Friday, April 24, 2009
Return to the Stadium
Today after training ninjutsu at the Dojo I met up with Kusa at the Olympic stadium. It's a huge place with a ton of small spots to work on all kinds of parkour movement. I showed him all kinds of different areas and we did a lot of parkour in all areas, good training. Later we went to train in some housing projects nearby didn't want to train in a certain spot because of a group of shady dudes right near it, not sure how bad the projects around there are but it was night and I was tired no need to take stupid risks. Since the stadium training spots are mostly cement Kusa cut up hit hands a bit, but they'll get stronger in the long run. Nice Jam. Got back, are food then watched Point B with Kusa. If you haven't seen it watch it, it's a documentary, but not the boring kind. http://www.pointbmovie.com/Watch.html
Monday, April 13, 2009
Shinobi Schooling
I decided it was time to teach Pines some stealth and escape stuff, to see if he was into that kinda thing. He has the potential to be part of my group of operatives. Teaching began two days ago:
Equipment:
Me:
Black martial arts pants
Black tank top
Black short sleeve
Woodland sleeveless jacket
Black water shoes
Pines:
Brown cargo pants
Red short sleeve
Black hoodie
Black high top converse
We met up later than usual the sky was getting dark but it wasn't night yet. We went to a parkour spot we call "the Fort" after food and I explained some shinobi-iri (infiltration) and some gotonpo (5 elements escape evasion). Once we were there we did parkour and I taught different walking techniques for stealth and enclosed spaces. We moved onto our next parkour spot taking a few short cuts and passing a police station which we may revisit one night soon.
After training more parkour at the next spot (a place we call "Black Marble" because it's made of...) I taught Pines different night awareness techniques to increase the sense at night. We checked the time (we were gonna go to a house party later) and decided we wanted to check out a spot in one of our campus buildings, a small dark passage we found unlocked. We ran around trying to find a flashlight until we realized that there was a pharmacy right in front of us that sold them. Armed with our lights we headed towards the building we planned on exploring took the elevator up and headed up a bit further on the service staircase to the small door.
Once we went in and closed it behind us we turned our lights on and were disappointed. We were on a small ledge near a huge fall filled with vents, and insulated pipes. Somewhere above us was a catwalk, but climbing in pitch darkness with a flashlight didn't really tickle my fancy so we left and explored the building some more. We found some interesting stuff including an entrance to the service elevator that didn't require a key which could get us on any floor that was inaccessible otherwise. We left after that.
We planned on getting a ride from a friend to a house party but he was out eating with his girlfriend and was taking hours (literally), Pines got tired of waiting and we went back outside to explore roofs on such a nice night. I told him that I knew a few roofs behind the building we had explored. The roof I planned on climbing was close to a group of people so we climbed up a staircase on the building across from it and then took a ladder to the roof. After walking around and looking around we saw that no one was on the ground level anymore and we could climb the roof we initially planned to climb. We headed down another staircase and ended up in a backyard full of old bikes, we took a small unlocked passage under a house and got to the street. From there we took more fire escape stairs to the roof, where Pines realized that we were across the street from a friend of his who's window we could see. After giving a call and finding that they weren't home we bounced to the closest alley.
This was a shady alley, complete with flickering lights and silhouettes of homeless people. After we walked through it once (avoiding said silhouettes) we waited on the other side for a bit then went back in without running into people. We found a ladder at the top of a staircase and climbed onto the roof, I guess we were near above a restaurant because it smelled of sex and fish. We walked around and enjoyed the view (we were looking down on a well lit street full of bars and clubs Smile ). On our way down we heard a girl scream, me and Pines looked at each other and rushed to the edge of the rooflet we were on and peeked over ready to kick some rapist ass. Turned out to be a drunk girl running around with her friends (so much for shady alleys...). We remained hidden until the alley cleared out and then left, we saw a chick smoking in a dark doorway, which looked pretty creepy since we could see her cig, the smoke and her knees only. We went to another alley across the street.
