Sunday 8 April 2007

Bridlington

Brid was bloody funny, acomplished alot and got alot of good training in.

I woke up at 6 a.m had my wheaterbix, a shower, stuck my pk gear on, and got to the train station, i caught the train up to leeds were i met up with Liam, Guy and Tee Pee.
Had a prity hillarious trip down to Brid on the train, though Tee Pee isnt physically able to sit down for more than two minutes, all those sugary drinks...
well we got to Brid and i was prity damn exited actually, almost as much as the first time i went to a leeds jam.

We started off muckin about on a plain of grass with and electrical box perfect for climb ups and a tree right next to it aswell while we waited for Ben (a cool traceur from Brid who took us around the town). I did some nice climb ups and tree work while waiting for Ben aswell as working on my rolls which are starting to improve now.

Ben got there after about half an hour which was actually perfect amount of time to get warmed up and focused before we headed off.

first spot we hit was by a river with nice precision's and some good tree's with one perfectly made for an underbar. Guy cleared the river with me following after, we trecked up the other side abit finding a dusty place filled with mozys, the place probably had potential but i really wasnt up for getting bitten to peice's and breathing in aspestos.

We moved round back to the side were Liam, Ben and Tee Pee were and i worked on turn vaults then drops and some precisions.

Me and Guy decided to clear the river again discovering there really wasnt anything on the other side so we were looking at a short way back, Guy spotted one, it had a prity poor run up goin down hill but it seemed doable, Guy cleared it no problem trecked up the hill and joined Liam ect, my turn...
i counted myself in ran jumped, cleared it fine landed on the same spot as guy, but...
slowly tilted back and thought "shit", droping in quite a shallow river drenching my trousers, as hilarious as it was my trousers were soakkked making them damn heavy and impossible to land precisions.

So me, Guy and Tee Pee trecked up the road finding an RSPCA charity shop XD. were i found the scumys, cheapest, chavyest trackys money can buy (one pound) honestly there like regects from the libirachi house of crap, there like netto bags stuck together then painted blue.
Never mind i wasnt in my own city nothing to be imbaressed about, and these ones are waterproof :P

We walked back up the road to meet liam and that again, stopping to try some things, arm jumps, really small standing roof gap.

So we trecked around the town going to a bunch of amazing spots, they were actually some of the best spots for parkour iv ever been to. We got to nice plain of grass for Guy, Liam n Tee Pee to practice tricking off a nice slope, were i landed on my face twice from fronts because im smooth.

Then just as were heading off because Tee Pee was moaning he wanted chips, i spotted an amazing looking arm jump over a flight of stairs, i bottled out about 4 times, and on the 5th i did it but quite scetchy, then i did it again with a camera there and got my technique a bit better and dinoed strait for the top bar (there was three bars i arm jumped to the lowest)
I did it one final time to get a second camera angle were i got the landing and techinque alot better, so i left that feeling happy with myself.

The rest of the day we just went to around different spots doing technical stuff.
At the end of the day we just crashed out on a beach and practiced flips, and i tryed my first ever backtuck XD
i plan to learn them properly on the gym day tuesday.

We caught the train by the skin of out teeth because Tee Pee and Guy stopped at every shop on the way to the station, as well as guy telling the chip shop women he loves here, but she broke his heart...

caught the train home, had a great day, thanks again Ben for taking us round.

Cheers.

1 comment:

mcquade said...

Sounds like a cool day, I would have been theer if it not for my back :(

I would also be at the gym sesh on Tue but I recon I'm gonna be out for at least another couple of weeks :(

It's funny that you fell in the river but not really that good if you think about it. If the steaks were raised then there would have been greater consequenses :\

Keep up with the training!

Peace



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