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From: Cody Allison

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So these past few days have been fun. A random email from some film students brought two really cool guys up to Seattle to stay at my place and train for two days. It ended being a nice break for me from all the stupid red tape we’ve been sifting through with the PNWPA - to actually got some solid training in. An amazing night session at Gasworks by the water and a fun session the next day at Cowen.

Running these sort of jams with visitors always reminds me of how much I really love this stuff. The thrill of new locations (or old locations with new eyes), losing track of time from training so hard long into the night, sharing what you’ve learned with others, challenging each other, building good memories on top of sore muscles…I’m looking forward to Rendezvous 3 so much

To host some parkour travelers at my place, or at least it was my turn. I’m about to head out to the zipcar now to drive the last ones back to the airport. Just three days after coming back from the Chicago jam I had Ryan from Colorado, Matt from San Jose, Zac from Maryland, Jesse from New York, and Jereme from San Antonio all stay in Washington for about a week! I got to show off Freeway Park, Gasworks, UW, a bunch of cool people and jams from our scene, and then we even drove up to Bellingham for two days to train with Rafe and Dane at Whatcom and Clayton Beach

It was crazy fun and I’m really glad everything came together like it did, although I don’t think we managed to fit enough training in. Oh well, I’ll be seeing them all in Colorado soon anyway!

From: Tyson Cecka

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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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From: Tyson Cecka

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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.

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Today at Gasworks was nuts! I had some friends up from Oregon, and the group we had kept getting bigger and bigger. I showed around like ten beginners, some from the site and some just random people. Was in teacher mode for most all of the jam, bt I didn’t mind. All and all I just met and trained with some awesome people. The funny thing was that we weren’t the only ones climbing around on random stuff today. Everyone was! Almost every single person there and their kids were clambering around everywhere. I think partly from our influence

Saw the same thing even when we went to UW later on, maybe everyone is just enjoying the last days of summer.

Man I’ve had a great past two days training. Friday up in Bellingham for the gym jam, and Saturday over at Gasworks for one of our weekly jams. I went to both mainly to teach as I have a big job coming up, but I managed to sneak in some low-impact conditioning and training, and I’m definitely feeling it now.

The varied amount of interesting people coming to jams seems to be increasing as well. The variety of different people in the scene is still expanding rather than shifting towards a set age group or lifestyle. These last few jams have seen people from 13 to 30 years old, and from video gamers to crazy martial artists to rock climbers. I feel lucky to live here in Seattle

…but I’m going to China. Just for a week though, starting Wednesday if my visa comes in time. Trip canceled, technically “postponed” but I’m betting canceled.