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South Dakota / Re: Sioux Falls Area Parkour
« on: October 23, 2011, 05:06:45 PM »
Seems like we're the only ones on the east side of SD, I've seen a few people at the falls from time to time though. Let me know if you want to meet up there sometime. I'll be there every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until it starts snowing, or gets ridiculously cold.

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Parkour And Freerunning / Re: Fear of...success?
« on: October 19, 2011, 08:25:29 AM »
From the first example it sounds more like a fear of trying it.  Or do you mean that you're not happy once you do it?

If it's the second one try telling yourself this.

Happiness comes from the journey, not the end point.  It's not about getting to the end, it's how you got there. The small things are what matters.

Another thing to try is every time you do something good, congratulate yourself. It may feel empty when you say it, but it will set you up to become confident in everything that you do.

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General Fitness / How would I increase broad jumps
« on: October 15, 2011, 01:59:58 PM »
I used the search bar, maybe I didn't search the right phrase but I couldn't find the information I wanted.

Anyway, how would I condition to increase broad jump length?

Would it just be like deadlifts, powercleans, and squats?  You know besides just practicing broad jumps.

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General Fitness / Re: I need help getting ready to do parkour.
« on: October 10, 2011, 06:05:31 PM »
You might want to consider buying whey protein shake powder, you can find it in chocolate or vanilla flavors, mix it in with whole milk. You should get some gain from that if you work out.

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Injuries - Discussion / Re: Sprained ankel rehab/prevention questions.
« on: October 02, 2011, 09:22:51 PM »
Thank you for the help I really appreciate it.

I actually needed to work balance a bit more anyway, so I can make a gain from a loss, and continue to move.

Also I will probably be wearing my Vibrams quite a bit more often, too bad I bought the wrong pair a long time ago. Might have to go in and get KSO's instead.

But again, thx.

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Injuries - Discussion / Sprained ankel rehab/prevention questions.
« on: October 02, 2011, 07:09:12 AM »
About 2 weeks ago I sprained my ankle while attempting attempting to jump up a flight of stairs, and ended up jumping off the side of my foot, I ended up crawling back to my car, immediately icing it, and have been keeping compression on it and icing it for a while.

About 4 days after the incident, I could walk on it lightly without too much pain.  Now I'm walking on it fine painfree, and I have almost all of my range back.  However, it hurts to run on it. (I haven't been full out sprinting or anything like that on it, just an occasional quick jog to see if it hurts.)

The question I have is, should I try to lightly  (Very lightly) jog on it to try to get back some of the range of motion, or should I just wait longer until it doesn't hurt whatsoever?

This is specifically where it hurts when pressing on it with my fingers, the circle represents the area it hurts, and the arrow shows in which way to apply pressure to entice the pain.



Now the second question is based on prevention.  Recently I got new shoes, specifically, Puma Biorides.

Due to having flat feet I put in insoles that are supposed to put arches in my feet, however they place my feet higher(mabey 1/4-1/2 an inch) in a shoe  that already have some arch support on it.

After the incident I took the insoles out, and put the old insoles back in.  Do you think this would help in preventing another ankle sprain?

I also have the shoe completely laced up, would taking the top lace off help at all?






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South Dakota / Sioux Falls Area Parkour
« on: September 24, 2011, 11:15:34 AM »
It seems as if the parkour community in South Dakota has been growing, which is deffinitly a good thing.  And because of this, I'de like to make an updated thread on the people Practicing in the Sioux Falls area.

If you could, just post here.

Some info you could include if you wanted could be your name, relative location to Sioux falls, where you train, or even some of your personalities.

Hopefully we can bring the Sioux Falls Area Traceurs/Traceuses together and have some fun.

I'll start off.

My name is Tom,  I live in Hartford a town roughly 15 miles away from Sioux Falls.  I usually train at the falls, however you could also find me running around downtown quite often.


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Diet / Re: I need a *quick* fix
« on: May 27, 2011, 03:17:29 PM »
I tend to eat a lot more during the day if I don't eat breakfast, It's not such a big deal now because of summer time, but during school I would eat a much larger lunch if I didn't have breakfast.

