between Toronto, Newbrunswick, Ottawa & Montreal communities filmed by Daniel Teixeira

Source:

https://youtu.be/Oe60vR25Y-8?si=IGdqVsaYoTLHZX0N

2016 - The Garrison (United Kingdom)

The Garrison was started by a prominent Scottish athlete named Kyle Skelly, former member of Team Invincible, who gained notariety when he launched his own media and clothing brand called Plan Zero

Kyle Skelly was also an artist and web developer

The Garrison was the UK version of the Tricker House

Members of the Garrison included Kyle Skelly, Sean Sevestre, Alex Omidvar and Sam Kojo Plummer

This information is relevant because Kyle Skelly, who was on the tour in 2011 at Kanga Gathering, would work with members of the Garrison, who formed an organization called Kojos Trick Lab

The Garrison would go on to carry on the tradition of the tour but feature other athletes as Team Invincible was moving on by this point in Tricking,

the UK influenced version of the tour would be centered around Kojos Trick Lab and it's affiliates but took place in the United States

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOkqhlgcAos

2017 - Kojos Trick Lab Launch

According to sources online, Kojos Trick Lab, a UK based company created by Sam Kojo Plummer of The Garrison and Jordan Fung of the UK launched the website in late 2017 recruiting various contributors from different countries to engage in discussions and release tutorials as online coaches & content creators

Canadian athlete Vaios Skretas became a Kojos Trick Lab contributor and agent operating in Canada representing their interests ( informally )

This information would be relevant in future Canadian events related to a re-branding of the tour and it's relationship with the Toronto Tricking Community

Source:

www.KojosTrickLab.com

The organization appeared to be incorporated in 2021 and dissolved in 2022

( The address was redacted )

Canadian History pt 2 - Tricking Battle Events

Canada continued community & identity development

2017 - Canadian Battle Events

At this point in Tricking History, there had technically been battles here & there in Canada, but it had not been a priority or focal point of any gathering

These were hosted on an entry level and the majority of Canadian athletes were beginners with no to barely any previous experience or training for Battles, and judges would have been inexperienced as well. To the writer's knowledge there had not been trophies or prizes established at these events yet

This was an organic and logical evolution for our communities all around Canada, 
by this point many countries had already established a healthy battle-focused culture, but Canada was still behind in that department

From 2018 onward Battling would become a far more prioritized element of events hosted in Canada

2018 - Team Impulse Separation
Utopia Tricking & Toronto Tricking

Due to a difference in overall direction,
Team Impulse by late 2017 / early 2018, which was continuing to develop with the Toronto Tricking Community & event hosting separated

Utopia Tricking was created by the writer ( David Milner ) 
Toronto Tricking was lead by Vaios Skretas on behalf of Kojos Trick Lab & US Tricking

The Toronto Gathering returned as a stop on the next rendition of the Tricking Tour originally under the management of Toronto Tricking & it's team,
made up of Paige Taylor & Nicco Miranda

The writer maintained continuity with the development of Toronto & Canada, focusing on developing a Tricking Brand and it's identity.
Focused Art & Anime/Videogame Culture as related to Toronto, community sessions and amateur battle events ( Battle Oasis ), and re-orienting to the changes that had occurred

The politics of the Toronto Tricking Community essentially fractured, and division was created

Utopia Tricking remained Canada focused

Toronto Tricking was connected to the international initiative of the newest rendition of the Tricking Tour, trafficking attention and direction towards the United States via the Tour, and assisting the careers of Kojos Trick Lab & it's affiliates, though this would not be made explicitly clear to the public

To be clear the writer and the management team of Toronto Tricking grew distant and ceased communication except for Nicco Miranda who maintained a sense of neutrality between both sides

2018 - The Gaudering Montreal

Late 2017 or Early 2018 hosted by Cedric Cloutier in Montreal Quebec was the Gaudering named after an up-and-coming Canadian Tricker named Sebastien Gaudette  of New Brunswick

The writer recalls attending this event in the winter time, around the beginning of Utopia Tricking

The writer recalls that this may have been the first attempt at a more established Canadian Battle Community being pushed by the Montreal Trickers at the time

Utopia Tricking began to serve as a vehicle to document self development & evolution of the sport

This was an amateur event with no prize pool or trophy that the writer can recollect

Prior to being vehement about preserving history to the extent that the writer does now, those battles were recorded, but the writer took them down after not being pleased with his own performance ( lol I was a beginner battler )

upon reflection, this would be a mistake, as the writer now runs a battle focused history channel on youtube

( Sorry for taking down that footage, the importance of recording history wasn't a priority at the time )

Below is some footage of the event during warm ups

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf4rbimnXMX/ 

2018 - The Tour re-Branded

In 2018 "The Tour", featuring Kyle Skelly but this time, The Garrison & the then developing Kojos Trick Lab were the focus of the concept, rather than Team Invincible who by this point began to transition to the next stage of their development

Team Invincible would disband around 2015, and many of the original members focused on their personal lives as the next generation of athletes were coming through

The below is the next generation of The Tour

Note a common theme is for the younger generation to take ideas from the previous and simply re-market them
In some cases the athletes that re-market a situation either work towards transparency & integrity, and in other cases marketing is used to mask or otherwise conceal the true nature and activities taking place

In this instance, the original Tour was re-branded to serve as a vehicle for The Garrison and to foster the success of Kojos Trick Lab & it's affiliates, including one Vaios Skretas of Toronto Tricking in Canada, but you will not see Kojos Trick Lab in the marketing very often, despite being able to clearly see that they are behind this next version of the Tour

The first version of the tour was an informal arrangement between event organizers, understandable considering the organic development of the sport

This next version of the Tour was a more formal relationship between event organizers, who sold packages to prospective attendees 
It was an opportunity for athletes to receive a transportation route and attendance into events that the Tour was comprised of

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhheicpnyr7/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNyGcNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEyUGNDM21YcHUwRExYdU1mAR4o4gR9W_jqVN9CddeEtYMpnqx8NH6ndGyR9oCPxB6og6PzJQ7HGt5ARz8nuQ_aem_Jkn7Kn5mClN_-xRUlJN20w

 

2018 - Tricking Canada

Started around the year 2018 

Tricking Canada was an attempt at forming a Canada focused Sports Governing Body informally on facebook, where communities' leaders from various provinces would come together and contribute ideas and discuss related topics

There originally was a youtube channel started by Yusuf Ahmed back around 2011

Source:
www.youtube.com/trickingcanada

The facebook group likely was started by Martin Chingco of Alberta, if the writer recalls correctly

Members included Martin Cochingco of Alberta, Cedric Cloutier-Boucher of Montreal, (myself)David Milner & Vaios Skretas of Ontario,

Braeden McPherson, Yusuf Ahmed, Ka Mak and Jaxon Wong of British Colombia,

Joel Ward of Saskatchewan.

Due to an increasing prevalence of Foreign Political Interference,

a combination of lack of education, possibly motivation & continued division in terms of direction would prevent Tricking Canada from manifesting as a legitimate sports governing body

non-Canadians appear to have an influence over the provincial leadership within the group

Source:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/407161996384372

2018 - Battle Night
Collaboration between Utopia Tricking & Toronto Tricking
Featuring various Canadian Trickers & Guests

The writer & Toronto Tricking did host a collaborative event which did help to unite trickers from various parts of Canada, the continued development of the Toronto Gathering & Canadian Tricking Community resembling the original Toronto Gatherings and guests who were non-Canadian did attend as well

This would be the last time there was a collaborative event between us 

The writer recalls helping to declare a tricker named Raheem ( last name I've since forgotten ) the 1st place winner of this event

The writer believes Raheem is from somewhere in the Caribbean If not mistaken, but can't confirm. Raheem was treated as a guest battler from another country

This competition did have a prize pool, but no trophy, working to develop the Battle element of Gatherings in Canada

2018 - Toronto Tricking Summer Gathering

Re-Brand of the original Canada/USA Tour featuring many of the prominent members of Kojos Trick Lab

Toronto Tricking having established itself as a stop on the US Tour once again, this time under the management of Vaios Skretas, Paige Taylor & Nicco Miranda,

serving "The Tour" as mentioned on the advertising of their event

Note that all special guests at the event were members of Kojos Trick Lab & that Vaios Skretas is a member of Kojos Trick Lab as well

Vaios Skretas became the 6th Host of the Toronto Gathering

No battle component to this event

Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bab856ImBeg
https://www.facebook.com/ustrickingtour/
https://www.niccomiranda.com/tricking
https://kojostricklab.com/athlete/vaios-skretas

2018 - Battle Oasis Monthly Events

The writer created a monthly circuit of Battle Events for Canadians for all skill levels to compete in

As the host, judge and/or stand-in Champion

There were about 6 events total until the Monkey Vault closed in order to move locations

Winners include:

Zach Pacuch ( USA )
Gavin De Graaff ( Canada )
Dylan Holden ( Canada )
Jordon W. Yu ( Canada )

Guest judges included beginner judges from Toronto, but also a surprise volunteer judge in the form of Scotty Skelton,

closing off the Team Invincible era of Tricking & the last known Toronto Gathering in it's historical Canadian lineage that was witnessed by the writer

2019 - The Showdown

Hosted by Daniel Teixeira, this battle event was a great exhibition of Tricking meets Free Running 

Years later Daniel Teixeira informed me that it was a battle event, and that Avery King was the winner battling against an unknown freerunning athlete in a big trick contest, though the writer only has heard rumors and does not have evidence to be able to confirm

The writer did attend but got there after the battles concluded

2019 - David's Solo Battle Tour

While developing Utopia Tricking, a solo brand and a reflection of the writer's development as a Tricker, the writer set off and began to compete at competitions that were on a higher level compared to what was taking place in Canada

Similar to the first Solo Tour, only years later it would be focused on gaining experience as a Battler

There hadn't been preplanning, the development of Utopia Tricking was natural, and so at first videography was limited to making Gathering Edits, which were focused on displaying the event and the diverse attendees that participated

Later on, by the end of 2019, a new youtube channel called Tricking Battles was created, and the writer began to film tricking battles in their entirety and show those off to the public

Note: The skill level of National level Canadian Battle Events is low compared to entry level battle events in some other countries

This tour is essentially a Canadian National (Level) Champion competing against other potential National Champions at other events

Self funded - no official Canadian Governing Body established yet to sponsor these trips

This Tour also marks the furthest any Canadian has travelled and competed internationally in the 1v1 category

David Milner at No Gravity 3 in Lisbon Portugal

( 3rd Place in the Non-Pro Division ) 

The writer recognized that Invincible & Michael Guthrie were no longer the focal point, as one generation was beginning to fade, the new generation came through, and Tumdra became the primary power in the sport of Tricking 

Members of Tumdra were the judges at this collaboration event in Finland at Vellu's Legend Trick Academy

( I Placed Top 4 in the Pro Division )

The first time travelling to Asia to participate at the highest event in Japan called

Tricking Battle of Japan x World of Tricking
( TBJxWOT)

The writer tried out for the event, but was not good enough (lol)

Filmed the battles and created a battle themed youtube channel

www.youtube.com/trickingbattles

Continued travelling and went to Los Angeles for the first time

Filmed & Uploaded those battles as well. This is when my youtube channel got into a routine and began to develop identity as a beginner media company

2020 ~ 2021 Corona Virus Break

The global pandemic forced shutdowns around the world and tricking battle events in person stopped

2021 - David's Battle Tour (Resumed)
Euphoria X

Took 1st place at Euphoria X day 1 battles,

qualifying to the pro category & became the first Canadian to win an international competition in the 1v1 category?
There is some footage of the battles but there were issues with filming it seems

Below is an edit of the event from my camera

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVt7PR1jnfC/

Below is a photo of the Pikachu trophy earned from Euphoria X Pokemon Battles

Canadian History pt 3 - Canadian Sports Corruption

US Funded Rackets in Canada, Japan & abroad

The write witnessed from approximately 2021, management of some Canadian tricking events shifted toward US Tricking through arrangements that were not adequately disclosed to participants or the public. He places these developments within a broader pattern dating to 2018.

