Great night of training and exploration today. I was all by myself but had lots of time to explore all around Northeastern and Wentworth Universities. Well, not all around since there is always a ton of stuff that you miss, but I covered some good distance and am definitely sore now. Here are my favorites of the night:
This spot at the Mass Art building was great, definitely my all around favorite of the night. Wallpasses, tricky vaults, tic tacs, and turn vaults were what I worked on the most. I figured out a good way to do lazy-turn vaults without using the but-slide technique, and made some great progression on full power tic tacs from either leg. I managed to get to the third step on my left side with the short run up, and annoying close to the fourth step on my right side.
Here I trained a good set of progressively difficult one handed cat leaps while I was talking on the phone with my mom.
These handicap ramps were money! Trained just about a bit of everything here.
I spent a lot of time here just repeatedly trying to find efficient ways through these two railings. A few different combinations ended up working quite well but my two favorites were a safety vault to one step forward lazy thingy, and a reverse vault to an opposite footed lazy thingy…ya names aren’t helping much here. The first one involves a forward vault utilizing one foot on the railing while the other one snakes through to the ground, allowing you to swing the other leg all the way through into a lazy vault so that only one foot touches the ground. And the second one involves a reverse vault into an immediate lazy-type vault that uses the outside leg to swing through first (Stephane Vigroux does a lot of these) so that your feet only take one step into a split foot takeoff.
This is also a good example of why I love parkour so much, after three years of training I had never attempted the second combination (or even thought about it) until tonight. And it’s a pain in the ass to condition yourself to do it smoothly, but it actually works quite well if you are approaching it from a diagonal (or something forces you into a reverse vault).
I’m thinking about taking a small camera with me (or getting a backpack style camera bag) when I’m training alone so I can document the areas and things I focus on (when traveling and at home). What do you guys think?
Hmm.. video documentation of your training…..
Can I get a hell ya?
Live in Boston try’n to find a link up around here to learn an grow in this art.
I think its really helpful to see others, with amazing skill sets, train their mind over their body. Working with creativity is more difficult to train than techniques or workouts you already know. I think that would be cool. Also, watching yourself train can also help you locate where you need to improve your movements, little bit of a real life cheat
Thats actually how I learned . . .
Go ahead with the camera idea. that would be really helpful to alot of us.