Earlier this week I found a spot to do a 12 ft. cat leap, which is actually really far, so I trained for two days to work up to doing it by leaping at a wall from as far away as I could, but it really takes a beating out of you, so I then realized I'm not even enjoying this that much at all!
Why am I doing this to myself. Initially I was going to put it in my video because I thought it would really impress people. But today I went back to the spot and it drove me crazy that I just couldn't get through the mental block of leaping that far, and mainly just to impress people.
So I eventually thought; this isn't really what parkour is about, all the huge jumps and drops like you see in various videos, like on TV, for the "rush" it's about being in control of your actions and movements not just jumping as far as you possibly can, or making huge 20 ft. drops for no reason at all, because power is nothing without control. So I turned off the video camera and packed up.
Then the following day,today, going back to that same spot, same wall, I just tryed to be fluid and make smaller leaps to that very same wall, but being in total control, with elegant like motions really satisfied me and made me glad that I didn't just make that huge, huge leap to that same wall, and only be able to say -" hey look what I just did, jumped the whole lot.
Instead, of what I did today, I can now say-" I managed to pass over the area with elegantly, and with total body awareness and control of power. I guess it makes a difference about how a tracuer's power is used
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