According to the writer, the American group BBB and Canada’s Kerbit Collective mobilized support for these changes and directed Canadian athletes toward US events. He describes The Kerbit Collective as an informal network of organizers, judges, coaches and participants from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, citing public statements by Avery King as helping identify its connections.

The writer further witnessed that some recruitment involved deception or coercion and that cooperation brought funding and career opportunities. An unnamed source reportedly linked industry advancement to supporting the network. The writer also raises concerns about exclusion and discriminatory judging against dissenting participants.

Questions remain about the participants’ business registrations, contractual relationships and organizational affiliations. The writer challenges Vertigo Tricking’s reported denial of working with Canadian organizations and questions whether Kojo’s Trick Lab’s branding and promotional credits adequately disclose its involvement in events associated with the changing World Tricking Tour.

These allegations concern event governance, recruitment, conflicts of interest and competitive fairness. 

2021 - Chewbacca Gathering / Battle Event ( Corrupted )

At this point in Tricking history, Kristos Vagenas became the public representative of Toronto Tricking and in conjunction with the management team launched another Battle Event called "Chewbacca" becoming the 7th host of the Toronto Gathering

It featured local Toronto Trickers & visitors from Montreal and was Battle Focused

The writer was invited to participate as a special guest and to conduct an exhibition match, however received a human right's violation during the attempt of arranging to participate, see below

Attempting to report severe inappropriate conduct

During discussions about participating in the Toronto Gathering, the author raised concerns with Toronto Tricking about organizer Kristos Vagenas’s public conduct and its potential impact on the event’s reputation. According to the author, he was told he would have to pay to participate as a guest and that Vagenas would not change his behaviour.

The author says conduct he considered inappropriate continued around children and parents, without intervention from facility staff or senior community members. He alleges that some appeared to encourage it.

The author further alleges that Vagenas subsequently circulated claims that he had been “fired” from the event. He disputes that account, stating that he declined the invitation because the arrangement was unsuitable and remained free to attend.

He regards the alleged misrepresentation as an early instance of retaliation for raising concerns within the community. The Instagram post below is presented as an example of the conduct he questioned.

Source:
 www.instagram.com/kristosvagenas 

The author alleges that Toronto Tricking’s leadership tolerated conduct by Kristos Vagenas, recently promoted as a public representative, that the author considered humiliating or potentially harmful to Vagenas himself. He questions whether senior members encouraged this behaviour through attention and recognition, raising concerns about their response and the responsibilities attached to their positions of authority.

2021 - David's Champion Challenge - 2024

Following concerns about judging impartiality, including an experience in Montreal, the writer launched an open Canadian challenge under the banner “Anytime, Anywhere, Any Format.” Athletes of all skill levels were invited to compete individually under mutually agreed conditions, without entry fees or prize money.

The author sought a judgeless format, intended to emphasize direct competition and reduce perceived conflicts of interest. He says most respondents requested judges drawn from their friends or teammates and withdrew when he declined that condition. Two athletes ultimately accepted judgeless battles.

Three matches were recorded overall, involving Cedric Cloutier-Boucher, Kristos Vagenas and Nelson Lin. In the initial match against Cloutier-Boucher, before refining the Champion Challenge format, the author agreed to judges selected by his opponent. He disputed their decision, believing he had performed better. That assessment represents his account of the contest.

The author similarly considers his performances in the subsequent battles superior, although those matches had no judges to determine an official winner. He credits participants who accepted and respected the agreed terms.

Footage was uploaded to the author’s international battle archive at www.youtube.com/trickingbattles. These challenges form part of his competitive history but do not independently establish a national ranking or championship title.

Source:
https://youtu.be/DrqmXwzdOUE?si=y3DEiKpx6COYRV-S

Developing Canadian Trophies & Rankings

Until this point in Tricking History, there have not been Tricking specific trophies or medals made in Canada, and as there are no individuals who are at a higher level than the writer, the development of a Ranking System and Trophy were naturally the next evolutionary step in the development of Canadian Tricking

There had been cash prizes, and t-shirts used as rewards for contests in the past, but not an actual Tricking Trophy

So the writer created one

In addition to ensuring that the Canadian Rankings would be accurate and true, it was necessary that the story behind the title would integrate into the history of the sport, and so while collecting footage and archiving it on the main channel ( www.trickingbattles.com ) an international ranking system was formed which separated athletes by generations, and looking at their entire careers to determine who amongst them was the #1 Tricker of their time

The writer, whose own story integrates into the international storyline and development of the sport, who gained the most extensive and prestigious battle career in the 1v1 category and so felt he had gained the legitimacy to evaluate and issue titles, trophies & authenticate the contests of other Canadian athletes

International Arbitrator Judge

In recognizing the ever changing political landscape of the sport, in some instances athletes who participated and were judged in battles may not have received fair evaluation

What might otherwise be a clear winner from the vantage point of one evaluator, there could be reasons that would prevent proper judgement from others

There are political and other issues with regards to integrity that can be found in Tricking unfortunately

The writer volunteered and dedicated a section of a Ranking System which was also under development to include Arbitrated Judgements as well

A series called " Battle Analysis " was created in an effort to recognize athletes that received unfair judgement, and the writer came up with a system based on math in order to show the steps & how conclusions were achieved in a neutral manner

Source:

https://youtu.be/q-hRlQUBNg8?si=l34hgoqicGQDEGFd

Utopia Tricking started off as an art project and beginner Battle Adventure, evolving into becoming a Champion as well as Judge, and eventually into an Arbitrator, Battle Hall of Fame & Historical Archive and Authentication and now Anti-Corruption Initiative

 

representing Canadian Contribution to the sport
to the benefit of anyone from any country

2021 - US Tour becomes US Tricking League

The US Tricking appears to be an evolution of the tour created by the management team behind the original and re-branded version of the Tour 

The organizations that appear to be the most linked to US Tricking are Euphoria Tricking, Trick Dynamix, Trick Strong & Loopkicks and their associated communities and affiliates

Many of the event organizers who were previously linked by the tour came together to more formally establish a sports governing body in the USA, however, non-american battle event organizers were invited to promote their events on their website

Toronto Tricking has been registered as an event on their website, marking a semi-formal addition to being part of an American Sports Governing Body

Vertigo Tricking would become one of US Tricking's flagship events

The writer can observe that the official members of the league are listed in the about section at the bottom, and that membership is limited to american organizers at this time formally, but do include informal partnerships internationally as well such as the one with Toronto Tricking and Air Handlers Montreal

https://www.ustricking.com/about

2021 - Montreal Air Handler Studio Battle Event

The Air Handler Montreal Studio continues to host it's own competitions, and the same network of Canadian Trickers, both pre-existing and the new generation came to participate at this contest

Air Handlers Montreal is a registered partnership that is semi-formally affiliated with the US Tricking League & Road to Vertigo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFPRTNYX9SI

2022 - Road to Vertigo ( "The Tour" re-branded again )

Road to Vertigo appears to be a re-brand of "The Tour" which is a rebrand of the original Tricking Tour from 2010 originally centered around Team Invincible, the idea being replicated by Kojos Trick Lab via the Garrison in the late 2010s, and now owned by US Tricking but still supports Kojos Trick Lab who no longer functions as an online tutorial platform but rather as an agency supplying Judges, Battlers, Media, MC & Seminar Coaching, in some cases, even event organizers are also Kojos Trick Lab affiliates

The Road to Vertigo took the pre-existing infrastructure of "The Tour" and intended to direct traffic it to their main event

2022 - Development of Political Movement Groups
/
Unregistered Extra-Provincial Organizations operating in Canada

The writer observed that part of the process of gaining a form of sponsorship in Tricking had to do with generating traffic to events and encouraging individuals to go on the Tricking Tour, if successful, event organizers would "promote" those who lead these movement campaigns

Individuals that were able to use catch-phrases and other sound-bytes that could rally potential customers were typically promoted as special guests, though it is unclear if contracts or legitimate form of sponsorship is granted for this exchange

The writer understands this as a logical marketing tactic, however the writer also noticed that creating these movements also carried political motivations as well as targeted coordinated political attacks on political opponents which constitutes for safety concerns within the sport that have largely been ignored 

The below are (2) notable movements affecting Canada and appear to be funded by US Tricking & Kojos Trick Lab

2022 - BBB (Bing Bang Boys) - an American Movement

Bing Bang Boys (BBB) presents itself as a Boston-based tricking team, with membership extending beyond the city. The author reports growing Canadian connections from 2022 onward and identifies the “.bbb” username suffix as a common affiliation marker.

The author describes Samuel Lincoln as a public representative known for positive messaging, while alleging that some BBB members coordinated bullying campaigns against athletes perceived as opponents.

An American interviewee told the author they felt professional advancement depended on supporting the group. The author links that perception to BBB’s reported connections with Kojo’s Trick Lab and US Tricking; the account does not independently establish that career opportunities were conditional on membership.

The author also identifies Vaios Skretas as a BBB member who supported US-linked initiatives in Toronto. The extent of BBB’s membership and its Canadian activities remains to be documented.

2022 - Kerbit Collective Cult - a Canadian Movement

The writer describes the Kerbit Collective as a rebranding and expansion of an existing Canadian event network that had been developing for many years and was forming into a would be Tricking Canada. He attributes its launch to Avery King, a Vancouver artist and tricker then living in Toronto, following connections with Bing Bang Boys (BBB), including Samuel Lincoln.

According to the author, participants adopted coordinated, AI-generated Kermit-style avatars distributed by Avery, promoted apparel and used the hashtag “#cult.” Designs also featured sun-and-moon imagery that the writer considered similar to his Utopia Tricking work.

Based on visible online affiliations, the author estimates an initial Canadian membership of 30–40, concentrated in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, alongside American participants connected to BBB. He also reports recruitment beyond tricking, including taekwondo communities.

Although King, known as “Kerb,” served as its public face, the author alleges that established event organizers retained influence. He identifies Vaios Skretas and Cedric Cloutier as supporters who helped advance the collective’s activities.

The author further alleges that BBB and Kerbit received US Tricking funding and that Kerbit adopted a similar pattern of targeting critics online. He argues that these relationships redirected Canadian community development toward US-linked events and disadvantaged dissenting participants. 

The screenshots below, dated 2025, are presented as examples of continuing use of the collective’s avatar imagery.

Sources:
www.instagram.com/jaxonwong.cc
www.instagram.com/sir.jlo
www.instagram.com/young_lazarus.cc

2022 - Get Rekt Gathering / Battle Event ( Abuse of Power )

Toronto Tricking released another battle event called "Get Rekt"

It featured local Toronto Trickers & visitors from Montreal

Canadians completely unaware that the management team behind Toronto Tricking are registering their events into US Tricking and not aware of the larger system in place

In-ability to report issues and settle disputes, often leading to retaliation & defamation efforts

Source:
https://youtu.be/uNmy2GsnDIw?si=i1E7XNglx5Ba0i_9

2023 - Kerbit Gathering Japan
( Sex Tourism as a Business Model Efforts )

Avery King, known as “Kerb” or “Kerbit,” launched the Kerbit Collective in 2022 and expanded its Canadian and BBB connections into Japan through an event involving Leaf Gymnastics. American participants reportedly included Bay Area Hustle athletes and media contributors such as Snapumedia.

The writer recalls that Avery privately expressed an interest in pursuing sexual encounters in Japan in 2021. 

The author reports subsequent collaboration with Tricking Battle of Kyushu (TBQ), associated with the Japanese Tricking Association and Kenta Furusho, including an official after-party hosted by Avery. He also notes TBQ listings on US Tricking’s website, while questioning whether corresponding Japanese promotional materials disclosed that relationship.

The writer witnessed that Avery removed the collective’s website and social-media material in 2024.
The videos below are supplied as remaining records of its activities.

