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Offline Airman

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ISU Parkour
« on: July 05, 2007, 05:49:33 PM »
hey.  I'm posting per the request of Andre.  Let's get this ISU Club going.  I'm fresh meat to running but I want to learn.  Let me know what's going on, when you train, etc.  I'm currently nursing a head wound so I can't do too much right now but I'll be good to go soon.  Hit me up.

-Chris
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2007, 07:21:29 PM »
Hi Chris (and whoever else wants to try parkour in Ames, IA).

Here is the rough schedule for July:
9-10am mornings, 6-8pm evenings(assuming no injuries in the morning) on weekdays.  I am flexible with times with the exception of midday (11-2) when it is too hot.
Saturday and Sunday mornings depend on Friday and Saturday nights  ;D.  However at least two workouts , per weekend, usually longer.
Weekdays are basically drills and weekends are for learning new moves or just going through campus.  Usual workout places: library area,  Graphics and Design building, Black Eng. Building and pretty much wherever there are ledges, rails, walls, and other fun constructions.
Equipment: good running shoes, preferably with cushioning (I like Asics Gel or Adidas Nova Cushion).  Cross country trainers are ok but they are less comfortable when balancing on the rail.   Pants are better than shorts IMHO because you get lots of scratches and bumps on shins at first.
Parkour can be pretty demanding on the body but the entry level is pretty low IMHO so you dont need to be an athlete to start.  Head injury is not a big deal, it is unlikely you will ever hit your head doing parkour  :)

My phone is 515-230-9363 and email is asadchev@fastmail.fm.
If interested give me a call or write an email.
Ciao.
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2007, 11:14:33 PM »
If you have created a parkour club, or would like to, please visit this thread: http://www.americanparkour.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,159/topic,5833.0/
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2008, 05:48:26 PM »
Hey I'm gonna be a freshman this fall, I would be interested in joining. I am not very experienced but have practiced some at high school. What times do you meet etc? I will be in NROTC too idk if thats a conflict or not but just throwing that out there.
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2008, 04:44:12 PM »
Quote from: sniper82 on January 16, 2008, 05:48:26 PM
Hey I'm gonna be a freshman this fall, I would be interested in joining. I am not very experienced but have practiced some at high school. What times do you meet etc? I will be in NROTC too idk if thats a conflict or not but just throwing that out there.

Hey, I am currently the president....right now we have the gymnastics center on campus every wednesday night.  The head coach of gymnastics here is a fan of parkour/free running so he let us in right away as he owns the center. There's a fee to that which is a collective $60.  So if 12 people show up, everyone pays $5.  Second time you pay a $30 one-time insurance fee which lasts 12 months.  Everytime after that you just pay the fee.  The day that we get it and everything might change though and everything so I can keep you posted or you can contact me when you're here/come to clubfest early in the year.

otherwise, we usually do campus jams/runs structured (maybe every monday, friday, saturday, etc).  As far as some other things go, the university gave us waivers for medical and "don't sue us" stuff, but now they want to meet with us again just to "make sure" or something.  I hope by the time you're here everything is okay anyway.  There is actually a lot of stuff to do parkour on around campus that's sturdy.

Not much should have a conflict.  We are very open and have had people just come once before in September.  if they were to come again next week, we probably wouldn't even care and we'd say "welcome back!"  There's a sargaent in the army who's in our club too so it shouldn't be a huge problem if you're doing ROTC
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2008, 10:12:30 PM »
yo deontae. you gotta come down to baton rouge to train. its awesome. anyways hows all you guy doing in iowa. shit im home sick. well d. see you this summer. better be training ya beotch. =]
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2008, 05:23:49 AM »
yea me and sean have been training  alot.it's been raining alot up here though.im starting to get way better at pk im stsrtin to learn how to flow and connect my moves together.yea we miss you alot up here, only two months til we get to train together again like old times.hoe is it down ther in Louisiana
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2008, 07:41:12 PM »
have ya? you better miss me. you dick. =] i can't wait to train with you guys again. see how much better you are since the last time we trained. damn it sucked i didn't get to train the last week i was in town. =[
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2008, 05:21:31 AM »
yea i know i got alot better since the last time you saw me your gonna be really surprised when you get back.how is it down there in louisiana?is it any good for pk.my mom said this summer i can come and visit you guys down there sometime
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2008, 09:52:42 PM »
la is great. weathers pretty good. did you know sean got into a wreck. he broke his foot lol. this summer imma be in iowa for a bit. so i'll visit you. but you do gotta train in la sometime. its nice here. and im amazed at the amount of ppl that actually know what parkour is. although none of em ever do it. =p
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2008, 09:11:42 AM »
yeah im definitely comin down there sometime.are there any other traceures you've met besides the one thats really good?
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2008, 09:24:27 AM »
no not yet. but did you know sean wrecked. he broke his foot =[  no more parkour for him...
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2008, 05:06:29 AM »
wo no wonder i havent seen him in a couple days that sucks it's gona take six weeks to heal and we got four weeks left of school
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2008, 10:03:22 PM »
haha go figure as soon as I am out of Iowa, Parkour explodes it seems like. I graduated from Cornell College in '07 and we had a school sponsored club there up for 2 1/2 years like ~'04-'06 and then interest sort of shifted away. At Cornell alone there was about 20 of us that would go out daily down to Iowa City and Cedar Rapids or just around campus in Mount Vernon. At the U of Iowa there was another group of like 8 and 12 in Cedar Rapids. Things sort of fizzled out I guess. I wonder what happened to all the crash pads and such we got from the school??? Anyway, awesome to see Iowa is getting big! If you ever need help with anything I'd say check out www.pkcali.com the guys over there have been at it awhile. cak010 in particular. He has been goin strong since the spring of '03 good guy, knows his stuff.
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2008, 07:01:45 PM »
Hey I go to Luther College and we are working on starting up a parkour club.  We had a good first day, without advertising at all we had about 10 people show up.  If things keep going well on that avenue, I was wondering if you guys would be up for talking about a jam or something in the spring.  Let me know what you think!
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2008, 11:18:07 AM »
Im up at the ISU campus and Im just getting into Parkour
Ive started conditioning and working out, but unfortunately havent been able to make it to club meetings because I have class on wednesday mornings so I havent had anywhere to really hone skills
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on low key safe places to practice on campus since I cant make it to the meetings in the gymnasium until next semester
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Re: ISU Parkour
« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2008, 11:21:31 AM »
A friend and myself have recently gotten into Free Running. We live in Jefferson, which is about a half hour away from ames, and we would love to be able to get to do some gym training over the winter. Are there any requirements about having to go to ISU to be able to come to the meetings?
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