In between alleys we ran into the guy who was supposed to drive us to the house party, he had finally finished eating and was heading home. He said he'd call us when he was ready to go. We crossed the street and entered the last alley of the night.
It turned out to be a place we had trained a long time ago in the beginning of the school year. We had seen a fire escape with the stair case pulled up and decided to come back and do it at night, three months later I guess it was time. A wall run and some quick climbing got us onto the fire escape. Once on the rooflet (one story up out of three) I noticed a guy in a lit window so I crouch ran onto a fire escape on the same height level and flattened myself against the wall out of sight, as soon as Pines head appeared between the ladder bars I signed that he move fast. Ironically the fire escape we were now on was covered in barbed wire on the ground level but easily accessible from the rooflet of the adjacent building (where we were), no point locking a glass door. We ascended and crouched behind a wooded plank attached to the side a staircase (a make shift climb-proofing I'm assuming) while people on ground level passed underneath us. We climbed a ladder that had a wood cover with the lock rusted off (probably taggers or something). We hung out on that roof for a bit (the people who owned the buildings we were on had set up a couch and tables and had clearly partied up there before. We left when Pines got a call from his friend who was ready to go to the party, we hid a bit while we waited for the alley to empty out the descended and jogged to his apartment. Guy didn't drive us but he did pay for the cab ride...
A full night that proves that people still don't look up...
Maps:
Equipment:
Me:
Black martial arts pants
Black tank top
Black short sleeve
Woodland sleeveless jacket
Black water shoes
Pines:
Brown cargo pants
Red short sleeve
Black hoodie
Black high top converse
We met up later than usual the sky was getting dark but it wasn't night yet. We went to a parkour spot we call "the Fort" after food and I explained some shinobi-iri (infiltration) and some gotonpo (5 elements escape evasion). Once we were there we did parkour and I taught different walking techniques for stealth and enclosed spaces. We moved onto our next parkour spot taking a few short cuts and passing a police station which we may revisit one night soon.
After training more parkour at the next spot (a place we call "Black Marble" because it's made of...) I taught Pines different night awareness techniques to increase the sense at night. We checked the time (we were gonna go to a house party later) and decided we wanted to check out a spot in one of our campus buildings, a small dark passage we found unlocked. We ran around trying to find a flashlight until we realized that there was a pharmacy right in front of us that sold them. Armed with our lights we headed towards the building we planned on exploring took the elevator up and headed up a bit further on the service staircase to the small door.
Once we went in and closed it behind us we turned our lights on and were disappointed. We were on a small ledge near a huge fall filled with vents, and insulated pipes. Somewhere above us was a catwalk, but climbing in pitch darkness with a flashlight didn't really tickle my fancy so we left and explored the building some more. We found some interesting stuff including an entrance to the service elevator that didn't require a key which could get us on any floor that was inaccessible otherwise. We left after that.
We planned on getting a ride from a friend to a house party but he was out eating with his girlfriend and was taking hours (literally), Pines got tired of waiting and we went back outside to explore roofs on such a nice night. I told him that I knew a few roofs behind the building we had explored. The roof I planned on climbing was close to a group of people so we climbed up a staircase on the building across from it and then took a ladder to the roof. After walking around and looking around we saw that no one was on the ground level anymore and we could climb the roof we initially planned to climb. We headed down another staircase and ended up in a backyard full of old bikes, we took a small unlocked passage under a house and got to the street. From there we took more fire escape stairs to the roof, where Pines realized that we were across the street from a friend of his who's window we could see. After giving a call and finding that they weren't home we bounced to the closest alley.
This was a shady alley, complete with flickering lights and silhouettes of homeless people. After we walked through it once (avoiding said silhouettes) we waited on the other side for a bit then went back in without running into people. We found a ladder at the top of a staircase and climbed onto the roof, I guess we were near above a restaurant because it smelled of sex and fish. We walked around and enjoyed the view (we were looking down on a well lit street full of bars and clubs Smile ). On our way down we heard a girl scream, me and Pines looked at each other and rushed to the edge of the rooflet we were on and peeked over ready to kick some rapist ass. Turned out to be a drunk girl running around with her friends (so much for shady alleys...). We remained hidden until the alley cleared out and then left, we saw a chick smoking in a dark doorway, which looked pretty creepy since we could see her cig, the smoke and her knees only. We went to another alley across the street.