Sources supplied: Video 1 · Video 2.

TBQ later having been noticed as registered to US Tricking

The Kerbit Collective can best be described as an association or unincorporated business that helps the continuiation of event development through various Canadian and international event organizers, who now assist in US Tricking's aim of adding more events into their league, despite not communicating this publicly

This marks a definitive divergence away from a Canada-focused governing body and a predominant American focused contribution towards the US Tricking League

Avery King would subtly indicate that participation at events he would be apart of, could possibly include adding a sexual component to their events

2023 - Jeux Urbain Sports Expo ( Misrepresentation )

Jeux Urbains 2023 was a free, publicly funded urban sports festival held March 23–25 at Montréal’s Eaton Centre, featuring nearly 80 international athletes across several disciplines, including tricking.

The writer questions whether the tricking contest offered open registration or primarily selected participants affiliated with the Kerbit Collective. He reports seeing promotional material from co-organizer and competitor Vaios Skretas and from Cedric Cloutier-Boucher’s Montreal Air Handlers, but no public registration announcement. 

The writer identifies the entire judging panel and most competitors as Kerbit affiliates, including American judge Ethan Turner, whom he links to the earlier Kerbit gathering in Japan. He questions whether these relationships, and the overlap between organizing and competing roles, were disclosed to participants, audiences and public funders.

Non-Kerbit members did not appear to attend.

These reported overlaps raise questions about selection criteria, judging independence and access to paid opportunities.

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLlEmwj2fK/

Samuel Laframboise of the Air Handlers Montreal team, also a member the Kerbit Collective confirming that his organization was able to access public funding despite withholding the true face of the organization from advertising of the event to the public

After communicating with the organizers of the event, the Kerbit Collective did not appear to return for the 2024 or 2025 editions of Jeux Urbains

2023 - My Corruption Awareness Campaign

In 2023 the writer began an education and awareness campaign on instagram, highlighting the issues taking place and attempting to have private and personal conversations with the key members of the Kerbit Collective to discourage the behaviour. Key members, including Vaios Skretas & Avery King did not acknowledge receipt for their behaviour that was evidenced to be taking place and often blocked the writer in response after denying activities that were clearly inappropriate for business and in Tricking

After some time, some of the junior members who were aware of what was happening would later indicate less support by changing their profile pictures and returning to a sense of normalcy, however others continued to support the initiative into the USA and in Japan again

The writer issued notification publicly and privately to establishments where members of the Kerbit Collective attended where athletes could be recruited to the cult as a warning in good faith. These were athletes with ulterior motives who did not appear to care about about the proper administration of business, some of which were claiming to be professional coaches

The activism has been centered around discouraging joining groups/cults who influence members to carry out illegal activities

2023 - Vertigo x Toronto ( Cover Up )

By 2023, the Toronto Gathering had transitioned from Canadian-led hosting to Vertigo Tricking, an American organizer associated with the US Tricking League, becoming part of its Road to Vertigo series.

Despite this transition, the event continued attracting its established Canadian audience and reportedly retained individuals associated with its former management. Vertigo has disputed the characterization of continued Canadian organizational involvement, while questions remain concerning Toronto Tricking's legal status and operational responsibilities.

The writer also observed Vaios Skretas adopting a profile image created by Avery King, raising questions about the continuing relationships between event organizers and members of the Kerbit Collective. 

The writer's investigation raises broader concerns about transparency, organizational affiliations, and potential misrepresentation surrounding the transition. Advertised special guests reportedly included individuals associated with Toronto Tricking, BBB, the Kerbit Collective, and Kojo's Trick Lab—groups connected to previous tours and community events.

The central question concerns who exercised operational control over the Toronto Gathering, particularly as Vertigo became its publicly identified organizer while former Canadian participants reportedly remained involved.

Source:
https://youtu.be/a5FzOOxPHco?si=CyQCD7PjFapTZIrf

 

2024 - Vertigo x Toronto 2 ( Continued Misrepresentation )

Vertigo Tricking returned to collaborate with TorontoTricking though denied the collaboration ( see below )

Source:

https://youtu.be/lfW_aaklzTg?si=I_agxkjlUQqo37gW

 

Vertigo Tricking questioned by the writer and denies involvement with Kerbit Collective or Toronto Tricking despite the advertising and names involved

Dan Iaboni, owner of the Monkey Vault, likely not aware that an american organization was running a business out of his establishment

In a conversation, the writer informed the owner that sports corruption had begun to take place in Canada, the individuals & organizations responsible, the name of the corrupting group ( Kerbit Collective ) as well as learning that no individuals were even officially employed at the Monkey Vault

See below for a snapshot of that conversation

Montreal as well

After communicating with the organizers of these events, the Kerbit Collective and these events did not return in 2025

2023 - Affected Organizations / Co-Conspirators

The writer observed a post created by LEXMA which is a company based in South Korea known for abiding by safe sports and proper legal practices collaborated with the Kerbit Collective. There had been an effort to implicate even more individuals into the cult which involved collaborating with others under the guise of it being an Art Collab and not necessarily promoting it as a cult

After a conversation with LEXMA, they were unaware as to the true motivations and intentions of Avery King (Kerbit) hosting events with ulterior motives based on indoctrination into a cult and generating traffic for US Tricking or to try to arrange sexual activities

See the below post by LEXMA having collaborated with the Japanese Tricking Association via Kenta Furusho which Avery King used as an intermediary to connect various US Tricking associated brands as well as LEXMA with the Japanese Tricking Association - despite proper legality and formality

Several Canadian brands, including one held by a minor ( MZND ) as well as Toronto Tricking can be seen

It is unknown if all collaborators were aware of the true intentions of the Kerbit Collective in this initiative with a recruitment effort to induct TBQ onto the US Tricking League, supporting the momentum created by BBB ( Bing Bang Boys )

Instructions on how to use coded language were printed on the shirt, which is in alignment with the profile of Avery King & his associates, who use anonymity as well as promote obfuscated activities on the internet as part of how their cult is managed

https://www.instagram.com/p/C056LsxhwTI/?img_index=1

Canadian History pt 4 - Main Source of Corruption in Canadian Tricking

The writer’s central concern is whether informal sponsorship networks linked to Toronto Tricking, US Tricking and Kojo’s Trick Lab allocate opportunities through personal relationships and organizational loyalty rather than transparent, merit-based selection. He reports no clear application process and alleges that favouritism, including relationships with business owners, influences advancement.

The writer also questions whether events presented as independent are connected through an inadequately disclosed international circuit. He compares this arrangement to XSwipe’s earlier tour supporting Team Invincible, while acknowledging uncertainty about how much individual organizers know of the broader relationships.

A related concern is the overlap between sponsored athletes, judges and event personnel. The writer alleges that Kojo’s Trick Lab affiliates judge fellow affiliates and increasingly occupy roles at locally established events, without adequate disclosure to participants, sponsors or public funders.

The writer reports difficulty identifying independent complaint channels and alleges that raising concerns has led to exclusion, blocked communication or retaliation. He calls for published sponsorship criteria, disclosure of affiliations, independent complaint procedures and clear safeguarding standards.

The passage does not substantiate its allegations of gang activity or human trafficking. Its central accountability questions concern how opportunities are allocated, conflicts are managed and participants can report misconduct safely.

Kerbit Collective's System for Trafficking Canadians to US Tricking / Underground Events

The scouting, recruiting, grooming & transportation of Canadians to the US Tricking League follows the below chain in Toronto Canada

Prospective recruits are targeted on social media or in person. These are people of any age demographic ( evidence shows children have been recruited )

There is encouragement to meet at a Tricking Club called "Toronto Tricking" at their unofficial program at the Monkey Vault when they arrange to meet and train together

With Toronto as an example, see the below "Tricking Program" offered by The Monkey Vault Training Centre which does not formally connect to Toronto Tricking

A member of the Kerbit Collective, Nelson Lin, can be seen in a photograph/gif image in the "Tricking" section, however under the class' program, the instructor is referred to as "General Staff" 

Upon an earlier conversation with the owner of the establishment, it was confirmed that Nelson Lin is not an employee, yet is listed on the official website for an unknown reason despite any formal relationship

Members who participate in the open gym community may be introduced to the group who might use the identity " Toronto Tricking " which, since 2018, has been the identity used by Vaios Skretas, Paige Taylor & Nicco Miranda in association with the production of their events in Toronto in collaboration with "The Tour" and Kojos Trick Lab

Toronto Tricking is not listed anywhere as being affiliated with the establishment, and the website, www.TorontoTricking.com which once existed has since been taken down, however the community still participate and host events under the same name, but now use intermediaries such as Kristos Vagenas or Vertigo Tricking to facilitate their activities and likely introduced by scouts such as Nelson Lin to bring in newcomers to their club, which unofficially operates out of the Monkey Vault

A quick look into the legitimacy of "Toronto Tricking" was unsuccessful, but one registered under Vaios Skretas did exist as a sole proprietor business being registered in 2020 but has since expired

No formal link to Avery King, Cedric Cloutier or Mike Hom

The writer alleges that Toronto Tricking’s leadership received promotional opportunities and material benefits in exchange for facilitating Vertigo Tricking’s involvement in its Toronto event, despite reported denials of collaboration. He also reports indications that US Tricking offered flights and work opportunities to Kerbit Collective affiliates.

The writer describes Kerbit, publicly represented by Avery King, as a network connecting participants from Toronto Tricking, Air Handlers Montreal and British Columbia’s Cloud City Trickers. He alleges that members recruit and direct Canadian athletes toward US events without clearly disclosing scouting roles, sponsorship arrangements or league affiliations.

These activities reportedly involve training and events at the Monkey Vault, Air Handlers Montreal Studio and Flight Club in Richmond. The writer questions how participants, particularly minors and their families, are informed about commercial relationships and recruitment practices. He also raises allegations of coercion, sexual inducements and unpaid labour.

In the linked “Legends Panel” appearance, the writer says Vaios Skretas identified himself through Team Ryouko without disclosing the other affiliations described in this account. He further questions the basis for the event’s “Team Canada” designation, reporting no sanction from a Canadian national sport organization or the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Source supplied: Legends Panel video.

Members who are informally representing the cult & it's culture

Note that the (left) image was posted by a minor whose name is being protected at this time

Below are advertisements of Avery King using the pseudonym Kerbit, as well as other members of the Kerbit Collective being promoted in the USA

There were rumors and a general image of there being a sexual element to these parties and that the intentions were to procure sexual activities at events in Canada, USA & Japan

Being asked for dating advice

At one time the writer was invited to join a group chat run by Avery on instagram, but declined the invitation.

This was after Avery asked the writer advice on how to get girls in Japan, to which the writer responded that dating apps and picking up women in bars for example were appropriate

Kerbit Collective - Use of AI to modify images & videos for mal-intent purposes

The writer recalls Avery King posting AI-generated Kermit-style images in Instagram Stories and saving them to his profile. According to the writer, the account later became private and substantial Kerbit Collective material was removed, preventing him from linking to the original posts.

The writer understands that King worked for Wombo, an AI media company, and recalls seeing him produce manipulated images and videos satirizing politicians and others. 

