So these past few days have been fun. A random email from some film students brought two really cool guys up to Seattle to stay at my place and train for two days. It ended being a nice break for me from all the stupid red tape we’ve been sifting through with the PNWPA – to actually got some solid training in. An amazing night session at Gasworks by the water and a fun session the next day at Cowen.

Running these sort of jams with visitors always reminds me of how much I really love this stuff. The thrill of new locations (or old locations with new eyes), losing track of time from training so hard long into the night, sharing what you’ve learned with others, challenging each other, building good memories on top of sore muscles…I’m looking forward to Rendezvous 3 so much

I haven’t been this sore for a long time! It’s like an old friend coming back to visit, nice but can get annoying if they overstay their welcome…

Last Wednesday I taught the hardest class I had yet at NW Crossfit. For the entire class we only used three precision trainers! All balance conditioning, all class long Small classes can get that way easily I think. The next day I got pulled into a brutal Crossfit workout, then Rafe came back from Europe and shared what he had learned about the necessities of conditioning. We started with 10 minutes straight of various QM work, then went to precision training, courses, and some really interesting conditioning stuff at the end.

All in all my legs are really feeling it! I think I’ve been settling into a routine teaching the classes and getting so busy with PNWPA stuff, gotta introduce some more hard stuff and train more.

Update: I’ve moved this post over to the PNWPA blog where a lot of this stuff will go now, check it out!

This is kinda crazy, I had no idea Attack of the Show was featuring my blog until a new friend on Facebook tipped me off! Without any notice or help though they actually did a rather fantastic job – meaning they got my name right, not so much about parkour :

Not all that bad! They hit on the newish http://www.parkour-online.com/, Blane’s excellent blog, and a bunch of the stuff I’ve been doing including the RED video shoots with NuRD Productions and the classes we’ve started to teach through the nonprofit Pacific Northwest Parkour Association with the whole thing illustrated through pictures pulled from my Flickr and video from my Youtube! (enough linkage for ya?)

So if you came here through AOTS, welcome to the blog and I hope you enjoy it or it helps in your training It needs some cleaning and re-purposing but I still dig it.

Train hard,
-”One of the best known traceurs in the world” hahaha…

Just noticed this post over on the Chase Jarvis website. Apparently the Seattle Metropolitan Parkour article we did back in April 07 (or at least the photos for it) won a PDN Magazine “Best Of” in the Magazine Editorial section, which also got a New York Photo Festival nomination.

Nice job to Chase, Morgan, and Daetan who did the original shoot (and the excellent Ninja followup)! I’m a big fan of Chase’s blog as he is a ridiculously good photographer who’s very open about his work. Hopefully in the future we can get him out to shoot some more Parkour shots with us, possibly donated to the PNWPA…hint hint….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrPeYPE-7e8

A 20-30 minute portion of this warmup I believe was inspired by my inability to hold that sitting pose Forrest pushes people into much at all in the previous days warmup Also the reason I was up front and center…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMEgqTFRk8

Watch the control Stephane and Kazuma are demonstrating here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xw24SaAEg

Wow. I was right there in the bandana and black shirt, and I don’t even remember how rock solid Kazuma’s balance is. That’s ridiculous.

Oh BTW, that jump to the railing he tests first has a 10ft drop on the other side…hence the spotters.

Cheers to Parkour Generations, Julie Angel, and Parkour Horizons for these!