Leeds jam yesterday sure was an interesting one...
when i got up in the morning i wasnt thinking about parkour, or going to leeds in perticular.
It was more just routine, knowing what i was doing without thinking about it.
I got to leeds with no problems, did the usall things i do to warm up at the Art Gallerys, quick climb ups, vaults, just the basics really.
The others got here, pete first, were i did the precision to the windowsill with ease, something i couldnt do for a while at my first 5 jams or so, next was scott were we just spoke abit then Tee Pee, Liam, Guy, Brad, pedro. I mucked about abit repeating stuff id done at previous jams around the art gallerys, then i came to the thing iv wanted to do for a while when i was properly warmed up and been training towards, the precision to the red rail. I stood there for a good ten/fifteen minutes, with abit of a crowd gathered.
Untill we all got moved on by security (i swear it said parking attendant on his jacket) im not sure if i would have done that rail precision even if we hadnt been moved, all the same this didnt stop it from pissing me off though getting shifted. I find that since id been a fighter for so long, i treat jumps like fighting, so it feels iv lost when i leave a jump or fail at something.
Any way we moved to the church were i started to build up the rail precision distance going up one step at a time, got to second from top when we got moved on yet again.
When we got to the police station i was feeling crap, i wasnt in the mood, a complete off day, through out the day we moved to spots i felt awfull, but the day did progress a little bit and the odd thing i did cheered me up a little, the amouries were great actually, we had a great game of tig, the first one in ages, i did the tic tac arm jump there and scaled the wall in the main section of the amouries, things iv already done in the past, but this time i did them easyer and with ALOT better technique.
We moved round to the other side of the armouries after guy and brad had a big endever weather to get a juggling ball out of the river or not.
I scaled a big wall on the other side of the armouries after a few go's, and as a was walking down the stairs chuffed with my self, did something that just makes me angry thinking about it, noobish and terrible human error, completly lost me footing going down the stairs and twisted my ankle really wrecking it, masive swelling.
Scott led me back to the train station since i didnt know the quickest way there, which wouldnt be great for my ankle, said my goodbyes and hobbled to the train station and got home just fine.
All today iv been reflecting on everything, watching yamakasi videos, just thinking about how good i want to get, it was odd after yesterday i felt my fire was kind of going out, but today i conditioned a whole lot and im dying to get out feeling great.
For the next two weeks im just gonna condition like a mother bitch and slowly work back into parkour training, it really does feel like a new begining like my lifes been refreshed and im looking forward to the future.
Alex.
Sunday, 10 June 2007
Monday, 4 June 2007
"just jump"
Went to wakefeild and horbury wednesday which were both great, but also yet again highlighted my fear of standing jumps at height, at the start of the day in wakey i did a bigish precision, more of another learning cerb really, finding howmuch extra distance you can get when the object you jump to is slightly lower than the one you take off from, horbury i was happy with a catpass precision i did, about 7 steps, to be honest though i felt/feel i can get alot further with them, the catpass im aiming towards is the big one at the odeon in sheffield iv never actually had a look at exept for in videos, so im putting into acount it will be alot bigger when i come to it, as is usal with most things.
we went to a few other spots throughout the day in horbury, my favourite place was definitally "the tree" a fallen over a tree which seemed as though it was put there for parkour, which had alsorts of parts to it you could use different techniques on.
Wakefeild was ace, fulll of cool spots, not much to talk about though really apart from what i said at the beginning, it highlighted my fear of standing jumps at height.
Just a quick review of my thoughts lately on how i get over certain jumps, arm jumps with not much height or rail precisions a voice in my head says "just jump, it will be fine there's no real way you can hurt yourself" or with things like catpasses it what comes into my head is "i can make it i know physically i can make it, so why not just do it".
I hope to get out for some good training at tapton tomorrow since i everythings abit much at the mo and i need to relax and let off some steam, and i have some fears to get over while im there to. : )
Alex.
we went to a few other spots throughout the day in horbury, my favourite place was definitally "the tree" a fallen over a tree which seemed as though it was put there for parkour, which had alsorts of parts to it you could use different techniques on.
Wakefeild was ace, fulll of cool spots, not much to talk about though really apart from what i said at the beginning, it highlighted my fear of standing jumps at height.
Just a quick review of my thoughts lately on how i get over certain jumps, arm jumps with not much height or rail precisions a voice in my head says "just jump, it will be fine there's no real way you can hurt yourself" or with things like catpasses it what comes into my head is "i can make it i know physically i can make it, so why not just do it".
I hope to get out for some good training at tapton tomorrow since i everythings abit much at the mo and i need to relax and let off some steam, and i have some fears to get over while im there to. : )
Alex.
