Wednesday 26 September 2007

Welton 23rd September

Well it seems I haven't posted here in about 6 months, so there's some major catching up to do!

Training has been going well, the summer was very productive for most of us at Lincs Parkour, unfortunately it seems to be coming to an end now though as the weather is quickly declining and the nights are drawing in. Since my last post I've also been to Leeds, Nottingham, Boston, Sleaford, Ruskington and the peak district (for the TRACEur gathering 07) and not to forget Lincoln many a time. All of these have been fantastic, eye-opening and productive events and I hope to return to these places many more times.
On a less positive note, since my last post here one of our fellow training buddies, and a very good friend, James has moved to Australia. We all miss him very much, and always will do, but we're all still in contact with him and hear about his life down under, so all is good and he seems to be having a great time!
As the months have gone by my parkour and strength and parkour has also inrceased tenfold, and I've achieved many of my previous targets such as raise-up handstands, L-sit to handstands, double-armed muscle-ups and many more. I've also many accomplishments in parkour and become much more fluent and comfortable with my movement; I'll post my latest video in this post to show my progression. I've also delved slightly more into the tricking/street stunting area, as I now have front, side and backflips, although I practice them very little.

I think the main improvement has been in my strength, as I focused on conditioning solidly for a while which really paid off, and has improved my parkour greatly. I'm now focusing on conditioning my legs, as I feel I neglected them for while for reasons unknown, and my flexibility is terrible, so thats another main focus for me.

I'm going to try and keep updating this site regularly now, so hopefully I should be posting more often from now on.