A few things worth talking about are when we met with Sam, Addz and the Colchester guys in Ipswich, Alex's birthday jam, when Luke, Glen, Asa and a few others came down from Cambridge way to come train in Ipswich and finally when me and Alex did our first major conditioning session of the winter last week, based on Blane's hell night. I will post a blog entry up about this soon.
If you find yourself wondering what hell night is then follow this link where all this will become clear.
http://blane-parkour.blogspot.com/2006/11/hell-night.html
First just a quick mention of the training with Sam and Addz. We trained all day and only met with Sam and Addz for a little while but the training I did with them really did affect me. Sam in particular has a large focus on form and control which I can see has really helped his movement. Training with people with this focus helps me train and also feels really great. They both seem like really great guys and I hope that we will train with them again soon.
Alex's first birthday jam was great fun and we had a good laugh training in Ipswich as per usual. I was really happy with a couple of things. One, a arm jump near the end of the day, to many this won't look like much but my experience of cat leaps is very limited due to my lack of practise I have always found them difficult. Sorry about the video not being the greatest due to a large bush being in the way but its the best I have:
The second was a little run I got after achieving a quite challenging cat pass to p or, as others may know it, a Kong precision. The movement was particularly challenging because it is a vault over a wall to another thin wall which is lower than the floor of the run up. I'll post the video up below so you can have a look. There is obviously still room for improvement with both moves but the second is one of those things that I have wanted to get achieve for quite a while and never been able to build up the trust in myself to do it.
Unfortunately after becoming a little bit more confident with this particular movement I lost focus for a slight moment and this caused me to come close to my worst accident yet. The video, edited by Alex, is below and the only thing serious I have to say about it is that I am glad I have been able to learn my lesson without coming out with anything worse than a couple of sore knees and a little bit of a shock.
Overall it was a great day training and I was particularly impressed with the commitment shown by Lenny to get the train into Ipswich numerous times in the last few weeks to train with us. What has impressed me most is his attitude towards training, he has a unhealthy like for tricking but his training still has the right amount of focus on control, trust, form, ability, discipline and movement. Thought he deserved a big mention because he was out to train this day at 11, as soon as we were available to train, whereas the people he usually trains with didn't turn up until past lunch time due to oversleeping and such like.
Finally I want to give a quick mention to the day that Asa, Glen and Luke came down from Beecles, Cambridge and Bury to train. Even though it wasn't the best day training ever I feel i should say a little about it. This was the first time we had met with Asa and Glen and it is great to meet with new, enthusiastic people. We tried to show them as much as we could but due to the rain this was quite difficult. We did, however, have a very successful trip to the wonderful land of Primark and its £2.50 jogging bottoms.
On a slightly more serious note we got some good training in at suffolk college. We explored the scaffolding a little more and also did some work on general movement when using rooves. The rain did stop us doing some things I would have like to have tried but I'm sure there will be other times and I hope that Asa, Glen and Luke will all come back and train again soon.
So overall October ended well and November looks like its going to be a good month. I am still busy with college work and now with the addition of 2 new jobs am finding it hard dedicate as much time to training as I'd like to but conditioning is a must over the winter if I hope to continue to improve my movement and training. I am really looking forward the month ahead and am still really enjoying parkour. I just hope that the weather allows us to travel a little before the year's up.
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