I’ve been pretty depressed the last few days. I think what happens is that I come back from these trips (quite a bit I haven’t been blogging about, sorry!) to a larger workload than when I left, and I usually reserve the day or two afterward for resting and recovering which lives quite a lot I have to catch up on. The last few days all this random crap weighed down on me and I started procrastinating and sleeping a lot, which just makes everything worse ;)

Well tonight I simply could not rest my mind at all, it was just crazy full of little things I had to get to and take care of. I hadn’t been training the past few days so I just decided to go out to Cowen and see if I could calm down my head. Well that didn’t work at all. There were some annoying drunk people there and I was very anxious about everything I tried. I couldn’t land the simplest precisions well, and it was bugging me so much and making it worse.

I needed a change of scene and a fresh perspective so I started walking till I found something else. I ended up on the other side of the park where some simple wooden posts were lined up. The posts were not far apart so I trained some simple falling to hands stuff in between them. Like the precisions earlier I was trying to be as precise as I could, but the difference here was that I took as much time as I could (probably 5 or so minutes to traverse 6 posts). I focused all of my attention to how my body wanted naturally to move, which foot I favored, how I breathed, amount of impact, etc.

It was very refreshing and calming, I probably was out on those posts for a good two hours or so. More importantly though I think I figured out why my knee has been hurting, why my right leg is so weak, what I need to focus my stretching on, and four or five different movement types for that method of traversing :) It all just had to do with paying better attention to my body and listening to what was natural for it (which tells you how to better challenge it as well).

Parkour is a huge part of my life and I’m finding that if I don’t train in it regularly (no matter what other related important stuff I’m working on), my life just kinda…sucks. Take Bobby McFerrin’s advice and don’t worry so much, just be happy. That and:

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