I'm writing this for reason's I do not entirely know and I'm going to write it in an attempt to make it sound as un-biased as possible...As I just stated I'm writing this for reason's I don't quite know, but if you haven't read my blog posted as 'My story' I mention that one of the main reasons I train parkour out of many is that I aim to help people in any way I can using what I've gained so far and will continue to gain, whether it be helping the overall parkour community, or helping someone in a difficult situation in the street. I'm feeling that this is the most likely explanation for writing this...to help?
I feel that the time to write this is now, due to the amount of what seem to be pointless arguments and constant dislike towards certain people within the entire Leeds parkour community. A number of people within Leeds are still labelled as 'noobs' (despite the fact they have been training basically the same amount of time as everyone else). I'm guessing that this is something to do with how they train. Now I personally, am good friends, if not great friends with some if not most of these 'noobs' and as people and individual's they come across to me as harmless and generally nice people. Yet these people are still ignored and seem to be treated as a whole by how a minority of them train and influence the others around them. (Before I go on I must note that anything I mention, is not meant as an offence to anyone who trains in Leeds or for anyone who trains anywhere for that matter, this is what I am seeing through my eyes, therefore you are entitled to your own views and opinions and I will at least try to understand them). Even within this minority (whom I still manage to see as nice, genuine people) I believe help can prevent any further physical and mental damage to some people in Leeds, but I also believe that this help can also prevent what I see as hatred between people because of different views and opinions.
I will now skip to the point of why I think these people are labelled as 'noobs' or 'noobies' or whatever. The reason they are judged and ignored in this way, in my mind is purely because of the size of the drops they do and the lack of conditioning that takes place. But what makes matters worse is that some people in Leeds seem to force the 'big drops theory' down their necks. For example 'You shouldn't be doing that, it's really bad for your knees, that's such a stupid thing to do!'. Even if the quote I just made isn't 100% accurate you can probably still see the point I am trying to make; that by shoving your own theories down people's throats they aren't going to learn, they are more likely to take it as an offence and rebel against it. Imagine you are completely new to parkour, you want to start from what you have recently seen on TV, you can only learn by what you see. So you find a local community that you can train with and you start by showing what you have seen already, this is most likely to be the more impressive side of things, big drop, big drop, big drop, front flip 720 into a round off uh oh FACEPLANT = FACEPALM. Okay, now minus the faceplant and the front double full twist and imagine that the people around you are more experienced than you. One way someone could approach you is the quote I made above, and here is the new one, 'From my own experience of parkour I find that those kind of drops aren't good for you, since it's your choice I'll leave it to you, but do understand the consequences, this is to benefit you in advance, I'm not having a go at you'. Now I know neither of these quotes are particurlarly positive, but if you were the new participant, which approach are you more likely to listen to and which is more likely to make you think 'That guy wasn't very nice, I don't really think he has a clue, what right does he have to say we're stupid?'. Yes, you are probably more likely to listen and benefit from the second approach. Now through my occasional training with the 'noobs' I have approached them much nicer than the typical youtube comment argument 'f**king noob b**t*rds, drops aren't good, where you wanna be in a few years time with no f**kin knees'. In fact I have made my approach a lot nicer and I hope/ think I am helping to prevent this danger, by setting a nicer more mature example. Although within this group there are some (stubborn?) practicioners, I do believe that eventually they will learn, whether it from there own mistakes or the advice (given nicely) by some of the more experienced practicioners. I also believe that just because one may be more experienced or physically and mentally advanced than another, that person should look down on someone who hasn't trained long enough to gain these aspects, surely ego isn't good?
One other thing that aids in this battle or whatever you want to call it, is that some of the more experienced practicioners seem to have an almost extremist pathway* in parkour. I will explain why I am against this in more detail later. But I believe that this is what causes these 'teams' to be made. It goes in a chain something like this: more experienced practicioner tells less experienced practicioner that their way of training is wrong; less experienced practioners enjoy their way of training and do not take what has been said kindly; the less experienced practicioners form a 'team' and go train in their little team together, away from all the other 'teams' that train differently. I am not one that is entirely with the whole 'team' thing, but I'm neither against it because I believe that within a team friendly advice and stronger friendship bonds can be created. But when it goes to the extreme of 'Are you in TMPK? If you're not I don't like you'. It has clearly been taken a bit too far, and yes that was actually said to me. I also keep hearing things like 'your lot don't like us though' and 'you're in that WYPK team'. Firstly I do not label myself as being in a team as I think WYPK was originally meant to be more like a group of friends that get along well (correct me if I am wrong) and I just realised how much my explanation made WYPK actually sound like a team haha, but you might be able to see where I am coming from. And secondly me being in a team would really p**s me off, I like training with who I like to train with, understand? Good! And in future don't tell me to 'sneak away from the others' because I wont, in the same way I never have done, especially when it involves me selling someone out for the price of an opposing view on parkour, I will always train my own way whoever I train with. Surely it would be so much easier if everyone could get along with each other?
