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« on: July 17, 2006, 06:11:29 AM » |
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Because of the area i live in, i've been forced to find alternative places to train. Now you wouldn't think this would make much of a difference on the way i do parkour, but it does. Because i do parkour mainly in the woods, my style is very different from most traceurs.
I live near a forest. A fairly large one. And i have spent a many day out there just training. But it feels so much different then an urban environment. I have to jump streams, sometimes even swim in a couple of the large ones. I climb trees, sometimes it's easier to move from A to B up in the trees. I move thru rock formations, which feels very odd compared to concrete.
All of these movements make the way i move different, then the way alot of urban tracuers move. I stil haven't mastered my kong (been doing parkour seriously for 6 or 7 months), but i can climb a tree with no branches for 8 or 10 feet. For some reason i'm not that good at climbing straight up walls, but i can scale slanted cliffish things. All of doing parkour in nature has effected my style when i go into urban environments. It's a little different, i'm a little slower, a little less efficent. Partially this is because i'm always weary of where my feet land, due to the difficult terrain in the woods.
I guess i'm partially just explaining how it changes your movement, and half asking for advice on how to speed up my urban movement.
On a side note i'm going to garden of the gods (illinois one) Today. And i will post back telling you how it went tommorow (I'm camping there as well. It has some brilliant rock formations, and is in the great shawnee national forest.
(If you think this belongs in movement, go ahead and stick it there)
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Get the screen door, its a-thunderin out there!
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2006, 06:59:26 AM » |
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very true, all of that will have some effect on the way you move, and somewhat limit your abilities outside the forest. My advice if you want to excel your 'urban' skills, you simply have to practice in an urban environment. thats all. i know it might be hard for you, but thats the only way youll get better in that area. and it works both ways too, if someone hadnt ever practiced in the woods, then they will be helpless when they try to do what you do so easily. its all a matter of experience, and you cant obtain that experience, unless you experience it  |
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2006, 07:46:38 AM » |
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Yeah, pretty good observation cynanide.Lving in NYC we are lucky enough to have urban enviroment (everywhere) and nature enviroment (cental park, specifacly the ramble). But remeber you have to train in every situation so that you can be prepared for any situation.
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jmanndriver
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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2006, 09:14:38 AM » |
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I used to live in the suburbs and what i got was a mix of the two worlds. I got to practice movement through forests and in an urban setting. Much scaled down from the city tho. I had no high walls to practice on so I would tic tac up trees whos brances to high to reach fom the ground. I could practice my kongs on benches and park tables. But what i am best at, My percisions, I learned them in an urban setting.
I find that it is more useful to practice in an urban setting since that is where the world is heading. Urbanization. By that I mean Farms are being converted to Housing developments, Citys are expanding and growing. Very few people would need to be saved in the woods and if they need be you probably wouldn't need to pk in a tree to get to them. The woods aren't that useful overall to practice pk in.
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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2006, 10:29:37 AM » |
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You should make a video I would like to see where you train. All though it would seem harder to train in the forest you'll get faster at it with practice. I think forest are better cause your constantly being faced with some type of obsacle.
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- “You see things the way they are and say why, but I dream of things that never were and I say why not…” - George Bernard Shaw
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« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2006, 11:41:45 AM » |
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What i think you ment unique was that the forest changes and grows, so you have to adapt. The spot you trained at yester day may be gone type of thing.
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« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2006, 11:49:44 AM » |
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What i think you ment unique was that the forest changes and grows, so you have to adapt. The spot you trained at yester day may be gone type of thing.
That right on point and when you take it out into the urban jungle you respond better/faster than others. |
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- “You see things the way they are and say why, but I dream of things that never were and I say why not…” - George Bernard Shaw
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2006, 11:54:07 AM » |
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I find that it is more useful to practice in an urban setting since that is where the world is heading. Urbanization. By that I mean Farms are being converted to Housing developments, Citys are expanding and growing. Very few people would need to be saved in the woods and if they need be you probably wouldn't need to pk in a tree to get to them. The woods aren't that useful overall to practice pk in.
suppose there is a nuclear catastrophe. |
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« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2006, 11:58:31 AM » |
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There will still be rubble he he.
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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2006, 12:02:17 PM » |
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my point was, you never know what type of environment you may be forced to live in. for example if a plane crashes and you are stranded in the forest and you have to chase some sort of animal for food or escape from something. or perhaps there is a nuclear war and the people left alive are forced to move to the woods it will be helpful. it is good to train in any environment.
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« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2006, 12:06:46 PM » |
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ok i understand so when that happens i will adapt my technique. But honestly is that gonna really happen. Don't say it might because then i will get all paranoid lol.
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« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2006, 12:10:15 PM » |
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does it seem too far fetched? it almost happened with the cold war. now there are plenty more countries with nuclear weapons. some that are still pretty primitve as far a civilisation goes. they may not understand or care about the consequences of launching such an attack.
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« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2006, 12:12:52 PM » |
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We have missle defense systems and you know the government has many secrets. They may have something that will plow it outta the sky like a big lasser. Saw it on the discovery channel heh.
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« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2006, 12:14:53 PM » |
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sorry, didn't mean for this to turn into some warning about nuclear war, just saying it is pretty arrogant to assume that training in the woods is useless as if you will never be in an environment with unknown surfaces and odd angles.
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« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2006, 12:18:22 PM » |
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There is always that factor of unknown and i never said training in the woods is useless i said that it is more benificial to train in an urban setting.
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