Introducing Kunoichi

I met a really awesome ninja girl (yea they're real) on Saturday night. I was going to a party with a neighbor and her friends. When I got to her place Kunoichi was there, I had heard some stories about her before that sounded pretty interesting, she took ninjutsu, she steals, she has circus training and probably some other stuff. At the party crazy shit was going down, some girl played my leg as a guitar on the dance floor then spilled beer on me, I climbed the roof and explored the roofs on the block, people did coke :-\ ...
After the party we went back to Kunoichi and my neighbor's place (they're roomies) for Mexican food and anime. I approve. She's down to learn parkour and take up ninjutsu again. I feel like an exchange of skills has to take place :) ...

First Dive

Back in my computer hacker days I used to get my mom to drop me off on the other side of the bridge near J&R and I would pick up computer parts from the trash. That was in middle school.
Tonight me and Kusa went dumpster diving for fruits and vegetables. I found a dumpster map of the city I'm in, and there was a fruitery dumpster a few blocks away from our apartment so we crashed it around midnight. I'll write it up as a night op:
Gear:
Me-
Black Hoodie
Tan Cargo Pants
Brown Boots
Flash light
pocket knife
Lighter
Kusa-
Jeans
Dark Blue Long Sleeve
Brown Sneakers

We walked the few blocks down a fairly busy street to where our supermarket is so we could check around there before we hit the fruit dumpster. The super market dumpster said cardboard only (and unlike in Evasion it only had cardboard) and another one was locked up. Super market dumpsters are for another time then, but now I have a great reason to learn to pick locks like I always wanted to.
The next alley was the fruit dumpster alley and boy did it have a fruit dumpster. I was happy to see that the dumpster was unlocked open, and full. The first thing we found was a box of fruit which we haven't IDed, they're purple, oval shaped, with little brownish nubs, there's purple pulpy stuff inside that seems edible. Kunoichi knows what they are but I don't really remember what she said about them, I'll ask her some time. After that I climbed into the dumpster and dug around I found so much food we didn't carry it all back. The dumpster even provided us with a means to carry the food back (so many boxes and trays). In the end we walked off with:
A watermelon (we left two in the dumpster)
Two Bags of green grapes (after removing the bad ones we had about a bag and a half)
Some broccoli
Maybe seven of the purple things
A single plum
A bag of lettuce or salad or some type of edible leaves...
Overall a good experience I will be sure to repeat. I was surprised at how much there was. There was a bow full of eggplants in the dumpster that was barely open, it's too bad Kusa, Ting and I don't really like eggplant or we'd be in heaven.

Phone theft PK

Met up with Pines yesterday and we did some parkour training at the Fort. We worked on a few things and moved around, however when we moved to where my bag was we realized Pines' phone was missing, we never found the thief, but we ended up moving around filing a report and seeing cops and asking around for the phone no luck...

Hit the gym

Hit the gym today with Ting. Got in for free by letting them hold my ID. Was a pretty good session, worked on abs and arms but mostly abs. I prefer to exercise outside or at home, most of the stuff we did didn't require equipment. Tomorrow I'm gonna do some parkour with Pines downtown. Gonna be good to train here again.

Back up North

I'm back in Canada for school, though I have some time before it starts. I'm in an apartment with Kusa and another friend (guy does boxing and Muay Thai, I'll call him Ting). No definite plans for any ninja stuff yet but I'll get to it soon. I wanna get in touch with Pines and V to start some parkour before everything gets covered in ice. Looking forward to a good year.

Lisse and Evry

Yesterday I went to Evry and Lisses for the first time. It's a great trip and just being there and seeing the architectures makes it obvious that it was a place that facilitated the development of the art. I was there with my mother (who came to take pictures but forgot the camera). I did a bunch of training in spots I had only seen in videos.
At the Dame Du Lac I met two German traceurs who were staying in Lisses to train. The Dame du Lac is smaller than I thought it would be but it's scary climbing up nonetheless. I went to the gym fire escape, the buildings where you can cat to cat down staircase ledges and a few other Lisses and Evry spots I saw in videos as well as some I never saw before. A great trip. I plan on going again before I leave France but with a camera.

Summer Roofing 3 (France)

As you may know I'm in France. I stayed a few days in my mother's friend's house in a suburb (wow it's different). I did a quick op on the lst night:
Gear-
Black Chinese drawstring pants
Brown t-shirt
Black Bandanna
Red filtered L-neck military flash light
Black water shoes
(Excuse any typos or anything like that, google image search French Keyboard)
I prepared my gear, hit the lights, got dressed and took a listening break to make sure no one in the house was awake (including the cute, but annoying dogs). Satisfied that I was the only awake person in the house I crouch on the window sill and observe making sure that no one will see my escape; I was overly cautios due to the fact that I wasn't in my hometown, wasn't being an opportunist and that I didn't like hearing a ton of dogs bark earlier in the week while walking the dogs.
I'm just being paranoid though, I hop out the window, wait two seconds, crouch walk to the wall that surrounds the house, peek over it, note the empty but lit street and hop over with a wall run. I walk down the empty street until I hit a dark, alley with lots of plants in it that I choose as my route from previous scouting earlier that night.
The alley is uneventful, loud (gravel) and thus stressful. I reach the end and make my way to the center of town rather uneventfully, the whole place is empty the only thing out at this hour is stray cats, not so stray cats and two random guys hanging with a stray dog. Once at the middle of town I do some precision jumps and parkour then head back towards the alley, the two guys ask me if I have any cigs, which I don't. As I approach the alley I decide to visit the graveyard in town which is pretty interesting because all the graves are in small mausoleums.
On my way to the graveyard a car rolls by and I jog behind a gate to stay invisible, once it's gone I climb into the graveyard, it's elevated but has no gate on one side. I'm pissed that the ground is gravel, and move slowly. I sneak around and decide it's time for some stealth parkour to spice things up. The mausoleums are close to each other and on cement (which is much quieter than gravel :) ), so I move around on top of them, crouch running, QMing, and of course jumping. As I'm hanging out on top of one in the cover of an overhanging tree a sound freaks me out, it flits by a few times before I realize it's a bat. I move along the top of the mausoleums towards the side of the graveyard that I came in from after jumping around a bit, lower myself to the ground and drop out of it. I've decided to hit up one more place before turning in.
I walk towards a large grey building with lower orange buildings on either side. I want to climb up the front, which looks like a ladder stretched out horizontally, it's ridiculously exposed to the street and a bunch of light, so I climb up a small building on the side first. I'm happily assisted by a window covered by horizontal bars. Once up I get on my belly because I know there are tents full of (hopefully) sleeping campers on the other side. The other reason I'm on my belly is... Gravel, again... I creep to the edge, see that no light is coming from any tents and everyone seems to be asleep except what sounds like a sneezing girl. As I make myway back along the roof in crouch walk, I notice that there is another window and it's covered in horizontal bars that shoul keep me out, but actually just help me roof the grey building.
I'm going to let you guess what this roof is covered with (hint: it starts with g and ends with ravel). I QM and sideways walk along this one until I find a ladder cage leading to a lower rooflet. Once down on it, I see a nice route down accross this roof and that of the other orange building. I move over some rails and gravel, climb down a pipe and head back to my alley.
After that it's smooth sailing; head back home, hop the wall, enter through window, check my 6, close window, undress and sleep.
Kinda boring op, not used to the suburban setting yet. I understand the dog problem now.
Lessons learned: No one is out at night around there.
Gravel is still the suck.
Cats and bats are good at startling you at night.