In between alleys we ran into the guy who was supposed to drive us to the house party, he had finally finished eating and was heading home. He said he'd call us when he was ready to go. We crossed the street and entered the last alley of the night.
It turned out to be a place we had trained a long time ago in the beginning of the school year. We had seen a fire escape with the stair case pulled up and decided to come back and do it at night, three months later I guess it was time. A wall run and some quick climbing got us onto the fire escape. Once on the rooflet (one story up out of three) I noticed a guy in a lit window so I crouch ran onto a fire escape on the same height level and flattened myself against the wall out of sight, as soon as Pines head appeared between the ladder bars I signed that he move fast. Ironically the fire escape we were now on was covered in barbed wire on the ground level but easily accessible from the rooflet of the adjacent building (where we were), no point locking a glass door. We ascended and crouched behind a wooded plank attached to the side a staircase (a make shift climb-proofing I'm assuming) while people on ground level passed underneath us. We climbed a ladder that had a wood cover with the lock rusted off (probably taggers or something). We hung out on that roof for a bit (the people who owned the buildings we were on had set up a couch and tables and had clearly partied up there before. We left when Pines got a call from his friend who was ready to go to the party, we hid a bit while we waited for the alley to empty out the descended and jogged to his apartment. Guy didn't drive us but he did pay for the cab ride...
A full night that proves that people still don't look up...
Maps:
Monday, April 6, 2009
Urban Exploration
Parkour has become a weekly thing with me and Pines, Kusa shows up sometimes, and Pines friend shows up a lot (we'll call him V). This week was ugly out (rain) and we all met up and went to a pillow fight in our city.
After the fight, (it was short but intense) we headed to a spot that Pines heard of from his brother, an old abandoned factory. We all talked while we were going there and I really feel Pines would make a good BSC ninja. I'm gonna start training him in BSC Ryu Ninpo soon.
At the factory the ground was really really muddy and walking through it quietly was slow and nasty. Not much on the first floor besides mud and some cement blocks. Upstairs however...
It looked great, lots of nice colorful graffiti and some spots of the ceiling were missing which let in rain and light which was very pleasing to the eye. As we walked around and checked the place out Pines signaled for silence and let us know a guy was around the corner, either a bum or a druggie I assumed because they had "gotten up" according to Pines and taggers and explorers don't go to sleep in abandoned places.
We left quietly and headed out of the building climbing a small fence on the way out. After that some parkour in the rain on a nearby playground. We're gonna wear grey from now on when we explore and red for parkour, because red isn't as stealthy as we'd like when it's bright out.
After the fight, (it was short but intense) we headed to a spot that Pines heard of from his brother, an old abandoned factory. We all talked while we were going there and I really feel Pines would make a good BSC ninja. I'm gonna start training him in BSC Ryu Ninpo soon.
At the factory the ground was really really muddy and walking through it quietly was slow and nasty. Not much on the first floor besides mud and some cement blocks. Upstairs however...
It looked great, lots of nice colorful graffiti and some spots of the ceiling were missing which let in rain and light which was very pleasing to the eye. As we walked around and checked the place out Pines signaled for silence and let us know a guy was around the corner, either a bum or a druggie I assumed because they had "gotten up" according to Pines and taggers and explorers don't go to sleep in abandoned places.
We left quietly and headed out of the building climbing a small fence on the way out. After that some parkour in the rain on a nearby playground. We're gonna wear grey from now on when we explore and red for parkour, because red isn't as stealthy as we'd like when it's bright out.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Bujinkan and Parkour
I have a ton of free time so I've been able to train a lot. I train parkour every saturday with Pines and it's good, I feel myself improving. I'm considering signing up to a Bujinkan dojo to improve my martial skill. It took a free lesson there to try it out.
