SUBSTANCE | Tricking Sampler - SquirrelBoyQ

Wow... Holy schnikes
I turned 24 today.
I started working on this sampler over 4 years ago now, kinda started to think I just wasn't ever going to release it. But the day is finally here. I've always tried to be real and authentic with you guys, especially in my previous samplers but this is without a doubt the most open I've been. And that's the way it should be.

This is an open letter, and hopefully a conversation starter.
It's no secret that trickers and mind altering substances are pretty tightly knit, a cosmically woven pairing. And I followed in that. I started on that road before I was a tricker and then found a home and acceptance among you. My friends. Thank you. I'm eternally grateful that I waded that path as a member of this community. So that when I started drowning I felt like I had a surface to come back to. i was on at least two different substances in every single clip in this video that was filmed before I shaved my head, an intentional turning point for myself. The earliest clip in here is from 2019. I got clean April 18th of 2023. I don't want the choices that I or other trickers have made to be looked at with a negative connotation. And I’m not saying everyone needs to get clean or get sober right this second. But I also want this to be eye opening for the negative impacts those choices can have, and if you see it in your friends or in yourself, I implore you to talk about it. Not to intervene, just to open the grounds for a safe place to be vulnerable. Continue and expand the love I was shown. The skills of doing cool flips and kicks is not the real substance that makes the community, it just brought us together. But to stay together and to make those bonds everlasting we gotta be there for each other first and foremost. The people, you, me, all of us, WE are the substance that makes up tricking. And we can't take that for granted. I love you

This is not about the tricks. This is a testament to how the Tricking Community has impacted my life. My friends that I've made on this journey. My brothers and sisters. The highs and the lows that we've been through. I wouldn't trade it for anything.