Parkour Field Trip

Last night was spent doing Parkour with the local group of people, and a field trip to another area to meet up with two Tracuers in their home territory. It was a total success. I have definately learned a great deal from the experiance.

My first completely successful Kong Vault was achieved over a picnic table. I remember when that seemed impossible to do. It used to be so scary. A kong is a sort of 'Superman' piece of action; where you straight up dive towords your obstacle so you are fully extended, and grasp your hands upon it, then continue to pull your legs through your still extended arms. Scary indeed to the unexperianced. Graceful and breathtaking to the practitioner. That is the very reason I love Parkour; It enables you to realize that Nothing is Impossible.

Lately I've been doing so much more conditioning. To see the results in my increased performance ability came at such a shock to me. By conditioning my body through excersise I gain so much more real control of my movements, and maintaining constant awareness of my level of progress so I do not ever progess too quickly. Conditioning 90% of the time to 10% of practicing your desired athletics will take you from good to great, in addition to greatly improving your chances of walking away un-injured. I spoke and exchanged some training/conditioning philosophies and methods with last nights people. The key is not that anyone is completely correct; the key is in fact to constantly evolve your ideas too make them more effective for you, while discarding continuously the aspects that are not your Truth. This constant refinement of your attituted and practice will banish any concept of monotony, while allowing you to achieve your absolute maximum potential over time. Baby steps dude.

Finally I've learned some great new abilites. Those Kongs I was doing, and some tic-tac action and running along side of walls...wallrunning is like the matrix man. One of us was swinging on a swingset...only not sitting down like we complacent Americans are so fond of doing; Rather swinging by his arms like a gymnist. That was awesome and I will definately be doing more of that with the turns he was doing. Some more basic techniques that are crucial to survival, like the parkour Roll, was drilled in a few different ways. Lots of climbing and jumping around, precision work with rails, balance work...everything was covered.

I know for certain that I walk away from this episode able to begin a new chapter in my life.