Had a great training session today even though I was going light on my wrist and ankle which still feel a bit tender. I worked on a lot of balance and precisions but also experimented with a bunch of random one armed and one legged things. The greatest accomplishments were a controlled one armed turn vault and a strange no armed underbar…
Pretty fun day in all, definitely managed to still get a full workout even with limited capability.
Wow, yesterday was one of the longest training days I’ve ever done. I was out at UW from around 12:30 to somewhere close to midnight, minus a few hours here and there for the requisite intake of food of course. Mostly just jumps, rolls, and more balance/precisions.
Think I found some good advice for roll training. First of all, if it doesn’t hurt than move to something harder, when it doesn’t hurt on concrete that means you are doing something right. To improve the roll in general and get more speed out of it, you have to make it smaller and curl more into a ball. I find myself extending my body more with the more momentum I have coming into it, and that tends to flatten it out and make it slower. Normally for low jumps into rolls I would land with my legs split to enter into the roll easier. But now, to avoid flattening out I’m trying to land all high momentum rolls two-footed while leaning forward and pushing/jumping directly into a tight roll. This is closer to how David Belle does his and I’m making some good progress.
Today was a pretty killer day. I hadn’t been out for awhile to train so when I went out today I was a bit hesitant about jumping back in right away. It didn’t take me long to realize though that my physical abilities were all still the same, it was just my mind holding me back.
So for the rest of the day I mainly limited my practice to railing precisions, balance, and max distance precision jumps from standing. The three things that my mind tried to stop me from doing. I went to UW, Gasworks, and a playground in Fremont. It took almost the whole day but I feel great, my railing precisions are getting better and better and I’m up to eight of my own feet. My balance is fine walking on a rail forwards and backwards, fairly good at turning around, and pretty solid at standing sideways. My standing jump is a bit farther than ten of my own feet, and my landings are so much more controlled and relaxed now. I used to injure my ankles very easily for precision jumps because I would tense them up too much.
All and all a very worthwhile day! My legs will definitely be feeling it tomorrow.
This is a run we pieced together through UW. We made it all up on the two days we shot but the cool thing is is that this is location-accurate, meaning we didn’t cheat the locations. This is an actual run that can be done through UW, although it is very tiring.
The DVD quality version of this video is also now available via Azureus utilizing the Vuze network. Azureus is a peer-to-peer torrent downloading program, and Vuze is a HD video sharing network that spreads and super-seeds its videos to the point of an average download speed of 300-500kbs. There is some really great content already on Vuze, and that’s where our next stuff will be released as well so check it out! Just click the picture on the right.
This is also Underscore Films’ (_FILMS) first project! We certainly learned a lot from this project and our next should be even better. We made this project for TWI productions - the people who sent me to Tokyo. Unfortunately because they needed it quickly I ended up editing this one without music in mind which made finding music for it and re-editing a major pain in the ass. We definitely need to find some independent music producers. This is also my first attempt at proper color correction and integrating different cut effects.
Let me know what you think!
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So Underscore Films is working on its first official video, but we need a good name for it, or at least a better one than “flowshizzle” 
It’s going to consist mainly of large continuous runs through UW, any ideas?
Here’s an old one not many people have probably seen. Some guys were shooting a podcast in association with Nike and they came out to do an episode on parkour. The premise is actually a pretty cool one, this guy was docking 300 miles of running while visiting groups and individuals all along the West coast. You can see all the episodes on Itunes still I believe.
It was actually on Nike.com for a little while which was sweet. A couple people from WAPK also gave the idea a try (without the traveling), I don’t remember if they finished it though.
Whenever anyone wants to meet with me anymore be it personal or business, I find myself just telling them to meet me in Red Square at the UW, it’s pretty funny. I’ve had two meetings there in the past two days… It’s close to food, parkour training, and it’s easy to find 
Comes in handy too when they are late or you are early, got some great training there today for about an hour. I did about 50 precision jumps, a bunch of vault training, and some great QM training. I found that doing the push up variation walk on a one foot wide wall is really great since you can lower your head below the wall on alternating sides and get really low
In this week’s issue of TIME magazine I’m featured along with some other great traceurs for my work with the nonprofit and the University of Washington scholarship and club. Surprisingly the article is not that well researched though, and spends the majority of its time talking about parkour’s dangers and injuries.
Seriously now, take a look at how dangerous football, polevaulting, wrestling, and gymnastics are to name a few Continue Reading »
In-Between Classes Parkour Training
Just some training I do during passing periods, really good exercise.
This is also my first self-produced video except for the music. Shot on an Exifilm camera with a GorillaPod.
Enjoy!
Thanks to the Washington and Oregon Parkour communities!
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