Travels by Tyson — Jun 25, 2008 at 08:36 pm

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.

Training and Travels by Tyson — Apr 29, 2007 at 06:55 pm

Managed to make it all the through the rehearsal a few times today without dieing of exhaustion (felt close though).

Having some fun before I leave DC, thank you Paul for the great bonfire and Mark for the tasty “dinner.”

We leave tomorrow early for the airport (rumor has it this is supposed to take like 20 hours or some nonsense), which means we need to get up even earlier to practice the routine some more (The Tribe is dedicated hoohah! ;) )

Stunts and Training by Tyson — Apr 28, 2007 at 02:22 pm

Is a very long time. 3 minutes straight of freerunning with the pressure of keeping to the clock and managing cues. I had no idea how difficult this performance would be, I can tell though that I can definitely do it, just have to get my mind used to it.

Good news is that I am in! They loved our three people demo footage so much that they gave the go ahead for all of us…they just will only pay for two…bullshit really. But Frosti and Levi are cool and are spreading the wealth so that we will be paid equally (it’s not much of a difference). It was really just a choice of putting on a much better performance with more room for pauses and breaks or bitching about money. The Tribe sticks together and we care about doing a good job, so we re-choreographed everything today and ran through it a ton until it was smooth. Now just need to work on endurance training.

We leave Monday, wish us luck!

Ramblings by Tyson — Apr 26, 2007 at 06:38 pm

For Washington DC at least…but I did wear my Washington Parkour shirt! It was pretty crazy, they filmed Jesse and Mark teaching an “advanced” parkour class with some of us Tribesman helping out. Pretty much just packed the gym full and had a great time, definitely worth the preparation.

It will show on Monday in DC at 4pm on CBS (I think channel 4). Not sure if a video will pop up out of it, hopefully someone can record it.

Training by Tyson — Apr 26, 2007 at 02:21 pm

Getting better at this cleaning thing as we finish the other half of the gym ;) Today was pretty much all choreography and cleaning but I have found out why: a CBS news crew is coming tonight! And the gym is spotless thanks to the Tribe cleaning services. I’ll post when I figure out when it airs.

I haven’t gotten a shot yet of my free stuff bag, but it feels like I’m being paid in shoes for all this cleaning. I’m glad I left some room in my luggage :)

Training by Tyson — Apr 25, 2007 at 11:48 am

Introducing The Tribe cleaning services, coming to a gym near you.

Another one of Jesse’s diabolical workouts, this one I had to learn how to use a mop for. I’m totally categorizing this under training, it was hard!

Training by Tyson — Apr 25, 2007 at 08:50 am

Yesterday we found my weaknesses, today I was able to play with my strengths. We took a break from the very hard workouts and just did the APK WOD today.

Warmup x 4: lunges x 10, kb swing (8kg) x 10, push-ups x 10, font/side planks 45s per side.

2min breaks in-between with whatever weights we felt like.
Pull-ups: body weight x 8, 15lbs x 6, 25 x 4, 35 x 3, 40 x 3, 50 x 3, 65 x 3
Dips: BW x 8, 15lbs x 6, 20 x 4, 25 x 3, 30 x 3, 40 x 3, 50 x 3

10 x 15sec L-sits, 1 min rests

I had never really done weighted much of anything before so today was a lot of experimentation, very fun :)

Afterwards I put on the 20lbs weight vest and tried some muscle-ups. Walls are easy, bars hard with a kip, rings very very hard with a large kip. Definitely going to be feeling this tomorrow.

Training and Travels by Tyson — Apr 24, 2007 at 09:31 am

Warm-up x 2: 10 squats, 10 push-ups, 10 pull-ups, 2 x Samson stretch

Workout - 4 rounds
*Run 1 lap (~400m)
*15 wall-ball
*10 kettle bell swings
*5 burpees

Check Crossfit for demos of others.

My time: 14:25 :(

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Travels by Tyson — Apr 24, 2007 at 12:24 am

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.