The writer was initially impressed to learn that Avery King presented himself as an individual who was working to advance in the field of A.I. and claimed to be an artist - these facts were true, but the writer did not discern the true nature and intentions including the theme of Avery's endeavors

The writer's impression changed when the writer observed some of the products of Avery and his company

The writer learned of one of Avery's various identities named Cafe Samosa Blue, which linked to his twitter ( now called X ) profile

The same is true for his other associates at Wombo

Please see the below image & check the website for reference for a more accurate visual portrayal of Avery & his company's enterprise

Source:
https://www.disgusting.men/

 

Potential Kerbit Crypto NFT / Social Experiment on Trickers

 

For the purposes of giving recognition and credit where it's due, as a personal note the writer does think that Avery doing artwork and music with themes that were more appropriate would be a positive reflection of his capability as a person/artist

However,

The writer would like to indicate that at one point the writer recalls a photograph on Avery King's instagram which appeared to be him presenting a TEDxTalk-esque speech before an audience that is reminiscent of the above NFT project - only based on the launch of the Kerbit Collective in Canada after having distributed Kermit the Frog variated display pictures to members of the cult

The writer deduced that it could be possible that it was an NFT launch without the express awareness of the Tricking Community, and that acting on behalf of his organization ( Wombo AI / Wombo Meme ) there may have been a pre-planned intent to experiment on the community for the purpose of deriving an income via crypto without their awareness

This is just speculation

That photo as well as a lot of evidence has been taken down by the time of this article

The writer has witnessed that crypto has been accepted by Avery King & Vaios Skretas in their respective business dealings in Tricking Communities

2024 - Youloop Tour

What appears to be a collaborative effort by an organization called TrickStrong as well as Kojos Trick Lab ( though KTL is not explicitly mentioned ) brought another tour into Tricking

Reminiscent of the original XSwipe World/Euro Tour from Team Invincible

https://www.instagram.com/youlooptrickingtour/

2025 - Kerbit Leader Masking Identity / Location 

A search into what is believed to be Avery's website ( which has since been taken down, thus unable to confirm ) www.kerb.xyz , if correct, was used to sell merchandise in exchange for traditional legal tender as well as crypto currency

Below is the registry using a public domain search

The ownership info is witheld and the country of origin appears to be CN ( China )

2025 - Kerbit Collective Update
( Continued Underground Activity )
Trafficking into unsanctioned / hidden events

The writer was contacted by Avery King on October 16th 2025

In the conversation Avery stated that nothing in the (this) article investigating sports corruption is a true statement, despite there being clear evidence to the contrary. Avery also asked the writer to stop. The writer will not stop covering sports corruption as it affects Toronto & Canadian sports communities and our actions affecting the world stage

The writer inquired as to Avery's affiliation with Kenta Furusho, the organizer of Japan Tricking Association's TBQ, Avery gave a statement that had a negative impression that they were no longer working together, but due to a pattern of deceit the writer will not take it as a proven fact yet

Avery also indicated that the same membership that make up the Kerbit Collective ( individuals from the Ontario, Quebec & British Colombia Tricking Communities ) are still active and intended to host their own competition(s). It does not appear to be promoted publicly but rather privately in group chats, which is consistent with their pattern of activity taking place on an underground / unofficial level

The writer identified that the members of the Kerbit Collective do not seem to want to intend to stop their pattern of behaviour and orient themselves in a legitimate direction. It is not a single mistake made that they recognize and intended to correct, and adopt the correct course of actions ( as provided by the Sports Ministry and recommended to them by the writer ). It seems as though the Kerbit Collective ( or any name the group goes by ) will carry on the same racket, with the same membership only in a more discrete manner

Based on recent conversation with the Ministry of Sports in Canada, the writer also does not have any indication that any Tricking competitions are officially recognized or sanctioned by Canada

The writer cannot find a legal registry online related to a sports governing body, which is what the Kerbit Collective & it's members function as

Below ( A snapshot of a group chat for organizing a "Canadian Tricking Championship " provided to the writer by Avery King )

Kerbit Collective: Questions of Organizational Transparency, Recruitment and Concealed Affiliations

In the referenced conversation, Avery King reportedly characterized the Kerbit Collective's cult-themed identity as a marketing stunt. However, the writer's investigation raises questions about whether this explanation adequately accounts for the group's apparent organizational relationships and activities.

Individuals previously associated with the collective through coordinated Kermit the Frog profile imagery have reportedly appeared in connection with events including Jeux Urbains, Vertigo x Toronto, and BBB x Canada.

Despite these apparent overlapping affiliations, the Kerbit Collective's name and branding were not prominently disclosed in the referenced event promotions. This raises questions about the extent of the collective's involvement and whether its membership and operational relationships were adequately communicated to the public.

The writer maintains that the relevant issue is not whether the collective adopted a fictional or humorous identity, but whether identifiable individuals coordinated business activities through overlapping organizational affiliations. Such relationships merit examination regardless of the names under which events were promoted.

Concerns Regarding Recruitment and Potential Exploitation

The writer has also raised concerns regarding a woman reportedly associated with the collective, whom Avery King referenced in the conversation.

According to the writer's observations, the woman has maintained associations that are not publicly reflected in her professional or social media activities. The writer has attempted to communicate concerns about these relationships, including the possibility of undue influence, financial inducements, or pressure from other participants. 

The writer further reports observing financial benefits associated with the woman's participation, although the underlying arrangements, conditions, and purposes require clarification.

Broader Organizational and Regulatory Concerns

The investigation also examines whether the Kerbit Collective's activities intersect with a pre-existing network associated with Toronto Tricking and Vaios Skretas, including athlete recruitment and travel arrangements involving the United States dating back to approximately 2018.

Questions remain concerning the legal status of the participating organizations, the disclosure of business relationships, financial arrangements, and the protections available to athletes.

Where recruitment, coercion, deception, financial exploitation, or other unlawful conduct can be substantiated, the activities may warrant examination under applicable Canadian laws. 

Ultimately, the writer's concerns focus on organizational transparency, accountability, and the potential risks posed to athletes when business relationships, recruitment arrangements, or financial interests are not adequately disclosed.

2025 - Potential Defamation Lawsuit

Avery King also bragged to the writer to the fact that an individual who is a member of the Cult has filed a civil defamation lawsuit against the writer

This came in the same conversation as the above which included taunts and other insults

The writer has not yet received any legal paperwork & is prepared to defend Toronto, Canada & Tricking at any time

2026 - Toronto Tricking Community Link to Wombo AI

Avery King had at one point been a more overtly known employee of Wombo AI, particularly in 2021 when the writer had been acquaintances with Avery at the Monkey Vault and was informed of this employment relationship

Wombo AI is a Toronto based tech start up

There exists a sub-genre of individuals on the internet that the writer would like to mention known as "Anonymous" 

Although edited onto the photo in post production, rather than the physical copy of the mask, It appears as though Avery King, and business partner Ben-Zion Benkhin participate in that culture using the mask from V for Vendetta as a reference to the original group of Anonymous members that popularized it's usage
( more on that below )

In the below post on the founder's instagram page, Avery King, whose face is concealed, can be spotted, but also his personal account in featured the comment section linking himself to the broader Anonymous sub-culture as well as to the founder of Wombo AI

It is likely that the inspiration to perform anonymity based activites with an anti-establishment mentality could be directly derived from this aspect of internet-culture

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHbr4j3ynUA/?img_index=1

( Note the symbol on Avery King's left arm is indicative of an affiliation with an internet sub-culture known as Remilia Corps, see below for further details )

Avery King has since recruited 2 more members of the Toronto Tricking Community into Wombo AI, which at this time remains unprotected and exploited due to a lack of formal sports governing body

Aidan Fu & a teenage boy whose information will be withheld for privacy and protection reasons are also linked to Ben's account and are also members of the Kerbit Collective Cult based on evidence

It is highly likely that the technology that Wombo developed in order to produce deepfake / AI images of art, has been used by Avery King to do business as the front of the Kerbit Collective Cult in Canada, USA & Japan and with the collaborations and groups that the organization is associated with as well as the images used to conceal the identity of it's members and show public support to one another by using a variation of Kermit the Frog as their group's theme and outward identity, back in 2022~2024 when they were most active

2026 - Alleged Lawsuit Update

The writer did not receive an official serving.

In addition, the 2 year statute of limitations had passed for defamation claims in Canada
The lawsuit that was reported to had been filed is required to be served within a 6 month deadline has passed as well
This indicates that the premise of that particular legal threat has been confirmed to be neutralized

During that 6 month waiting period, the writer contacted the courts and
confirmed that no such lawsuit was in their system against the writer despite the claim that it was

The writer would indicate that the efforts made by the members of the Kerbit Collective to pursue legal action was done so in bad faith, as the writer reported truthfully relevant & concerning activities affecting the Toronto & Canadian Tricking Communities in good faith and that this was not a real lawsuit but another attempted threat in continuation of an ongoing harassment campaign likely intended to silence / intimidate the writer

Should any attempts at using the courts by members of the Kerbit Collective present themselves, the writer will continue to defend the honour of Toronto, Canada & Tricking at any time

2026 - Anonymity Groups + Anti-Corruption Clauses in Contracts in Japan

The Kerbit Collective: Organizational Fluidity and Comparisons to Japan's Tokuryū

The writer's investigation expanded to examine Japan's response to modern organized crime, particularly Tokuryū (匿名・流動型犯罪グループ), a term used by Japanese authorities to describe anonymous and fluid criminal groups.

Unlike traditional hierarchical organizations such as the Yakuza, these networks may operate through loosely structured, shifting memberships, online recruitment, concealed leadership, and coordinated activities.

Japan has also established safeguards against organized crime through contractual Anti-Social Forces Exclusion Clauses (反社会的勢力排除条項), enabling businesses to prohibit or terminate commercial relationships involving designated criminal or antisocial organizations.

Within the context of tricking, the writer identifies organizational characteristics within the Kerbit Collective that warrant examination against this framework, particularly its reported overlapping memberships, informal coordination, recruitment practices, and shifting public identities. 

Avery King has reportedly characterized his operations as an independent business specializing in artwork and merchandise. However, the writer's findings raise questions about whether the Kerbit identity also serves a broader organizational function, facilitating relationships among athletes, event organizers, and associated businesses.

The writer further examines whether these relationships form part of a wider network dating to the early 2010s, including potential connections to the international expansion of the US Tricking League.

Events such as Jeux Urbains and Vertigo, including appearances promoted under the designation "Team Canada," illustrate the writer's concerns regarding overlapping participants operating under different organizational identities. None of which are established officially.

The recurring involvement of individuals across these activities raises questions about operational control, transparency, accountability, and the disclosure of commercial relationships.

The central concern is whether a fluid organizational structure enables participants to coordinate activities while obscuring the extent of their relationships and responsibilities. Establishing deliberate concealment, unlawful coordination, or criminal conduct would require evidence beyond shared membership or changing organizational names.

2026 - Remilia Corps / 4chan Influence

https://www.remilia.org/

Reverse engineering the Kerbit Collective by establishing the influences and knowing it's partners that make up it's body, it's not just members of the Canadian Tricking Industry, but also influenced by sub-genre's of the internet that have a fixation on a cult-like dynamic mixed with anonymity

It's highly likely that this crypto-focused community has played a role in the development of the cult and it's culture

Remilia Corps is the parent company of Milady, which the writer has confirmed that Avery King, using the female identity "Jennifer" and "Lily" as well as a previously mentioned Toronto Tricker (child) athlete under his influence are part of that ecosystem, also loosely connected to Ben of Wombo AI

A look into Remilia's website and general structure is reminiscent of the original anonymity based internet community called 4chan - though it seems to be specifically catered to individuals who pursue art and fashion

It should be noted that historically, anonymity based internet cultures where crypto is used has been connected to criminal networks such as "Silk Road", where banned or illegal substances, and other law circumventing initiatives took place, and presents itself as a red flag for the sport

It should be cautioned that going in the direction of joining these communities could knowingly or unknowingly induct individuals into the modern day crime groups that prey off of naivety and trust, often deceiving people into crime and blackmailing them into silence when they're there

Though Tricking is an internet based sport, it is not a necessary component to introduce these aspects of non-Tricking related internet sub-cultures and by being connected to these groups presents conflicts of interests and should create trust issues amongst legitimate business establishments that seek to provide clarity and integrity in contests and instructing students

Part 5 - Global History - Main Source of Corruption Internationally in Tricking

The broader picture and international source of Sports Corruption in competitions in modern day is perpetuated by Kojos Trick Lab since the "US Tour" and the complex and often unregistered, concealed relationship that the organization has with legitimate establishments in various countries

Toronto Tricking, a member of the Kerbit Collective initially contributed towards US Tricking & it's relationship with Kojos Trick Lab

2022 ~ Present - Kerbit Collective's Structure

The below covers local communities and how they promote themselves & their approximate creation dates & how they came together in 2022 to conduct business as a (de facto) association in Canada, doing business in Canada, USA & Japan

These are the primary members, of course there are many unlisted supporting members but this covers roughly the structure of the entity despite not having legal recognition & constantly mispresenting their structure / existence when asked

The members indicate the links to the USA Tricking League via Vertigo Tricking & Japanese main event TBQ via the Japanese Tricking Association, which attempt to establish themselves as responsible & professional entities despite working with / covering up involvement with the illegitimate Canadian association claiming to be a cult

How Battle Event Organizers Loophole National Teams 

National Representation and World Championship Legitimacy

The writer recognizes that informal national teams naturally emerge in grassroots tricking. However, entry fees, prize pools, and World Championship claims introduce greater expectations of transparency, legitimacy, and oversight.

