Recent stuffs

So there's been a few new things since my last post.

First of all, the PGL workshop has been cancelled, apparently they got it wrong or something, but we're getting 6 sessions at some point, so all is good!
Secondly, tomorrow's my last day at school before half term! Woo! Plans for the days have already been made, with leicester on Monday, Jam on wednesday, and possible Nottingham trip on Friday. I shall post about them on here after each day.
Thirdly, I told my dad about my bad back the other day and he's booked me in for a week today, so I shall see how that goes, receive the inevitable 'don't do parkour for a while', and post the results here.

Anyway, woo for half term!

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Lincs Parkour - September 29th

Two more jams have passed since my last post, and more training in Welton has occured. I’m also posting to say how pleeeeaaased I am that there has been another workshop announced in Lincolnshire, this time at the PGL centre, which I myself have never been to, but have heard from others about how good it is.
Well, truth be told, I'm not pleased with the way my training is going at the minute. I seem to constantly feel that I'm not on top form, and it seems to be steadily getting worse, with a constant aching, stiff feeling in my knees that makes me feel quite powerless, and I seem to tire much quicker than usual. I’ve also had a lot of trouble from my lower back in the last few months, the point where I banged never seems to have healed. I know that I'm not conditioning as much as I should be at the minute as well, and I'm constantly putting it off due to having 'other things to do' which is just an excuse in my head that makes me not feel bad about myself.
I know I need to sort things out, and I'm hoping that with the weeks break ahead I'll use the time wisely to train, condition and generally progress. However, my main concern at the minute is with my legs in general, as they don't feel strong at all, and I get twinges in the muscle when squatting. If this doesn't subside I fear I may have to take some time out to condition and stretch to the max and ditch the high impact stuff for while, until I feel my strength increasing again.
Hopefully this won't be the case and it’s just a short term thing, but I don’t want to risk long term injury, so if it has to happen then it will happen.

On a more positive note, I have accomplished a few targets and new movements lately, as have other people at LPk. The video of a recent jam is at the top which shows a lot of people accomplishing new movements. If knees and back prevail, much more of this should be going on very soon!

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.

Lincs Parkour - March 10th

I got back from skiing on the 24th and was ill for another week after that due to a virus I caught whilst skiing so yesterday was my first jam for about 4 weeks (I missed it so much!!!). Luckily I got back into it pretty fast and it was one of the best training sessions ever.

First we moved to city hall for some training (where Tumo did his first arm jump!!) and I also worked on my climb-ups, which are now much faster than most other peoples :) After this we went down to some scaffolding near the magistrates court and did some strength stuff, lachés, and random things. We then headed down to the garages for some arm jump training, level ones in particular. We worked up by doing the smaller one first which we measured at 8'2, then the second one was 9'3, and we then moved on to the "HMV arm jump" which was over 11 and a half foot! I did the two garage ones and then moved on to the HMV one with everyone else, got up their first and did it within about a minute!! I was really pleased as I got up there a few months ago after Stuart did it and thought "never!" but I did it and did it really cleanly! A huge achievement for me and the other guys that did it (Jim, Jonny and Jamie). After this we went to the church and Jammie worked on his tricking (which is looking great!) and then we finished off at the cathedral for some more tricking and interviews.

The Jam video's at the top of this post...

Training is going well at the minute. I feel that my progression has slowed a bit but I'm focusing on conditioning a lot now, averaging about 1000 press ups a week (my target is to make sure I do above this every week from now on). I am now benefiting from the conditioning in my parkour, my increased arm strength makes climb-ups much faster.

Something that I have noticed is that one of the traceurs that I look up to and learn from, Stuart, is clearly above my level, and a big level as well. I don't try and compete with him but I focus on having a go at the things he does. I feel that even though some of my techniques are close to his, I am still a big step away from pulling off the things that he does that make people amazed. My aim is to try and break this barrier and be able to do the amazing things that he does, as his control and skill is fantastic. It's great to have someone that I can learn from.

So, for now, my aim is to work on my weak points that put me at a lower level than some of the more experienced traceurs that I train with, Stuart in particular, and keep at my conditioning to improve my strength. I'm also considering taking up jogging regularly to improve my cardiovascular fitness as well as my physical strength.

I probably won't post now until the end of February as I go skiing on Friday 16th.

Jack - Sampler 07

Woo! Birthdaaaaaaaaaaaayy! After today I will have about £220 so I'm gonna save it towards going to new places with Lincs parkour in spring/summer.

My mum let me have the day off school today so I went out and did a short bit of training, practicing muscle-ups and reverse-muscle-ups.

A thread has started on WWJ to try and get the community to do as many press-ups as possible and reach a collective target of 1 million press-ups, however long it may take. I asked Wizey a few nights ago if he would like to join in me in participating, to which he agreed. We then did 15 press-ups every 3 minutes for half an hour, doing 150 press-ups. Jammie, Gainey, Will and Marcus also wanted to join in and the other night I did 250 press-ups, despite my aching funny bone (trapped nerve or something). I'm really glad we've started doing it because it is very motivational conditioning and I want to keep on doing it every night...

January 28th

Me and Gainey trained in town for about 3 hours and got some really good training and footage. I have used most of this footage to create a sampler, which is at the top:

Lincs Parkour - January 27th

I haven't posted here for a while once again...

Training has been going brilliantly, I set up my own conditioning regime about 2 weeks ago which I am sticking to firmly, and I've started contributing to a community challenge of doing 1 million press-ups between us which is spurring me on to condition. The effects are becoming noticeable, today I got reverse muscle up's (180 underbar up into muscle-up), and my normal muscle-ups are improving greatly. Hopefully in a few months I'll be drilling out double-handed muscle-ups. I'm going to try and keep condtioning intensely as much as I can as the benefits are definitely worth it.

The winter months have been good for us, we seem to be fairly lucky with the weather, although it's constantly damp. Everyone at Lincs parkour is progressing quickly and the importance of conditioning has spread to people, so strength training is a regular thing at jams now.

I got a mini DV camera for xmas which we've been using at the jams, and we've captured some really great stuff. The video of today's training session is at the top...