Great 15 minute run

To start with i was really pissed off i was sent to take back a movie to blockbuster i hadnt even watched or rented out, but then i realised wait a sec iv bin cooped up in the house for a week and not been able to do parkour for about two weeks.

So i started off running down the road at prity fast pace (bit faster than a jog) decided to take a detour threw the salvation army were i did some decent volts and arm jumps, got out of there and was running up the road were i found my self at frog walk a thin alleyway with absolutely tons of stuff to do, but just my luck 7 students out of there heads walking about one mile an hour infront of me so i quickly got up about a 10 foot wall running across not being noticed in the shadows i was only noticed when i was at the bottom when i jumped for a lampost off the wall spinning down like a firemen, i got to the end of the alley way were theres the obvious route of a path leading out into the street and theres a wall by the side of a big river cutting out and entire road saving about a minute or so, i get over that wall with ease nothing much but the odd underbar for 5 minutes untill im at blockbuster.

I drop off the DVD and notice how great it looks on top of pizza hut roof, i sprint across that roof, hang down on the end and drop then start heading back were i find theres a locked cemetary with a securaty guard, i quietly avoid the guard and get up onto the first ledge of about a 12 foot wall bring my foot up on that then reach for the ledge of the roof then pull myself up neatly, run across that roof and do that cat style movment across a thin tall wall on the side of the cemetary i look behind myself, the guard still hasnt noticed me moving threw the shadows i hang down off the wall and think to myself "shit" i didnt realize this wall i was moving across was as big as it was i could see practically nothing on the ground of were i was going to drop all i knew was that it was quite a soft landing of the odd patch of grass and soil i decided il drop anyway the worst that can happen is theres a few nettles down there, nope nothing atall a soft landing and i carried on with my run i got back to frog walk id been at previously i got up that wall again and did and arm jump to the other side of the alleyway ran across that jumped to a lampost and im back in the main roads again i run back down the road take another little detour threw the salvation army and did the move id been dying to do while iv been in my house going insane not being able to do parkour, a lazy vault to arm jump, did it first time and didnt have to stop by the wall and think how i was going to do it, i quickly sprint threw two houses front gardens and im home with no one to talk about it with because my familys decided to go out to the pub while i was out,
great run though.

Cheers.

Training and tapton

Jesus Christ i cant remember the last time i pushed myself as hard as i did today at Thai Boxing i was close to collapsing today but i have noticed howmuch Parkour has been rubbing off onto my thai boxing my thighs and calfs are alot stronger from standing jumps and landings which my trainer seemed notice, unfortuanatally im not going to be getting as much parkour into my life in the next few week's as i have been recntally, because im in training for a fight in leeds on the 15th of february but i am goin free running up at tapton flats and a bunch of other places this saturday tho with Dewi and Gwesyn, Liam and i think Sean and Dex too who are comin down from leeds but im not goin to be able to go to steel city sessions on fridays till after iv fought which is a bit of a bugger to be honest becouse im starting to get the gist of flips now but ill be doin heavy sparing down at the gym instead.

Trainin away

hey bin doin a bit of parkour trainin l8ly went up to the salvation army and that wednesday did some good stuff there and noticed howmuch im actually progressing then i jogged up to dewi and gwesyn's house went to the library with a few good precisions, walls to pull your self up and ome big drops to jump from we'd found it not long ago were we wowed aload of our m8s wen they were all pissed one night there, i was soon prity tired mentally and physically so we went down to meet some m8s by youthclub for an hour and this pissed me off that id bin slackin off n meetin friends instead of carryin on trainin so got home n did quite a bit of good conditioning in my cellar lol.

I was at steel city gym today were i nailed my frontflips now, and can now do that thing were u hold yourself in place on a bar for about 30 seconds watch scotts vid 32 seconds in thats wat i mean since im crap at explainin it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSp1L5-RYj0
o over all quite a good gym session actually.
i hope to go to tapton flats sunday with just me and dewi and hav quite a contentrated sesh and get alot of footage, only problem this leaves it well hav even less footage of gwesyn in our video lol.

cheers for reading. Alex

Its not a masive jump it just makes a good picture i think with the river and buildings i the background and if you think about i supose it shows how parkour flows like water

How i got into parkour and my first chapter of my journey

Hey im Alex im prity new to Parkour (bout three months) but put loads of effort in to try n get close to the level of some people in leeds, i started off up the road muckin about on my own doin volts over big walls and getting up and over obstacles then at the start of year 10 i became best mates with Dewi, found out he was interested in parkour so me him and his brother Gwesyn went up to these abandoned flats i new about from wen i skated and i wouldnt even do a metre roof gap to start with but after 15 minutes i did it lol nd since that day iv been freeing my mind more and more and am now finding 4 metre roof gaps small and im hoping to do a 6 metre one but need to go on a bank holiday wen my school is closed up with no teachers about.

So i supose im at an advantage having those flats there giving me a better spirital understanding of parkour getting over things in your mind.
I descovered about the steel city gym sessions threw the northern parkour website. went along with Dewi and Gwesyn and met Scott Mcquade who gave me loads of help and advice down there and told me about the wypk web site i got his addy threw that then spoke on msn got the details about the jams in leeds and decided to catch a train up there to meet up with him and its all gone from there really and im now in LX Lost Xistance with Liam, Dex, Sean, Dewi and Gwesyn (i took Dewi and Gwesyn to leeds for the first time on sat) i now feel im twice as good as when i went to my first jam in leeds. cheers to every1 who's been giving me help.

Alex.