I'm going to set some goals for myself to achieve at some point. The movements are of a high level, and I hope to be able to train my body up to them. I can nearly achieve them, but in order to, I will have to push myself that one step further.
Belconnen: Arm Jump at the Silver Cubes
Civic: Cat Pass to Arm Jump at Toast
Tuggeranong: Wall Run at Car Park of Hyperdome
Woden: Cat Pass to Arm Jump at Black Ramps
I will only have accomplished these if I can do them at least four times during a session.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Parkour Week Day 7 - Belco Training
Today was day two of the Parkour Long Weekend.
Again there was another small turnout, today we had 4 people turn up.
It was a light session today. Did a bit of drills, but mainly play. Got some good foot-trials, but my foot hurt a bit, i think from hitting the walol too hard. I got a few scratches, and had a few bails. I was lucky enough to be able to catch myself in the bails, and didn't come out too bad. Im guessing my parkour-subconsious has developed to react faster.
Overall the session wasn't too bad. I got to do a few good things. The session lasted for about 4 hours. It was more of a jam than a training session. Which is good though as it develops the comunal aspects that Canberra Parkour is famous for.
I'll have to organise specific training sessions, such as sessions only for the APA Instructors. I hope that these sessions will be performed at a high intensity, developing ourselves physically and mentally. I'd like them to be a lot like the session I had with Conan in Belco last thursday.
Again there was another small turnout, today we had 4 people turn up.
It was a light session today. Did a bit of drills, but mainly play. Got some good foot-trials, but my foot hurt a bit, i think from hitting the walol too hard. I got a few scratches, and had a few bails. I was lucky enough to be able to catch myself in the bails, and didn't come out too bad. Im guessing my parkour-subconsious has developed to react faster.
Overall the session wasn't too bad. I got to do a few good things. The session lasted for about 4 hours. It was more of a jam than a training session. Which is good though as it develops the comunal aspects that Canberra Parkour is famous for.
I'll have to organise specific training sessions, such as sessions only for the APA Instructors. I hope that these sessions will be performed at a high intensity, developing ourselves physically and mentally. I'd like them to be a lot like the session I had with Conan in Belco last thursday.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Parkour Week Day 6 - Woden Training
Today was the start of the Parkour Long Weekend, which will be the finale for my Parkour Week.
There was only a small turn out. Three people including me. I had never met them before, so it was good to meet new traceurs in Canberra.
The session lasted for about two and a half hours. We travelled to a lot of locations around woden. Some that I had never seen before. I worked on a variety of drills, and pulled of a couple of big things.
Overall the session was not a awesome as I hoped it would be, but it was still good.
There was only a small turn out. Three people including me. I had never met them before, so it was good to meet new traceurs in Canberra.
The session lasted for about two and a half hours. We travelled to a lot of locations around woden. Some that I had never seen before. I worked on a variety of drills, and pulled of a couple of big things.
Overall the session was not a awesome as I hoped it would be, but it was still good.
Parkour Week Day 5 - Tuggers Training
Met up with John and Chris today. I already knew John from an APA class he came to, but I met Chris for the first time. They both have a lot of skill and potential. I found out that John has actually been doing parkour for at least a year, as he was at last years NatJam.
Training today was pretty laid back. My body has been getting tired and my abs are killing me. Worked on a few drills and found some new spots aruond tuggers. I got my hand up on the wall, in the carpark, that I had not tried yet. I also got some pretty good laches down, swigining from one bar up to another bar. Height gave me an advantage though.
Overall it was an okay session, got to meet some new people and trained at a moderate level for about an hour and a half.
The parkour long weekend starts tomorrow. I hope that my body is up for it.
Training today was pretty laid back. My body has been getting tired and my abs are killing me. Worked on a few drills and found some new spots aruond tuggers. I got my hand up on the wall, in the carpark, that I had not tried yet. I also got some pretty good laches down, swigining from one bar up to another bar. Height gave me an advantage though.
Overall it was an okay session, got to meet some new people and trained at a moderate level for about an hour and a half.
The parkour long weekend starts tomorrow. I hope that my body is up for it.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Parkour Week Day 4 - Belco and Gym Training
This post is for yesterday.
The corporate class was cancelled, due to too many participants dropping out because of sickness. Good news is that they want to re-schedule for another time. More people are interested in coming, and they are happy to o it on a weekend.
Started off with some training in Belco with Conan. Did some more intensive training, going through various drills. This mainly involved rolls, cat-passes, arm jumps and cat balance. I also completed the ramp endurance test, which I had never finished before. The session only lasted for about an hour, but it was at a reasonably high intensity, and a lot was accomplished.