Now leading to the more interesting bit, this involves lots of questions and I feel they may, or may not require lots of answers, I don't know. But most people seem to follow this one singular and almost extremist pathway* of how parkour SHOULD be done, people don't seem to follow their own pathways anymore, it seems like David Belle's (I do respect the man a great deal and he will always be my biggest inspiration) way is THE ONLY WAY, how often have you heard people say 'That movement is pointless?' It's these little movements that I think create BIG steps. I came up with a theory that training a mixture of 'in-efficiency' and efficiency creates a greater efficiency than just training efficiency, if you see what I mean? As you may have seen in some videos I love to create little movements every now and again, for instance in Ben Marsh's video, my Birthday one I think (this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ww4bfDhiek) towards the end somewhere I try to achieve a movement I had never seen before (starting in a backwards arm jump position, then you push forwards like a precision and arm jump the next bar then blindly attempt to backward arm jump back, if that made any sense) and personally I get the most enjoyments out of these little creative and 'pointless' movements, so does that mean I am training 'in-efficiently' and wrong? And there's this big thing about flips too, I have thought of many occasions where a flip can be efficient especially front flips, aerials and sideflips (movements which mainly require some form of forward momentum) I could explain but I'm getting extremely tired now so you may want to ask me on my msn address some time, which is fsliam@hotmail.com, if you can be bothered that is haha. Another question I have to ask is, when training parkour, we're not actually doing parkour are we? So does that mean we have to train efficiently as well? The basis of these questions is coming from the knowledge I have gained through training so far, because although I'm still clearly new to this thing that has taken over my life, I still clearly have a LOT to learn. Parkour has led me through many different pathways and ways of training already. For instance when I started, my progression was really slow and tedious because I had to learn most things myself, which in a good way made me have to analyse everything I did much more carefully, at this point I had little idea what I was really doing but the more people you train with and the more you keep your mind open the more you get lead into your own way of training.
What is David Belle's way of training there for? Is it to guide practicioners on their way to find their own path, or is it something for which they should purely follow? I'm still unsure, but if it is the case of following it purely does that mean I can't be classed as a traceur or a free runner or anything? Or am I training my own thing? Isn't parkour about freedom?
I do understand that because of writing this I could get majorly slated but I had to let my thoughts out somewhere. If anything I typed sounds to you like an insult, don't take it as one because that truly wasn't my aim in writing this. Also excuse some typing errors since I have been typing this for about 4 hours and it is now 2 in the morning.
Oh and one last thing bare in mind I do know the definitions of parkour, free running and tricking. But I'm partly writing this because I do train all of them as if they were one thing, they have all taken over my life and do play an extremely important role in it, whether this is wrong or not I don't know.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
The Very Beginning of Ninja Training
Hey all, I've decided to post on here again...obviously with a long delay. This post will be a bit different to my others because it's not specifically about the usual parkour / free running, it's about something completely new and fresh which has recently entered my life; ninjutsu. It is something I wanted to do from the first day I met Guy. I saw how quiet the lad was landing and it actually amazed me, plus I've always wanted to do a martial art and I think this one seems to be perfect for me. I've only been to 3 lessons and yet to pay for a membership (which will definately happen as soon as I get the money) and already learnt bitch loads. The main things I will keep in my mind from it are: footwork; there's no point in practicing some movements fast if you can't do them slow; how to grapple, defend yourself from knives in some situations; how to hurt; movement; technique; blocks; stances; how to hurt; how to be hurt; how to be hurt etc. I have found that after 3 lessons my weakness seems to be the footwork, which is annoying because the footwork is the thing that defines bujinkan from any other martial arts. I also use too much force, so these are things I am going to work on during lessons and outside of them. Oh and thanks to Joe and Pete, for teaching me everything I know (hardly know) so far, Guy and to all the guys I have trained with before, ace guys, thanks.