Vertigo Tricking, associated with US Tricking, has expanded internationally through initiatives such as Road to Vertigo, involving Canadian networks including Toronto Tricking, BBB, and individuals associated with the Kerbit Collective.

The writer questions whether unofficial teams presented as "Team Canada" could mislead spectators into believing they possess formal national recognition. While informal national representation is not inherently unlawful, claims of official status require substantiation.

With multiple organizations claiming World Championship status, the absence of a universally recognized governing structure raises further concerns regarding competitive legitimacy, athlete protection, and accountability.

The writer also raises concerns about undisclosed organizational affiliations and potential conflicts of interest, which warrant further examination.

Referenced footage: Avery King, Laz Turrell-Poole, and Samuel Laframboise reportedly representing an unofficial Canadian team at Vertigo V.

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fYP1gCVi2U

( 1h53m )

2025 - Unofficial "World Tour" & Kojos Trick Lab

Kojo's Trick Lab: International Influence and Organizational Control

The writer's investigation raises concerns regarding Kojo's Trick Lab (KTL) and its affiliated athletes occupying influential positions across international tricking events, including organizers, judges, coaches, guest competitors, videographers, and marketing personnel.

The writer has observed a recurring pattern in which local athletes and organizers are reportedly displaced by KTL affiliates, despite events operating under separate national identities. The writer documented a similar transition in Toronto in 2018.

These arrangements raise questions about undisclosed affiliations, preferential sponsorship, financial transparency, and the selection of athletes for paid opportunities. The writer alleges that KTL's informal international network facilitates recurring appointments and competitive advantages without clearly disclosing its organizational relationships.

Sam Kojo is identified by the writer as a central figure within this network, whose affiliates reportedly participate across multiple international events without consistent public acknowledgment of their connections.

The investigation further raises concerns about potential conflicts of interest, unfair competition, and athlete safeguarding, particularly where minors participate. 

The central concern is whether undisclosed organizational coordination undermines national sporting autonomy, fair access to opportunities, and competitive integrity.
Sources:
www.instagram.com/phoenix_gathering
www.instagram.com/hookedtournament
www.instagram.com/tbq_2025
www.instagram.com/temple_gathering

www.instagram.com/airmovesgathering

 

Kojo's Trick Lab (KTL) appears to operate more like an international athlete agency than its publicly advertised online tutorial platform, raising concerns about transparency and conflicts of interest when affiliated judges evaluate fellow members competing in the same events.

The writer's investigation identifies apparent connections between KTL, the Kerbit Collective, and Bay Area Hustle Team (BAHT) at Japan's Tricking Battle of Q-shu (TBQ), organized by Kenta Furusho.

Although Furusho reportedly stated that participants registered individually rather than as teams, the writer questions whether this arrangement adequately disclosed existing affiliations between judges, competitors, and organizers, potentially creating an appearance of independence.

Further concerns involve undisclosed sponsorships, funding sources, and potential financial benefits flowing to KTL affiliates. The writer raises questions about whether funding was obtained through incomplete or misleading representations, potentially warranting examination for fraud or other financial misconduct.

The central issue is whether coordinated appointments, undisclosed financial relationships, and preferential athlete selection undermine competitive integrity while concealing the network's influence.

A World Battle Circuit announced in late 2024 provides a partial indication of international coordination, although the writer reports that KTL's alleged involvement across participating events was not publicly identified.

Kojos Trick Lab's Only Publicly Organized Event

Although a familiar cast and crew can be found at various events in the world, Kojos Trick Lab finally launched it's own event in 2024 called the "Ultimate Tricker" which is reflective accurately as a Kojos Trick Lab produced event as it has: 

- Hosted on their own domain
- Comprised of Kojos Trick Lab affiliates
- Advertised / Marketed properly to reflect the organization behind it

Although the source of funding is unknown & it was not an open event for anyone to register into but was limited to members of Kojos Trick Lab the writer considers this to be the only time that KTL organized an event that did not take place in another country but in their home country of the UK which is where Sam Kojo originates and was not hosted under someone else's company with someone else's funding under false marketing as is typically the case based on evidence

This is the only legitimate Kojos Trick Lab event that the writer could locate

Source:

www.youtube.com/kojostricklab

International Federation / Olympics Committee

Establishing a Legitimate International Tricking Federation

An organization identifying itself as the International Federation of Extreme Tricking (IFXT) emerged during the 2010s. However, the writer questions its legitimacy and national representation, citing unverifiable member contacts, including individuals listed for Canada whose involvement in tricking remains unsubstantiated.

The writer acknowledges the Iranian tricking community as an early advocate for international federation development, dating back to approximately 2015.

A legitimate international federation coordinates recognized national governing bodies, establishes competition standards, oversees athlete safeguarding and disciplinary procedures, and facilitates international championships. Such recognition does not automatically establish Olympic eligibility.

Through correspondence with sporting authorities and event organizers, the writer understands that a separate international federation initiative is currently developing, supported by emerging national associations. Further information remains confidential.

The writer encourages tricking communities to establish legally compliant national governing bodies, promoting transparent governance, athlete protection, legitimate national representation, and an internationally recognized World Championship structure.

References:

• IFXT Member Countries

• International Olympic Committee

Supporting correspondence: Kathy Duval, Canadian sport authorities, regarding the establishment of a Canadian National Sport Organization (Tricking Canada).

Team Affiliation / Sponsorships Omitted From Event Advertising

The below is a snapshot from Hooked 2024's event that live streamed to the world but one important fact the writer would like to point out is how information is presented to the public

In this instance there are 2 competitors

Tiki Wu ( Left ) & Oliva Chen ( Right )

Tiki Wu is Kojos Trick Lab's only officially sponsored athlete, which is not displayed here

Olivia Chen is a sponsored athlete from an organization called UTX which is based out of the UK, which is also not included

Interestingly, the writer would like to point out that UTX is actually a partner of Kojos Trick Lab, adding an even deeper level of interconnectedness 

Essentially, they are both Sam Kojo's students & funded athletes, yet Sam and his relationship and their official designations are not made clear that they are all essentially part of his organization and are there because he arranged it

No member of the public would be able to discern that both these athletes are infact members of the same team and that Sam Kojo himself is actually a Judge on the Hooked panel that year who oversaw the preliminaries which selected these athletes into the Top 16, but also that he would be evaluating & choosing who makes it through the preliminaries, selecting them without the public knowing that these athletes are on his teams

Also, the judging panel at Hooked 2024 had 3/5 Judges being Kojos Trick Lab affiliates, but only Sam Kojo was partly mentioned as a member during the introduction as being the owner of Kojos Trick Lab - there was no visual display of his affiliation similar to how in the below image there is no visual indication of team or sponsor affiliations of the battling athletes. Only their country of origin is displayed as an indication of who they represent & it's very likely that their respective country's ministry of sports or governing bodies don't actually officially recognize them, as most of the time "National Teams" are generated on the spot at these events

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaL5cKljjjo

UTX
https://www.utxacademy.com/

 

2025 - Bulgaria ( KTL "tour" affiliated event ) Cancelled

In 2024 the launch of an event in Bulgaria resembled a similar cast and crew to what you might expect at other events that appear to be connected to Kojos Trick Lab and their unofficial agency of event productions

In 2025 the event was cancelled due to an issue with the sponsor

Tthe writer did make a commentary video questioning if the owners of the sponsors of Balkan Gathering knew that Kojos Trick Lab was involved and slated to be hired for a majority of the positions

Shortly after it was announced that the event in 2025 would be cancelled due to an issue with the sponsor

No where in the advertising of Bulgaria / Bulkan Gathering was it indicated that the cast and crew that made up the first event was comprised of Kojos Trick Lab & their company, other than "media" being sponsored by Kojos Trick Lab

This is one of many events that gain funding from a sponsor who is unaware of the system/tour that had been setup and that organizers would direct those funds to individuals who run a racket in various countries, failing to disclose their involvement in events and who gain access to funding despite appearing to be registered as "individuals" but who actually function as a coordinated company / agency

Kojos Trick Lab is clearly not just an online tutorial platform but is heavily involved in competitions

Below are images of Bulkan Gathering 2024 & Hooked 2025

Though the same members of Kojos Trick Lab and the black market sponsorship program can be found at other events, such as TBQ, Vertigo, OMFG & anywhere where a Kojos Trick Lab affiliate will designate jobs to other affiliates but fail to disclose this relationship

Including any tours ( offiicial or unofficial ) who also move athletes but fail to disclose the partnership

It's difficult to say that it is a coincidence as it is yearly, systematic and predictable 

Sources:
https://www.instagram.com/tricking.bulgaria/

https://www.instagram.com/hookedtournament/

2025 - Hooked Update

Not too long after this article was released did the writer notice commentary in the marketing of Hooked, mocking anti-corruption seemingly as a possible reference to this article

Before also announcing that it was going to be the last Hooked without a clear explanation as to why

 

(Below Left) Hooked 2023 references to the Kerbit Collective and (Right) a Kerbit shirt being worn by a supporter and affiliate of Kojos Trick Lab

By this point in Tricking History, Hooked is no longer the event it originally was and is tainted towards a Kojos Trick Lab majority, without this information being readily available to the audience

2026 - VolaTricks Collective & Kerbit Collective linked

VolaTricks, Kerbit Collective and Organizational Transparency in Japan

Despite the writer reportedly notifying Kenta Furusho of the Japan Tricking Association and Taka Enomoto of VolaTricks about concerns involving Avery King and the Kerbit Collective, public associations between these individuals and organizations have continued.

The writer identifies overlapping relationships between Canada's Kerbit Collective, America's BBB, and Japan's VolaTricks, including athletes associated with Tumdra, Hero, Do Challenge Club, and Adrenaline Tricking League.

VolaTricks appears to operate as a loosely structured athlete network rather than a conventional, location-based academy, raising questions about organizational accountability, recruitment, and competing affiliations. Athletes representing multiple teams further complicate the distinction between independent competitors and coordinated groups.

Given the involvement of minors, the writer raises concerns regarding safeguarding, conflicts of interest, and compliance with Japanese anti-social forces exclusion requirements, where applicable. 

The writer also questions whether overlapping relationships involving Taka Enomoto, Ethan, and Avery King influence athlete recruitment, competition administration, or competitive outcomes. 

The central issue remains transparency: whether informal international networks adequately disclose their affiliations, responsibilities, and influence over athletes and competitions.

