4 Years... Where to now?

Happy Parkour Birthday to me!

This is just a small assessment of my Parkour in my third year of training.

I remember the first 2 years of my training very "show off" like. Like many new people I was young and thought your skill was determined by the amount of flips you can do or the highest wall you can jump from... I've realized that in my 3 year I focus on my hand, foot, and body placement. Basically my physical awareness or this may be known by some as "the touch" or "sensitivity" of your movement. Without realizing it I slowly started to draw away from the flips and the flare and focus more on my Parkour. Don't get me wrong flips are extremely awesome and fun but I knew that I wasn't prepared to use Parkour if I needed it. These techniques were not helping me to become prepared to save someones life or my own if Parkour would allow me to do so... Beside I have my whole life to work on my flippies. So yea.

HAHA short post... LOL I'm trying to post every Sunday... Guess I'll get better at adding content as the weeks go by... Maybe I'll do every other week. I don't know we will see next week.

Till net time.

Happy training and I love you.

-Unique

7 Days

Q: 7 days?!?! Till what?!?!

A: Till Aug 2ND.

Q: HA HA very funny. What happens that day?

A: Aug 2ND is the day I started Parkour! This Aug second marks 4yrs of training...

I'll be posting that day with a assessment of my training and goals for the future but In his post I thought I answer the great question: Why do I do Parkour?

I think about this question a lot and a lot of answers come to my mind, I'll limit this to the most important to me...

First and always first I train for my great grandmother. I remember before she passed she would always play connect four with me... I thought nothing of it then but looking back on it, I remember the laughs and many talks we had. I was little then but I learned a lot from her. The most important being how to keep you kid spirit no matter how old you get. This was a woman in her later 70s playing a game of connect four with me. I often cheated but she always won. HA HA I remember the small trash talking we had in between games. Before I knew it, the whole day had passed and I went to bed excited for the next chance I would get to finally defeat her. Sadly one day I would learned that I wouldn't be playing connect four with my greatest role model for that day and the many days to come.

Of course next comes my Family. I love each of them so much and if something was to happen to them I would want to be in a position to help them.

Next comes my friends which I have found are the greatest friends I could ever ask for. Many of them I would have never met without Parkour. I say that because I would have never talked to Chad if he had not had such a interest in Parkour. Once we became friends I met LOLO, Sandy, Andrea, Dion, Anthony, My Yolieosis, and Traci. BTW if you read this I love you! HA HA and I can't forget Chantell, Chelly, and Adri!

Finally, Self expression. Honestly. When I'm training I can get rid of all the angers and frustrations of my life and channel it into something positive. I enjoy proving to people that the human body is far more capable then we think we it is... I love showing that with dedication an hard work you can push you limits further than you thought.

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

Love You, Keep Training!

-Unique

Trainings...

Well summer has been so amazing so far.. I've finally gotten comfortable with Texas, gotten the greatest group of friends I could ever ask for, and one of the most determined training partners ever... Plus my mental game in Parkour seems to be unstoppable... The way I handle fears is amazing and the focus I bring to all my training sessions is awesome.

But...

I do have a few issues I really want to resolve...
My conditioning could be better... More specifically my climb ups and planche... So far I'm working on my advanced tucked planche trying to make a hold up to 1min... If I push I get to 10 sec before I have to rest... Guess it just takes time. I recently started handstand presses and those are looking good I just rep those 4x3 and I hold the normal tucked planche with my weighted vest... As for my climbups I what more explosiveness with my forearms in the technique. It will eliminate the dip when I transition to the top of the obstacle... Plus it will be MUCH faster and cleaner...

So far these are on my list of issue I am currently trying to work on...

Till next time... Happy Training
-Unique

Necrophaggus

Just made randomly... After toying with the camera decided I might as well edit and upload it... Didn't get much though battery was pretty low.

This explains the title:
Necrophagist: (Greek for "eater of the dead" is a German death metal band, founded and fronted by guitarist/vocalist Muhammed Suiçmez)

The way my friend first said it was necro-fag-us we laugh everyday about that so I just made it the title...

Song: Runnin' by Pharcyde

Focus, Focus, Focus Unique!

