Yeovil

Well yesterday I went to Yeovil. In Bournemouth about 2 weeks ago I met a guy from Yeovil who asked me to come over at soem point so eventually I found the time to go. It was an awsome day the weather was good and within 20 minutes I just pushed myself. I landed kong precisions I never thought I could manage, 180 cats, rail precisions and other stuff I just didn't know I could do.

I also landed my first double kong outside so I have one to try in Weymouth today but this one is alot bigger :P.

A gym session followed towards the end of the night which was good I liked the gym sprung floor bars ect. I was mega tired by this point I had been training for 6 hours.

My flicks are good my fronts are good just the backs that I really wanna get. I land on my feet fine I get good height but I wanna pull it of properly and I kinda know how to now it's just last night I was way to beat up to attempt it.

Jump up straight with legs straight, chest up with shoulds pulling back, push hips up and once legs get to head height tuck in. Hope I can get that right may take a couple of weeks ;).

The return trip

Last couple of days I have been in Corby, Derby and Lecister.

Now Corby has been good been out there with the locals and done Parkour I landed my first kong precision on a rail :). I also started taking things up a notch which was a good experiance. I got new shoes K swiss si 18 these are just as good as Kalenji success but look better. On the way to Derby me and Michael got of at lecister due to a change over which was a 50 minute wait but hey the sun was out and I had'nt done Parkour in lecister in nearly 2 years so I thought I would kill some time.

Now this was really intresting because 2007 was a while back and obviously I am alot more experianced now than I was then so it was kinda change but cool going back to something I left 2 years ago and doing it again but with my abailities today. In a way it was like communicating with myself through movement. But before long we had to make our way back to the station and off to Derby. Derby was good I still hadnt got used to the k swiss and it was wet and I was being abit unsure of everything but within 15 minutes I got over myself.

I met damien walters that same day who gave me some advice on my tricks which is rather appreciated, good gym session to. My last full day in Corby I was really unsure about things I dunno why was it cause my body was aching or was it just something else. It kinda irritates me but I somehow found it in me to kinda break past that uncertainty and now I just wanna try these much more difficult and technical things that have had me unsure for a longtime.

I enjoyed the adrenaline rush of doing something risky. Now back in Weymouth it's back to good old training (new training) which is really handy and helpful. Theres some things that are risky but possible that I kinda look forward to trying :).

Anyway it was good going to those places. It was a return journey to old memories and times, but then came new places, new experiances and then finally the return trip home.

By the way I spelled Leicester wrong several times and probs even then :/

Power (SpeedxStrength)

Last couple of nights have been good trying to figure things out like on a technical level. Today I found myself at a even level kong precision, or cat pass precision whatever you wanna call it. So the run up is short so I'm trying to figure out how to make it with such crappy run up I mean I have done this before but there must be something to it so that I can hit this everytime and start thinking of clearing it.

So I realised I should work on power, meaning building a fast run up with only like 5 step run up. I gave it a try and it is kinda working. Gonna kinda work with this see where it goes.

Another thing I got loads of things I wanna work on, Yeah I'm working out more to build strength. But to be fair I kinda felt like I was thinking to much about things by the end of the day I was up asda with a friend and found myself trying new things working in one area by the end of the small session I was like yeah this suits me better.

So sure its good to work out and improve overall strength but repeating the same shit gets boring. There are some things I gotta learn but also I wanna go out there and find new things try new things it seems to have a more progressive feel to it.

Plus even in the same areas I see new things to try so I'm gonna work my way up to them :). Push the fear to one side see what we get :)

From the ground up

Well 8 months to go, I've started working out more on my legs, one exercise which is pretty intense is walking in squat position up a flight of 12 staires side ways then back down the staires then again but the other side. Then I try it walking straigh up the staires when I do this my thighs feel like they are burning but it's working abit. With the Parkour its going good but the conditioning is my main priority.

I have also started using the plank work out which can be a killer on the abs and shoulders but whatever helps tbh.

Urbanfreeflow

Well I was in bournemouth on saturday with matt then we met up with about 15 other guys from portsmouth, bournemouth, southampton and yeovil. Now the session was awsome 2 guys who were sponsered athletes of urbanfreeflow where there and I was just amazed at how good they really were at their Parkour, just there style of jumping, flipping and balance.

So after that I went back with Matt since I was staying over his we went out training and found some cool areas. Since then I have been determind to become sponsered by urbanfreeflow I know how hard its gonna be but I also know its possible. It's Thursday now and I have been training for like 4 days straight, Ive given myself till June 2010 so thats about 7 months.

Well see what happens I'll update more on how training is going.

Progress but dunno how :S

I had a small parkour session on my own today before going gym.

The parkour session was fun located in an area with not alot there few rails and walls ect but I was amused for 20 minutes. I'm like yeah this whole new approach to Parkour is so fun I'm liking it. I'ts not a case of what I'm doing its about how I do it and why I do it.

Due to the knowledge of the human body over the last couple of months I focus more on repition rather than getting something right the first time. If it takes 10 times or a 100 well then I gained something from it =D.

So yer anyway I forgot to mention I landed on my arse which hurts now but all good ;).

So anyway gymnastics I must say the increase in conditioning and practice has payed off but I don't know how :s. I'm working out more on my legs and I can feel it working for sure my back tuck height is high :).

Also the gymnastic stuff I have worked on over the last 2 weeks.
First I started on what I called flick control.

Now flick control is the ability in controlling say a back handspring/back flick. Due to the practice I developed the right leaning technique which has made it 100x easier I can pretty much do it from squat position. Then the week after which I started on sunday I call tuck control.

Tuck control is having the ability and co-ordination to tuch as tight as I need to and also knowing when to untuck. So I have my new strength to take me up along with the right technique and confidence to execute it properly followed with the right control and co-ordination to finish it off.

Now I have just started getting side flips from standing and using this whole tuck control thing it has helped me so much.

Whoever reads this probably won't have a clue what I'm talking about the point is it makes sense to me and I'll probably have ti explain in person in order for it to make sense.

Anyway it has been an awsome session the new approach at Parkour has also been fun. So from this point on its trying harder and go beyound what I imagine. I have in my head a fairly brief idea of where I wanna be so I'll do what it takes to get there :)

Couple of days

Over the last couple of days me and maxx went out doing more parkour in a very unfamilar area but within 20 minutes we got the hang of it. Some school on portland, I woke up the next day and my hamstrings had seized up abit shows the hard work ;).

So yer then there was gymnastics on sunday that too was also good new things here and there.

But today I done nothing had college then just went home kinda lazy day but then about 30 minutes ago I just realised in reality what I really wanna achieve and I was just went from being lazy to like na I can do this. So gonna work out :P.