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It was then when a miracle was performed – the likes of which have never been seen at a Parkour event since the beginning of time. Not only did (almost) everyone get in bed before Midnight, but everyone was up by 6:30, and ready to go by 7:30. That’s right. 7:30. In the morning. AM. Ante Meridiem. Janine and Zac got up a bit early to make about sixty banana filled pancakes to serve to people as they woke up, and then the whole group of 25+ people got out the door and to the train station earlier than scheduled. Everyone split into two at the World Trade subway station, with one group of traceurs navigating their way through Central Park, and another exploring Roosevelt Island.

Zac’s writeup of PKNY is up on APK, his video and my thoughts after the gap.

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The East Coast sucks. It’s really hot, I keep getting bitten by crazy spiders and mosquitoes, and I think I got some weird rash following Erwan through the woods before heading over here. The traceurs are great though, here’s a quick recap (sorry no pictures right now):

MOVNAT was pretty sweet, not as beastly as I had hoped but challenging in some new aspects (writeup coming). The media from it is going to be amazing though.

Jesse hosted somewhere around 30 traceurs in his attic for PKNY, ate some hot coals (with mustard), brought us to some great places, and lead the most epic conditioning session ever. It involved a warmup covering a mile or so that was longer than the session itself, and me ending up doing climbups, double-taps, and traversal stuff for an hour straight teaching four sessions in a row until sometime around two in the morning. Watching the steam come off of my forearms in the dead of night during the cooldown was pretty surreal. Definitely a night to remember.

Primal Fitness is too hot, but it’s still fun because most of the Tribe is here to Get Shit Done (lots of computer work). Levi helped me figure out a crazy kipping alternate grip muscle up to reverse vault I’d been working on, and I found out how awesome pullups and muscle ups on a horizontal rope are.

More later, Chicago next.

This word pretty much sums up why I don’t like airports very much. It’s not like you can just go do something else or even sleep many times, it’s just delayed and you’ll know more in an hour (then it’s delayed again and you’ll know more in another hour). Oh well, at least it gave me an excuse to figure out how to tether my new phone (3G browsing is pretty nice). So I’m now due in to NYC probably around 3am, hopefully I can sleep on the way and not be totally screwed when I get there.

The MOVNAT clinic up in Bellingham was a lot of fun, Rafe and Erwan built a sweet course in the middle of the woods and we spent two quite full days working through the MOVNAT principles. The first focused on the course and building “combos” through it and the second was focused entirely on self defense principles. The best part though was when we created our own combination of tough stuff in the woods and ran it for 20 minutes straight Even with a full day it seemed like we didn’t have enough time though, as we spent more time working principles and techniques than we did really training hard (which I’m sure was more helpful to those with little parkour experience there). Look for a write-up plus photos and videos soon(ish).

I’m extremely excited for NYC though, and I’m about to board. See you there!

Hey everybody, I’m too tired to load any of the photos with this post but I wanted to make an update anyway. NYC ended up going quite well except for Mark getting pneumonia and having to go the hospital for all of it It tried to rain us out, but we had a few hours of dryness later in the day and busted out 3 or 4 good demos and workshops. Cheers to all the traceurs who came, and to everyone who came out for the jam the next day (which we had perfect weather for), that was a blast!

We finished up NY by getting up at 4am and flying to Hawaii to perform for Cisco Systems. The past few days have just consisted of rehearsals indoors all day long. The performance is shaping up nicely though and will be a huge one (5,000 people in the audience).

I really got to get some sleep though.

Wow, call time is at 5:30am and the weather is looking like rain… We’ll probably end up being there till 7pm too, this is going to be ridiculous, good thing we have a lot of people behind this one.

Edit: Still raining, taking a break while it clears up. It’s damn cold!

Edit: It cleared up for a few hours and actually went really well!

Times Square

From: Tyson Cecka

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I know I know, I disappeared for awhile. But all is good and I have lots of pictures and posts built up that I just have to sit down and get out there. Unfortunately this blog is not a high priority for me right now as I’m straddling some very important projects at home that require as much attention as I can reasonably give. That and I’ve just been having too much fun and training really hard

Anyway, we got Times Square as part of the K-Swiss tour! I’ll be performing and teaching right in the middle of it along with a bunch of friends from the Tribe this Friday the 4th from early AM to 4pm. My plane leaves in a few hours and I’m psyched to be going back to NY. We’ll be there all Saturday as well before heading out to Hawaii, so let’s get a big jam going!

For everyone who couldn’t make it out to NY last week for PKGen’s visit…you missed out big time! Dan Edwardes, Stephane Vigroux, Chris Keighley, and Julie Angel came over from the UK for an open training day in Central Park. Over 80 traceurs showed from all over the US and Canada, Ohio drove up a van full of 10 guys, Ottawa made a showing, and I flew all the way from Seattle to be there. Click through for the full story and media!

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