Theres a big gap between my last post and this one, and a lot of things have happened between that time, but two non main parkour related things have happened.

(1) I have moved from Canterbury to Crawley
(2) I have finished Uni and graduate in November

Me and Jase also have an amazing area to train that he owns.

Training this summer...lets round this up

(1) I can muscle up very easily now, i have been working on other techniques and en force because the only place I cannot muscle up on is ledges, and its very frustrating but I think I have worked out an alteration to my technique that will allow this, but I havent tried it out on the paticular ledge that has been frustrating me yet.

(2) Ive started gymnastics up once a week..we will see how that progresses

(3) Ive learnt a few new and weird techniques, ive also been working on my dynamic movement and striding

(4) Im going to release a new video this November, this is my 5 year training point....

(5) Im editing a worldwide traceuse video to be released in November/December and I am looking forward to seeing some spectacular movements from traceuses all over the world.



Current targets:

Muscle up-to sit-to pushback and round 180 in one movement
En Force
Frog flickups on scaffold
Develop stronger, faster more dynamic movements

Accomplishments:

Stronger and more dynamic but still needs much more improvement
Muscle up improvements
Strength improvements
Sit-backs to swings
Improve distance of jumps

Oweeee my leggys hurt. I dont have time to post a long message but yeah, lots of uni work, went to gran canaria. Training been a bit lame last month or so, aching like a beast from doing fairly little yesterday before gym. Ouchie.

Well, Going back to UNI now, Into my third year.

I have made some progress with everything in parkour and also tricking, although I have been ill recently.

Tricking:

Relearnt to wallspin
Learnt to backtuck on harder floor
Backwards dismount, and backwards dismount 180 on bar
Gainer dismount on bar (only onto mats though)

Parkour:
Cancer tree lache
Can walk Pipe confidently now
Craned maze cat pass precision
Constantly improving muscle ups
General movement improving
Cast straight into lache
MUCH larger laches

I went out the other day with Jason and sam, and just practised simple missions and moving, that tested me. Things like trying to get round a tree when its quite high up, so there isnt room to fail it puts pressure on for me to succeed. We also did a mission of thief vaulting with our eyes closed down a rail, really helped my spacial awareness. So I am hoping to train more in this way with jason and sam. Ive had flu but I am starting to get over it and then back to training. We have just moved house, and are going to be busy packing and moving for that aswell! But I hope this will be over in a few days.
Although most elements of my movement has improved...ive noticed a major major major flaw in my landings...ive started (or maybe always have) landing with one foot infront of the other, and considering i only just saved myself from a pretty harsh bail into the road.....it needs correcting, this may also be the problem that is making me crane my cat pass precisions.

Anyways, at work, tired, thats all for now.

Had a BUSY bee couple of weeks, went down to devon for a week to do a first aid course for a few days, learnt some things about attending to casualties that I believe will come in handy.

Then went to the peak district for 4 days, for the traceur gathering. After the first couple of days I was really feeling it in my quads, having not trained much impact for a while. Shortly after I jarred both my ankles, so i made a wise decision not to push it further. Was a great trip, socially perhaps more than the gorgeous place to train, its not often you have that many traceurs together socialising and training. I could write a huge write up on it, but then...those of you who went know and those of you that didnt..must be filled with regret :P. Oh and just to add....guys have no sense of direction, or just dont care about walking through bogs rather than round. :P

Just come back from parkour workshops today...damnn. Tired. But although hard work was a lot of fun, over 4 days of teaching the overall atmosphere was great and the kids were really responsive. I just hope they listen to being taught about balance, landings and touch cause they really needed to work on those areas. Some really nice kids in there though, with lots of potential.

Ive been working on my muscle ups still, and im so close to double arms it hurts!! Although ive done them occasionally when im really energetic its bugging me that they are taking soooooooo loooonnnggggg. But then again, it took ages for my climbups to change, then one day they just clicked, so hopefully it will just fall into place with hard work. I learnt to cat pass rail precision! Though not a great progression in strength or anything relevant to it, ive been scared of going for them, learnt it from bike rail to bike rail...was quite substantial so made me happy. So trainings = good, lot of running about and conditioning these last few days, so im feeling very good and up for anything.

Soul survivor next week, cant wait to meet people and just talk, I dont currently have faith in anything but i guess if i dont look its not just going to float to me.

Thats it for now.

xx

Last couple weeks had ups and downs,

I sprained my ankle, not badly but its on my weaker leg (the one ive had bad tendonitis in previously and sprained it badly a couple of years ago) so its a bit frustrating because its going to take a lot of rehab to make it as strong as it really needs to be, so no cat pres or arm jumps for a while which isnt really a problem cause it doesnt stop me conditioning but still my cat pre confidence had improved greatly i just hope i dont regress.

Been working on balance and quadropedal walking on rails at moderate height, its rather scary having nothing to fall back if you fall except your reactions and animal instincts and my main problem is not trusting myself.

