American Parkour

I appreciate all the helpful input from you guys, i think i will try what Sam said about raising my second knee up. Overall i think i just need more strength and power.

Ok sounds great! I'll get you my cell number when i receive your PM. See you then!

I was bored one day and in my room, watching youtube, and one of the related videos was "How to jump of high things and not get hurt". So i watched it and thought that was cool, i didn't even know that was possible at the time, (it was simply doing rolls). And i look in the comments and there were alot of disslikes and people saying, Thats not a parkour roll, or, You will just hurt yourself that way. So i typed in, Parkour Roll, and Ryan Doyle's parkour roll came up. I watched it and tried to do a very simple roll in my bedroom (the type where you hold your foot). I finally succeed after 5 minutes and thought it was fun. So i continued to the normal roll, and found that this mysterious "parkour" thing was about doing vaults and ninja like moves. My goal was to get all of the basic movements down, and i have achieved that goal, thanks to a crappy and incorrect PK roll video =). I've been doing PK for about 9 months now and counting.

Hey, what's up, I'm Steph, a freerunner from Denver CO. I'm going to St. Olaf next year, and am beyond thrilled that there's a pk scene (it was one of my biggest priorities when choosing a college). I take it pretty seriously haha. I love to train, it's the best thing in the world. I'm going to be moving to Northfield around August... we should definitely train, yeah?

Sorry for the very late response, i haven't been checking on this post in a while. I think it would be fun to do parkour with someone else, just let me know when and if you are going to go training, i live close to st.Olaf, and i know some decent places for PK. We could definitely meet up for some parkour/freerunning  =D

Wow you can do flips (which i cant do). But i can do rolls! And dive rolls. Anyways my point was that rolling was the first thing i did, this video was my complete guide through this process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPd29MlHpg

Yeah, There is a Brick, oddly designed Bank Near my house that could by an amazing climb if you had the skill. It has Gapped Planters and Perfect rails too. I drool when I walk by it; but, I enjoy my freedom so I leave it alone.

Is it wrong that I want the Bank to shut down just so I can Play there?

I know! i feel that alot, like Hmm this would be fun, but i cant do that. And if it does close  down let me know!

my theory is that if you dont have to move anything to get up on the roof, then you haven't done anything illegal and all they can do is tell you to get down..

I like this =)

Congrats.

But, just don't do anything illegal or dangerous.

Thanks, im not sure if i will be able to keep myself from doing something illegal, and by that i mean climb ontop of the school again. But if i did, i would be safe, do it rarely when no one is around, and leave everything the way it was.
But for now i am just learning ground moves, cant even get the cartwheel lol. But today i just learned the dash vault!!! It soooo fun!

Anyone else do parkour in Northfield, MN? I feel like im the only one out of the 20k population. Trying to teach some friends but they are either too fat, lazy or play too much WoW.

BTW i just heard about the fight or flight academy, does anyone know if they have an open gym day? How much?

Learned a 10 -11 ft wall run 2 days ago, and just an hour ago i learned a kong in my living room! (its a little longer than normal)

I want in!
Ill do one for Shamas, because michael b87 has a hernia =(

Do a tic tac over a fence...

OR

Do a 11 - 12 foot wall climb. Make sure to scream like an ape if you do so =D

ill do Parkour and fitness and buildering (i think thats just climbing buildings right? if it is then that is my favorite choice!)
Im new so i have no idea what spotting/sighting is =)

Im a newbie so i know no tricks =)

But i like the wall climb, allows for very scenic adventures