Right thats just a little bit about bujinkan ninjutsu, so I'll talk a little about my improvements and aims, mostly in my tricking. To skip to the point, I feel the need to practice my blocking technique on most tricks and I really need to pick up the confidence to try one of those palmflip things, they look so cool. Yeh, thats about it for my tricking.
So outside of tricking and into conditioning, I have made it my aim to stretch more, practice planches as often as possible and increase my leg strength (mainly to protect my knees).
And I have a question, directed at other traceurs, free runners, trickers, gymnasts, martial artists, climbers etc. Do you ever get the feeling that your nearing your limits, and is this bad or can you just go past your limit with harder training? And so I'll leave you with that question and a note to my friend Chris; although your hurt BAD keep training that upper body and don't give up. Oh and if you have any spare time, watch Peaceful Warrior, it's a mind changing and extremely inspirational movie. Here are a few videos:
Right thats just a little bit about bujinkan ninjutsu, so I'll talk a little about my improvements and aims, mostly in my tricking. To skip to the point, I feel the need to practice my blocking technique on most tricks and I really need to pick up the confidence to try one of those palmflip things, they look so cool. Yeh, thats about it for my tricking.
So outside of tricking and into conditioning, I have made it my aim to stretch more, practice planches as often as possible and increase my leg strength (mainly to protect my knees).
And I have a question, directed at other traceurs, free runners, trickers, gymnasts, martial artists, climbers etc. Do you ever get the feeling that your nearing your limits, and is this bad or can you just go past your limit with harder training? And so I'll leave you with that question and a note to my friend Chris; although your hurt BAD keep training that upper body and don't give up. Oh and if you have any spare time, watch Peaceful Warrior, it's a mind changing and extremely inspirational movie. Here are a few videos:
Thursday, 3 January 2008
My story...
I've been thinking about writing this for quite a time now, but God knows why I'm only writing it now.Anyway, so my story begins...
Hi, I'm Liam, 16 years old, I'm myself. But there was a time where I could have been classed as a shy kind of person, a person uncomfortable around certain others, but also a person who only wanted to fit in with the crowd, a person who only wanted respect. This made me seem like one of those 'fake' people, because I never acted myself around these people and it made me seem to change the deep down me to make myself liked. Now not many people may have noticed this, but it was what I used to be like. Now this flaw made me often feel sorry for myself, and made me seem rather selfed obsessed (in the non independent way, as in I relied too much on others to do the dirty work).Overall I was a weak person inside and out.
Then, at about 14 years of age, something entered my life whilst sat in a friends house watching television. I saw a small documentary on the Extreme Sports Channel which was about these men, who were leaping about and flipping everywhere, they named it Free Running. I said to my friend, 'What's all this about, it seems a bit silly, what's its point?', this was me at my most judgemental. But about a week later, we went out jumping about, just pratting around, and I was thinking of how fun it was and how I had contradicted myself from a week earlier, it made me feel free. Don't get me wrong, any traceur, tricker, or free runner (anyone who practices the art of movement) may find this slightly common and possibly annoying or noobish, but I did think Parkour was all about death defying stunts and big drops that were harsh to the knees, I thought it plainly for adrenaline junkies and in my own little world, I thought that this was a way for me to gain respect from others, the only thing it didn't help was for me to fit in with everyone else in this stereotypical world. Everyday I would go out and do big drops, filming them and trying to edit videos of me doing some stupid big drops, then re-filming them on my phone to show all my friends how spectacular and brave I was. But one day I suppose the wrong person found out about my little hobby, I will say no names. A rumour went around school about me doing some silly sport where you jump off buildings and everywhere I went I was being called an idiot and comments such as 'show off' were being thrown at me constantly. I said I was a weak person, therefore I found the most stupid little things upsetting, and plus I naturally have a short temper, but for a short tempered person I somehow did well not to lash out at people, I think its because I was too afraid of what would happen if I were to lash out. But as time went on, I kept training and joined forums etc, and then found a friend who went to the same school as me. Big props to Ed Sampson. Ed I have an apology which I reckon doesn't really count anymore as th0se times are long gone. Mentioned for the last time now, I wasn't a strong person, so whenever I saw Ed training in school and would hear people calling him gay and a huge list of other comments I would take it into account. I didn't want this so I would just agree with them and pretended I didn't do Parkour. This caused me and Ed to constantly fall out with each other, when we knew damn well in both our heads it was pointless. But later on I started to realise that these people were close minded people and judgemental people, whom I should just ignore and as I trained more and more and learnt things from scratch another great thing which would lead to a better me happened...the Leeds Parkour Jams in town. Through this I met Scott McQuade and a whole bunch of great people and new friends. Every Saturday I would train and train and it seemed to be the more I trained, the stronger a person I became. Then one day at school someone insulted me and finally I reacted. From that day he has never insulted me again. Through the art of movement I have become a confident person, a stronger (both mentally and physically) person and I now have something called self respect or at least I'm in the process. I train movement for a few reasons, one, so that I can help other people in any way I can, but only with the assistance of reason number 2 can I carry this forward, number 2, by becoming the strongest I can be, in every form, as an individual. I can now say I'm myself everywhere I go, although I still feel that some people at my school need a good slap .
