Stone Cold

So last night I headed up for Tae Kwon Do an hour early to get some indoor parkour training done in the gym. Because the gym was locked I had to go see my friend Sam Triffit who was working on the swimming baskets But as i waited him to get the key for the Gymnasium I looked around the area with parkour vision and did I have myself anawesome lil Training session in the swimming changing rooms? why yes I did , Firtsly it started with a cat pass through a little square hole into an arm jump then from there I saw another arm Jump so i did a combination of a Cat pass to arm jump to arm jump then I got up into a monkey postion balancing then precisioned across to the next cubical and made it around the whole changing room with out touching the floor, It was a brilliant challenge and a half. This took me to about Half past five , so it was half an hour before Tae kwon do started and at this point I was in the gym. So i decided to bring out a vaulting horse and do some vaults over it with a limited run up of three steps to get as much distnace and make it look as fluid and as silent as possible, After this I remebered A movement from jump britain what Seb does where he hops over a rail and then lands his feet on the wall then pushes of the wall into a cat pass back over the rail and I managed to do this successfully but over the vaulting horse. Once completeing these movements I then Went and got another Horse out and started doing about 5-6ft double cat passes then manged to do a 6-7ft Cat pass to precsion and both horses were equal hieght so I was pretty proud of It although I did bail Pretty badly first time.

This then got me warm enough For tae kwon do and by this time it was 6 pm so i was gettin changed for tae kwon do. We started with loosening off then Basics and patterns, Then dodgeball and reset. Once we did these we then did a brilliant warm up well I did any way I did a circuit of 20 tricep shoulder press ups, Then 20 sumo squats, 20 sit ups while chain punching and finally 20 burpee star jumps. Once finsihed this I then had a stretch. After finishing stretching we then went on to Kicking and punching drills, and some killer ones at that which I loved. Then we went on to sparring and I had about a 5 minute freestyle spar with the instructor who is like 6ft 6-7 and one of the best martial artists ive ever seen. He absolutley Ahnilated me but It was a great experience for me coz this way Im learning the hard way, and I realised how much better i needed to get and How i needed to adapt to survive the spar with a fighting chance of not going to the floor. Once we finished sparring we then went into Traditional and I practiced my four one step sparring and then we finished of singing happy birthday to our instructor Jon.

A pick of me doing a relaxed flying side kick:

First Class To Indoor Training

Right today has been rather interesting, about a week ago now I was asked by a physical education teacher to attend in a P.E class of a group of year 8's in the gymnasium. As he knew I did parkour he wanted me to influence the kids into improving there gymnastic skills. So from experience in conditioning and parkour training I started by a quick loosening off then went into conditioning and then into stretches This took from the start of the class at 8:50am till 9:10am I had to rush it as I was limited to time. So after this then what I did was set up a few horses, mats, boxes and steps I did this in way that once completeing a movement over one of the apparatus you could then link the movements together in a variety of ways ( Just like at The world wide jam Extreme sports Demonstration and tution days). So i demonstrated movements to the kids and they looked on at me in amazement, But then I said to them the basics getting them crisp, clean and fluid is much more impressive, So we started with landing and rolling which they loved then we got onto techniques of jumping and precision after that I showed them the basic vaults; Cat Pass, Dash, Switch and Speed vaults. With them gaining the experience of these techniques and movements and after i explained the whole history and philosphy behind parkour I let them loose on the course and I was very impresses, obvisously there were some better than others but they all had the potential to become very skilled. Plus the teacher who asked me to do the class looked on at the class with an astonished face at how well I conducted the class, and that is what he said, so i've been asked to do another class next wednesday 12:30 till 1:30 to teach a group of year 9's. But this time it is head of P.E and the sports centre manager so if I can show him true parkour and how it is meant to be done then maybe I can get after school classes going for teachomg as well as good training time for myself aswell as fellow traceurs!!! So guys the idea I brought up months ago is still intatc so Let's keep our fingers crossed :)

Footage from world wide jam classes : Me (Green Trousers, Black t-shirt) Danny ilabaca(Grey trousers, black t-shirt) and Niel ( all Black) doing double cat passes.

Saturday Training

Well I woke up at about 8:30am still tired from the night before, but knew I had to train and jam wid the rest of the lincs parkour community. Also it was jammie'sbirthday so had to go :) . So basically got ready and had my breakfast and was raring to go bye 9:00am. I set off to cycle to ryans at 9:15 and was there for 9:25 then we set off from his at 9:35 am. We both got into town and bought jammie his pressie :P, then met up wid the guys at the trainstation for 10:am and every body was pretty shocked as I was walking ( My ankle was broke a week earlier). so we greeted each other had a little chat then we headed for the grand hotel for some training and warm up. After our warm up we headed to the back of pellum bridge and started training more and this is where i achieved a 5ft across 7ft down level cat pass whihc i was pretty proud of as seen as i was the first to accomplish this movement then i was shortly followed by shaun knight.



The Picture I think is pretty cool :




After this I then took a few of the Traceurs to a level arm jump behind HMV i was the only one to achieve this movement but I hope very soon more people will be doing this!!!




Well once doing this we headed for the black rails and under pass, we did some simple vaults and arm jumps thats about it. We then went to the stair well and the wall at the brayford this was pretty fun as I got a double cat pass across a rather large black box plus a decent arm jump and i also attempted the Jin/m arm jump, got close but didnt get it.

Once finished there we took a short run to city hall and stayed there and trained for an hour straight where we had two bails, Shaun nearly breaking his ankle and Wizey clipping his knee (poor babby ;p)and i managed to do another level cat pass.



Then this led us too the green rails it was ok but at this point I wasnt up for much as I needed food and energy. A few of us left there while a few stayed and trained. The few I was with found a cat pass to precision which was very nice indeed also pop ups to 360 precsions which were nice aswell, I was also looking at a 360 tic tac to squirrel leap but wasnt to sure duet ot the condition of my ankle and the moistness of the floor.

After we all finsihed here we headed to the spar and got some food and did a little bit of training then went straight form here to the college didnt do much but we met dale at 1pm, then we headed for the council flats and i did a 13 ft level arm jump. after that I Had to say my fare wells and head for work which concludes my post.