andi
Back in 2003 on the UF board, I posted my msn adress and said, everyone interested in critism to their training videos and help with traning exercises and stuff, add me. That contact-group in my MSN counts about 350 people. I started off giving out loads of advice, training help and talked daily to maaaany people. A year later, of those 350, there were less than 10 left. another year later, it was only 1. That one guy, im sure you know him, Chris Rowat "Blane", hasnt stopped learning, training, searching for more and more information and continuously trying out new things and advancing. But the other 349 did. And thats the point. There will always be some people that will make it. But there will always be "most" people, and they will stay most people.
Who will you be? Will you be one that stays where he is, or will you be one that advances?
+1 to what andi said there!..
there are always people who train for the "wrong" reasons, or who don't take their training as seriously as others but as time passes this people wither away.
@DOODLEaCUPCAKE:
mate, i encountered many people like that here within our community, who used to come out to "train", a year ago or so, and just keep shooting their mouth off about how cool this last video they saw, and how big of a jump they made the other they, and they would just leave without really doing anything. then they just disappear, cause either they seriously injure themselves trying something stupid or for not training sensibly, or they just slowly drift away because their heart was not into this. the few remaining practitioners, they become your true friends, your fellow traceurs that you know you can trust and depend on.like every media hyped thing, parkour gets a lot of attention and it will attract all sorts of people. some of them might be meat headed gym rats talking about their muscles and how much they lifted stuff recently all the time or a bunch of emo kids in their skinny jeans launching themselves at walls and bouncing off, thinking they have just done "parkour" but in the end this should not affect your training. remember it's "strong body, strong mind, strong spirit". you have to be able to brush off these kind of aggressions which might hinder your own training. don't let your ego get a hold of you so much.
all you can do is keep following your way and maybe others will follow you or walk with you on your path...
peace
| Author | Posts |
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| My rant... | |
| 13 april 2010 at 21:07 |
| Trainers... | |
| 01 april 2010 at 17:08 i haven't done any proper weight training myself, but i've seen people who do weights with their parkour training and it seemed to be working for them so i think its about finding your own way of conditioning. i personally do bodyweight workouts, loads of quadrupedal movement, and squats/pistols, push-up variations, pull-up variations. i use a weighted vest sometimes with these exercises to make 'em more challenging. if you're a beginner to parkour, start with bodyweight training and once you feel like you want to advance beyond that (i don't think you have to necessarily but we all have different approaches so keep an open mind) try weight training and don't go to a gym where the trainer is speaking like the bloody "dog the bounty hunter" (for some reason, while reading your transcript of the events, i thought of him!) |
| god damn it ! | |
| 26 march 2010 at 20:50 yeah, the demi-tour mistake got my attention too.. i think it's because they seem to be jumping over too much and lacking the strength to be able to control their bodyweight that's pulling them away from the wall. |
| god damn it ! | |
| 26 march 2010 at 13:01 i wonder how many of those kids are the ones writing on certain forums about how they don't need to do conditioning or follow older generations techniques, because they have their own "way" of training and everybody else sucks, they can own them, blah blah, etc... ;P quite fun vid! |
| Monkey / Kong vault | |
| 20 march 2010 at 17:50 yeah, the terminology is a pain in the ass on the vaults...i think some people call it a "monkey" vault if you're doing the vault from a standing position and on a rail?..and if it's a running one usually its called a "kong" vault. i heard some people in london call it "cat pass", and make sense in a way, since it's the closest to the original french name, which is saut de chat but that means cat leap and we use that for another move and that move is actually called "saut de bras" in french which means "arm jump" and blah blah blah....yeah it's very confusing and annoying that loads of moves got strange names over the years.. |
| Organisation, crew's | |
| 15 february 2010 at 18:37 the thing to remember is nobody is forcing anyone to pay to train parkour. there are coaching organizations for mostly teaching on bigger scale, international events and teaching in schools, etc...there are people who are willing to travel, make the necessary arrangements and organize these things and they should be getting paid for the time and effort they are putting in. the yamakasi themselves do similar things, they coach classes constantly, you do not have to participate in these events but if you do, it makes sense to pay these people for their time and effort. parkour is freedom of movement but it's based on certain fundamentals. if i'm telling someone to, for example, land on the balls of their feet and bend their knees, and if they are landing directly on their heels, slamming them, this has nothing to do with freedom but not knowing the basic fundamentals of movement...some people learn these by watching/training with others, through trial and error, and some people prefer to be taught within a proper structured environment. once someone knows the fundamentals they can go ahead and explore the "freedom of movement" in a safe and reasonable way. i think the best example is the fact that how many completely daft videos are out there on youtube, where loads of kids are just throwing themselves off of high walls and landing on their faces and thinking they have done "parkour". organizations help to spread the word (that is what truly is the art of movement, who came up with it, how it was developed, how to train your body to learn it) and make sure that people will know what they are getting into and won't do completely stupid things too fast too soon and hurt themselves. i have learned many things myself, and with my friends but i had no problem paying when i heard i had the chance to personally train with the original yamakasi members. because this is their art, their life, they spend all their time exploring, learning and traveling to share their knowledge. there's nothing wrong with paying them for their time and effort. |
| Conditioning; Weight training | |
| 06 february 2010 at 16:47 i have no problem with weight training either i just don't enjoy working out in a gym, being outside seems more enjoyable to me...more MovNat style of conditioning is what i enjoy doing. david, i think there's one problem with your reasoning; doing 5 weighted squats and hundreds of bodyweight squats are not the same thing. 5 weighted squats is not a substitute for the latter, but rather an efficient way of building pure explosive strength whereas doing 400 squats non-stop will build endurance and resilience in your legs. all these factors are important for movement so i think doing both types of training is necessary rather than thinking one can substitute the other. i have started doing my bodyweight exercises with a weighted vest on, recently and i must say it absolutely made a difference on my overall strength and fitness. cheers! |