Anyway I need to get some Psychology revision done I have an exam next week (uh oh).
Hi, I'm Liam, 16 years old, I'm myself. But there was a time where I could have been classed as a shy kind of person, a person uncomfortable around certain others, but also a person who only wanted to fit in with the crowd, a person who only wanted respect. This made me seem like one of those 'fake' people, because I never acted myself around these people and it made me seem to change the deep down me to make myself liked. Now not many people may have noticed this, but it was what I used to be like. Now this flaw made me often feel sorry for myself, and made me seem rather selfed obsessed (in the non independent way, as in I relied too much on others to do the dirty work).Overall I was a weak person inside and out.
Then, at about 14 years of age, something entered my life whilst sat in a friends house watching television. I saw a small documentary on the Extreme Sports Channel which was about these men, who were leaping about and flipping everywhere, they named it Free Running. I said to my friend, 'What's all this about, it seems a bit silly, what's its point?', this was me at my most judgemental. But about a week later, we went out jumping about, just pratting around, and I was thinking of how fun it was and how I had contradicted myself from a week earlier, it made me feel free. Don't get me wrong, any traceur, tricker, or free runner (anyone who practices the art of movement) may find this slightly common and possibly annoying or noobish, but I did think Parkour was all about death defying stunts and big drops that were harsh to the knees, I thought it plainly for adrenaline junkies and in my own little world, I thought that this was a way for me to gain respect from others, the only thing it didn't help was for me to fit in with everyone else in this stereotypical world. Everyday I would go out and do big drops, filming them and trying to edit videos of me doing some stupid big drops, then re-filming them on my phone to show all my friends how spectacular and brave I was. But one day I suppose the wrong person found out about my little hobby, I will say no names. A rumour went around school about me doing some silly sport where you jump off buildings and everywhere I went I was being called an idiot and comments such as 'show off' were being thrown at me constantly. I said I was a weak person, therefore I found the most stupid little things upsetting, and plus I naturally have a short temper, but for a short tempered person I somehow did well not to lash out at people, I think its because I was too afraid of what would happen if I were to lash out. But as time went on, I kept training and joined forums etc, and then found a friend who went to the same school as me. Big props to Ed Sampson. Ed I have an apology which I reckon doesn't really count anymore as th0se times are long gone. Mentioned for the last time now, I wasn't a strong person, so whenever I saw Ed training in school and would hear people calling him gay and a huge list of other comments I would take it into account. I didn't want this so I would just agree with them and pretended I didn't do Parkour. This caused me and Ed to constantly fall out with each other, when we knew damn well in both our heads it was pointless. But later on I started to realise that these people were close minded people and judgemental people, whom I should just ignore and as I trained more and more and learnt things from scratch another great thing which would lead to a better me happened...the Leeds Parkour Jams in town. Through this I met Scott McQuade and a whole bunch of great people and new friends. Every Saturday I would train and train and it seemed to be the more I trained, the stronger a person I became. Then one day at school someone insulted me and finally I reacted. From that day he has never insulted me again. Through the art of movement I have become a confident person, a stronger (both mentally and physically) person and I now have something called self respect or at least I'm in the process. I train movement for a few reasons, one, so that I can help other people in any way I can, but only with the assistance of reason number 2 can I carry this forward, number 2, by becoming the strongest I can be, in every form, as an individual. I can now say I'm myself everywhere I go, although I still feel that some people at my school need a good slap .