At the dojo I learned more ways to apply boshiken, some hanbo (3 foot stick) fighting, these weird rolls (I'd learned them differently at my last Bujinkan dojo) and of course some regular hand to hand. Overall I felt it was good and I will probably join. There's only one problem, and that is that everything is taught in Quebecois French which still sounds weird to me, but it'll be like learning two things at once.
Went out to train with Pines today, he brought out a friend who I'll call Chest (he's been shirtless every time I've been with him). He's done cross-country running (like Pines), and is learning stuff pretty quickly although he cut up his hand doing some wall runs and trying to grab onto a cement ledge. We did our regular migration through a bunch of spot; we start at a place we call The Fort which is a large cement structure that has nice grippy walls and ledges, nice for vaulting and wall runs. We then go to Black Marble a place we named after the black marble that it's built from, it's slippery-ish but it's nice for general stuff. We move onto a place I call the Steppe (it's flat and tan, and it has steps lol) which is a great place to work on flow as the obstacles are just lined up waiting to be conquered. we take a short cut through some square thing and then go to a place where there is a jump we call the "Balls Precision". It's a precision jump that is relatively easy but has a pipe in the middle that threatens to tear them off if you jump too low. Our last big spot is the campus of Pine's girlfriend's school. It has all kindsa stuff to do, but every time I go I try a certain kong to cat that always fails, last time I ended up slipping on some ice, and this time I slipped because of mud on my shoes, I'll get it next time. We got kicked by security for training precisions but no chase just some guard with a nasal voice telling us we had to learn, it's such a great spot we'll probably be back though...
At the dojo I learned more ways to apply boshiken, some hanbo (3 foot stick) fighting, these weird rolls (I'd learned them differently at my last Bujinkan dojo) and of course some regular hand to hand. Overall I felt it was good and I will probably join. There's only one problem, and that is that everything is taught in Quebecois French which still sounds weird to me, but it'll be like learning two things at once.
Went out to train with Pines today, he brought out a friend who I'll call Chest (he's been shirtless every time I've been with him). He's done cross-country running (like Pines), and is learning stuff pretty quickly although he cut up his hand doing some wall runs and trying to grab onto a cement ledge. We did our regular migration through a bunch of spot; we start at a place we call The Fort which is a large cement structure that has nice grippy walls and ledges, nice for vaulting and wall runs. We then go to Black Marble a place we named after the black marble that it's built from, it's slippery-ish but it's nice for general stuff. We move onto a place I call the Steppe (it's flat and tan, and it has steps lol) which is a great place to work on flow as the obstacles are just lined up waiting to be conquered. we take a short cut through some square thing and then go to a place where there is a jump we call the "Balls Precision". It's a precision jump that is relatively easy but has a pipe in the middle that threatens to tear them off if you jump too low. Our last big spot is the campus of Pine's girlfriend's school. It has all kindsa stuff to do, but every time I go I try a certain kong to cat that always fails, last time I ended up slipping on some ice, and this time I slipped because of mud on my shoes, I'll get it next time. We got kicked by security for training precisions but no chase just some guard with a nasal voice telling us we had to learn, it's such a great spot we'll probably be back though...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Operation: Roof Marathon
A great night with two people I've found to be interested in opping, parkour, and general sneaky stuff. The morning consited of me and Pines doing parkour, finding and buying the book "Access All Areas" in our student book store, and climbing a low roof downtown in daylight.
Later that night we decided to go out and do some more parkour and sneaking, this time Kusa was with us too.
Gear:
Me:
Black martial arts pants
Black sneakers
Black hoodie
Old USMC jacket (sleeves cut off)
Kusa:
Green hoodie
Tan cargo pants
Brown sneakers
Pines:
Black striped hoodie
Brown cargo pants
Black converse sneakers
We met up relatively early(other friends were going clubbing), it was probably around 10ish. Me and Kusa took the subway downtown, Pines met us outside the subway station. We grabbed some food and then went on our way.