Later that night went to Holder gym wioth Travis. Worked on more drills, vaults and precisions mainly. I can finally do double cat-passes. We were doing them to a pretty big distance too. I measured 7 feet between the blocks. Worked on palm spins a bit. I got my one hand reverse palm spins back. I tried to do some reverse cat-passes as well, but couldn't psyche myself up to fully do them.
Overall it was an awesome day involving training to a reasonably high intensity.
The corporate class was cancelled, due to too many participants dropping out because of sickness. Good news is that they want to re-schedule for another time. More people are interested in coming, and they are happy to o it on a weekend.
Started off with some training in Belco with Conan. Did some more intensive training, going through various drills. This mainly involved rolls, cat-passes, arm jumps and cat balance. I also completed the ramp endurance test, which I had never finished before. The session only lasted for about an hour, but it was at a reasonably high intensity, and a lot was accomplished.
Later that night went to Holder gym wioth Travis. Worked on more drills, vaults and precisions mainly. I can finally do double cat-passes. We were doing them to a pretty big distance too. I measured 7 feet between the blocks. Worked on palm spins a bit. I got my one hand reverse palm spins back. I tried to do some reverse cat-passes as well, but couldn't psyche myself up to fully do them.
Overall it was an awesome day involving training to a reasonably high intensity.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Parkour Week Day 3 - Aranda Training
Did some training at Aranda Oval today. While my little sister was doing some running training, I was looking around at the two schools for parkour potential. The playgrounds have a bit of potential, and I'll have to test them out further.
I found a electrical block thing by the side of the oval, with a row of logs in front of it. The block was about a metre wide and shoulder height. I spent the time drilling different vaults over the block, such as cat-passes and kashes. I also worked on coordinating running launchers from the logs.
The training only lasted for about half an hour, 45 minutes, but i'm now 3 for 3.
I found a electrical block thing by the side of the oval, with a row of logs in front of it. The block was about a metre wide and shoulder height. I spent the time drilling different vaults over the block, such as cat-passes and kashes. I also worked on coordinating running launchers from the logs.
The training only lasted for about half an hour, 45 minutes, but i'm now 3 for 3.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Parkour Week Day 2 - Civic Training with Conan
Met up with Conan today during his break from uni.
Trained a bit in civic, mainly toast. Found a new cat-pass to arm-jump at toast to wrok up towards. It will require a reasonable amount of distance gained from the cat-pass.
Worked on precisions as well. Working on landing on the balls of my feet, and improving sticking my landings. My distances still need to be worked on. So far I can only get 9 feet. I'm keen to try rail precisions, but only where I can do them safely first. Such as if the raisl were at ground level, so that if I missed, I would land straight on flat ground. Conan said there's a spot that we can do this, I'll have to get him to show me.
Checked out the ramps outside the Canberra Theatre. They weren't as interesting as I thought. The tops of the ledges were really smooth. Found a good block next to it. Was a bit above shoulder height. We were able to drill pop monkey-plants and foot-trials on it.
Conan then showed me the set of ramps near the bus interchange. They looked really good, but it was outside a restaurant, which meant there were a lot of people around. I'll have to check it out on a weekend.
Today was day 2 of my mega parkour week. It hasn't been as "mega" as I planned, as in the sessions have been pretty short, but I have trained 2 for 2 days now. I hope to do at least half an hour of training every day until I go back to uni. Lets see what happens.
Trained a bit in civic, mainly toast. Found a new cat-pass to arm-jump at toast to wrok up towards. It will require a reasonable amount of distance gained from the cat-pass.
Worked on precisions as well. Working on landing on the balls of my feet, and improving sticking my landings. My distances still need to be worked on. So far I can only get 9 feet. I'm keen to try rail precisions, but only where I can do them safely first. Such as if the raisl were at ground level, so that if I missed, I would land straight on flat ground. Conan said there's a spot that we can do this, I'll have to get him to show me.
Checked out the ramps outside the Canberra Theatre. They weren't as interesting as I thought. The tops of the ledges were really smooth. Found a good block next to it. Was a bit above shoulder height. We were able to drill pop monkey-plants and foot-trials on it.
Conan then showed me the set of ramps near the bus interchange. They looked really good, but it was outside a restaurant, which meant there were a lot of people around. I'll have to check it out on a weekend.
Today was day 2 of my mega parkour week. It hasn't been as "mega" as I planned, as in the sessions have been pretty short, but I have trained 2 for 2 days now. I hope to do at least half an hour of training every day until I go back to uni. Lets see what happens.
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