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The weekend of September 27th saw Billy, Brian, Sam, Leon and Jereme heading
to NYC to perform as a part of the festivities for those that had raced
in the Urbanathalon
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Read more forJereme's experiences there.
The day started kind of as we'd expected it, wet and really slippery.
We got to Pier 17, where the performance was around 7:30 am and started
rehearsing, making our lines and much to our disappointment slipping
around a lot. It wasn't just that the obstacles we were set out to use
where slippery but the fact that since the whole set was on the pier
and wet wood equals natures slip n' slide, pretty much every one of us
had slipped just walking around or running into or out of a movement,
it was kind of ridiculous. We caught a lucky break when we found out
they had a bunch of extra thin mats which we could actually get some
good footing on whether wet or not. So with that we were able to all
get a decent route set up and by the time 9 am hit around we had to
stop rehearsing so that we could save it for the show.
First
performance came around and it went off pretty well as far as I can
tell for everyone else, despite the fact that we hardly had any area
closed off for our paths and we spent a lot of it dodging the audience
trying to still stick vaguely to all our paths. Another highlight of
the first performance was me running for a speed vault, and ended up
slipping into one of the barricades. Was more embarrassing than
anything but it definitely helped me to remember not to go too fast or
else.
Once the First performance was done it started to dry up
a bit and we also were able to hit up a hardware store for some grip
tape which definitely helped for us going up the ramp as it was
essentially like ABS plastic. We spent the hour and a half sitting
around flipping a bit and discussing things with the crew so we would
have a better clearing for our paths.
By the time the Second
Performance rolled around everything was noticeably drier and I feel
the performance went a lot better, and also gave a great kind of morale
boost for the next one as every one was getting more comfortable and
everything was just getting more dry. We broke for lunch after the
second performance at the nearby mall. Lots of ideas were thrown about
for the third performance as we weren't going to be nearly as hindered
by the weather but again we were foiled by nature as the sky opened up
again and put another coat of rain on everything. By that time the crew
decided that it'd be too dangerous for us to have another performance
so we were let out early.
This left us ambling back to our hotel
and me heading out an hour or two afterwards. It was a really fun trip,
and though the weather hindered us a bit I feel we were still able to
give everyone a taste of what we could do as we got a good amount of
attention as well as people being interested in training
Parkour/Freerunning a bit.
Definitely a great time in NYC as usual
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