Source: Public Instagram post

Below is Dylan, a 3 way split member of the Kerbit, Vola & Bing Bang Boys collectives, who is aware of the reputation and activities of the cult, continuing to show public support, even as an officially registered representative of the US Tricking League via Vertigo Tricking, who also continues to promote and support overt gang affiliations with no apparent dress code or respect for a code of conduct that keep athletes in compliance with safe sport practices and in compliance with the laws of society

Dylan has since turned 18, but has been a member of the Tokuryu/Mafia style organizations for a few years, despite clear evidence that what they represent would typically have athletes banned by properly run sports organizations

Due to Tricking being a vulnerable sport, and many persons in positions of trust and authority who are either negligent or enable child endangerment, there does not appear to be consequences for promoting anti-social forces or cheating in sports or affiliating with individuals that have a systemic and commercial racket in our industry - which causes harm to people who intend to play by the rules and who have to openly been wronged by people who recklessly break the rules of society

Vertigo Tricking's post
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYH0tWPqm8n/

2026 - Attempts to rename Tricking to "Spinjutsu"

Members of the different collectivist organizations also tend to be Kojos Trick Lab affiliates and in 2026 appear to have wanted to rename the sport of Tricking

A discussion channel on the sport of Tricking named "Talkin' Tricks" covered this story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quECteSdbdM

Part 6 - Societal / Political Issues & Incident Reports

International Trafficking to circumvent Domestic Laws

The writer raises concerns that informal networks, including the Kerbit Collective, may use prohibited activities, anonymity, and regulatory circumvention as recruitment incentives, potentially exposing athletes to unlawful conduct under inadequate supervision.

As an internationally connected sport, tricking requires respect for cultural differences, national laws, and fair competition. However, the writer alleges that pressure to conform to certain group practices may contribute to discrimination, preferential judging, and retaliation against dissenting athletes.

Undisclosed partnerships between event organizers and affiliated collectives also raise concerns about recruitment, financial incentives, and accountability.

The writer further warns that athletes exposed to unlawful activities may become vulnerable to coercion, threats, or blackmail by individuals in positions of influence, particularly where independent oversight and reporting protections are absent.

This reality underscores the importance of transparent governance, athlete safeguarding, and enforceable codes of conduct.

Child Athlete targeted by rival Adult Coach - Repeat Child Harassment

The writer received a report from a family who was participating at an event where during a battle, the child athlete A ( the victim ) was competing against another child athlete B, and a coach who was from another country who was neither the coach for child athlete A or child athlete B interfered during the match and assisted child athlete B during the game

This is one of what appears to have been multiple repeated targeted instancest against the child A by the same coach in question in various scenarios

The child notified the writer that this coach in particular would often ask around about how the child is doing, despite being from a separate organization and in another country. This type of conduct is a form of harassment and due to the age differential is not acceptable in our sport, regardless of country

Child A is around the age of 10 and the coach is around the age of 30

Video evidence was supplied to the writer

The writer did observe in the video that the MC of the event did counter the coaches efforts and indicated to the coach to back off 

For safety reasons, leading information has been withheld but is available for the proper authorities upon request

The child has been encouraged not to allow such activities to diminish or alter their dreams or decisions to pursue a successful future

The adult coach has been made aware of this issue and at this time no further reports have been made regarding their behaviour

2014 - Death Threat / Implications of associating with Bay Area Hustle Team ( BAHT )

Around 2014, the writer recalls a dispute involving Loopkicks, Adrenaline, and a prominent American tricking athlete whose identity remains protected.

According to unverified accounts circulating on tricking forums, individuals allegedly associated with Bay Area Hustle Team (BAHT), a group linked socially and geographically to Loopkicks, reportedly delivered a threatening image involving a firearm to a family residence connected to the dispute. The writer cannot independently confirm these allegations, which are documented here as historical recollections rather than established facts.

In 2023, BAHT members reportedly participated in a Japanese event coordinated with Avery King and the Kerbit Collective. The writer also observed social media posts attributed to King featuring firearm imagery and content seemingly mocking the previously mentioned athlete. These posts have reportedly since been deleted.

The writer's investigation identifies overlapping affiliations involving BAHT, Toronto Tricking, the Kerbit Collective, Kojo's Trick Lab, and US Tricking, raising questions about undisclosed organizational relationships and the hiring of affiliated individuals for international competitions.

The historical allegations and recurring affiliations warrant further examination, particularly regarding athlete intimidation, transparency, conflicts of interest, and competitive integrity.

2022 ~ Present - Criminal Harassment & Pattern of Stalking 

As of the date of this writing in 2025, it's unclear if Avery King is still employed or linked to Wombo Meme. A simple search looking into the company lists employees but Avery King is not currently listed

The writer noted behaviour that in addition to plagiarism & a history of using copywritten content without permission, the writer's artistic ambitions, a section of Utopia Tricking was heavily copied from by Avery King without any communication or intentions being expressed to officially collaborate

( Utopia Tricking & it's images have a slogan of "living one's anime inspired dreams" derived from popular Anime & Videogame symbology growing up, using a Sun & Moon and Stars logo and popular internet symbols that japanese web users utilize called "Kaomoji" which are used to produce art online ) & the brand having a lot of Japanese culture woven in - reflecting the writer's love for Japanese & Canadian culture growing up and is a reflection of an actual lived experience, detailing the real story of a Canadian Tricker ( the writer, David Milner )

The writer stresses citing sources & inspiration as an artist is an important step in the creation of artwork, in order to avoid plagiarism and to enjoy the process as an authentic artist in development

The similarity in art ideas became a theme in Avery King's artistic endeavors, however he appeared to use Kermit the Frog as a symbol and that there were more elements that were not made explicitly clear to the public with the Kerbit Collective. A lot of unexplained symbology and cryptic messages - this would be later understood that he would communicate using coded language that only members of his cult were privy to

The writer would like to make it clear that since 2022, the relationship between Utopia Tricking & the Monkey Vault was severed completely

The writer has not attended and does not intend to visit the Monkey Vault or the community ( now called Kerbit Collective ) 

Here is an example from the writers rough draft account - called TrickingOtaku on instagram

In the past, shirts, videos and other works of art have been shown off in public, as every artist does, citing inspiration & process to authenticate the pieces

Source:
www.instagram.com/trickingotaku

 

The writer, David Milner, states that Utopia Tricking has never partnered with or endorsed the Kerbit Collective and that Avery King has never been its employee. He says no collaboration was discussed or approved, and no permission was granted to use Utopia Tricking’s artwork.

From 2023 onward, the writer observed Kerbit apparel and promotional imagery featuring Kermit-style characters, suns, moons and stars that he considered similar to his earlier designs. He is concerned that these similarities could imply an affiliation or endorsement. 

For transparency, the writer acknowledges a previous friendship and training relationship with Avery, who moved from British Columbia to Toronto. He says that relationship ended over disagreements about Toronto Tricking’s direction and its US connections. Utopia Tricking, he states, has operated separately from Toronto Tricking since 2018.

The writer was undergoing rehabilitation following his injury in early 2022 and says he neither participated in nor helped plan the collective’s activities. His observations came primarily through social media, where he subsequently raised concerns.

He also questions whether younger participants understood the affiliations conveyed by merchandise and coordinated profile images. He continues to oppose the collective’s practices, while emphasizing that his prior friendship with King and any visual similarities do not constitute authorization or support.

Avery King Catfishing / further drug promotion on X

The writer, for the purposes of self defence and protection from what is otherwise an individual who was displaying an ever increasing obsession over the writer's artistry and ideas, and identity, located the public profile by the connections of his associates at Wombo Meme and other members of the Kerbit Collective. Avery King who had not only been using the alternate identity "Kerb" also joined a new cult (Remilia) and began to use the internet as a female X account user named "Jennifer" 

Please see the below X profile which by this point has been removed, along with many of Avery King's public profiles, facial images & profiles associated with his true legal identity

The writer noted behaviour that was characteristic of users of the internet who procure banned or illegal materials, typically utilizing crypto-currency to make the transactions, with signs of this the writer noted particular usage of coded language and images of illicit substances - the banner of Avery's X profile appearing to be that of crystal methamphetamine

On Avery's X profile under the name Kerb-Hennifer but also Jennifer, which is linked to his associates at Wombo Meme, he would introduce himself to various members on X using a copy-pasted tweet always repeating:

" hi my name is jen "
No apparent other activity took place in the public side of his profile, no links to an online shop but that private messages were available

Once reported for the potential of promoting illicit substances using coded speech and cryptocurrency as a form of payment,

their profile was taken down by X

Please note the similar usage of Kaomoji, Star and Moon symbology - again which the writer would like to state has a similarity, but no approval in collaboration with the part of the writer & artistic ventures of Utopia Tricking, despite there being a past friendship from 2022 and before

The writer discovered that Avery King, using the name "Jen" amongst a group on X was linked to a crypto-currency meme coin called "CULT" issued by the developer "Milady"

There are a few indiciations, but one of the children recruited into Avery's Kerbit Cult is also now heavily tied to his activities with Crypto-Currency and also indicated was a member of Milady, if the writer recalls correctly

After posting these articles, their activity on the internet had been altered and profile and names were changed

This indicates a pattern of preference towards being involved in high-control cult like socials structures and consistently altering identies and using anonymity in the sphere of online-crypto focused businesses, similar to Silk Road

It is unclear if Avery, going by the name Jennifer is linked to any financial crimes within this cult

(Below) Picture of Avery King / Kerb / Jennifer as of 2024

Unable to pull up a link for reference due to the photos being removed or the writer being blocked from accessing those profiles

At one point the writer was alerted by one of Avery's followers who is a child and was taught to act anonymously online ( name withheld ) that his leader Kerbit (Avery King) had something " diabolical " planned against the writer and so tagged and shared the writer in a screen shot

Avery appeared to take artwork that was created by Utopia Tricking & used an A.I. filter to alter it and use it with malicious intent

Besides a repeated pattern of stalking and elements of interference and sabotage, the writer raised awareness that gang-related criminal offences were beginning to occur in Toronto as a normal standard and that the members intended to affect other communities, constituting for a form of terrorism, possibly targeting any of their competitors using anonymous attacks like these

The writer noted this instance in the event it was necessary to inform law enforcement also and made a public acknowledgement to condemn the behaviour

Avery King then withdrew and later deleted the account it was made on

As of Oct 17th 2025 the same conversation with Avery King where the writer was invited to an underground contest,
the writer advised Avery to back off
We both communicated the desire not communicate with one another, which was initially requested on the part of the writer and Avery appears agreeable to

It has been made explicitly clear that the writer is not a willing participant in the ambitions of Avery King and does not have any communication nor any promotion or desire to be included in any of his activities. Since 2022 there has been no effort on the part of the writer to sustain a friendship and all communications have been hostile and unpleasant

The writer was then blocked and there has not been communication ever since

 No further harassment to report after this interaction

Anonymous / Internet-Based Crime Groups

Online Recruitment, Anonymity and Athlete Safeguarding

The writer warns that anonymous online networks may expose young tricking athletes to unlawful activities, coercion, privacy violations, and potential blackmail, particularly when individuals are recruited into secretive communities without adequate supervision.

Platforms associated with the dark web and decentralized movements such as Anonymous have attracted attention for cybercrime-related activities, although anonymity and use of these networks are not inherently illegal.

The writer raises concerns regarding Avery King's recruitment practices and the Kerbit Collective, including the reported involvement of a minor whose increasing online anonymity has prompted safeguarding concerns. 

Athletes should exercise caution when influencers or mentors encourage secrecy, unlawful conduct, or participation in undisclosed groups. Coaches, parents, and sporting organizations should promote digital safety, transparent recruitment, and appropriate safeguarding measures, particularly for minors.

Suspected coercion, exploitation, or criminal recruitment should be documented and reported to appropriate safeguarding authorities or law enforcement.

2023 - Attempted Extortion

Shapes LIVE Battles: Selective Filming Restrictions

During an investigation into BBB (Bing Bang Boys) and its collaboration with Kojo's Trick Lab, the writer encountered apparent preferential treatment and unusually restrictive filming arrangements.

The writer hired an independent videographer, whose identity remains protected, for $100 USD to record approximately one hour of competition footage. Despite accepting payment, the videographer reportedly sought approval from another videographer, zb.flips, who subsequently became involved.

