Topic: Realized Improvement

[applesauce]

today, my family and i went to get some buffalo wings, and while waiting to get our food, i got bored, so i decided to go outside to practice some basic parkour techniques, since there were some low rails, and a 7-8 foot wall on the side of the restaurant. Now the last time i had been there was about 3 or 4 months ago, when i had just learned of and started messing around learning parkour. i did some vaults over the rails, than i went to the wall. i did a small wallrun and easily climbed up the wall. while sitting up there thinking, i remembered climbing the same wall months earlier, it took me several attempts, and i fell and struggled with it. then i realized how clumsy my movement had been, and how with some strength training, workiing out and drilling of my techniques, i had improved so much, without even realizing it. you dont really realize how freely you move until you have memorys of yourself pre-parkour, or having someone amazed at a movement that you think nothing of. i dunno, i have no idea why i posted this, except that i have now came to a realization, it wasnt some fancy technique, or soome huge drop, it was just realizing that i had made something simple out of something that had been so challenging before. i think that is what parkour is about, just  learning to move freely and improve yourself. anyways yeah, when did you realize how much you have changed from your old climsy movement and learned that you have improved so much? anyways, seeya and good luck training.

[Lost]

Nice Nice. Did you get like outta breath? (if not why not? what was your technique for it or just use to it?) how old are you? (what kind of strength trainer?)

Nice I wish to feel all this soon

[Matthew Auster]

hmm i am relatively new to parkour. I was doing some vaults over a highway railing (those cinder concrete blocks) and my friend who also does parkour complemented me on my vaults that I previously could not do for my life.  Its nothing big, but it made me feel good, and put off discouragement

[colin jensen]

ive been parkouring for a couple months now and when i go out with my friends that have been doing parkour for 2 years i can keep up and do most of what they do. i just really like the feeling that i am progressing quickly and quick enough for my body to keep up. good for you and everyone that feels there improvement.

[Sat Santokh]

There is a wall that is near me and at the beginning of the summer (I started doing parkour around may 24th) I couldn't climb this 11 foot high wall and now I can get it on my first try.  I love that feeling.

[Lost]

How do you do it? lol ^ Whats your teq? Is it the shoes?

Thanks

[Sat Santokh]

Haha no it wasn't the shoes.  I just practiced and fine tuned it.

[Lost]

Ohh I see. Hmm Im gunna have to find a huge wall to climb First I gotta get some good shoes though mine are flat as hell on the bottom . I got some timberlands that might do the work yea right lloll.

[Nick]

yeah only rarely have I actualy been aware of myself improving.  I was training with two friends (jumpmonkey and rob if I remember right) at a place in DC called six hills, I was working on this really evil underbar that had been pissing me off for 2 or 3 weeks, almost every day I went for at least an hour and tried to get it.  This one training session though, we had been there for about 45 minutes and jumpmonkey and rob wanted to go train at the school in our neighborhood, I said "no, wait a minute, I can get it this time I can feel it" then failed miserably again, after 15 more minutes of "No wait guys, I can get it now, I can feel it"....I got it...after all that work I got it, it was absolutely fantastic...then I went back a few days later with a video camera to try and capture it on tape and I couldnt get it! it was the second most aggravating thing to happen in my parkour training.

[colin jensen]

hahaa yeah those underbars can be a bitch sometimes. other times i can get it everytime.i trained for about 2 or 3 hours a day for a week to be able to underbar a rail that is about 2 feet taller then i am and sometimes i still cant do it.

[Itsthejuggernautb1tch]

Hey, that's great man. Keep up the good work maybe 3-4 months later you can post again saying Remember when it was effortless for me to get up that wall? Well now I can fly *whoosh*

[PrincessPK]

I've had the same thing happen to me with the wall-runs! There was this pretty big wall that we first trained on, almost two years ago and it is maybe like 10ft. It was the first wall-run we ever did and we struggled for over an hour of slapping the wall a few inches from the ledge when my buddy finally got it. A few minutes later I got it too and we were both sitting on top of the wall, our legs drained of all the energy they had. We went back to this same spot recently, not having visited it since that first day of parkour and we just did it so easily that we were stunned at how much we've progressed. Back then we used to need to put down both our elbows on the ledge to manage to get a leg up on one side and then roll over on top... Now we can just power through in a fluid muscle up and monkey plant on top of the wall 

[M1L3S]

Good work practice, practice practice, and what you said is very important as well.  You saw it as something simple, if you like that its easier to achieve.

[applesauce]

im 14, i wasnt out of breath or anything, it just took me a few seconds to get up it and it felt so good, i was like wow. shoes are important, but i dont think thats what got me up, and it wasnt strength, it must have been technique, which ive been workiing on lately. I have gym at school and we have cardio twice a week and weight training twice a week. and we play sports on fridays. after a couple of months ive gotten stroner and faster without even realizing it, and im loving it.