We went down to a busy street and moved from parkour spot to parkour spot, training a bit on each one (we found a huge wrench at one and decided to go back and keep it later), we filmed a bit of out training for fun. We followed the street until we turned towards a well known university where Pines' girlfriend studies. There we did some more parkour (which impressed drunk people heading for clubs and some pretty girls as well Wink ). We saw some of Kusa's friends who went to the school and asked them about security and they told us security was invisible but that their building was to the north of the campus. After some parkour we moved around the campus and environs to look for some sneaky stuff to do.
Our first expedition of the night was a small roof on the campus. It was surrounded by buildings on all sides, but only touched the side of one of them. Before we made our way up we went underneath a dome camera and made sure it wasn't facing us, after that we moved towards and over a rail and a rooflet onto the low roof. Pines started filming a bit here as we crouch walked around the ventilation and up a ladder onto a higher roof. After checking it out for a while we got back down and continued to look for opportunities.
We crossed a few streets and found a building whose awning we wanted to climb but the street was too busy and the awning "wasn't epic enough" to do with that much risk involved. However the building was a residence for the aforementioned university AND it was an all girls residence so we knew we had to try something stupid there. We actually figured that all out when we went into a side alley and peeked over a wall to see a bunch of girls studying at tables at 12 on a Friday night. After checking the building's exterior for exits and weighting out balls to make sure we felt up for it we decided to climb a small wall talk into the residence, talk to girls and run from security if they whined at us. Nothing went according to plan Rolling Eyes We climbed the wall and crouched in the bushes on the other side then walked up to the door (backs straight, no stealth here, just gutsiness) and..
discovered it to be locked. We knocked and two Asian girls gave us dirty/confused looks through the glass but didn't let us in. We ran back and vanished over the wall then ran for a block or so before turning into an alley.
The alley though wasn't bare of impromptu exploring. I spotted a ladder that lead straight to the roof of a four story building. There was a balcony beside it which helped because the ladder started on the second floor. I took the lead, sneaking under the balcony then climbing it before grabbing the bottom rung of the ladder. The climb took forever and the cage around the ladder made it feel slightly claustrophobic but the roof was to tranquil and nice that it was well worth it. We explored more roof and enjoyed the skyline as we crouched behind ventilation ducts. We found a staircase down to the ground and took that. On out way down we saw a beware of do sign, but didn't have any real problems.
We continued to move along alleys (this city is full of them, you can move miles without setting foot on a major street), when I spotted a staircase that led upwards towards a barbed wire fence. Curious, I went up and found a wooden board leading to a roof. I tested the board to see if it could hold then crossed it onto the roof, Kusa and Pines followed suite. We moved forward in low crouches and found a ladder leading to higher location. I instinctively went to it and began ascending. At the top was another roof with another ladder Very Happy , we went up that one and were quite surprised to see a third ladder Shocked we scaled it too and reached the highest point of the gymnasium we were on (Pines checked some sky lights on the exploration on the way down). Kusa spotted a ladder and we used it to get onto a small substructure that has a roof that slanted on the sides. We got onto that and lay on our backs for a while and just talked and looked at the sky, Kusa showed me how to tell North with the stars. The view of the city was incredible, even though we had climbed a bunch we were still so close to the ground compared to the other buildings in sight. We stayed until the wind made us cold then we explored a bit and went back down.
The rest of the night is us travel via alleyways and contemplating entering a hotel but deciding against it, vowing to wait for summer instead when we'd be able to jump in the pool. We made our way to Pines' place and at one point dropped from a one story roof onto a main street (some people probably though we were crazy). We took a photo on a random statue and Kusa got one on another statue that he climbed on his own.
We spent time at Pine's place watching parkour videos until half an hour before our bus.
Before heading home me and Kusa picked up the wrench from earlier in the night and made our way to the bus stop. We found an old TV with knobs and an antennae and picked that up too. Got to the bus ran into friends, waited to get off, lugged the TV back to residence where a few high girls held doors open for us, dropped the TV off in Kusa's room, go to my room, put wrench on the ground, remove clothes, position myself under the covers, pretend to try to read Access All Areas and fall asleep.
