Topic: I'm new and want to learn wall techniques.

[Gluttony_v]

Hello everyone.
I'm new to Parkour and Freerunning.
I've never had any experience with flips, or wall running, besides just climbing fences.
Techniques I'm wanting to learn mainly deal with walls.
Wall Runs, (Sideways)
Wall flips
and Wall Spins.

With wall running, I run at the wall diagonally, and plant my right foot onto it first and try to keep my body in a 45 degree angle, but as soon as I try to put my left foot onto the wall, I feel as if I'm about to fall and back out. Am I doing something wrong or is it mainly fear?

Wall flips - I'm just too scared to even try.

Same for wall spins, I'm afraid I might stop half-way and fall into my face.

Any tips?

Also, in wall-flips, is there a high chance i'd fall on my head/neck?

Thank you~

[Jake Chess]

This video should help you. I also encourage you to start with landings and roll techniques first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0NOE4N6X4

[Janine]

For your wall spins, I would highly suggest starting by learning palm spins on horizontal surfaces first, and then slowly working up to more and more angled surfaces until you reach vertical.  Picnic tables are a great place to start.

Wall flips can end in a head/neck landing.  Truth.  I would learn them in a gymnastics facility, and be completely confident in your abilities to land them perfectly every time before attempting them for the first time outside (on grass, please?).

Best of luck!

[Scott Steinmetz]

Wall flips - Please don't try these anywhere but in a gym for the first time.

Wall spin - Follow Janine's advice and learn palm spins first, but you can try these outside if you find a brick / grippy wall in grass, I first got over the bailout fear by attempting them and purposefully bailing out once I was vertical, you're falling into grass in a pretty perfect form for a handstand rollout, it's ok to do with caution (imo).

Wall spins are awesome, they're easy and fun. A friend of mine came with me to the open gym one night, and couldn't work on frontflips or backflips out of fear, but got wallspins down perfectly.