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« Reply #210 on: September 07, 2008, 01:39:37 PM »

C'mon be bold!  You've got have confidence!

The only problem I have when practicing in public is making sure none of the smaller kids watch me and then try to attempt the same things I do and get themselves hurt.
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« Reply #211 on: September 15, 2008, 11:03:41 PM »

I don't know why but I've never really felt ''embarrassed" training in public.
I have had many times people staring and I know what's probably going
through their heads:

"That kid's crazy." "He looks funny." "What a goofball."

But then I think what if there saying:

"Whoa, that's pretty cool." ar atleast "Dang, he's got guts."

But either way I never really seemed to care. It was (and is) just me
moving and their is notihng I  can do to stop that. "Moving" here
is used a new sport. Why should I stop 'moving' just because
they judge.

The common public judges everyone on anything in any
situation. This is no different.

Just that this is a brand new situation: parkour, art of movement/displacement.
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« Reply #212 on: September 16, 2008, 08:59:25 AM »

Your right ive never thought of it that way but I do tend to wonder if they are thinking "Dang thats cool" or "I wish i could do that"... it gives me a boost in training and helps me overcome problems within the training.
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« Reply #213 on: September 16, 2008, 10:37:13 AM »

hah same here. im hoping they think im awesome  Grin

but either way, as always, pk is for me and me alone.
and for you and you alone. no matta what they think.  Smiley
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« Reply #214 on: September 16, 2008, 08:22:07 PM »

Yeah i love parkour to death and while that may sound cheesey let me bring up the point that i have been out of PK for AT LEAST 5 months ( got hit by a car and snapped arm in to pieces basically) and i can not wait to get back out there cause i can go back finally in a week.
to bring it back to topic
ive kinda lost my nerve and am afraid to do the more special stuff, actually alot of stuff in general in public or anywhere else any suggestions??? plz
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« Reply #215 on: September 16, 2008, 08:40:40 PM »

im sorry man, but im glad your better! you should have konged the car!!
ah, atleast your getting better.

but really, it sounds like starting over might be the best here.
how long have you been a practicion of the art of movement?
if not too long, say under a year,
just build from the ground up.

dont worry about others. worry about yourself first,
than you can carry your skills over to care for others.  Wink
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« Reply #216 on: September 17, 2008, 02:01:30 PM »

ha!! i should have but it was this super huge monster truck and it was moving 1t 5000 MPH no but seriusly ur right but u mean like lazy jumps and rolls etc
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« Reply #217 on: September 19, 2008, 06:30:54 PM »

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ha!! i should have but it was this super huge monster truck and it was moving 1t 5000 MPH no but seriusly ur right but u mean like lazy jumps and rolls etc
Ha, it is Belleable.

Anyway, dude!  Just improve your range of movement.  That's what parkour is about isn't it?  If you lost a nerve in your arm try to rebuild it.
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« Reply #218 on: September 19, 2008, 08:39:32 PM »

yeah but what i mean by nerve is im suddenly scared of jumpin over things or off things like everything is going to kill me. but i see your point
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« Reply #219 on: September 29, 2008, 10:19:17 PM »

lol...I honestly feel your pain when it comes to practicing in public.  My problem's a little bit compounded by both my age and the social atmosphere here on Guam.  It's okay to be rolling around on the ground at a park when you're a kid, or a teenager, but a 28-year-old grown-ass dude trying to bust out quadrapedals in a public space garners a crapload of attention.  And by social atmosphere, I mean, Guam's kind of a "rigid" community when it comes to certain social trends.  If you're a guy, you're supposed to be into MMA or suping up your ride, and if you're a chick, you're supposed to be into whatever MTV tells you you're into that week.  So for someone to be practicing and conditioning for PK(and please note, I'm not even doing the "cool" stuff yet, I'm just rolling around in the grass, doing sprints, squats, and quadrapedal movement), it's a huge break from the norm.  It hasn't been the easiest thing for me, either, especially because I'm slightly overweight(though PK is really helping me burn it off quick).

But eventually, you just have to muscle through it and realize that just because you might get some weird looks from folks in your immediate community, there are still folks out there that truly respect what you're doing, both out there and in here.

A couple of friends of mine have heard that I'm training, and I just discovered, weirdly enough, that they've secretly wanted to train for some time, as well, but they were self-conscious about it, too.  Training with other people does go a long way towards relieving your self-consciousness, especially if, as the most experienced of the bunch, you're the one helping them along.  As traceurs, I'd venture a guess that we work harder to condition our bodies than 90-95% of the rest of the world.  We are the exception to the rule at the moment(which makes us exceptional), and as such, we just have to accept that not everyone in our world thinks the same as we do.  Perhaps they're jealous, perhaps they're contemptuous, perhaps they just don't get it.  But if they don't take our ideas into account when they judge us...we shouldn't take theirs into account when we're training, yeah?...Smiley.  Hope that helped.

I'm long-winded! lol.  Peace out. Cheesy
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« Reply #220 on: September 30, 2008, 07:18:26 PM »

But if they don't take our ideas into account when they judge us...we shouldn't take theirs into account when we're training, yeah?...Smiley.

Very nice quote right there. Sounds like you have a tough situation there on Guam, I'm glad your getting threw it.
Your story is very inspirational and a classis-tale of pulling through!  Cheesy
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« Reply #221 on: October 02, 2008, 11:45:28 PM »

hey bro!..im from guam!

maybe we can train together!
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« Reply #222 on: October 07, 2008, 12:12:53 PM »

This is totally random but....dude how can a "guest" post replies?! Whenever I'm on here as a "guest" the "reply" option isn't even available....doe's anyone care enough to enlighten me?
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« Reply #223 on: November 12, 2008, 04:39:55 AM »

lol i don't really live in a city, but when i go into a city, i kinda am becuase i pretty good at flips, but im trying to do aot of Parkour now, but i dont really get embarrassed, alittle, but i dont think about it lol  Tongue
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« Reply #224 on: November 12, 2008, 12:51:23 PM »

hey im kinda new to parkour to ive been practicing for about 1-2 months and i feel really embarrassed about practicing in public.  I'm also only 13 so sometimes people come up to me when I fall or something and it only looks really painful when its not and they're like" OMG!! Are you okay??  Are you hurt?? Should we call and ambulance??  Are your parents nearby??".  Stuff like that only makes me even more embarrassed....  It would be easier for me to not be so embarrassed if I had some of my friends with me, but I am the only 1 in my school who's interested in it, or knows that when they do it they won't kill themselves.....  It would be a bit more fun if I knew some people near me that were traceurs that could help me and stuff......
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