The parkour community is really fantastic. I've been so many places now because of it and there's always been an open couch for me. It's great to head out there to some place you've never been, train with lots of new people and hit all the cool spots. Of course this goes both ways and anyone coming in to NY knows that there's a place to stay at my house. When Martin Heinrich of Parkour Stuttgart contacted me a couple months ago through TK17, I was happy to see how enthusiastic he was, after a few exchanges of messages I was definitely looking forward to his stay here.
He came to NY first for a couple weeks for Model United Nations, he was able to come out a couple times to train but I wasn't able to make it to any of the same sessions. When his stay there ended I picked him up in Times Square and headed down to the Brooklyn Banks for some light training, it wasn't too intensive, it was a drizzly day and we both wanted to get back to my house kind of early. I was a little disappointed that work had come up during his few days here, but figured we'd make the most of it.
After our first day of work X and I had loaded up a truck with 20,000 pounds. We g

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ot home around 8 and Martin who had been eagerly wandering around my neighborhood was excited to go out and train. We grabbed our longboards and headed a few miles out to a nice park near me with some excellent trees to play around on. After a bit of that some discussion of PK Gen led me to try and emulate one of their warmups. This quickly became Martin leading us through some pretty fantastic conditioning. After some railwork and a supermarket run we ended up getting back home around 2, eagerly awaiting waking up at 5 to unload the truck into a house.
On Saturday we held a beginners jam in Central Park. We had around 25 people show and there were a lot of new faces. We did some light jogging followed by a warmup led by Martin which knocked a couple out but the troopers went on to a rotation of three stations, precisions/landings led by Pyro and myself, balance led by Nikkie, and cats/climbups led by martin. Afterwards we headed to Bethesda but as it was crowded decided to finish it up with a bit of a workout there. After a fun pushup circle with all sorts of new torture methods implemented the beginners jam was declared a success.
From there we headed into the ramble for some natural parkour and general monkeying around. Pyro and I got a few jumps we've been eyeing and Martin tried some things we hadn't looked at before. After an good game of follow the leader and some limbless climbing everyone had headed out so we headed down to the East Village to grab a delicious burger at Paul's Place. Nikkie and Bestchester headed out after dinner and Martin and I headed over to the Hudson to walk down to World Trade. We balanced down along the riverside, a good way to calm down and relax and clear your mind, cool wind and the Jersey Skyline accross the water.
On his last day we headed in to the city with a forecast of showers through the day. Drizzle when we got there and confusion between the guys we were meeting up with led to full on rain before we could train. Our pals were out of commision so Martin led me through another kickass conditioning session. After somewhere around a mile of QM we headed to grab some food and were off to the airport, which he got to with -2 minutes to spare.
It was definitely an excellent experience and I can't wait to be able to get over to Germany to train with him again. It's always great to train with someone you haven't before. Whether your spots or theirs they always have new ways to move, to train, things you wouldn't see for yourself or think to do. I encourage you to open your house up next time someone says they are coming in to your town, and I hope you start watching videos like a kid in a candy shop just trying to decide where to go next. And of course, if you come to NY, you've got a place to stay.

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