After the footage was published, Adam Devenport, associated with Shapes LIVE Battles, contacted the writer and demanded $1,500 USD to retain the footage online or otherwise remove it.

The writer explained that the footage was distributed freely, without commercial profit, and provided promotional exposure for the event. Nevertheless, Devenport reportedly maintained that other attendees could film and publish footage without comparable restrictions, while the writer would require special payment.

The original videographer subsequently refunded the $100, and the writer removed the footage.

The writer reports that similar restrictions continued to apply to future Shapes Battles, raising concerns regarding selective enforcement, unequal treatment, and potentially discriminatory access to event coverage.

The incident represents an early example of restrictions the writer encountered while independently documenting tricking competitions.

2020 ~ Present - Potential Female Victim

The writer observed an adult female athlete from another sport joining the Toronto Tricking community, which she publicly praised as her “newfound family.” She subsequently developed a seemingly private intimate relationship with a community member and displayed Kermit-themed profile imagery associated with the Kerbit Collective.

The writer later observed suggestive social media posts and artwork attributed to Avery King, raising concerns that details of the woman's private relationship may have been used to embarrass, pressure, or influence her. 

The writer also observed that the woman's professional biography, updated through 2025, omitted her reported involvement with the cult nor US Tricking, despite her coaching affiliations with other Canadian sporting organizations.

2011 ~ 2012 - Female Victim

In and around the year 2011 the writer witnessed the first instance of harassment towards a woman who was part of a Tricking group who had been moving towards advancements in her career, and separated from a male in the same social circle and the subsequent hateful behaviour ensued as she separated

The writer recalls to the best of his ability witnessing phone calls and voicemails being left to prank and otherwise spread negative emotions seemingly out of revenge

The writer did not know the entirety of the events but witnessed the actual harassment taking place in person

The writer noted that that kind of behaviour never took place in person when the female victim was in the presence of any of the members in the friendship circle, but that the members of the group ( Toronto Tricking back then named Team Impulse ) were friendly & pleasant towards her despite a separate face in private

The writer recognized that the same pattern of behaviour exists in the modern day only on a more complex and subtle level, yet discrimination is still practised by the same group of people for similar reasons

This was the first instance of seeing ostracization / discrimination due to a difference in political direction in Toronto 

2023 ~ Present - Potential Female Victim #2

In and around 2025 the writer noted a female that maintained a profile picture with a variation of Kermit the Frog, who the writer has also witnessed is part of the Kerbit Collective affected events in Canada & USA.

The writer requested information with this female who the writer estimates to be in her early 20s

The female indicated in what the writer interpreted as a joking manner that she was self aware that she was in a cult but also indicated that she found a Kermit the Frog profile picture independently and indicated that many other people did so also, essentially self-electing themselves into the cult without Avery King distributing one that he generated on his own 

The writer was given the impression that the female did not seem to be aware of the larger conspiracy, making her potentially an entry level member rather than a higher up within the organization 

The writer noticed that her name had been used in advertising for events, though stated she is not signed to any formal or official teams

The writer was informed that this athlete was compensated by having her travel covered to an event in Toronto where her name was used

The female is indicated to be in a relationship with a non-Kerbit Collective member and does not seem to be aware of any sexual element to the cult

2018 ~ Present - Potential Victims

The writer would like to recognize the efforts of a sub-community of Canadian athletes who barely reached the legal age of adulthood who have been involved in the Canadian Tricking Community and have shown a willingness to comply with the law and organize themselves appropriately despite having to maneuver through a highly pro-american coercive environment

The writer recognizes that not all members of the Kerbit Collective or individuals in the communities are even fully aware of the situation and that in order to participate at all in Tricking requires a wilful act of "looking the other way" or "turning a blind eye" to the injustices that take place in the community

As there is a strong majority consensus and pro-american political regime that has seized control of community, it is extremely difficult and potentially dangerous for any athletes to raise opposition or show support to any who oppose them

There is a list of individuals that deserve protections based on innocence and situational pressures to conform

2024 - Male Victim Targeted Online 

The writer witnessed an online attack on a Canadian athlete who will be protected for the purposes of defending against further online hate acts

The writer understands that the victim in this situation is not involved in any feuds, is no longer a practicing Tricker and has visible disability

The writer witnessed a large number of individuals who belong to the trafficking movement called "bbb" or "Bing Bang Boys" whose membership is often dualized with members of the Kerbit Collective

The writer witnessed an immense amount of comments insulting and attacking a Canadian who did not do anything, simply because footage of that Canadian existed and that spreading hatred appeared to be a cultural practice, continued generationally by members of the Kerbit Collective and their affiliates

The writer raised public concern and when attempting to find the post online on instagram could not locate it

The writer noticed that in exchange for online coordinated political attacks, which foster team work and cooperation, the individuals that lead these campaigns are typically elevated within the underground sponsorship program

The writer noticed that despite these public attacks, Kojos Trick Lab affiliates tend to be promoted

Approximately 2015 ~ Present - Potential Male Victim

The writer would like to recognize that one male is the only formally sponsored athlete from Kojos Trick Lab, and validates that any event that he goes to, he goes there representing that organization, and so does not consider his actions to be criminal in nature as both Sam Kojo & the male victim make it public knowledge that the intentions are to present him as their official sponsored athlete

The writer does not know the technical legal internal paperwork related to the sponsorship, but can plainly see that the male is in a situation where he is the only athlete that should receive protections based on attempting to be as transparent as possible about his connections to Kojos Trick Lab

2023 ~ Present - Japanese Tricking Child-Community

The writer observed that the Kerbit Collective launch in Japan was intended to be presented as a sports event and that the understanding that there was a cult / sexual element to it was a hidden component from the general public and average attendee in Japan where there is a language barrier and lack of insider knowledge

It seems as though Parents, Coaches & Participants from Japan that attended were there to experience international culture

The writer recognizes that children who purchased apparel were not of the understanding that it was a form of "sponsorship" and indication to other members of the cult that they were also favourable of being inducted without full knowledge & consent from those children & parents and were now members of the underground fraternity & possibly would be groomed to carry out it's goals

The writer would like to express that protections are necessary to innocent members of the Japanese Tricking Community particularly those who were children under the legal age of alcohol consumption down to the youngest the writer witnessed may have been approximately 7 or 8 years old

The event organizer Kenta Furusho was informed of the Canadian's endeavors to hosting an event with the intention of inducting attendees into a cult having a sexual & drug element to it here in Canada and evidenced in the USA as well, and that Japan was becoming part of the tour

The writer observed that Kenta has been slowly hiding Avery King's participation in the community, possibly continuing to aid his activities and acting as an accessory

Avery King has since privatized his social media and does not advertise or disclose his participation or activities related to Tricking any longer

Children are possibly continuing to be being groomed into the cult at this time by more concealed and sophisticated methods with the assistance of other Kerbit members in Canada, Japan & USA

Using Japanese Media (Anime) to help spread awareness & educate Youth

By using a relatiable phenomenon that is familiar to the age demographic of the writer, many athletes might be able to learn lessons from popular Anime growing up, even though it is from a fictional story, it can be a helpful tool to help people to realize that what is happening in real life can be similar to lessons learned from myths, legends, religions, fables & stories similar to what might be learned in Anime

This is one of the features to Utopia Tricking that the writer set out to establish - living one's Anime Inspired Dreams

 

( similar story themes to a favourite anime character, but actually in real life, such as basing my Battle Career similar to Champion Red, from Pokemon )

Today's lesson is on Organized Crime & the very real possibilities of being recruited into gangs that commit criminal offences as a collective

Team Rocket is a criminal organization from the Pokemon Franchise

The below image features the primary members of team called Team Rocket, and the paralells between them and the Kerbit Collective Cult

( All images derived from Google )

There is a central influencer / leadership figure that drives the vision and purpose of the collective called Team Rocket, named Giovanni. He gives orders and instructs his followers to commit criminal offences that benefit the collective

While masquerading as a Gym Leader and corporate CEO, his true identity is the leader of the shadowy organization

Below him are two of his subordinates and the primary punch-line of the show,
Jessie & James are a punchline duo but serve to represent people who found a home in an organization and are tasked to steal pokemon to earn their keep

Lieutenant Surge & Sabrina are two Gym Leaders who are affiliated with the organization
( though this information isn't obviously initially without the signature Team Rocket uniform)

They represent the corruption in that their network and affiliation are hidden from the general public and have ulterior motives, while acting as representatives of their community in the public light, they actually conceal their true identities 

Not everyone that runs a business or maintains a public image is necessarily true to it, some people use that outward external appearance as a guise to mislead or possibly recruit others to a complexly layered community

Trainer Red is the main protagonist we the audience play as, and the story is the pursuit of adventure, personal growth, triumph over corruption & champion energy

The video game and anime addressed corruption in sports and as a youth, we learned about pushing back against organizations such as Team Rocket

 

Though now, in real life

Every Generation of Pokemon has a form of gang, such as Team Skull in the Sun & Moon era - using a visual medium ( dress code ) to really indicate gang memberships

Societal Issue - Modern Image of Tricking

The writer observed that the modern day image of Tricking has changed in a way that is similar to how skateboarders or even gangsters might present themselves

The writer observed that presenting oneself this way, the modern day Tricker may live a lifestyle that is not conducive to professionalism and does not encourage a positive influence on the younger generation, and does not give a positive impression to the general public, parents, professionals and potential sponsors / donors or audience for the sport

Please see the below image of Revival, one of the events that is part of US Tricking which has absorbed Avery King to do their marketing and are strong associates of the Kerbit Collective

Reference: 

www.instagram.com/revivaltricking

"Community Leadership" Enablers 
& Negligent Environments at Open Gyms
Societal Issue

Based on observation & reflection, the writer came to the conclusion that one of the preventative factors that would necessitate a higher form of regulation and authority over the development of the Toronto Tricking Community is the fact that an environment on the premises of any establishment will likely result in the production of individuals who become relaxed, negligent and permissive of what are otherwise inappropriate, unacceptable and/or criminal conduct on the property that they are legally obligated and responsible to protect and the individuals who reside within it

This means that Tricking Academies or Movement Centres that run open gym programs have to comply with Canadian Law & employ individuals who are experienced and assertive enough to enforce the rules, in order to mitigate potential harm and the subsequent development of individuals who could go on to strengthen qualities that harm society

The writer observed that criminal organizations don't just spawn randomly, they take time to form and there are degrees of indoctrination and grooming, and it's the responsibility of all members of a society to do one's part and to regulate our own behaviour, but also recognize right from wrong and assert ourselves to correct the behaviour of others when it crosses the boundaries that constitute for unhealthy behaviour in a social setting

I have to recognize that the Kerbit Collective Cult developed over many years, in fact generations, and that it is only the modern day rendition of a pre-existing network of individuals who have been increasingly daring and increasingly more collusive and secretive regarding their activities, and that the Monkey Vault Training Centre became a place where they could conspire, conduct "business" as well as enact their plans without any repercussions due to the negligence of the individuals who were in a position of power and responsibility in the establishment

In simple terms, the Monkey Vault Training Centre is essentially a hide-out or a headquarters where illegal activities can take place for a sports community that does not want to follow Canadian Law, Sports Regulation or respect their customer base

Please see the below image which indicates that there is a "Tricking" program on the Monkey Vault Website that includes photographs of an individual named Nelson Lin, who, based on the writer's research and interview of the owner of the establishment ( Dan Iaboni ), the writer learned that Nelson Lin ( an affiliate of Toronto Tricking & a member of the Kerbit Collective Cult ) is not an official employee of the establishment, and yet is featured on the website and heavily implied to be the instructor teaching at the establishment

Please see the below images for details

Under Schedule, the instructor is listed as "General Staff" as a loophole

Sources:
https://www.themonkeyvault.com/classes#YzhMNU

Below is the conversation confirming that none of the individuals affiliated with "Toronto Tricking" & "Kerbit Collective Cult" are officially employees confirmed by the owner of the Monkey Vault Training Centre