Jin came down for a week to stay with me and Jason, yays, found my energy levels were pretty low that week for some reason, not sure why, but did a little each day, my muscle ups are really at a turning point and jin helped me realise the point in my swing where i need to pull to help my momentum. Last night I did a double arm in the gym, so im kind of scared to go outside and try cause im so close i just want to be able to do it!! I cant make myself walk the cancer tree yet, although quadropedal half of it, its just so damn scary, damn you matt and phil, why did you have to fall off it! Been working on my laches again cause my confidence went down the drain a little after a couple of bails, luckily they didnt take too long to get the technique back for and im back to the point where im focusing on distance and touch rather than having to work up my confidence to do it. Unfortunatly i managed to smash my elbow on some bolts sticking out the scaffolding, although funny that some chav girls decided that *they wouldnt want to get in a fight* with me, i was in a lot of pain, i think i bruised around the tendon and although fine on upward phases, lowering myself down from anything has been a nightmare until today really.

Last night at gym i finally made myself back somi without support on the floor, although....they started off nice and high and then progressively started to get lower and go further back so they definatly need more work before ill happily do them onto grass.




got my 2nd year uni results today, just scraped a 2:2 ! (50) so no retakes and im into my final year yay!!
Im away in devon for a few days to do a first aid course and then its the traceur gathering! woo

take care all
liv xx

Okay im not great with writeups so this is going to be as short as i can make it.

Me and hollie headed out to lisses on thursday 7th june, via eurostar. With surprisingly few problems on the RER (french underground)we got to our destination...only to find we had picked the wrong station of the two to choose from. So another bus journey on and we finally ended up in the right part of evry to meet up with silex, thomas and dimmunk. Who then took us onto lisses, me and hollie were both tired from travelling, so this night did very little in the way of training. Spending a lot of time trying to climb a paticular tree (argghh!) and then some balance, but mostly just chilling.






The next day we got up late, having both slept terribly due to banging on the walls of the f1, people talking loudly on their mobiles and noises up and down the corridoor. However, the day was a good one, with missions around the lisses rocks and trees (a lot of precise footwork and squirrel jumps) ending with a conditioning session with goudot, where I found out my forearm started to fail me. After conditioning for this day (and unfortunatly hitting my knee and being bitten by mozzys) me and hollie made our way back to the hotel.



I hardly slept this night due to an allergic reaction to the mozzy bites, so the next morning with a swollen ankle and knee headed into evry to train and meet up with silex and the others. I trained lightly, a few small precisions and balance work, with a few missions, mostly technical training. Before heading to Jonathon "bruce lee's" BBQ. It was a chilled atmosphere, although being very obviously english and not understanding more than a few fragments of the language. Luckily, silex, dimmunk and guardian who we met are from quebec, and so are bilingual.

The next day, we were headed to Fontain blue. But it wasnt till early afternoon, so me and hollie headed towards lisses forest, but upon getting there felt it was too hot to train. So headed back...when we got back to lisses and met up with guardian he promptly told us it wasnt a good time to be in lisses due to gang fights and an escaped convict (i had wondered about the large numbers of armed police and the helicopter). So yeah, probably wouldnt have gone wandering in the forest if we had known this beforehand. Fontain blue was very cool, although i had to be careful on my swollen ankle, my knee had more flexibility and other than my killing forearms I felt good. The climbing was challenging, but fun. I also did a few different precisions at height on the rocks, physically small but it took mental strength to believe in myself. After going back home we headed to KFC...yes I know the shame! But to be fair there was nowhere else to go to eat.

On the final day of training, i actually slept well, and my ankle had gone down substantially, me, hollie and guardian popped into evry for a spot of retail therapy. (I also discovered i quite like sushi) then later in the day, trained in lisses, mostly little missions. However, we got caught in a rain storm whilst doing parkour specific conditioning, although we made sure we finished (drenched to the bone) then did some quadropedie and balance in the rain, then moving into the dry and lightly conditioning before heading back to the hotel and sleep.


Trip to lisses...



From this years trip to lisses, my only thought can be to condition more, and on thomas' words that i need more dymnacism in my jump. So i will be practising my one/two and three step runup aswell as footwork in all areas. I had a really good time and I thank the canadian and french traceurs (especially thomas) for their hospitality with this useless englishwoman.

Booking mine and hollies tickets to lisses today, planning to go twice this summer. Once in June and again in july with the guys. :D Yays! Hope the weather is good. Im yet again procrastinating from revision....

At gym..(which is really the only time im getting to train properly at the moment with my exams) im trying to make three sessions a week. Last week I trained with Jason at the BHS area, practising underbar variations. Climbups, wallhops and little movements. Was a good little session, apart from the fact I was wearing jeans and had to go buy some jogging bottoms to have any movement lol.

Wednesday at gym was good for my tricking, my front somis are now onto gymnova (soft floor) and high, but they need to be more consistently high before I take them to grass without feeling too much impact on my shins.

Learnt to backtuck onto mats FINALLY, after having a mental block for a stupid amount of time although I am twisting slightly, also tried backflip but i wasnt so successful..didnt land on my head but still appalling.

Muscleups were good on wednesday, even at the end of session after conditioning and pullups I could still go both arms, yesterday though they were appalling and ive strained my shoulder a little.

Yamakazi seminar sunday yays, cant wait to see stephane and williams again, I love the way they move. Especially williams, but thats probably because I can relate his build a bit more to my own. Meeting the rest of the yamakazi, goudot and thomas will be wicked but I know im going to get physically owned from conditioning lol!

Exam on monday and tuesday...what the hell is wrong with me? ??? What is so hard about picking up a book and reading it? Im so crap with the reading and absorbing thing. Damn short attention span.