Sunday 24 June 2007

"Lets do it"

After a night of pissing about at Stefans while his parents are away, got myself up at 10 so i could revise at home. Finished all that off, got ready to head back up to my mates with Yamakasi which had come in the post that morning! happy!

Got there and gave him a hand with the washing up after i felt bad for bailing on him so early in the morning and not helping tidy up. Watched the fim, watched some pk vids on youtube.

We started talking about when we should get out training, especially since i havent been able to with my ankle. I looked out of the window, we both noticed it wasnt pissing it down like the weather had said. We checked the sheffield weather, its said it was crap, then 24 hour forecast and it said it wasnt going to rain for the rest of the day, we both looked at each other
"should we?" "emm yeh..." "lets do it".

We got back to mine sharpish so i could grab my trousers and shoes, very very little drizzle on the way to mine and to the bus stop, after about a 15 minute wait at the bus stop, as i guessed i was asked for full fair, didnt really bother me since i was sooo happy and eager to be out training.

Got off the the bus, stopped at a little spot just before getting to the library (a place iv wanted to check out for a while now, iv only been there once training and that was after my first week or so of being into parkour) did some small precisions, flow and a warm up kind of catpass onto a step which i was quite happy to do easily on my first try.

Finallyy heading up to the library, a minute walk from the little place we were warming up on.
I did some kongs and just general basics, found the precision id looked at the first time id been here and turned it down without a doubt, this time looked at it for ten seconds and did it with ease, i worked on some stuff that Stef was struggling with, a precision down to a wall, not very big but with a little bit off a drop, i understand exactly why he was scared since it mirrors on the kind of stuff im scared of now but just on a larger scale. He left it for abit while we trained a little more in the area, i did a catpass to wall i was quite happy with, not very big, but with a bit of a drop in between the take off and landing, something iv not yet done before from a catpass.

I drilled that about 5 times and then connected the precison i mentioned earlyer on to it, making quite a nice bit of flow and movment, after that Stef staired at the precision he wanted to do and soon did it and he realised the thing we all learn after many jumps, that was easy.

We trecked upto Silverdale school which was wank, we scaled over the fence, and wandered around the area finding didly squat, the only bit of potential rooftop activity i found there was a small roof gap that had a wire in the way of were you would be jumping and water on the landing.

We soon left the school and headed up to our own school, High Storrs.
This place is the BOMB to train at, so much stuff there great walls to scale, rails precisons, lachi's, imense rootops to explore, all sorts of vaults you can practice, realllly nice place.
I felt something great while i was wandering around the roofs, i looked into my class rooms and felt so much freedom, the place that normally imprison's me, was proving a to be great fun for me to train my way of life.

We both moved over to the other side of school, bein able to use parkour to get ourselfs there :P
Did some precisions, practiced rolls, mucked about up a tree, And the final thing we came to was a set of walls i sped up it happily and wandered round the roofs on this side of the school while Stefan spoke on the phone, i came back round and practiced turn vault techniques on something thats flat (hard to explain) going down into a kind of press up position, spining your body round so your hanging, tucking your knees in then dropping, stef got up the wall on his 4th or 5th try which he did using his elbow for the climb up, i got him to get back down and try again even though he was prity exagusted as was I, he managed to do it with a nice climb up, a turn vault with the technique id just used.

We headed home both happy with our selfs, i was actually quite proud of what Stefan had acheived today and what i had. I had loaddds of noodles when i got back and a couple of spring rolls, along with a protein shake and another glass of milk after that, chilled out for abit, went to bed and got 14 hours sleep, brilliant.

All today i was bloody revising, at the end of it all, i watched the yamakasi documentary and decided id go on a walk and check out some spots i want to go to when its not wet through, stuck a coat on and put my head phones in went out for about 15 minutes just checking a spot out and that was about it really a nice relaxing way to spend my sunday i guess, and thats about it for this update.

cheers.

1 comment:

Ben said...

Good evening Alex.

It's good to hear you up and running, after the retarded mistake you made at the armouries, haha.

You seem to be revising a lot at the moment... what exams do you have?

It's good to see you're getting really passionate about it all, and that you're still progressing as much as ever.

I hear you may be coming this following saturday... Is this true?
Get Stef along, it would be cool to get to know him better [After seeing that rather impressive breaking vid, haha]

Keep it up son. x



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