Parkour for Life!

[hyper_shadow]

Hey folks, I thought I'd throw this up here since I don't really know where to fit parkour in (lol it doesn't fit in with anything other than parkour!).

So any of you guys traceurs out there? If so, where do you train? How long you been training for? Why do you train and what appeals to you most about parkour? In fact write anything else for parkour here that you feel like writing. I think I might keep a training blog on here too and give out and receive training tips.

So here goes:

I been training just over a month now after taking 2 years out with a back injury (prior to that I had been training 2 months). I'm fortunate in that I am considered a bit o a natural so I pick things up fast.
My strengths are my muscular strength, sprint speed, balance and athleticism.
My weaknesses are my overall agility (in comparison to some guys), my overall training inexperience specific to pk, my average agility and flexibility.

I train in Birmingham City, England and train with a good bunch of guys who gimme loads of help and encouragement.

I train because it is something I lean naturally towards, it is both challenging and rewarding and it balances out my combat oriented training.

Roughly I train for around 8 hours every saturday and sunday. And in the week I am down the gym on the weights or at my dojo.

So there's a start, if you're interested guys you can see some of my mates training on youtube, just look up Spartans Don't Do Laces. Right at the start you'll be seeing yours truly in all his spartan glory .

Train hard and train safe!

[convoy01]

thats very hard and dangerous to do man.... hope you could post pics on these thread.... that would be exciting

[Asymmetric]

Lmao "spartans normally wear sandals man, we dont do laces". Funny when said in the British accent. Is that you in the beginning of the video? Pretty good stuff. I know i wouldnt be able to do it. Ive always found parkour to be fascinating but simply too risky to try myself.

[Mich]

wow nice! I love parkour. Where i live we have a group where they train parkour and theyre quite famous here, i used to know one of the guys and he's really awesome!

you can visit their youtube site: YouTube - Chaîne de 2flippad
Theyve trained for a long time and you can see how good they are. I want to do parkour as well

[hyper_shadow]

I'll see about getting some pics up here. I'm doing some work on a short beginners training manual at the mo, so I'll show you guys my draft stuff.

Hopefully it should be like a short reference so people can get some fundamentals for themselves and then they won't be so intimidated to find other people to train with.

Plus I'm trying to promote safe training principles within people. A lot of people don't realise how dangerous parkour actually is and get hurt early on in their training lives. This stifles development later on.

So yeah I got lots of bits and bobsI wanna put up. So I'll start by asking, what do you guys and gals think of parkour and what would you like to see in a 'beginners guide'?

[Asymmetric]

Well, since parkour is a very attractive form of expression to me, I would like to see a part of your manual focus on injury prevention. I would like to know what is the proper way to do all of the stunts that you do and how best to avoid hypothetically falling on your ass. In addition, I would like to know what the fitness level recommended is and whether one should focus more on lean body shape/toned muscles or upper/lower body strength training in order to support weight better. Furthermore, I would like to see some simple maneuvers one could perform which are not necessarily prohibitively taxing on the body, and from which one could progress to more technical and challenging stunts. Since someone could permanently end their aspirations to become a parkour practitioner by suffering a bad injury like a broken leg or god forbid damage to the spine, is primarily the reason why I would like to see in your guide not just how things are done, but how they are done properly. Thanks for listening to my rant.

[albac]

Originally Posted by SubZero

Well, since parkour is a very attractive form of expression to me, I would like to see a part of your manual focus on injury prevention. I would like to know what is the proper way to do all of the stunts that you do and how best to avoid hypothetically falling on your ass. In addition, I would like to know what the fitness level recommended is and whether one should focus more on lean body shape/toned muscles or upper/lower body strength training in order to support weight better. Furthermore, I would like to see some simple maneuvers one could perform which are not necessarily prohibitively taxing on the body, and from which one could progress to more technical and challenging stunts. Since someone could permanently end their aspirations to become a parkour practitioner by suffering a bad injury like a broken leg or god forbid damage to the spine, is primarily the reason why I would like to see in your guide not just how things are done, but how they are done properly. Thanks for listening to my rant.

co sign to that, I find it very interesting to learn it especially in the right way looking forward to the guide!!!!

[hyper_shadow]

Some very nice pointers there.I think I can incorporate that into mywork. Gime a bit of time and I'll see what comes out.

Thanks folks!

[convoy01]

hopefully we could put some videos or link maybe.. that co-respond to manuals or safety guidelines... to make it easier to understand

[GhostHeLL]

I saw some episodes of the Show
Jack Osbourne Extreme Life Coach.
where they showed some training of Parkour