http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuDO-GeONE
So, who likes and who dislikes the idea of indoor training facilities? And why?
Andi
Parkour forums > Parkour general discussions > Indoor Training
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| # 22 february 2010 at 15:20 |
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| # 22 february 2010 at 16:48 Here in sweden a designed indoor training facilitie would be verry appreciated due to the amount of snow we get. Im not saying we cannot train outdoors in the snow but its would be nice to have a gathering place to train whenever you want instead of renting a small gymnasim like we are currently doing. Otherwise i think anything that is designed for parkour has specific moves in mind when creating it wich could make it harder to find new ways to move in that space. Though definitely not impossible. I just keep in mind that one doesnt rule out the other. Wich makes me pro indoor training facilities. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." |
| # 22 february 2010 at 22:02 For some reason I am not enthusiastic about something like that, not how I want my training to be I guess. I'd rather be in a weight room or climbing facility if I am going to be training indoors. Whatever floats your boat though. |
| # 23 february 2010 at 00:50 I used to be very much against the idea of purpose built training areas for Parkour. Both indoor, and outdoor. However, I know see them as nothing more than a Gym (in its common usage i.e weights gym). You can go, work on what you want to train, feel the gains and leave. Or you can go for the social aspect, piss about and leave. They're not for me, as I prefer outdoor training in what is actually my environment for many many different reasons. That said, I'd probably train in those areas once or twice, just for the fun of it...same way I'd train certain things once in a blue moon for the fun. |
| # 23 february 2010 at 07:47 i love the outside and training outside, yet i've never tried indoor training so i guess i cant really choose |
| # 23 february 2010 at 10:59 Indoor trainings can be an easy way to be lazy ! In France I've been used in having one indoor training a week with the association, but I was still training outside during winter, it was cold, but not impossible : sometimes, when it was really wet and icy we just had to wait a few days. So training inside is a great opportunity to keep a really strong body without losing the technical part or parkour. The problem is I'm going to be fed up of indoor technical training. Even if I'm not really strong and I still have moves to work on, I don't feel increasing a lot indoors and go outside to try my skills. I want to be able to train both at the same time. So now, most of my trainings are about conditioning. I feel that many people in our team are not serious when training, just because they know they are jumping on matresses and in a safe environment : I feel they are losing what makes parkour a discipline where we need a strong mind & a strong body, the contact with concrete. I wonder if indoor parkour parks can be as hard training spaces as we can find outside, with all the norms and laws for gymnasiums... Feel the gibbon inside ! |
| # 23 february 2010 at 14:25 I'm sceptical. First of all there's a design problem: These obstacles will be designed by practicioners to be "adapted" to certain movement. This limits the creativity, because most people who start out will be pushed towards the pre-thought movement, as in "This wall is made for catpasses, so please do catpasses over it.". That can obviously be overcome by even more creativity, though. Another problem and yet still good point, is that it shelters from environmental issues. You probably won't discover wet surfaces, you won't stumble over icy patches on the floor, you won't struggle to climb slippery walls. BUT if you have a good designer, he'll try to implement unpredictability... then yet again, why don't you just go outside? The third problem is a social one. As soon as there's a socially approved institution/facility to practice what we're doing, people will be even less tolerant about us using the city's environment for our exercises and movement. I envision police-men telling us to "Go to the Parkour gym, where you belong". So these problems are all about adaption: In all these situations, normally the Traceur has to adjust, however a training-facility does that for the training Traceurs. I find it hard to solve all these three problems at once... |
| # 24 february 2010 at 10:31 Good post Dirk. I don't mind the idea of indoor training, as long as you also do enough outside training. Indoor training could be a nice break from outside and a good place to test your abilities, but outdoors is definitely where the majority of training should be done |
| # 25 february 2010 at 08:55 I think that a park like the youtube vid is good for some practise but i agree with Dirk. Dopefish, the second dumbest creature inthe universe. His thought patterns go, "swim swim hungry, swim swim hungry." Dopefish "will eat anything alive and moving near them, though they prefer heroes." (What's the most dumbest creature in the universe? Why, of course, the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. It's so stupid that it thinks if you can't see it, it can't see you. One way to avoid the BugBlatter Beast is to throw a towel over your head.) |