The writer would like to indicate that Dan Iaboni has been a positive contributing member of the development of the Toronto Tricking Community since the very first launch of the Monkey Vault back in 2008 and even a bit before then. The writer would like to go out of his way to point out that Dan Iaboni personally oversaw and provided physical labour to build several iterations of the Monkey Vault over the years and put an immense amount of his life into building it for the community, and goes down in the history as being one of, if not the first movement centres in the history of the sport, built specifically as a home for Canadian Trickers to train & foster progress

The writer strongly suspects that Dan Iaboni was largely unaware of a larger conspiracy that would implicate his business in sports corruption as well as the development of a sex cult. The writer recognizes that the situation is complex, and that communication and cooperation are necessary to guide Tricking forward towards legitimacy for Canadians & safety for athletes but that there had been foreign political interference at play that was being kept secret, likely even from Dan Iaboni & that the coaches employed at the Monkey Vault were not able to recognize nor intervene in the plots that had been unfolding

The writer was largely unaware of the private collusion and intentions of organizations such as Kojos Trick Lab & US Tricking from launching an invasion utilizing Canadians to enact their intention to commit regime change & seize Canadian Cultural Heritage

To recognize what happened requires necessary expertise in the field of Tricking which there are very few Canadian athletes can provide as well as integrity which is even fewer. Expertise is necessary regarding Sports Corruption, to be able to effectively intervene and cease these activities. The writer is one of the few in the world that can detect & is one of the few in the world actively addressing Sports Corruption at this stage in the development of the sport

The writer did have this conversation with Dan Iaboni, owner of the Monkey Vault and can produce verifiable evidence that the image is not altered in any way, as it is a conversation on facebook that remains intact but that the writer cannot link a reference to due to login permissions that are private ( the writer's personal facebook )

That being said, it is an issue that Nelson Lin is presented on the Monkey Vault website, yet is not an official employee of the Monkey Vault as indicated clearly in the conversation above

The writer would like to indicate that it was witnessed on Vaios Skretas' original website, that he was available for in person instruction and would accept bitcoin as a method of payment. The writer also witnessed seminar and group lessons being carried out by Vaios, but that there does not appear to be any formal and public agreements made on the website ( Vaios' or the Monkey Vaults' ) or in person advertising by the part of the Monkey Vault that Vaios Skretas is an instructor there

The writer would like to point out that it should be necessary and required for individuals who are coaches and teaching the community to be officially employed, especially if they are being promoted on the website as this could border on exploitation of labour and does not protect athletes properly, nor protect prospective learners or athletes being inducted into an organization or worse, a hidden cult

This is an understandable yet ever growing issue affecting Tricking Communities around the world as "teams" and "businesses" are remaining on the underground level rather than developing properly to meet the standards of society. It's an even bigger issue when "teams" and "businesses" form into larger governing bodies and choose to remain clandestine and begin to scout, recruit and groom individuals via fraud/coercion to participate in what are otherwise illegal activities, to the benefit of those who receive the proceeds of crime/corruption

This environment is where criminal organizations are born over the long term, and unless treated, could spread to influence and affect many individuals to the detriment of safe sports & the principles that constitute for a safe and fair competitive society

The writer attempted to speak reasonably with the individuals who are involved, to which there was much denial, deflection & gaslighting. This has prompted the writer to have no choice but to raise public awareness and concern and begin the process of leading a corrective initiative on the writer's own home city of Toronto's underground sports community, and any Trickers that would claim to be Torontonian or even Canadian for that matter but work against a legitimate cause, as their activities have grown to include international corruption & the falsification of Canadian History which is a direct attack against one's own home city / country

Solution to Illegitimate Business - Societal Issue

The writer recommends to follow the course of what an individual who is bridging the gap between amateur / grass-roots entrepreneurship and fully fledged Tricking Coach or Tricking Business Owner would entail. This means that if there are programs being run from an establishment, the individuals involved should be officially connected and that students should be officially registered to that program, with parents having the opportunity to be introduced to instructors and that everyone is on the same page

There are typically learning strategies, courses and structure that is outlined for prospective learners to follow, which helps to validate the authenticity and intentions of genuinely raising customers to achieving their goals

There are programs that operate out of Good Life Fitness ( for example ) where influencers and grass-roots amateur coaches apply to run their own programs out of designated areas, on a schedule and with approval, have their own program and meet standards outlined by their partner ( in this case Good Life ), based on the writer's observations of comparable career paths in Canada

There should be a way to formally link community building, developing professional careers while keeping Canadian Law & Charter of Rights protections for athletes despite there being grey areas. There needs to be a general direction towards meeting the bare-minimum expectations and standards that Canadian society has set out, and again the writer needs to indicate that an environment where this does not take place could eventually lead towards the development of people who grow in a criminal direction

Please see 
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/sport-organizations/national.html

Negative Influencers ( Non-Tricking, but still related ) - Societal Issue

The need for positive rolemodels has become apparent to the writer due to the ever growing lack of responsibility that "influencers" may have over their "followers" on social media

Please read the below article regarding a financial scam that was "promoted" to young and impressionable youth

The instance was referred to as the "JP Morgan ATM Infinite Money Glitch"

This is an instance that occurred in real life and was started on social media and spread due to a vulnerability. In short it had to do with cheque fraud and encouraged prospective users of this "glitch" to write a false cheque for a high amount of money and deposit it at an ATM, and requesting the funds which were made readily available

Please read the below article to understand the power of influencers and social media on impressionable / at-risk youth who may not be educated enough to make responsible decisions yet

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/jpmorgan-chase-infinite-money-glitch-bank-lawsuits.html 

Sports Rivalry / Overly Competitive Nature - Societal Issue

 

The writer would like to acknowledge that martial arts & other sports emphasize the need to show respect and to conduct oneself appropriately, especially when you're either on the stage, in the dojo or on the field

It's customary to shake hands, give props, a hi-five or even hug an opposing team after matches, and discuss the game, giving recognition to each other in an effort to show good sportsmanship and to keep competition healthy

Tricking being an unregulated sport means that not all athletes are taught how to conduct themselves appropriately, and competitive instincts and dynamic if managed improperly, even guided by people who intend to produce destructive or otherwise malicious outcomes, means that athletes' competitive spirit could be used for the wrong purposes and the writer believes that this is a contributing factor to how athletes could turn from team members into gang members and carry out criminal offences

Competitive energy being invested into continued learning, physical conditioning, healthy hobbies and interests as well as having a healthy work life and social life balance could mean that athletes could participate and not go in a harmful direction to oneself or others

Athletes need good coaches and positive role models to help guide them towards positive outcomes

Tricking does not yet have this here in Canada

Entertainment Industry vs Sports Integrity - Societal Issue

The writer would like to point out that a growing issue in Tricking is the cross-over of the entertainment ( acting ) industry where artists are encouraged to develop a particular mindset which is geared towards scripted / staged performance as opposed to the reality of conflict and true sense of competition and sportsmanship that athletes require in order to facilitate a legitimate battle event in Tricking 

Many Trickers seeking to gain entry in the entertainment industry may unintentionally or intentionally begin to allow for a cross over of what is required to become a compliant performance actor which contradicts the traits required to compete at a high level as a genuine Champion, where performance is based not on acting but on a genuine drive to dominate

The writer observed that athletes that are leaning towards the entertainment industry have difficulty discerning that competitions are not a place where any form of acting should occur. It is not a place where competitors are given a script and are encouraged to follow any type of pre-determined "story" as this begins to constitute for Sports Corruption, especially if the audience is under the impression that the event is a real contest. There are some organizations that have elements of acting and it interferes with the true spirit of a battle. This is a societal issue and it should be brought into the awareness of the public that some athletes are actors and that others are truely aspiring to become champions, and that it is a conflict of fundamental philosophies

Actors reduce a sense of competition amongst each other as co-workers, as in their case it is a collaboration between two people who are engaged in a scripted "fight" that is typically rehearsed like in the world of stunt performers or wrestling shows, a real contest is supposed to be between two people from separate parties/teams or nations and are not working together but against each other in an attempt to overcome the other. This is a healthy way to participate in real competitive emotions while keeping it safe and in a healthy environment, channeled towards sports and bringing true glory

A true battle is supposed to be clearly between two individuals fighting for themselves. It might be that the contestants are friends, but the purpose of integrity in sports is for athletes to abide by an honour code, which is to genuinely give their best efforts to win

Actors actually reduce the sense of competition when cooperation turns into collusion, it causes interference. This is why it is necessary for athletes to be separated and to train in environments that are reflective of their outward image and marketing as opposed to any type of show being produced which entertains but ultimately misleads the audience

Legitimate Clubs mixed with Illegitimate Clubs - Legal Issue

One of the growing issues within the sport and it's increase in population of criminal activity but also in general not obeying the rules of society is that event organizers accept teams of students which originate from a legitimate Tricking academy, but also are accepted unofficial teams where athletes are registered independently, despite functioning as a team

This is an issue for various reasons, including that unregistered athletes may conduct activities that would break the code of conduct at any legitimate establishment and even interfere with the progress of legitimate establishments which should warrant suspensions 

There are no suspensions or measures of control against athletes who engage in inappropriate conduct in Tricking, due to a lack of regulation at this time

Athletes are typically registered as individuals despite coming from home clubs

It is an accomplishment for a business to be established and athletes to be trained from day 1 and is a natural source of pride for the coaches and club owner, in addition to running a legitimate business and complying with the rules of society

Enabling a group that takes short cuts and placing them in the same contest as legitimate clubs is an insult to the members of the Tricking Community who do play by the rules

Taking short cuts, or cheating will provide quick results that are beneficial to those who engage in them, but it creates an un-even playing field and discourages those who do play by the rules

There needs to be a formal association, league and regulating body to ensure that contests are sanctioned and administered in an appropriate manner

Athletes that participate in unsanctioned competitions and who participate in unregulated environments are at an increase risk of engaging in collusive and other inappropriate behavior

Athletes who play within the rules abide by an honour code and should deserve the opportunity to play amongst others who can be trusted to also do the same 

2025 - Prevention of Further Commission of Offences

The writer would like to recognize the importance of preserving peace & order and to assist the good citizens who play by the rules and to prevent the next generation from entering into a scenario where the possibility of interacting with on-going criminal groups and participating in criminal offences is likely to occur

The writer believes that it is necessary to issue warnings, create a separation between individuals who play by the rules & those who are either seeking loopholes in order to enact their schemes or simply break the rules/laws all together

The writer believes that it is in the best interest of the public to be educated and encourage that those who are running legitimate Tricking businesses continue to do so in compliance with the rules of their country, participate as good sportsmen and women, as well as develop a logical format and system of promotion within the industry based on merit, and allow for a National Sports Organization Governing Body and it's structure to lead the good athletes of the world towards the Olympics by following the proper channel toward there

The writer understands that there are still athletes who are continued in their intentions to commit criminal offences but do so by concealment, and still aim to recruit others and potentially exploit others, all while presenting themselves to be positive contributing members of society & yet encourage many illegal activities along the way, even if towards the Olympics

It's necessary to expose corruption in these instances

The writer believes that the best possible direction to go in is to prevent the commission of further offences by raising awareness and continuing to advocate for clean sport, and by addressing roadblocks that prevent the community & future athletes from getting there. This means helping to transition others with education & positive reinforcement to integrate into society, protecting the rules, and giving recognition to the original sources, and to abstain from cruelty & other heinous ( even if legal ) acts

The writer recognizes that the law changes to reflect the times and that it is necessary in general to advocate for good sportsmanship overall. The writer understands that laws once protected businesses such as slavery, and thus it is necessary to proceed at times to advocate and fight against laws that protect immoral and unethical behaviours that still plague society today

The writer will continue to do activism & raise awareness about modern day issues affecting Tricking with the hopes of creating a positive future for practitioners of the sport of Tricking

2025 - Canadian Progress ( or lack there of )