Anyway I need to get some Psychology revision done I have an exam next week (uh oh).
Friday, 12 October 2007
Friday, 21 September 2007
Peabrimaptonswijaalesupper body strength...
I must say this has got to be the longest time i've not written on my blog, so i thought i'd do a wee bit now. Well since my last encounter with Guy and Ped and CO. things have changed: Guy doesn't seem to do free running much more; Brad just handstands nowadays and Ryan who I became pretty close to, doesn't even do it anymore...Also since that time, there is a great list of things I have done and achieved:
- I went on the single best trip of my life at the peak district, the TRACEuer Gathering 07 and we all raised money for a charity this way, which makes me happier than ever to do parkour , I did previously try to type this in as much detail as possible until my little brother deleted it all, so all I can now remember from my long-term-memory is that, it was very rocky and full of amazing people like Ilibaca, Owen Covill etc.
- For some reason Tony Jaa's cousin, Bilon, is living in Leeds, everyone believes this is true, but I am still slightly unsure.
- I met Les Allen a stuntman who worked in Batman begins, really amazing guy.
- Had a great trip to tapton with MC Guire, in which this un-intentional video was made http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8CGA5U4gD44
- Went to Brimham rocks and improved my precisions massively and now my cousin does parkour hehe.
- Tried some weird shit on a bouncy castle such as 'raydens' almost landed.
- I have been involved in a K-swiss promotion, in which eventually/hopefully I will retrieve my ariyake's...although i do have a nice wristband.
- Me, Pedro and Yasha have been improving our upper body strength so by the end of this year I should be like a tank.
- Basically I have improved all my parkour and free running movements, e.g. muscle ups, precisions, speed etc.
- I went on the single best trip of my life at the peak district, the TRACEuer Gathering 07 and we all raised money for a charity this way, which makes me happier than ever to do parkour , I did previously try to type this in as much detail as possible until my little brother deleted it all, so all I can now remember from my long-term-memory is that, it was very rocky and full of amazing people like Ilibaca, Owen Covill etc.
- For some reason Tony Jaa's cousin, Bilon, is living in Leeds, everyone believes this is true, but I am still slightly unsure.
- I met Les Allen a stuntman who worked in Batman begins, really amazing guy.
- Had a great trip to tapton with MC Guire, in which this un-intentional video was made http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8CGA5U4gD44
- Went to Brimham rocks and improved my precisions massively and now my cousin does parkour hehe.
- Tried some weird shit on a bouncy castle such as 'raydens' almost landed.
- I have been involved in a K-swiss promotion, in which eventually/hopefully I will retrieve my ariyake's...although i do have a nice wristband.
- Me, Pedro and Yasha have been improving our upper body strength so by the end of this year I should be like a tank.
- Basically I have improved all my parkour and free running movements, e.g. muscle ups, precisions, speed etc.
Monday, 25 June 2007
Decisions, decisions, decisions
Frigging hell, I haven't actually posted on here in ages. So I thought i'd get my act together and start writing my blog again. In the time I haven't posted i've learnt a reasonable amount of stuff, but exams did get in the way of my usual training regime. It's going to be very hard writing this blog now because I can't remember a great deal of the things I have learnt and achieved because i've learnt so much over this time.
Basically I have further improved my landings, gotten rid of my fear of heights and increased my flexiblility and speed. Oh, and my precisions are now really good, in more than just distance. I have also started to condition again lately, so that's all good too. Anyway I would like to cut to my small Brimham rocks trip, roughly a week ago, which I have to admit, was bloody good.
This is the jump which irradicated my fear of heights, as you can see there's a set of rocks further down, which have a rather bloody high drop in between, I succeeded in the jump, and i'm pretty happy with myself for doing it.
The best thing about this day was that I managed about 12-13 hours sleep the night before, so I was fresh to train in the morning before we set off there, I got some stuff down, had a small warm up and we travelled in my friends dads car to Brimham. We arrived and I got straight down to some business, jumping from rock to rock to rock big and small, at heights and at low level. I loved the completely natural atmosphere there, and whilst climbing and jumping and looking at the amazing views, I felt completely in tact with nature, such an amazing feeling, especially when your at the highest point of a rock and you can see for miles. Anyway that's the day in short (i'm rushing a little because i'm going to do some conditioning, eat then shower). Soon i'll have a small Brimham video up just sit tight haha.
