Side-Flip

At least I have started to learn Flips. The time before I was somehow afraid of them, but I have just started, while a training session in the gym on the mats, and then kept doing 'em. I'll try to move as fast as possible to doing the side-flip outside on grass or sand... Michael

(For me) New kind of training

In the next time I will try to test a new king of training way. While jogging I start accelerating and maybe doing a few parkour moves, and then I have to keep in motion and must't stop.
I think it will be pretty hard, as the wish to stop after a small but hard run must be very huge. Well, I will try it out!

Michail

Jogging

I usually don't like jogging around, because it so too boring and too monoton. But if you want to come forward and cover a great distance, in order to come to the next spot, it is a perfect method.

But you must consider, that the faster you are the less spots you will see around you. So sometimes it is really nice to walk and looking aroung, where I can do something.

Yoga/Streching for more agility

hey, I have just begann to strech myself more. I do it before and after the training, but on the days without parkour I like to strech my legs, too.

I had a cramp in my lower right leg, when I was swimming some months ago. Well, so my doc said, that my muscles are too short, as I wasn't training some time, because of my injuries. He told me to stretch, and I did. It just felt well...

Check it out!

Michail

4 Reasons why trying parkour can ruin your self esteem - funny

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-why-trying-parkour-can-ruin-your-self-esteem/

Training since injury - great; flow; creativity; body control

Well, I didn't write a pretty long time. I just haven't been training since the "My pain and injury"-article. Summarized I have some problems on my right arm and my left leg, as I have unfortunately landed in April 2011.

So on Tuesday I finally went jogging and decided to do a little parkour by the way. I was astonished, when I find myself training for about 15 minutes on some rails, because I felt the creativity, flow and body control just like before. I didn't expect to have so much fun training parkour again.

Unfortunately the problems are still there, perhaps only in a mental kind, you know, only in my head. But what should I do?

Eventually I decided to beginn slowly doing parkour again. I take part in a pupil's triathlon on 13 July, so I am jogging, whilst I do parkour on places I like or those which are new for me and my body.

I hope the problems will go away, as I am just 18. We will see.

Michael

A 3 minutes talk

In some days I have to give freely a small talk in English on a topic of my choise. I decided to speak about parkour, as I write a blog about it and have read quite a lot material about it. So there occurs a very interesting and important question: what exactly I should talk about? It has to be compact! And here it is:

Now I would like to tell you something about a special hobby I have. Maybe you have seen people doing risky jumps from rooftop to rooftop or doing crazy flips from something high. Well, I am talking about parkour, but at this point we have to distinguish between parkour and free-running. The last is a discipline where the show is everything, you jump around and the show how nice and how many different movements you can do.

In parkour the speed and flow are more essential. Here you have to come from point A to point B and overcome all obstacles in your way fast, fluently and efficient, it mustn't cost you much energy.

The training plays a very important role in this sport. On the one hand, there is a physical training, like workout, it is for pushing your limits further. On the other hand, there is a mind training, like evolving discipline and getting to know your body. And only hard training in both areas, brings you safety while practising parkour.

If you like, write some ideas, what would you say in such a short period of time.

Michail