Sunday, 27 May 2007
Update in training.
Yes yet again iv been lazy and not updated since my trip to brid ages ago.
Iv done allsorts since, first things that spring to mind are Cambridge, a Jam in leeds, Brimham getting over rail precisions, started working on things i used to dislike, catpass's and Precisions with drops.
The trip to cambridge was Me and Tee Pee were we trained hard and got to alot of spots, not necessarily acomplished much but it was a good fun day were we managed to make a video out of the experience.
My last leeds jam i improved my alot catpass's and noticed that i was alot more comfident with my arm jumps.
Brimham was incredible up on the rocks, i learned and acoplished alot i feel, but it also highlighted how bad my comfidence with precisons at height or with a drop are, but iv started trying to improve them lately.
My sheffield Jam yesterday was good fun were Scott, Liam and Ben came down for the day,
my arm jumps felt great yesterday which was also a reason to start training different techniques, i was suprised at the way spk trained actually, because id been to little jams in the past with them and not enjoyed them or learnt much, alot of them didnt seem to train all that hard or seriously, there were brilliant guys there though like the two Dannys, polish Greg and in perticullay Will, i learnt quite abit off Ben yesterday to be honest, teaching me some catpass techniques after scott had given me a hand with them and alsorts of other things.
At the very end of the day, something really ridiculous that gave me stupid amounts of trouble was this standing jump up to like a shed roof or something im not quite certain, but god this really was giving me trouble, but after a great deal of comfidence building from scott i managed to do it and was happy i hadnt just left it, there was alot more to that though than just another jump it was a big learning kerb for me and a boost in all round comfidence.
il update abit more frequently now, im going to the steel city this tue for a gym day and wakefeild then horbury and probably up to some rocks some time this holiday
Cheers.
Iv done allsorts since, first things that spring to mind are Cambridge, a Jam in leeds, Brimham getting over rail precisions, started working on things i used to dislike, catpass's and Precisions with drops.
The trip to cambridge was Me and Tee Pee were we trained hard and got to alot of spots, not necessarily acomplished much but it was a good fun day were we managed to make a video out of the experience.
My last leeds jam i improved my alot catpass's and noticed that i was alot more comfident with my arm jumps.
Brimham was incredible up on the rocks, i learned and acoplished alot i feel, but it also highlighted how bad my comfidence with precisons at height or with a drop are, but iv started trying to improve them lately.
My sheffield Jam yesterday was good fun were Scott, Liam and Ben came down for the day,
my arm jumps felt great yesterday which was also a reason to start training different techniques, i was suprised at the way spk trained actually, because id been to little jams in the past with them and not enjoyed them or learnt much, alot of them didnt seem to train all that hard or seriously, there were brilliant guys there though like the two Dannys, polish Greg and in perticullay Will, i learnt quite abit off Ben yesterday to be honest, teaching me some catpass techniques after scott had given me a hand with them and alsorts of other things.
At the very end of the day, something really ridiculous that gave me stupid amounts of trouble was this standing jump up to like a shed roof or something im not quite certain, but god this really was giving me trouble, but after a great deal of comfidence building from scott i managed to do it and was happy i hadnt just left it, there was alot more to that though than just another jump it was a big learning kerb for me and a boost in all round comfidence.
il update abit more frequently now, im going to the steel city this tue for a gym day and wakefeild then horbury and probably up to some rocks some time this holiday
Cheers.
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.
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.
Thursday, 5 April 2007
Wales
Wales was incredible, i have never felt so close to nature and spirituely aware.
Firstly just had the three hour drive down there which wasnt to bad but il skip that out of the story becouse its not very interetesting...
we pitched up the tent quite quickly once we were on the site in Llemberis, i was eager to get some pk training in so i quickly had a go around the woods by the side of the camp site before setting off to the rocks and boulders, i did some lachi's, underbars/underbranches? and some body drops as well as some general just climbing around the tree's.
We soon set off after id had a little hours session in the woods, i got comfortable with my suroundings to start with by just trecking around the rocks, i also soon realised how much i had to concentrate on my landings since there is no smooth surfaces like there are in the citys.
Arm jumps were also quite interesting as i had to check then double check the small holds my hands would be grabbing onto. Its hard to explain how it is doin parkour on the rocks, everything is so compact so your constentally moving and seeing new oportunitys, the ground there is actually quite weird, its exactally like a gym floor its so compact and springy, which was good for working on my rolls as i rarley actually work on them.
So we finished off and i was shattered and went to the legendary Petes eats to have a meal.