Saturday
Saturday was very weird, becuase for once in my life I wasn't able to train in Leeds town due to being in debt. So I spoke to Pedro on msn and we both agreed to go out and train, we walked for miles and came to a basketball course/ football pitch with a huge metal fence surrounding the entire thing, even the football nets were metal. Me and Pedro climbed the structure of the football nets and there was a gap at the top with a drop at the other side and a basketball net in the middle, so I practiced doing muscle ups from 180 underbars through this tiny gap, which became really easy after some repetition. I also invented my own movement, where I did half a 180 underbar onto my ass then moved my feet through into a turn vault position then dropped seeing how quiet I could land and kept repeating this, getting faster and faster. After training here for a while we went to the shop where I bought me and Ped some food, we then moved on towards Meanwood, and were ready train in this awesome spot we had found before, trouble was, it had gone, so we were gutted and sat down in shock for ages. We heard some familiar voices and then heard someone shout my name, we looked up and saw GuyCBlack who I hadn't seen for ages and also Ryan who i'd met a few times before. I was just about to ask why they weren't in Leeds when I remembered that they had a ninjitsu demo that day. We were happy to see each other after this break in which we hadn't trained so me and Guy hugged then got down to a really good day of training just like when I first met Guy. We trained at some rails doing cat balances and climb ups, arm jump to arm jumps, and I taught Ryan some stuff he'd been wanting to learn as he'd just started up again after injury. I was in the middle of balancing across a rail when I heard a 'beep' from a car, and turned to find my blood brother and step brother protector, Brad waving at me, I said 'EYY MAYN' he replied and he asked me where Guy was so I told him that i'd eaten him sarcastically, as it was blatant that Brad had just seen him. Guy chased the car for a bit barking like a dog? And me, Ryan and Pedro carried on training. A bit later on we did some precision training across bins and walls etc then I practiced some sideflips on concrete while eating Guys chips he had just bought. Overall a really good day, peace out soldiers!!
Heres my solo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK6ZYHP5qAI
Basically I have further improved my landings, gotten rid of my fear of heights and increased my flexiblility and speed. Oh, and my precisions are now really good, in more than just distance. I have also started to condition again lately, so that's all good too. Anyway I would like to cut to my small Brimham rocks trip, roughly a week ago, which I have to admit, was bloody good.
This is the jump which irradicated my fear of heights, as you can see there's a set of rocks further down, which have a rather bloody high drop in between, I succeeded in the jump, and i'm pretty happy with myself for doing it.
The best thing about this day was that I managed about 12-13 hours sleep the night before, so I was fresh to train in the morning before we set off there, I got some stuff down, had a small warm up and we travelled in my friends dads car to Brimham. We arrived and I got straight down to some business, jumping from rock to rock to rock big and small, at heights and at low level. I loved the completely natural atmosphere there, and whilst climbing and jumping and looking at the amazing views, I felt completely in tact with nature, such an amazing feeling, especially when your at the highest point of a rock and you can see for miles. Anyway that's the day in short (i'm rushing a little because i'm going to do some conditioning, eat then shower). Soon i'll have a small Brimham video up just sit tight haha.
Saturday
Saturday was very weird, becuase for once in my life I wasn't able to train in Leeds town due to being in debt. So I spoke to Pedro on msn and we both agreed to go out and train, we walked for miles and came to a basketball course/ football pitch with a huge metal fence surrounding the entire thing, even the football nets were metal. Me and Pedro climbed the structure of the football nets and there was a gap at the top with a drop at the other side and a basketball net in the middle, so I practiced doing muscle ups from 180 underbars through this tiny gap, which became really easy after some repetition. I also invented my own movement, where I did half a 180 underbar onto my ass then moved my feet through into a turn vault position then dropped seeing how quiet I could land and kept repeating this, getting faster and faster. After training here for a while we went to the shop where I bought me and Ped some food, we then moved on towards Meanwood, and were ready train in this awesome spot we had found before, trouble was, it had gone, so we were gutted and sat down in shock for ages. We heard some familiar voices and then heard someone shout my name, we looked up and saw GuyCBlack who I hadn't seen for ages and also Ryan who i'd met a few times before. I was just about to ask why they weren't in Leeds when I remembered that they had a ninjitsu demo that day. We were happy to see each other after this break in which we hadn't trained so me and Guy hugged then got down to a really good day of training just like when I first met Guy. We trained at some rails doing cat balances and climb ups, arm jump to arm jumps, and I taught Ryan some stuff he'd been wanting to learn as he'd just started up again after injury. I was in the middle of balancing across a rail when I heard a 'beep' from a car, and turned to find my blood brother and step brother protector, Brad waving at me, I said 'EYY MAYN' he replied and he asked me where Guy was so I told him that i'd eaten him sarcastically, as it was blatant that Brad had just seen him. Guy chased the car for a bit barking like a dog? And me, Ryan and Pedro carried on training. A bit later on we did some precision training across bins and walls etc then I practiced some sideflips on concrete while eating Guys chips he had just bought. Overall a really good day, peace out soldiers!!
