Ramblings

Ramblings by Tyson — Jan 22, 2010 at 09:44 pm
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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Ramblings by Tyson — May 20, 2009 at 05:41 pm

Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know that I haven’t given up on this site, I just dropped it when it started to become more of an obgligation than a fun project. The same goes for my Flickr and Youtube presence.

I have a lot of articles, photos, and videos waiting to be finished, but I have to figure out how to bring some balance into my life timewise and have fun experimenting with this stuff again.

Again I’m not totally gone, just shifting focus as I learn how to utilize my 24 hours while keeping the play alive. I love that there are people still interested in what I’m doing and if you want to catch up while this site is being made again give me a shout on Twitter and Facebook.

train safe :: play hard
-Tyson

Ramblings and Travels by Tyson — Dec 25, 2008 at 02:52 pm

Well I made it safely back in Seattle in time to hop on a train back home to Vancouver, WA. Just had a relaxing Christmas at home and looking forward to kicking it back and catching up on things. I hope everyone gets to enjoy something similiar, happy holidays guys!

Ramblings by Tyson — Dec 14, 2008 at 04:30 pm

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Cold. Raining. Warmup on the roof, quadrupedie through water, pushups in the wet. Second warmup in car lot, Yamakasi jumps, confusing directions, more jumps, slightly less confusing directions, much harder jumps. Catleaps, precisions on wet brick, sliding in the mud with Forrest. Underbars, forwards, backwards, sideways, circles, reverse sideways circles, twisting reverse sideways circles. Follow, run leap vault jump roll climb jump roll vault repeat repeat repeat, do it from memory. Lunch, persimmons! More warmups, bounce, bounce more, more bounce, bounce in a circle, jump and bounce. Run vault vault, play tag, introspection, share love, balance! Two foot jumps, rolling, more jumps, twisting, jumps and precision rolling, more twisting, scary cat balance, low vaults, twisting, backwards vaults, more twisting, crawling! Quadrupedie long distance, feel the rhythm, ignore the cold, watch reflection in hard polished stone, farther! Tricky cat, vault vault vault vault vault wallpasse, repeat, confusing tag game, partner vaults, traversal holding hands, wallpass holding hands, human ladders, crazy games with Yann! Stretching, noodles, sleep.

Indoors, warm, waiting to start. Outdoors, cold, 25min jog, forwards, sideways, backwards. First-ish warmup, mexican wave Yamakasi style, impossible crouching bounces, more bouncing, partner bouncing, run in place until you die, more impossible crouching bouncing. Second-ish warmup, quadrupedie, pushups, quadrupedie, pushups, quadrupedie, pushups, harder pushups, harder pushups, partner quadrupedie jumps, pushups, a blur of crazy ab work. First station, jumping, catleap, vaulting, finding icepacks for Nick’s ankle, ouch. Scaffolding, swing jump underbar twist precision repeat remix repeat remix repeat remix repeat remix. Big vaults, hard precisions, big jumps, tie them all together, faster faster, go go, again again, harder vaults, harder jumps. Outside, cold, balance on wobbly things, follow the leader balance drills, squat turn pistol squat turn turn pistol stand squat remix repeat, wallpasse, drop, cooperative wallpasse fail fail fail fail fail success! Free time, play, scaffolding!!! Stretch, more stretching, answer emails, write blog post, sleep.

France Tuesday? Worth last minute expensive train ticket?

News Articles and PNWPA and Ramblings by Tyson — Sep 08, 2008 at 01:12 am

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….

Ramblings by Tyson — Aug 07, 2008 at 08:31 pm

So what do you do in Colorado (the deserty place) on rest days when you get bored (after climbing mountains and training the few days prior)? You drive up above the clouds, have a snowball fight, and climb even scarier mountains of course! We need a little work on this whole “staying on the trail” thing. I also need work on remembering to bring my good camera :(

-See Levi’s picture’s here-

PNWPA and Ramblings and Travels by Tyson — Jun 05, 2008 at 01:20 am

The Tyson news today comes to you in bullet form, fun!

Parkour Generations in Ohio was crazy awesome. Some random photos oh mine -here- and a full writeup soon.

The last Parkour class of five for Billings Middle School went great! I didn’t really blog about these because Christian was the main guy heading them up, but I joined in for the majority of the classes and he did a great job. The last class had a longer time slot and the ability to split them up between four instructors which made everything really smooth. These have a great story behind them, will be up here or http://pnwpa.com

I’ve trained hard every day since coming back from Ohio except for these last two and it feels great! Been transforming the local jams a bit as well, getting everyone to push through a hard conditioning warmup and finish with a challenge and cooldown. Sounds like people have been really enjoying that, hopefully it will stick when I’m not around.

I’m moving my YouTube account and am going to start using it more, the new one is -here- . The PNWPA also has one which is being updated as well.

The 1023 is finally (just about) done! All five billion pages of it! When submitted and allowed to cook for awhile this turns into an official 501(c)3 certification which instantly gaining us thousands of dollars in donations and grants! Ok maybe not instantly….

Meetings! Coming up: UW Outreach Committee’s first meeting, first Board meeting after Ohio, first follow up meeting with Seattle Parks and Rec after WRPA conference. Guess who’s going to all of them!

Travel! MOVNAT with Rafe and Erwan in Bellingham on 14-15th. NYC for training with friends and PKNY 16th-23rd. Washington DC for training and Tribe meetup 23rd-27th. Chicago for national jam 28th-30th. Cya there!

Ramblings by Tyson — May 08, 2008 at 03:28 pm

This is a huge event happening all over the world simultaneously through TV, mobile phones, theatres, and live showings in seven languages. The idea is simply to bring the world together to watch several inspiring and transforming films chosen from over 2,500 submissions to connect us all and get the world talking. Should be amazing as it came out of one of my favorite idea generators the TED conference. Check out the talk that started the project -here-

The program on Pangea Day, May 10, is a celebration of the power of film to unite us all. You’ll see films that are funny — sad — gorgeous — stark — powerful. Voices that have never been heard before. Things you’ve never seen. Scenes from worlds you didn’t know existed. A cross-section of our amazing, complicated, noisy, beautiful world. Tune in or find a viewing party to watch on May 10, 2008, at 11:00 AM PDT.

-Click here- to find the many ways to watch. I know there is a big thing going on at UW, should be easy to find a local showing to see with a group, or just tune in yourself!

News Articles and Ramblings by Tyson — May 04, 2008 at 10:39 pm

A few months back I was featured in a new project of the UW Career Center called myStory:

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Ramblings and Teaching by Tyson — May 03, 2008 at 08:20 pm

Janine called me a workaholic the other day…and it’s weird because she’s totally right. I used to be the biggest slacker I knew throughout high school and college. I seriously had it down to an art, only putting the minimal amount of time into working as possible. That must have all changed big-time with parkour. I spend entire days (and nights) on the computer sometimes now, working on the never-ending amount of work that comes from running a nonprofit, moderating two parkour communities, working on APK/Tribe stuff, running promotion, learning video production, learning photography, and smuggling miniature chihuahuas across the border (harder than it sounds)…

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