Afterwards i couldnt resist, though full of food, going and checking out the spots around the village. i found an ok spot were i just "wowed" some of the locals with a front of a highish platform, a diving kong and flag.
DAY TWO.
Early that morning we walked seven miles to the top of snowdon in a prity fast time stood around at the sumit for ten minutes or so looked at the cool veiw then started trecking in down the seven miles back down, we got about one mile down when i noticed one of the most beautiful sites of my life and no i wasnt looking in the mirror... "Lin Ardui" (black lake) me and my dad decided we had to go down there since it was completely empty and just looked amazing.
My parkour came in quite handy actually getting down the masive rocky hill using standing jumps and quick footwork moving my way down. I got there and it was perfect silence not a person to be seen apart from my dad climbing halfway down, completly cut off from the rest of the world it seemed, the lake was in the middle of a valley half covered by the shadow of the mountain, i sat by the side of the lake with my feet in the water reflecting on life and my journey into parkour so far.
cutting a long story short we adventured back to the tent stopping at Petes along the way grabbing some food.
I got to about one in the morning and i couldnt sleep at all so i used going to the toilet as an excuse to go for walk, i was walking up a hill when i just saw a sheep dog apear from the shadows, it started just pracing around me abit and then just sat infront of me so i stroked it for a bit then headed off but the dog decided to come with me so i let it, i went into the woods id gone in the first day, climbed some trees being carefull of that minor inconvenience of pitch black.
i continued just walking around thinking to myself with the dog by my side which i wouldnt be able to see without the small amount of white of on its coat.
it got to about 3 when i decided it was time to make a move back to the tent i said my goodbye's to the dog once i got to the tent were it went back up to the farmers house and layed under a jeep.
DAY THREE
saw the dog a little bit in the morning, packed up, went home.
Great trip.
Firstly just had the three hour drive down there which wasnt to bad but il skip that out of the story becouse its not very interetesting...
we pitched up the tent quite quickly once we were on the site in Llemberis, i was eager to get some pk training in so i quickly had a go around the woods by the side of the camp site before setting off to the rocks and boulders, i did some lachi's, underbars/underbranches? and some body drops as well as some general just climbing around the tree's.
We soon set off after id had a little hours session in the woods, i got comfortable with my suroundings to start with by just trecking around the rocks, i also soon realised how much i had to concentrate on my landings since there is no smooth surfaces like there are in the citys.
Arm jumps were also quite interesting as i had to check then double check the small holds my hands would be grabbing onto. Its hard to explain how it is doin parkour on the rocks, everything is so compact so your constentally moving and seeing new oportunitys, the ground there is actually quite weird, its exactally like a gym floor its so compact and springy, which was good for working on my rolls as i rarley actually work on them.
So we finished off and i was shattered and went to the legendary Petes eats to have a meal.
Afterwards i couldnt resist, though full of food, going and checking out the spots around the village. i found an ok spot were i just "wowed" some of the locals with a front of a highish platform, a diving kong and flag.
DAY TWO.
Early that morning we walked seven miles to the top of snowdon in a prity fast time stood around at the sumit for ten minutes or so looked at the cool veiw then started trecking in down the seven miles back down, we got about one mile down when i noticed one of the most beautiful sites of my life and no i wasnt looking in the mirror... "Lin Ardui" (black lake) me and my dad decided we had to go down there since it was completely empty and just looked amazing.
My parkour came in quite handy actually getting down the masive rocky hill using standing jumps and quick footwork moving my way down. I got there and it was perfect silence not a person to be seen apart from my dad climbing halfway down, completly cut off from the rest of the world it seemed, the lake was in the middle of a valley half covered by the shadow of the mountain, i sat by the side of the lake with my feet in the water reflecting on life and my journey into parkour so far.
cutting a long story short we adventured back to the tent stopping at Petes along the way grabbing some food.
I got to about one in the morning and i couldnt sleep at all so i used going to the toilet as an excuse to go for walk, i was walking up a hill when i just saw a sheep dog apear from the shadows, it started just pracing around me abit and then just sat infront of me so i stroked it for a bit then headed off but the dog decided to come with me so i let it, i went into the woods id gone in the first day, climbed some trees being carefull of that minor inconvenience of pitch black.
i continued just walking around thinking to myself with the dog by my side which i wouldnt be able to see without the small amount of white of on its coat.
it got to about 3 when i decided it was time to make a move back to the tent i said my goodbye's to the dog once i got to the tent were it went back up to the farmers house and layed under a jeep.
DAY THREE
saw the dog a little bit in the morning, packed up, went home.
Great trip.
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