A great night full of random opportunities.
I learned that:
Security at ****** University sucks, but the things to do around and in it do not suck.
Pines can be trusted to behave appropriately on ops (which I suspected before even going out that night but now I know for sure).
I probably have a fun, reliable three man team now
Later that night we decided to go out and do some more parkour and sneaking, this time Kusa was with us too.
Gear:
Me:
Black martial arts pants
Black sneakers
Black hoodie
Old USMC jacket (sleeves cut off)
Kusa:
Green hoodie
Tan cargo pants
Brown sneakers
Pines:
Black striped hoodie
Brown cargo pants
Black converse sneakers
We met up relatively early(other friends were going clubbing), it was probably around 10ish. Me and Kusa took the subway downtown, Pines met us outside the subway station. We grabbed some food and then went on our way.
We went down to a busy street and moved from parkour spot to parkour spot, training a bit on each one (we found a huge wrench at one and decided to go back and keep it later), we filmed a bit of out training for fun. We followed the street until we turned towards a well known university where Pines' girlfriend studies. There we did some more parkour (which impressed drunk people heading for clubs and some pretty girls as well Wink ). We saw some of Kusa's friends who went to the school and asked them about security and they told us security was invisible but that their building was to the north of the campus. After some parkour we moved around the campus and environs to look for some sneaky stuff to do.
Our first expedition of the night was a small roof on the campus. It was surrounded by buildings on all sides, but only touched the side of one of them. Before we made our way up we went underneath a dome camera and made sure it wasn't facing us, after that we moved towards and over a rail and a rooflet onto the low roof. Pines started filming a bit here as we crouch walked around the ventilation and up a ladder onto a higher roof. After checking it out for a while we got back down and continued to look for opportunities.
We crossed a few streets and found a building whose awning we wanted to climb but the street was too busy and the awning "wasn't epic enough" to do with that much risk involved. However the building was a residence for the aforementioned university AND it was an all girls residence so we knew we had to try something stupid there. We actually figured that all out when we went into a side alley and peeked over a wall to see a bunch of girls studying at tables at 12 on a Friday night. After checking the building's exterior for exits and weighting out balls to make sure we felt up for it we decided to climb a small wall talk into the residence, talk to girls and run from security if they whined at us. Nothing went according to plan Rolling Eyes We climbed the wall and crouched in the bushes on the other side then walked up to the door (backs straight, no stealth here, just gutsiness) and..
discovered it to be locked. We knocked and two Asian girls gave us dirty/confused looks through the glass but didn't let us in. We ran back and vanished over the wall then ran for a block or so before turning into an alley.
The alley though wasn't bare of impromptu exploring. I spotted a ladder that lead straight to the roof of a four story building. There was a balcony beside it which helped because the ladder started on the second floor. I took the lead, sneaking under the balcony then climbing it before grabbing the bottom rung of the ladder. The climb took forever and the cage around the ladder made it feel slightly claustrophobic but the roof was to tranquil and nice that it was well worth it. We explored more roof and enjoyed the skyline as we crouched behind ventilation ducts. We found a staircase down to the ground and took that. On out way down we saw a beware of do sign, but didn't have any real problems.
We continued to move along alleys (this city is full of them, you can move miles without setting foot on a major street), when I spotted a staircase that led upwards towards a barbed wire fence. Curious, I went up and found a wooden board leading to a roof. I tested the board to see if it could hold then crossed it onto the roof, Kusa and Pines followed suite. We moved forward in low crouches and found a ladder leading to higher location. I instinctively went to it and began ascending. At the top was another roof with another ladder Very Happy , we went up that one and were quite surprised to see a third ladder Shocked we scaled it too and reached the highest point of the gymnasium we were on (Pines checked some sky lights on the exploration on the way down). Kusa spotted a ladder and we used it to get onto a small substructure that has a roof that slanted on the sides. We got onto that and lay on our backs for a while and just talked and looked at the sky, Kusa showed me how to tell North with the stars. The view of the city was incredible, even though we had climbed a bunch we were still so close to the ground compared to the other buildings in sight. We stayed until the wind made us cold then we explored a bit and went back down.
