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?...

. Hope that helped.
I'm long-winded! lol. Peace out.
