American Parkour

Progression is progression.

Ok, I have a quantifiable goal now. The average class at my Krav Maga gym lasts for one hour, and although the material differs from class to class, the relative amount of work done is the same. I will measure my strength and cardiovascular progression in terms of the Class Unit (CU).

Currently, I can work at 50% of what one class expects me to do in terms of athletic output (0.5 CU). I need to make it to 2 CU at minimum before I can do the belt test.

That means cardio. A lot of cardio.

Other goals:
-Touch my toes from standing position without bending my knees. (I still can't do this for some reason)
-Kick through all the way to the top of my head , I can currently get up to collar bone level (Increases the power of kicks to the groin)

Diet: I'm headed back to school either this fall or next spring. Either way, I'm going to be exposed to my school's readily available soda machines again. I've been avoiding the stuff, but I need to not fall off the boat with regards to the sugary nectar of the gods.

So here at Rutgers University we were in the process of making an official sports club for Parkour. With this we would have gotten our own training time in the gymnastics gym and Olympic weightlifting room, as well as funding to go on trips to Jams. It was all set in place, our board meeting went well and the Sports Club director was fascinated by our idea, but alas, the final say of the student run sports club committee deemed that the club was too dangerous and we were denied. It's really a shame too because we had made such a good case. I told them about all the Crossfit affiliates made for parkour, showed them "Jump Westminster", showed them a list of other collegiate Parkour clubs, and stressed our goal to educate people about Parkour so they train smart and safe.

Anyway, we're thinking about just making a regular Rutgers club (not a SPORTS club). So there would be no benefits really, except we'd get to advertise ourselves at Student Involvement fairs and whatnot.

Any leaders have words of wisdom or similar experiences?

I ran into the same problem regarding the University of Maryland club regarding excessive risk and insurance issues. It's not entirely necessary to have an official, school recognized club if your own internal organization can handle day-to-day affairs just fine.

There is no substitute for sleep. No stimulant, pharmaceutical, food, drink, supplement or anything else can make up for lost hours of sleep.

If you have too much to do, manage your time better.

Learned how to serve a curveball.

Sweet. I did something. Too bad it's not parkour related. I think my lateral explosiveness has gotten better though.

I think there might be a flaw in my basic jumping/squatting technique. I make a lot of noise when I land.

Burpees! Whee!

Danced for 36 minutes?

Why?

Because I could.

That's why.

Practiced QMing last night in bare feet. Need to get lower in QMs.

Painful.

Crap. Looking back on this, none of this ended up panning out.

Anyway, reassessment of my goals.

Recently, I found out that I was terribly out of shape. Maybe it was because I haven't really done Parkour in the last year.

Height: 5'10
Weight: 180

So I started exercising again, because I wanted to start doing Parkour again now that I'm (mostly) out of school and have more free time.

Recently, I did the WOD for Monday and Tuesday of this week.

Monday:
-Managed to scramble over a 4 foot high fence. Good sign. Didn't get over it too quickly though, and dropping 4 feet seemed to hurt a bit. Note to self, don't drop.
-Did some cat hangs on a handicapped ramp, that was nice.
-Did some QM. Was hard because I couldn't really balance myself or get low enough.
-Noticed I had about no endurance whatsoever.

Tuesday:
-Couldn't do 1 hand pushups or pistols at all. Did regular two legged squats instead, 3x20.
-3x10 pushups. Because I'm weak.

I will keep at the WOD and formulate a list of (more realistic) goals to work towards.

Current Short Term Goal: 50 total pushups.

Current Long Term Goal: Handstand pushup. Pistol.