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Sweet, free wifi in HK airport! In about 10min we’re flying to Taipei on a 2 hour flight, waiting 2 more hours, then boarding a 12 hour flight to LA. Not actually as bad as it was to get here, but still pretty long as I forgot my Dawkins book in DC. I watched five movies in a row on the way over here, hopefully they will have different ones on this flight…

Oh well, I’m jazzed to get back to the US, where I can actually call and IM people without being ten hours behind. And the performance in LA is sounding like it’s going to be amazing! But I’m not sure if I’m allowed to tell anyone yet!

I’m lagging behind on the blog front and I apologize. Our focus recently is on our upcoming performance in Macau, but we have been doing some touristy type stuff in the meantime. Tuesday we went down to a place called Stanley to check out the beaches and stores. Not much there really but some good time to relax. Wednesday (today for me still), we went to Lantau to check out the largest outdoor bronze statue of Buddha…it’s a really big statue…not much else to say.

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We took a break from the fast-paced Central district today to explore Lamma, an island where no building is allowed to be over three stories tall and there are no cars. The contrast was immense, it was actually quiet, amazing! We took the ferry to Yung Shue Wan and spent the majority of the day hiking across the island to Sok Kwu Wan.

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Today was dominated by our trip to “The Peak” of Hong Kong. And luckily before we left I picked up a wide angle (10-22mm) lens I’ve been drooling at for awhile, it’s fantastic! This blog may just turn into a big photo blog of me learning how to operate new toys…

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So the performance today that I haven’t been able to tell anyone about until now, was for MERCEDES BENZ! We did two performances today and what seemed like a billion run-throughs (for the light guys, sound guys, camera guys, client preview, timing, etc) for the unveiling of the C-class automobiles in Hong Kong

We put an incredible amount of work into this and it definitely paid off. People were blown away, there is hardly any parkour or freerunning in Hong Kong and these VIPs had never seen anything like it before! Our biggest problem was people actually trying to get too close to the performance area where we needed to land (I ended up having to throw some pretty sketchy flips in order to not land on people…) The CEO of Mercedes Benz even came out and thanked us personally afterward, he’s a really nice guy!

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I slept in today. I didn’t have to get up at 4am to film fish. I didn’t have to almost die doing a Primal workout. I didn’t have to spend more than half a day in a plane. Today consisted of sleeping, wandering around Hong Kong, eating good food, and meeting the awesome people we are working with to put on this performance, this trip kicks ass! Seriously, we have around 12 days here in HK with about 3-4 of those actually being about work, and *almost* everything is covered by our wonderful hosts

I got some great photos today. Hong Kong surely is an amazing place, Continue Reading »

My computer ran out of batteries last night and I didn’t get an adapter till now. I sounds like we came at a bad time, the pollution is really bad right now and weather is very balmy, it’s like Florida and New York mixed together. I really like it so far though, the building are amazing, they have a lot more character than Tokyo did (read: old) and spaces are more open (compared to Shinjuku at least). The hotel room is quite nice, although the toilet is rather unsatisfying compared to Shinjuku’s

This place is amazing for parkour! We took a quick walk around last night and there were great spots everywhere it seemed. I’m not sure what the security is like or if they care, but the spaces are absolutely great. Going to go head out now to get some food and see the city some more.

The performance is on the 4th in HK and on the 11th in Macau but I still can’t you all what it is for

I had no idea that was going to take so long! We flew from DC to Seoul on a 15hr flight, waited for 2 hours in the airport, then flew from Seoul to Hong Kong for another 4 hrs. That’s incredible, I can’t believe I made it.

Going to go explore now, I’ll post up some pictures and what I think of the city later tonight.

I left Washington right when it started getting really sunny and nice, over here in DC it’s either raining or too hot

All the rehearsal gear has to stay outside so it’s tarped down currently. It’s a good thing everything is choreographed by now, we’re just working on the timing now.

Sadly, it sounds like I am going to be stuck as a backup. I still get to go to Hong Kong and everything I just may not be performing with Levi and Frosti. This was sort of the plan from the beginning but they have been on the fence for awhile, it’s surprising how little money they want to spend on this stuff. We sent them some video showing them some of the amazingness that three performers can bring on their obstacles but it sounds like it started more arguments than good, we’ll see I guess.

This time in Washington DC! It’s 3:15am in the morning and I’m doing something I’ve always wanted to, sleeping in a gym! Seriously, one of my fantasies is to just live in my own gymnastic gym someday, that would be so sweet This gym is close to my dream gym though as it is one of the only gyms dedicated to Parkour and Crossfit-style training, Primal Fitness.

I’ll head from here in a week to Hong Kong to do a performance for a product unveiling (it’s a surprise), then off to Macau for an encore, then off to LA for a sweet stunt gig separate from the performance. In total I’ll be gone for a month straight, prob the longest I’ve ever really been away from home.

But I got to get to sleep because Jesse is supposedly going to whup our asses in the morning with a special Primal Fitness workout I’ll let you know how it goes.