The rest of the night is us travel via alleyways and contemplating entering a hotel but deciding against it, vowing to wait for summer instead when we'd be able to jump in the pool. We made our way to Pines' place and at one point dropped from a one story roof onto a main street (some people probably though we were crazy). We took a photo on a random statue and Kusa got one on another statue that he climbed on his own.
We spent time at Pine's place watching parkour videos until half an hour before our bus.
Before heading home me and Kusa picked up the wrench from earlier in the night and made our way to the bus stop. We found an old TV with knobs and an antennae and picked that up too. Got to the bus ran into friends, waited to get off, lugged the TV back to residence where a few high girls held doors open for us, dropped the TV off in Kusa's room, go to my room, put wrench on the ground, remove clothes, position myself under the covers, pretend to try to read Access All Areas and fall asleep.
A great night full of random opportunities.
I learned that:
Security at ****** University sucks, but the things to do around and in it do not suck.
Pines can be trusted to behave appropriately on ops (which I suspected before even going out that night but now I know for sure).
I probably have a fun, reliable three man team now
Saturday, March 14, 2009
PK all Day
Lot's of parkour recently. The weather is clearing up and the snow is melting. Last night I went out with Kusa in some dark clothes to climb onto some roofs, but we went out too early and there were people, so we did a bunch of parkour near the new spot I found, and in a playground as well as on some train tracks. Was a great night run especially on the limited spots we had. Worked on a lot of stuff but didn't end up climbing the buildings, we'll get to it some other time...
Today had a great jam with my friend from Jersey (Pines), we basically did a migration jam discovering tons of spots around downtown and we then went into this campus we trained on before did a bunch there and then headed back towards where we started using only alleys. We have a lot in common and should train together more. Discovered a few great spots and we appreciate marble surfaces a lot because of how nice it feels. Great jam, we got ice cream and after talking to the chick behind the counter (who thought we were a team because we both wore red) we decided we wanna start a parkour club at our school.
Weekend is great so far and I look forward to tons of nice weather with lots of parkour :D.
Today had a great jam with my friend from Jersey (Pines), we basically did a migration jam discovering tons of spots around downtown and we then went into this campus we trained on before did a bunch there and then headed back towards where we started using only alleys. We have a lot in common and should train together more. Discovered a few great spots and we appreciate marble surfaces a lot because of how nice it feels. Great jam, we got ice cream and after talking to the chick behind the counter (who thought we were a team because we both wore red) we decided we wanna start a parkour club at our school.
Weekend is great so far and I look forward to tons of nice weather with lots of parkour :D.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Motivation, weather and new spots
Today I woke up late and missed class, but that doesn't man I didn't get anything done. The weather has been getting nicer and the snow piles are becoming puddles (but they're still there). The nice weather combined with the fact that I ended up on youtube watching parkour while I lay in bed near the window was the much needed motivation I needed to start parkour training again. I asked Kusa if he wanted to train but he had stuff to do. I decided to go out anyway and explore a spot I wanted to train at but never took the time out to train on, it was nice and I had a good time working on climb ups, cats, vaults and jumping. I also walked around and explored my neighborhood (which I barely know actually) and found a few rooftops that were easy to access, so I might go back with Kusa and check them out tonight with some darker clothes.
On a side note I'm working on handstands to improve body/spacial awareness and because it's just cool. Also I've accomplished a kinda goal I've had, climbing up a house and entering through the balcony window, not to visit a girlfriend with crazy parents but still fun nonetheless.
On a side note I'm working on handstands to improve body/spacial awareness and because it's just cool. Also I've accomplished a kinda goal I've had, climbing up a house and entering through the balcony window, not to visit a girlfriend with crazy parents but still fun nonetheless.
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