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Managed to make it all the through the rehearsal a few times today without dieing of exhaustion (felt close though).

Having some fun before I leave DC, thank you Paul for the great bonfire and Mark for the tasty “dinner.”

We leave tomorrow early for the airport (rumor has it this is supposed to take like 20 hours or some nonsense), which means we need to get up even earlier to practice the routine some more (The Tribe is dedicated hoohah! )

Is a very long time. 3 minutes straight of freerunning with the pressure of keeping to the clock and managing cues. I had no idea how difficult this performance would be, I can tell though that I can definitely do it, just have to get my mind used to it.

Good news is that I am in! They loved our three people demo footage so much that they gave the go ahead for all of us…they just will only pay for two…bullshit really. But Frosti and Levi are cool and are spreading the wealth so that we will be paid equally (it’s not much of a difference). It was really just a choice of putting on a much better performance with more room for pauses and breaks or bitching about money. The Tribe sticks together and we care about doing a good job, so we re-choreographed everything today and ran through it a ton until it was smooth. Now just need to work on endurance training.

We leave Monday, wish us luck!

Here’s an old one not many people have probably seen. Some guys were shooting a podcast in association with Nike and they came out to do an episode on parkour. The premise is actually a pretty cool one, this guy was docking 300 miles of running while visiting groups and individuals all along the West coast. You can see all the episodes on Itunes still I believe.

It was actually on Nike.com for a little while which was sweet. A couple people from WAPK also gave the idea a try (without the traveling), I don’t remember if they finished it though.

I left Washington right when it started getting really sunny and nice, over here in DC it’s either raining or too hot

All the rehearsal gear has to stay outside so it’s tarped down currently. It’s a good thing everything is choreographed by now, we’re just working on the timing now.

Sadly, it sounds like I am going to be stuck as a backup. I still get to go to Hong Kong and everything I just may not be performing with Levi and Frosti. This was sort of the plan from the beginning but they have been on the fence for awhile, it’s surprising how little money they want to spend on this stuff. We sent them some video showing them some of the amazingness that three performers can bring on their obstacles but it sounds like it started more arguments than good, we’ll see I guess.

For Washington DC at least…but I did wear my Washington Parkour shirt! It was pretty crazy, they filmed Jesse and Mark teaching an “advanced” parkour class with some of us Tribesman helping out. Pretty much just packed the gym full and had a great time, definitely worth the preparation.

It will show on Monday in DC at 4pm on CBS (I think channel 4). Not sure if a video will pop up out of it, hopefully someone can record it.