It's been three weeks since I was last in sydney, and I'm back again. I was originally coming for the Chris Rock show, which was awesome! but I decided to stay in sydney for the weekend and train, seeing as I would already be up here.
So today was the first day. I met up with Eliot after his bus arrived in sydney, then we made our way to town hall.
Arriving at about 11, we soon met up with Sammy and Antek. we then made our way down to Darling harbour where we met up with BoD.
We warmed up around the pond for a while. I made sure to go through a long and proper warmup. Playing around there for a bit, I got the cat pass to precision over the blue water. One that I thought was huge, but really wasn't that big.
From there we made our way around to the big ramp. The one with the cat pass to precision, and the cat pass to arm. We soon got booted by security from there though.
So we moved on to Chinese Gardens, which is actually a really good spot. We started around the entrance, with some good precision work, but soon got booted by security. So we just moved to the side of Chinese Gardens, away from the entrance, which ended up being fine. We found some really good precision, from tree planters only a few centimetres off the ground. the amoutn fo work that we did there was awesome, in that it just kept developing. We found work that could be done in the trees there, as well as variations of precisions.
From there we had lunch at EATING WORLD!! Then moved on to the carpark rails. Did a bit of playing around with different things.
From there we moved on to Glebe, but stopped at a park for a bit, playing around on the different equipment. Just messing around with different bar spins and things.
Then we finally made it to Glebe. Starting training, while we waited for Sino. I got out the camera, to film a bit of stuff. We soon got rudely kicked out by one of the drunk residents of the apartmernt complex, saying that it was private property. We left, but then we came back with Sino, as he didn't care what anyone said. We then moved on to some mroe spots, to play around on different things. I went to the wallrun, played around with the shorter end of it, then ended up doing the bigger end. Looking at the footage, I realsied how big it really was. More than twice my height!
From there we moved around to another spot and just played around for a bit.
Then we went to the park, did a bit of stuff, but mainly warmed down. Chated a bit, then people started to go their won ways.
Eliot, Sammy and myself then went off to grab some dinner from the foodcourt in the shopping centre in Glebe, then grabbed some Cold Rock on the way back to central.
During that time, we got to talk a lot wioth Sammy. talking about everything from classes to parkour in general. I love just sitting down and talking with other people about parkour and related topics. That's where i find I learn the most.
I plan on doing a lot fo filming tomorrow. Sutff that i can take back and add to my video. Will have to see what happens.
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Hey I'm a traceur from South Carolina and I came across your site when I was on mine. Seems like you've been writing for a pretty long time. I just started writing about my training about January. I read your first post and thought that was pretty interesting. Hope to hear more from you.
Thanks for the comment. You're the first person outside of Canberra to leave a comment on my blog! In september I'll be doing a summary of the past year. It marks the 1st anniversary of my blog, so I plan on reading through the whole thing to see how I've progressed. It should be an interesting entry. I post after every training session, so you'll be hearing a lot more from me!
Sounds good. We don't have much people in SC that do parkour so it's nice to read other peoples stuff. We have a group of about four guys in SC and the cops don't know what we are doing ever and they don't appreciate us on there roofs when they have no clue what's going on.
I find that the cops are the most understanding.
Going on roofs might be a different question though. I personally don't go on roofs to train. 1 - it's illegal, and 2 - there's more than enough stuff to do at ground level.
Have you tried explaining to the cops what you are doing. Use the Bond film Casino Royale as an example, but emphasise that you are doing at a safe level.
Yeah we tried. All they really care about is "our safety" as if traceurs don't know their limits. The roof part I know is nearly unexplainable. We just leave because they never believe us because they see so little of it.
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