Topic: What was your progression?

[Dylan Antonsen]

I started off with rolls, of course because I'm self taught with YouTubes help.

Then

lazy
monkey
kong
turn
horizontal palmspin
dive rolls
learning tic tacs and starting extremely slow progression for vertical palmspins (on walls, etc)


I'm kinda debating what I should learn as I go, I wanted to see what your progressions are and see if I can make my own path based on other peoples experiences.

[Brett Robert]

I think everyone has different aptitudes.   

I started training, at least once a week, with my friend Adroit about a year ago.  He's always been able to jump farther and higher, and he's put more work into flips and kongs.  His wall runs and precisions put mine to shame.  He can double kong, I can't. 

On the other hand I've usually done a bit better with techniques involving spinning, probably due to four years of Tae Kwon Do back in the day.  So, I can 360 precision over longer distances, perform reverse vaults ambidextrously, do 360 cats & bar grabs, etc. etc.  Also, I've worked on cat-balance a lot more, so I'm better at that than he is.

My point is, while the path others have taken may help you find you own, it will still be your own path.  Only you can find it, only your feet can take the right steps.

That being said, I think it's always good to work on the "fundamentals" of parkour: the basic vaults, precisions, QM, balancing.  If you consistently put work into QM & balance (i.e. walking on rails or cat-balancing on them) for at least three months I promise you will improve in every aspect of parkour.

[Alexz]

I agree with Beretta, It pretty much has to do with the path you take.


Well, I was mostly self taught. I started with rolls, with alot of stretching and practicing landings. I also looked in my area for any classes and local gyms and luckily found some at a gymnastics gym. There i could practice bigger things like kongs, different vaults. And lots of flips I then took all of these things to the outside world and trained them hard to perfect them.

 Anyway, work the way you feel is best, don't take the exact path of somebody else.

[Jack K]

i believe that i started out with the roll, then monkey, then lazy, and dash and kong about the same time, and then i got handstands and dive rolls about the same time. and now after a long break im learning it again. 

[Jack Kendall]

....


That is so weird

What's your last name? 

[Andy Keller]

....


That is so weird

What's your last name? 

I believe it is Keenan.

Jack Keenan vs. Jack Kendall 

[Jack Kendall]

This could totally be solved in an epic game of tag. 

[Ryan Thomas]

basic landing
roll
cat leap
percission
speed
tic-tac
started understanding vertical wall runs (they still suck but its better than my vert. jump)
cat balance
lazy
reverse
underbar
kong
dash
turn

[Team Avian]

I feel so awkward...  see... I've been doing PK for literally all of my life... it's just that I didn't find out about what it was called until about age 9... I didn't even know other people enjoyed it also... but anyways... about that time, PK was getting big around my parts... that was when I started to watch videos of it and train a little harder... about age 13, I met other people that did PK (More or less told them about it and they joined in...) so I got fully dedicated...

The reason I feel awkward is because, since I was self-taught, I didn't know where to start or what to even learn... Basically, i'd remember a move from a PK/FR video i'd watch, and mimic the move in real life... somehow this worked... but ok, lets see if I remember this order correctly

Vertical Wall Run
Climb Up
Speed
Kash
Horizontal Wall Run
Monkey
Lazy
2-Hand
Reverse
Kong
Turn
Dash
Roll

and some more stuff here and there... a lot of what I learned, I did naturally and either didn't know it was a move or didn't HAVE to practice it... like landings... it just came natural to absorb

So basically... it was more of an unguided zig-zag that just kind of happened naturally... I even did a few vaults(Like the lazy) that I didn't know were real moves until I saw them and said... awwww danget I thought I made that one... oh well...

so yea... somehow it worked out... somehow... PK made sense to me... but I guess that is how it is SUPPOSED to be... Natural and flow-ey

-Kyle(Rage)

[Dylan Antonsen]

I want to say to the people who said make your own path:

If  did, front flips would have been the first.

Get the point?
If you tell someone to choose their own path, they are not goign to choose the best unless they actually understand the dangers, which like 90% of starting traceurs first started getting interesting because of watching stuff like urban ninja, if you tell some hyped up kid to choose his own path, he will ignore safety and go out and jump from roof to roof, and most defiantly get injured big time.

[jorgeDominik]

I want to say to the people who said make your own path:

If  did, front flips would have been the first.