Guess you can say this is a response to my last post where I talked about my improvements and current training schedule. What I want to talk about is "what" I do when I train. Lately I've been observing and writting notes about my past training habits. I've noticed a lot of my training has been very physical and hands on. Usually there is no specific training habits such as drilling a certain movement, or just a certain conditioning schedule. I kinda just go with the flow when I can train. Whatever I feel like doing that day or whatever excersice I feel like sweating over. My point is this I noticed I'm a very hands on physical type a person, but I really wanted to know how my mind was doing. I found trouble in my mental state when I train. I couldn't right off tell you what I do to get over fears, or how keep my dedication up. I discovered I could be so much further in my parkour if I could just keep a 100% focus on my training energy. I would then make my training both longer and more productive. After some thought I came up with a crazy idea I think would help me greatly. This idea is to do 500 of a movement of my choice and complete it within 2 weeks. This would both help me with the muscle memory of the technique and the mental focus it would take to complete it. So I have contructed a scheldule to complete 3 movements within 6 weeks 500 times. Heres the list I guess.

-Monkey Precisions
-Running Precisions
-Catleaps

Besides picking the one movements that would prob mess up my shoes baddly I feel they are also areas I need the most help on. Once a week I will post my progress so expect my next post to be on sunday.

Peace-Love-Lighting
-Unique

OMG, OMG, OMG Unique!

Hey just a blog update since my last post a lot has changed in my life. I've been released of a lot of obligations and burdens both in pk world and my outside life. Now that I have found some free time, training has been brutal. I host weekly training every Tuesday and Thursday and I'm finally starting to see regular members. I've found through teaching I finally realized how much I've progressed even within the last few months. Watching them dripping with sweat through the warm up while I'm going through it like cake amazes me. Think back over how weak I was a few months ago and how strong I've become now both mentally and physically is so awesome for lack of words.

So far I've been rotating around a schedule and this is what I got:
Sunday:
This day is basically a free day to do what I want. Rest,train, or just teach, I go according to how I feel this day. Sometimes I hit training with the Tapp's at there weekly training.
Monday:
I try to keep this day for conditioning and training alone. My conditioning consist of normal calisthenics with my weighted vest A.K.A. BETTY.
Tuesday:
Weekly Training: Just focus on teaching that day. Condition calisthenics without vest for a muscular endurance workout at night.
Wednesday:
Condition with vest along with parkour circuits for endurance.
Thursday:
Weekly Training: Just focus on teaching that day. Condition calisthenics without vest for a muscular endurance workout at night.
Friday:
Training at night alone. May go to open gym.
Saturday:
Condition without vest and train with friends.

Well this is it. I LOVE EVERYONE. Stay EZ.
-Unique
PS: Oh,and Happy New Years guys lol.

Training, Injuries, and Conditioning.

Well I have been doing what I've said been working a lot more on conditioning my body than training. I have to say I like how this is going the schedule of which I am using is working out nicely.

The only really problems have been that fact that sometimes when I have a training day I still feel sore in my shoulders. So I am going to have to move my conditioning of my upper arms to the day I work my core and flexibility. (Post my schedule when I have more time.)

Now for injuries I have a major problem in my left knee when I land from a jump I feel pain in my knee from 1-10 I would say 5-6 in pain (10 being highest.) I believe this is a symptom of jumpers knee. Though I am not completely sure.

So as a result my training will come to a halt thought my conditioning will not I will take it easy on my left knee.

-TTYL
Unique Mothaf#@ka!

Can't believe I forgot!

I've just noticed that since Aug 2, 2008 I've being training for 3 years now. Usually I look back and figure out where I should go next, what moves I want to go for, my current state of mind and body, etc. For this year I really want to pursue a more conditioned body. I used to just incorporate more parkour than conditioning but I really want to change that to more like parkour maybe 1-2 times a week and conditioning 4-5 times a week. I also want to start trying more new move and technique as opposed to last year where I focus on the little mistakes in my basics and some flips. This may be pretty hard to do considering that I progress much slower than many people I know, not to say I'm trying to catch up but I feel I could be doing more as far training wise.

-Post more on the subject later
-Unique