I used to worry about people looking at me funny but now I find it entertaining.

I row for Yorktown High School (Arlington Virginia). The season ended last week for my boat. We lost our last race of the season by 0.10 seconds, while rowing with only 7 people. On the 5th stroke of the race someones (I think it was 3 seat) strechers came undone and he couldnt row anywhere near full power. Had we found out about it we could have called breakage and restarted, but we didnt find out untill after we docked.

not particularly. The conditioning can be difficult if your out of shape, or just not up to standards, but the conditioning is decided by the coach, so it varries. Depending on who you want to row for, getting into it can be expensive. At Yorktown, crew isn't considered a 'sport' (like baseball or football) so were considered a CLUB sport, therefore, we dont get any funding from the county like baseball and football do. So basicaly that means that everything you need for crew (boat, uni, stuff, etc.) has to be paid for by the rower. One things for sure, you'll probably spend over $500 just to pay for staying at a hotel when you have a out-of-state reggata.

Ah, sounds fun, but I don't think I could do it..lol.

And telling them what you are doing is the next best part They get kinda lost, and then understand, and then get lost again. It is fun to watch their facials expressions...haha. But I was at the local park one time, and this lady about 30-35 let me teach her kids who are around 6-10 years old, how to do basic rolls on the ground and then off the end of a slide. I was really excited that she was so open to it. And the kids definitely enjoyed learning. It was a blast.

haha! that's great man!

somestimes its good now sometimes it isnt. Im at this stage where sometimes i fail and sometimes i do awsome stuff. Loads of girls where watching me the other day doing random training on my own and i got real scared lol

rawr :3

people still think im weird when I vault over the pic-nic table... oh well, it would be boring otherwise.

i had a neat experience today. I was just jumping off a huge rock, practicing my landings and a guy (45+ years old?) came up to me and asked what i was training for. i told him parkour, when he didnt understand i just asked, "Have you ever seen those videos of guys running through the city, jumping off buildings and stuff?" Immediately he knew. We talked about it for a little bit and he wished me lots of luck.

awesome.