Posted by DC at 02:46
Saturday morning 9am on
the birthday of the founder of the sport, celebrating in the only way
that is appropriate, im going training!
As i walk to the meeting area i see a single person sitting there,
he looks like he was waiting for someone so i assume that it is our
South American Friend, Guico. I was right,I greeted him and just as we
started talking a silver beetle pulled up, oscar and paws had arrived.
We made the introductions as the final members of the party finally
rocked up, toast and ultima had arrived.
We all started warming up,doing various different stretches, small
precisions and vaults to get into it. The forrest monkey warm up drew
some interesting looks from onlookers but this just made the other
traceurs who were stretching laugh.
Soon ultima paws and I were starting to link some moves
together,While Guico oscar and toast worked on their vaults. Ultima and
i were talking about a kong to precision when we suddenly saw
dissappear from view, he had missed his landing on quite a difficult
precision and had fallen backwards behing the brick wall, this would
turn out to only be the start of what would turn out to be a rough day
for everyones favourite cat.
Paws, ultima and I, then focused on the other three traceurs trying to improve their ability particularly on kongs.
We tired of this area so we went to the next one, everyone was in a
good mood, we were joking about everything and anything as we made our
way to the second area, Guico fitting like he had been training with us
for months. As soon as we were there we got back into the mindset and
tackled these obsticles for a while, ultima nearly bailing out on a
kong to cat, which made the old italian man shout at us telling us that
we would break everything there, as well as a delivery truck parking in
the way created a vibe that kinda ruined this area!
Third on the list was the front of pick and pay, ultima and i
worked hard to help the others with their kong to precisions. Then came
the second occasion when we lost paws, ultima and i konged a power
box,when paws tried his knee argued with it,and paws dissappeard over
the other side with a loud thud! The power box came of second
best,there was now a decent dent in it!!
We jammed the shopping center next but there were people in the
area we wanted to train playing war games. A girl came along and took
some video footage and made ultimas day!!That was until we went outside
and he and i both nailed a dash to precision. Toast and paws both
successfully land kongs to precision and oscar and Guico gave it a good
try but just kept falling short of the distance.
Then it was time for the library and the kong to precision over a
gap, safely the biggest thing i had ever done in my parkour career,the
others we keen to see it and i was even more keen to do it. I got into
the mindset and went for it, i landed it cleanly. I had been talking to
Ultima about a dream i had had the night before in which i had dashed
to precision this gap. Ultima asked me if i was keen to try it,and i
knew exactly what he ment. so he and i went to the side and i started
drilling the dash where there wasnt another wall i was confident that i
could do it, so i went back to the jump and got back into the mindstate
to do it. With Ultima ready to spot me if anything went wrong i
measured my run up and went for it.When i landed safely on the
otherside both ultima and i went insane shouting and screaming,we told
the others who were training nearby and they joined in with the
celebrating, we went absolutely wild!!
I did it twice more to be sure of it!
We warmed down after nearly four hours of training,then went for a
beer and chips, we cheersed our new friend Guico, we cheersed David
belle and then we cheersed ourselves for the huge improvement witnessed
today by all traceurs involved!!
We werent content with this much training in one day so five hours
later Ultima Guico and I had a little training jam in the evening for
about an hour and a half around rosebank and showed Guico some of our
favourite spots in the area. Now totally drained we made our way home
after a very successfull day!
Happy Birthday David this was for you!!
Posted by DC at 18:30
For some this will be ancient news already, but for those of you who have not yet heard ... obviously hidden away in your caves and deep underground training and refining your parkour skills ... Sebastien Foucan, star of the Jump London documentary, has been cast to play the role of Mollaka in the new James Bond movie: Casino Royale.
(the following excerpt and image is taken from commanderbond.net)
"Sebastien Foucan gained stardom throughout much of the world when the gymnastics enthusiast helped invent freerunning, a gravity-defying sport that received exposure in the U.S. via a series of Nike commercials. Now Foucan will employ his high-jumping, obstacle-evading abilities while engaging the new James Bond in one of the most ambitious chase sequences in the history of the action series. Foucan will make his acting debut as Mollaka, a terrorist targeted by Daniel Craig's Bond during an early sequence in November's 21st Bond film, "Casino Royale." When a surveillance operation goes awry, Bond is forced to chase Mollaka on foot, risking life and limb as they scurry through a shantytown and across a dangerous construction site. Currently filming in the Bahamas, "Royale" is based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel."
This next page is to 007magazine.co.uk and contains a lot of behind the scenes footage of Sebastien and other Casino Royale actors: Click ME
.. while this page goes to bondmovies.com and has a few cool video clips for you to check out online: Click ME
.. and this page has a bit of a bio of Sebastien: Click ME
Sebastien's own website is www.parkour.com
Posted by DC at 17:27
Ultima recently hooked up with our new visitor from afar, and welcomed him into one of the SA's hottest training spots. Read all about it "HERE". For those who are keen to meet him, there will be another jam this weekend, so make a date and get your lazy butts into gear!!!
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