25th January 2015.

 

David – Precision.

 

I was, as always on a Sunday, late waking up for the afternoon training session. Unsure whether to be out due to the weather predictions of rain. I asked Chris via PM if he would be out today, after having an interest in coming out yesterday. His reply was somewhat comical – ‘FML (fuck my life). I think, that any exercise today would be asking for injury. I’ll come to the park one weekend when I’m slightly more adapted to this Parkour stuff…’ Needless to say this had me rolling in laughter, and feeling bad for him at the same time, since he was out yesterday at the community training session. I left him with his muscular pains and with that I got ready and headed over to the park to see who was out this afternoon. It was quite a cold day too, with a chilling wind, not even my scarf was saving me from the gale. I arrived to find Mat, Luisa and David already there, jumping around and keeping warm. At least the park wasn’t loitered by kids due to the weather today!

I wasn’t feeling like training in all honesty, I had a pulled right latissimus (lat) God knows how that had happened. My legs were still feeling sore and tired from training earlier in the week, it was cold, windy and my current mood wasn’t helping motivate me. Though, on warming up with some skipping and general Parkour movement I began to feel a bit better in myself and wanting to train. My muscle ups felt stronger today oddly enough, but I didn’t want to temp fate with the pulled lat by doing lots of upper body work. Best to rest and recover, rather than antagonize. I filmed a couple of video clips to see how movements looked, as well as taking a few photos. Though I didn’t get as many as I would normally like and you can tell by the quality of them, at just how rushed they were. Mat and Luisa were only out for a bit this afternoon and so once they had left it was just David and myself left training at the park. The park felt deserted, I doubted I would be out much longer due to how cold it was.

 

David – Cat 180 Precision.

 

I drilled the main precision jump a few times, managing to do a precision box down to the wall, which was feeling easier the more I did it. David wanted to practise the running stride down to the wall, which felt and looked horrible and so I didn’t dare try that as of yet. He also did some box jumps (seen below) to kong over the wall at the end. I had a look at the main upward precision too, it always seemed so far away and yet I said I would give it a go, not really thinking too much about it as my jumping ability is rubbish currently. To my surprise I ended up getting to it, craning it with one foot on top of the wall and one just below it, bouncing off. David was quite shocked and then contemplated trying it too.

Keep Rolling.

 

Night Scene.

 

Today I woke up at around ten o’clock with all intentions of getting up, ready to seize the day. I wanted to get some fresh air, see everyone again and capture some photography too while out. I tried not to fall back asleep as I lolled in the bed in a half awoken state. Sadly, that is exactly what happened to me and it wasn’t until one o’clock that I managed to raise from my second slumber and make it out of the bed this time. I didn’t overly want to be out today now and felt it was too late to make my way to training, even though I had planned to go earlier in the morning when I first woke up with plenty of time to spare.

I got ready at a snails pace and it was soon, close to two o’clock. I was ready to leave, still in two minds to whether to go or not… I quickly spoke with Elliot on Facebook chat how I was tempted to go out and he was too, I said shall we both just go out anyway? He say we could do, although he felt too lazy to venture out and with that the conversation ended. Kinga was already heading out and said I shouldn’t be a lazy bitch and get ready and go too, right now! Just as I was closing all the windows down Yaz popped up and said he had only just woken up after being up all night gaming and asked if I was out or knew who else was? I told him who I thought was out but never got a response as it seemed he had already set off in a rush, and with that I did too.

I walked past Plaza where no one was to be seen and saw Kinga up at IBM on her lonesome while a group of people were training within the area. It was a collection of people, SM (Street Media), guys from Derby, some Leeds people and other mixed bag of people too. George said the rest of the people were up at Mansion Studios and their group were now moving to Audo area. I walked up to walked up to the place of many windows to meet the rest of the group, seeing as no one answered their phones or text back to let me know where they were at. I was quite surprised with the amount of people out training today, it was good to see so many out. They were all doing some challenges on the roofing,