I’ve been experimeting with this technique for awhile and put it to the test today on a tricky jumping course using the bar precision trainers.
The idea is that you land and allow yourself to not only go all the way down into a crouch but also put a hand down to the side. If you split your weight this allows a bit more strength control on your landing but the real benefit is that you can stick out the inbetween leg in front or in back for quite a lot of recovery, basically going directly into safety/step vault position.
It worked really well on a course I only did correctly without hands once. Surprisingly I found that I started jumping smarter too, possibly because it was easier to choose the target or I was able to relax more knowing I had more recovery room (I was try to imitate doing a bar to bar precision high up enough that you wouldn’t want to come down). Made the series of four jumps four times in a row.
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Colin
Can you post some videos of this? Sounds like an interesting technique!
Thanks!
23 Jan
Savio
Good technique. This shows that a lot of rail work is psychological. Once you convince yourself that you can safely miss, you are able to have the 100% commitment required to land a rail-rail precision.
Another technique to stay safe on rails is to deliberately throw your body away from it if something goes wrong. No matter what direction you’re falling in, make sure you grab the rail and it will assure that your legs are the only thing that hit the ground (it might not be pretty sometimes, but it protects your head/spine.)
28 Jan
Jon
Hi Tyson, Me and my friend, Peter that goes to parkour vision,(you might know him)Peter taught me how do some parkour at my school and now we are filming it! I think my moms going to let me do parkour vision.
10 Apr
Matt
Have you guys seen this parkour stuff on MTV??? Pretty incredible.
Seriously, I wish I could run up a 10 foot wall and dismount with a backflip!!!
For now I think I’ll leave to the pros and save myself the concussion.
Check it out.
http://www.parkour.mtv.com
11 May
Charles – Postal Gold
I ended up watching all the clips on the MTV site haha, goodbye Monday..cheers though some crazy sh** on there, agree with Matt though, will save myself the hospital visit!
21 Jun
Andrew
Are you talking about jumping into a step vault and actually carrying through the motion? Like a step vault instead of a precision landing? Or is it just a 3 point landing ala a step vault? Because I’ve been slowly replacing nearly all of my precision landings with step vaults (when reasonable to do so) as to continue moving forward consistently. It’s a useful tool and feels amazing.
21 Jun
Tyson
no it's not diving step vaults I was mentioning, more of a three/two point landing for better balance using an arm
Kris Roxas
Lol, I tried doing that before when I jumped off my balcony. There were spikey weeds on the lawn…
Otherwise, it’s a good technique.
27 Jul
Alan
haha the parkour stuff on mtv is cool. Its nice to know that parkour is getting more media attention and is spreading, although i hope that people don’t assume its a reckless and dangerous sport for hardheads who dont mind hurting themselve. The best thing to do is to change that stereotyped opinion of everyone you know i guess =) (not that it is stereotyped that much)
30 Jul
Kris Roxas
@Alan
I think that it'll sort of sort itself out, since if it's done recklessly they'll probably get hurt.. Lol. I think it's good that it's spreading, but I don't like it when things get too mainstream. Maybe that's just a personal preference.
Dan Dinu
If i understood this correctly, your doing a precision and then grabbing the bar you are landing on. Isn’t that teaching you the bad habit of leaning sideways whenever you’re doing a regular precision?
It sounds interesting, but somewhat ineffective if you plan on remaining on the bar. I need to try it though…
8 Aug
pH
I think he means more like bending your knees more so you can reach the bar by being lower down to it rather than actually bending sideways
8 Aug
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