Thursday, September 27, 2007

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.

4 Comments:

At 10:04 AM, Blogger tiaraletourneau said...

Excellent.

How long does it take to learn the wall spin? I'm working on palm spins, trying to build up the confidence.
And by the way, what's the problem with landing with one foot in front of the other? I still do that...

Thanks for posting,

Fellow traceuse Damselfly

 
At 2:05 PM, Blogger Flame said...

Its simply just not as safe, with catpass to precisioning, im likely to shin myself and its more difficult to stick it, say if its a catpass to rail precision...it can be dangerous. With precisions, if ones ahead of the other one of them is in the wrong place. :)

Wallspin will take as long as the effort you put into it, technically its an easy movement just more difficult mentally.

 
At 12:12 PM, Blogger E.A. Aleksandroff, alias GT said...

awesome so there ARE girl traceurs. I think it's harder for us because as a rule we have less upper-torso and arm strength, but I don't care. I'm just training with rolls for now and working out because I don't want to break something, but I really want to be a good free runner.

 
At 12:15 PM, Blogger tiaraletourneau said...

Flame,

I've just got to say it - you HAVE to put out another demo. Have you seen Kat's new demo from Monos Urbanos? If not check it out on YouTube (Kat 2008 demo). Your old vid and Kat's new one set the standards for the girls. I don't know about others, but for me, it's a realistic bar and an inspiration. Your video was the turning point for me - observer to traceuse. And you're three years on from then! Girl, we want to know what that looks like! No one's been training that long (female).

At least consider it, yah?

Cheers!

 

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