Heres my solo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK6ZYHP5qAI
Sunday, 29 April 2007
Day of awakening
Saturday
Good day of training, involved me getting into town at half 10. To be honest I came to this jam because Alex asked me to the night before, because at first i wasn't up for it because of my leg not being fully healed. I then decided upon the advantages, in other words increasing my upper body strength. So I met everyone at the art gallery, saw Guy, Tweepeet and Alex, we then stayed and trained at the art gallery BUT there was something good about this day, the pain in my leg was nearly gone, which allowed me to do some proper parkour training (still can't trick though :( ] I practiced some dyno's which I can now do without hesitation, and taught TP the techniques enabling him to do some rather large ones for his small self.
We then moved on to the church where the arm jumps and the brown rails are, where Alex did the biggest one he's done yet. I practiced some small movements around this area until we moved on to the police station scaffolding and when we got there the first thing I thought was 'muscle ups' so went straight to the best bar at the end and practiced until I got one perfectly. I then went a practiced some underbars getting a little higher throughout the day.
Later on we went to the yorkshire bank spot where i had previously done the catpass to clearance, but this time catpass the whole thing and then did a catpass to speed over it. I also practiced some rail precisions on a rail barely and inch think and managed to stick it a few times.
I am now going to skip ahead a few stages, so that we are in the uni shops resting area (so good after you've been training), we bought our food and drink then moved on to a small park where the Kaox lads left us.
In the park we set our selves some challenges where Scott was cat crawling all the way round the park on one foot, and i practiced some creative movements on two bars and practiced balancing moving backwards and forwards on a rail. Overall this was my day of awakening, in 0ther words the first day in ages where i've felt most able and the fact that my injury didn't seem to affect me much.
In a bizzle she wizzle.
Good day of training, involved me getting into town at half 10. To be honest I came to this jam because Alex asked me to the night before, because at first i wasn't up for it because of my leg not being fully healed. I then decided upon the advantages, in other words increasing my upper body strength. So I met everyone at the art gallery, saw Guy, Tweepeet and Alex, we then stayed and trained at the art gallery BUT there was something good about this day, the pain in my leg was nearly gone, which allowed me to do some proper parkour training (still can't trick though :( ] I practiced some dyno's which I can now do without hesitation, and taught TP the techniques enabling him to do some rather large ones for his small self.
We then moved on to the church where the arm jumps and the brown rails are, where Alex did the biggest one he's done yet. I practiced some small movements around this area until we moved on to the police station scaffolding and when we got there the first thing I thought was 'muscle ups' so went straight to the best bar at the end and practiced until I got one perfectly. I then went a practiced some underbars getting a little higher throughout the day.
Later on we went to the yorkshire bank spot where i had previously done the catpass to clearance, but this time catpass the whole thing and then did a catpass to speed over it. I also practiced some rail precisions on a rail barely and inch think and managed to stick it a few times.
I am now going to skip ahead a few stages, so that we are in the uni shops resting area (so good after you've been training), we bought our food and drink then moved on to a small park where the Kaox lads left us.
In the park we set our selves some challenges where Scott was cat crawling all the way round the park on one foot, and i practiced some creative movements on two bars and practiced balancing moving backwards and forwards on a rail. Overall this was my day of awakening, in 0ther words the first day in ages where i've felt most able and the fact that my injury didn't seem to affect me much.
In a bizzle she wizzle.
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