Get the point?
If you tell someone to choose their own path, they are not goign to choose the best unless they actually understand the dangers, which like 90% of starting traceurs first started getting interesting because of watching stuff like urban ninja, if you tell some hyped up kid to choose his own path, he will ignore safety and go out and jump from roof to roof, and most defiantly get injured big time.

honestly whatever you do is going to be YOUR path, you may not see it now..
the way you move is only the way you move
it is physically impossible for your dash vault to be the same as mine [i got a chance to push my lmits in a gym training with a member of the tribe, and the local team(miapk)]

your motions are a result of YOUR environment, so instead of asking DO.. get out and run, explore your state to the best of your ability and when the oppurtunity presents itself MOVE try new stuff expand your vocab through youtube tutorials, and when you get to a spot try to do everything you can imagine

-the other day at one of my regular spots i taught myself how to reverse/360 underbar without ever having seen a vid [i saw it as a turn vault but upside down and from there trial and error and iGot it in like four tries]

just open your eyes and allow yourself to move [that is the most efficient way to progress]

[Dylan Antonsen]

I want to say to the people who said make your own path:

If  did, front flips would have been the first.

Get the point?
If you tell someone to choose their own path, they are not goign to choose the best unless they actually understand the dangers, which like 90% of starting traceurs first started getting interesting because of watching stuff like urban ninja, if you tell some hyped up kid to choose his own path, he will ignore safety and go out and jump from roof to roof, and most defiantly get injured big time.

honestly whatever you do is going to be YOUR path, you may not see it now..
the way you move is only the way you move
it is physically impossible for your dash vault to be the same as mine [i got a chance to push my lmits in a gym training with a member of the tribe, and the local team(miapk)]

your motions are a result of YOUR environment, so instead of asking DO.. get out and run, explore your state to the best of your ability and when the oppurtunity presents itself MOVE try new stuff expand your vocab through youtube tutorials, and when you get to a spot try to do everything you can imagine

-the other day at one of my regular spots i taught myself how to reverse/360 underbar without ever having seen a vid [i saw it as a turn vault but upside down and from there trial and error and iGot it in like four tries]

just open your eyes and allow yourself to move [that is the most efficient way to progress]

I understood this when I started.

As I said, like 90% of the people I see asking for help are just hyped up kids wanting to do flips from roof to roof.
They will not see this as we do.

I also like seeing others progression and seeing if I'm goign in a direction that is safe.
I'd rather be safe than stupid about this.

[Jack K]

Epic game of tag indeed.
and yes it is keenan.

[Clinton@akparkour]

Depend on what your goal is when you stat learning, like yourself, I used Urban Free Flow vids to learn.
Roll
Kong
Lazy
Wall Passe
Tic Tac
Dismount(turn vault)
Reverse
Lache
Under Bar

Then I started teaching, and thats what really helped me learn what I know now (technique and teaching wise) =] I'm sure that this isint that close to my learning pattern, though I'm still learning and it would take much more than 60,000 characters to tell you all I have learned in the past 1 1/2 years.

[Alpharius120]

I went with (so far):

Roll
Lazy
Palm Flip
Sitting Spin
Monkey

[Scared Doggy]

Roll
Kong
Catbalance
Precision
Monkey
Turn
Trying to get dash down

Edit: I can do lazy's now, simple

Edit#2: Yeah ya I can do dash vaults now but not very well yet

[Brian D]

Depend on what your goal is when you stat learning, like yourself, I used Urban Free Flow vids to learn.
Roll
Kong
Lazy
Wall Passe
Tic Tac
Dismount(turn vault)
Reverse
Lache
Under Bar

Then I started teaching, and thats what really helped me learn what I know now (technique and teaching wise) =] I'm sure that this isint that close to my learning pattern, though I'm still learning and it would take much more than 60,000 characters to tell you all I have learned in the past 1 1/2 years.

Teaching is a great thing to do:)! I teach around 5 or so people at my school, and not only do I feel satisfied with what I teach, I also take tips from people on my own technique, regardless of their experience. One guy who I'd only been teaching for a week told me how to improve my kong vault take-off, which got me over my first picnic table length:) The guy couldn't do kong vaults yet, and I hadn't yet taught him the monkey (Still perfecting rolls and landings), but he came up with a small tweak in my technique, and it worked wonders for me

[Drew H]

Roll (Of course)
Lazy
Monkey
Turn
Palm Spin

And most importantly!

MOVEMENT!

=D

[kevin27]

i started pk like 3 weeks ago or something i learned

kong
kash
dash
thief
lazy
turn-vaults
some precisions
wallrun
cat,
tic tac
tic tac to cat
and alot of other stuff that arent treally moves just movements

[Elektrik]

lazy
monkey
wall run
kong
reverse
roll
palm spin
wall spin
kash
backflip (cant do it standing yet )