personally i love the one where your entire body is in motion, feels GREAT!!! 

i still use my skate shoes whenever im just going around(only because i wear them everywhere) but other than that i just go barefoot...imo, much better AND you don't have anything weighing your feet down..cept for that damn gravity!!

ps: it didnt take me that long to toughen the soles of my feet up, just a day or two of training barefoot, barefoot hiking helps also.

Paul Klein
Golden, Colorado
Aug. 11?

i work weekend nights over at coors so maybe after work monday morning i'll stop by the mines and see whats going down, may be too tired to do anything but watch, we'll see. 

good to hear! I used to live right by okane park but i never got around to training at belmar. im still over there frequently so ill have to get over there too. score.

thanks for the encouragement!

at some point, i would definitely love to do some training with you guys....unfortunately i work friday thru sunday so i can't do this...yet. looking forward to pics or a video of this!

I'm in...terested in watching.

so i was driving along one day, doing the usual stuff, you know...watching my shadow traceur run alongside my car. and i saw the crazy guy do something i'm going to work up to. i was just curious if anyone else has attempted or was even successful with this. the only thing i've ever seen close to it was oleg vorslavs quest for movement, and if i remember correctly he did a time or two.

anyhoo...just curious if anyone has ever: so imagine running down the street and you're running towards two poles, thick enough that you can almost but not fully get your hands around and the two poles are about ten feet apart. you run up to the first pole, grab it with both hands and swing your feet around off the ground, keeping all your speed up, your feet headed straight at the second pole. at this point your body is perpendicular to the pole. and when you swing your legs through you let go with your hands letting the momentum carry your horizontal body at pole number two. then you basically go in to a crouch along the vertical pole, then you turn and climb up the pole, crawling on all fours straight up the pole.

thats the best i could do for an explanation, lol

i once had a french friend of mine translate this for me, since there is very little speaking. if i remember correctly, which i do NOT do often, it was just talking about his past(the character he's playing, not david belle personally) and how he's always surrounded by battle...or something like that. forgive me if i'm wrong.

basically, like has already been said: if your goal is to move from point a to b as efficiently and quickly as possible then wouldnt moving through water be part of that? just being another obstacle to overcome

10) you can shoot lasers from your eyes

i had the same thought...

call it a hand pull leg push, instant sweetness

maybe, who knows, i certainly don't. i don't know the actual circumstances, so i can't say either way. and maybe that was what he wanted, just to live by his own ideals, but it kind of just seems like they werent very well thought out, at least in terms of living. but i did like the movie.


it could have been that way, but if you really wanted to just have freedom from material wealth and power i dont see why you would have to do anything but get rid of all your things and just live how you want to. although i can see why someone would want to go to alaska to escape society.

"Knowing there was a town right down the way probably would've ruined the sense of freedom and self-dependence he was searching for." makes me wonder if it did ruin it, would it be a true sense of freedom or just a fake one? not sure how to word this... just a (incomplete) thought


i read the hatchet, really liked it, made me want to move to canada. saw the movie too, but thought the book was better just because it had more detail, like all books.