September 2007
As much as I love teaching and jamming with new traceurs, it’s still a hell of a lot fun to meet up with old friends and go redefine what’s possible.
And that’s what we did today for a very long session at UW. Rafe and Dane came down from Bham, as well as Alex, Morgan, and Daetan coming out to train as well. Most of it was me showing them the challenges of my new balance line, but we also spent a lot of time on several year old problems I had almost forgotten about, plus a ton of new stuff that I would probably never decide to try on my own.
All in all another great day, and I got some great new things to start working on 
When there aren’t any immediate jobs on the horizon it tends gives me the peace of the mind to be able to train my ass off basically (I always worry about injuring myself right before going on a gig, the #1 thing you do not do as a stunt guy). Which is great, as long as I can pay the rent This weekend consisted of a crazy gym jam, followed by climbing in the rain at Larrabee, and a very sore body.
The Whole World Shall do Parkour
Today at Gasworks was nuts! I had some friends up from Oregon, and the group we had kept getting bigger and bigger. I showed around like ten beginners, some from the site and some just random people. Was in teacher mode for most all of the jam, bt I didn’t mind. All and all I just met and trained with some awesome people. The funny thing was that we weren’t the only ones climbing around on random stuff today. Everyone was! Almost every single person there and their kids were clambering around everywhere. I think partly from our influence 
Saw the same thing even when we went to UW later on, maybe everyone is just enjoying the last days of summer.
I’m actually a big fan of Street Art and Graffiti. Not so much because I want to do it myself or because of the culture around it, but rather because I love good ideas. And there are many street artists I like that come up with some of the best ideas out there, and they distribute them for free. I found this on the Wooster Collective, my favorite street art site.
There are so many important undertones in this video, it’s beautiful.
UW06 Parkour Sampler Final Version
I took my old UW06 redux video, rendered it correctly this time, ran it through some smart filters in VirtualDub, and compressed it intelligently. But of course encoding it for internet flash kills most of that work. But be sure to check out the download below the video for full quality (and the last release of this video, I promise!)
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I had a great day at Stone Gardens today, climbing until I was thoroughly trashed. I missed my stop on the way back and ended up walking through UW on the way home. I of course took an interesting way back with some wall passes and balancing work like normal, but a great thing happened that inspired me to spend an additional hour or two on a tricky balance problem in the dark.
I had an excellent day of training a few days ago at the Thursday UW jam. There is an area where I used to some balance challenges next to a hallway somewhere over on south campus. I had always glanced over to the hallway looking for possibilities but I always figured it was rather bland and there wasn’t much there.
