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:
Went for some training tonight next to the airport which was fun with all the planes flying 50ft over us, but was very cold when it started snowing.
Yesterday was awesome though. I went to the beach when the sun was actually outside (it goes down at 5pm right now), and did a bunch of running and tricking. The hardest was when I decided to run across to Raccoon Island a short distance away at low tide. It wouldn’t normally be too challenging of a run, but I was attempting to not get stuck in the sand as the water was at about an inch deep in random places. So I would run as quickly and lightly as I could and try to react as fast as possible to sinking spots to avoid getting sucked in. It ended up being a tremendous workout for my ankles and I’m definitely feeling it today.
I also worked on precision back layouts, long distance sideflips, and high momentum speedy frontflips. I feel like I have a great sense of where I am in the air during the trick, but my landings still suck because I don’t train them very often with flips. Two solitary and close together railings also occupied quite a bit of my time as I had trouble finding the fastest way over both without falling off of the seawall. It doesn’t mean much without a picture but I eventually was able to dive over the first railing and kong the second one, which was quite the accomplishment for me and was a good way to end the days training (also ran out of light again).
I’m not a big fan of doing the touristy thing while traveling, but I do like to take in the local “culture” and see what living there would be like.
In that spirit I’ve now experienced:
)The only other things I really want to do is check out the Science Museum (CSI exhibit) and film a bunch of parkour stuff.
An ardent reader of this blog will notice that the only images I have been posting have been of either sunrises or sunsets. Well it’s not my fault. It’s Boston man, every time that sun hits the horizon it just looks amazing (you can click on the thumbnails to see what I mean).
But anyway, today and yesterday were great days and we got some great training in. Yesterday we explored around Harvard and found some fun stuff, and today I introduced an old good friend of mine to parkour at MIT. Which at first didn’t look very promising from the car, but there is some very cool architecture hidden around that campus that I’m digging a lot.
We even did some exploring inside when I convinced her to follow me up this crazy staircase to the roof of the CS building (all college roof access points seem to be the same). Was a bit chilly up there, but what a great view:
Boston seems like such an amazing city for parkour with the billion college campuses they have, and I look forward to exploring the rest of them! Which means I definitely need to get some sleep now. If it doesn’t rain horribly like it did today we’ll get to meet some of the local traceurs tomorrow for the first time.
Man it’s getting bad now. I can’t sleep because I’m thinking about parkour too much again. It’s like I’m in withdrawals, a few days away from training and I can’t get it out of my head. Except nowadays I’m not even thinking about running, I’m thinking of the next parkour video we’ll shoot, or what GasWorks wold look like if we convinced the parks and rec folk to turn it into a parkour park.
A quick four hour flight brings me to Boston in time to catch the sunrise. I have a feeling this is going to be a good trip 
Already have some parkour stuff lined up, and there are a bunch of friends to catch up with over here. I haven’t seen much of the city yet as we are staying in the Quincy area, but I’m digging it so far.
Off to catch some sleep before Halloween.
I’m off to Boston on Tuesday for a few weeks. No jobs, just fun this time. Bringing my new macbook pro and photo/video equipment so there may be something interesting coming out of it
Going to try to blog as much as a can during the trip as always, can’t wait!
