Sydney Trip - Day 2

Today was Glebe with Sino and a few others.

Woke up at 9.30. Changed, had breakfast, and took a really short bus ride to Glebe. We should have just walked there, it was that close!

Met with Sino at 11. He took us to the Glebe housing complex, with makes the Glebe parkour spot. It is such a good spot, there is so much stuff to do there. A lot of it though, is for more advanced practitioners. I'm lucky that my skill level is up there to be able to train there.

We met up with Sammy and Antek. Did a bit of a warm up, then Djordje arrived. That was a good suprise. Djordje hasn't trained much lately though. He's been busy doing other stuff. he came down to meet us Canberra guys, which was good.

There is so much to do at Glebe. You'll train in one spot for an hour, then keep walking through the complex to find another spot where you can spend and hour at. We did this for about 4 hours, which just shows how much stuff there is to do at Glebe. We also met Michael and Charlie while at Glebe.

Training at the housing complex, I've found that my precisions have gotten a lot better. I'm able to get a lot more distance, and much nicer landings. ruoF showed me a technique to be able to add more force into my jump, using my arms. I think it was something that Benji tried to show me in melbourne, but I didn't really understand it at the time. ruoF actually got it from benji, but the way he explained it to me, just seemed easier to understand and apply. I'm also committing a lot more to my movements. I had one moment that really messed around with me mentally, but I was able to overcome it.

We were also met by police. They were just checking that we weren't up to any trouble. I explained to them that we were doing parkour, explaining what parkour was. I used Casino Royale as a reference. They kind of seemed to understand what we were doing, and that we were up to any trouble, so they left us.

I also had a pretty big clip at Glebe. I banged my knee pretty hard, but was able to power through the cat pass, as if it handed affected me. From there i sat down top rest it though, as it did feel a bit painful, bring up a bit of bruising.

From there we had lunch at Asian King, then went to a playground to play around a bit. The others were doing some tricking, so I worked on other stuff. I've found that my handstands have suddenly gotten pretty good. I'm able to hold them for a few seconds. Here's even better news though. I was able to do a muscle up. A MUSCLE UP! NOT ONE BUT THREE!!! They were pretty dodgy, but i can do them now. All that's left is progression with them.

From there we made our way to some rails, did a bot of work around there. My standing cut passes on height have gotten a lot better. i can do close to shoulder height now. It's all about the power in the arms, and the core strength to tuck with the legs.

After that we made our way to the Ian Thorpe Pool. That's where the guys do those massive cat to arms over a high stairwell.

I didn't really feel up to doing the cat to arm, but there was so much more to do there. There were a lot of arm jumps, precisions, and arm to arms to dop as well. There's even a huge wall run that I wasn't able to get. I was close though.

After that, everyone went their separate ways.

I learnt a lot today, not just about myself but about the others guys in the national scene. I've gotten to know Sammy a lot better. Now I know that he was one of the first guys in sydney, and has been training for nearly four years, like me. It definately showed today. I got to see how chilled Sino was, and how far Antek has progressed in a short time of training. Sure, i haven't gotten to train with the other main guys like Rhys and Shaun, but I have gotten the chance to meet others in the Sydney scene.

It should be good to see what happens tomorrow.