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Parkour / Re: Help with catpass/diving kong (vids)
« on: May 16, 2011, 06:36:37 AM »
Looking back at the vid, I noticed that I'm not getting my body quite parallel, anything I could do to get my hips or legs up higher? I'm trying to get enough distance to kong a picnic table the long ways, but I keep catching about 8 inches short of the end of the table.  I also seem to stutter step trying it on a picnic table rather than the couch :/

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MO Jams - Meet - Experiences / Re: Saturday, Weekly-Springfield
« on: May 15, 2011, 07:56:47 PM »
Does this still go on every sat? I'm heading down to Springfield for about a month and a half so it would be cool to train with a few people here.

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Parkour / Help with catpass/diving kong (vids)
« on: May 12, 2011, 05:16:17 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZo2lNPwKNA

Right after this video, I started turning my head so it faced downwards and it seemed to go a bit smoother, but what else could I improve on? Technique wise.

Also, notice the cat one-up'ing me in the first vid. :P

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South Dakota / Re: South Dakota... Traceur population: ???
« on: May 12, 2011, 10:37:43 AM »
Also out here in sioux falls, have a couple of friends that are a little bit into parkour, but not really for the right reasons.

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Parkour / Half-step takeoff?
« on: May 12, 2011, 10:34:49 AM »
After seeing my friend perform his takeoffs, i noticed he has a combination of the two foot punch takeoff, and the split step method.

He does this thing I kind of refer to as a half-step takeoff.  It's like running but on the last step, rather than taking a full step he brings his weak foot up to his forward setting foot and jumps.   It's like a split-foot takeoff except the fact that he places the feet next to each other.  It seems that he is getting the speed and momentum from a splitfoot takeoff, but also getting the high from 2 foot punch takeoff.   It's not exactly as high as a 2 foot nor has the momentum of a splitfoot step but it has more momentum then a 2 foot punch and more height than a splitfoot.

So, should I be practicing these as well or should I keep using split-foot and 2 foot punches depending on the obstacle?

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Diet / I need a *quick* fix
« on: May 11, 2011, 08:48:14 PM »
Due to the fact that I'm a fairly late riser, and I go to school I need a quick breakfast that is easy to make.  I'm just looking for some examples.

What I'm eating now on most days: Cheerios with 2% reduced fat milk, 2 slices of meat (Either turkey or ham), a piece of fruit, and a V8.

I would prefer to get a more paleo style of breakfast, but I don't really have time to make eggs or cook something in the morning.

I've thought of one idea so far, leftovers, but I don't really want to always eat the same meal twice in a row.

Hopefully I could enjoy some of your breakfast ideas.

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General Fitness / Re: Are Weights Needed to Reach These?
« on: May 11, 2011, 06:00:46 PM »
I'm sure one of the moderators will help you later, but for now, I can hopefully hint you a little bit in the right direction. 

http://www.eatmoveimprove.com/2010/03/the-fundamentals-of-bodyweight-strength-training/

Body weight training works very well for your upper body and core, but as far as I'm aware weight training is superior for legs.

Make sure to include negative handstand push-ups in your workout and dips, they will really help a lot with these, as for the L-sit, if you can't do it on the ground yet, stretch your hamstrings a lot, and possibly start on either a pull-up bar or parallel bars.

Hopefully someone will come and give you a bit more info soon.

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Injuries - Discussion / Re: right shoulder/back pain
« on: May 11, 2011, 09:34:04 AM »
Sure, I know you have a deeper background on things such as this than I do, but if I don't have to waste money going to a physical therapist, chiropractor, or a doctor I really don't want to.  If I still have this pain in a few days I'll go in and get it checked out, or I'll have a school physical therapist check it out. Despite this I'm trying to keep a positive outlook for parkour in my dads eyes.

If it keeps bothering me, I will take your advice and go to the chiropractor or therapist soon.


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Injuries - Discussion / Re: right shoulder/back pain
« on: May 11, 2011, 06:23:42 AM »
Sense It went away and came back soon as I did some strenuous activity, such as pull-ups which I really haven't done a whole lot of, I'm thinking that it's over stretched muscles. I noticed the popping was because I was bringing that shoulder forward which was making it easier to pop.   I'm gunna give it about 3 days and see if it goes away again.

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Injuries - Discussion / right shoulder/back pain
« on: May 11, 2011, 05:09:15 AM »
The pain seems very similar to what matt said on this thread.

http://www.americanparkour.com/smf/index.php/topic,14190.0.html

It's on my back near my right shoulder blade to the left of it, but I'm not quite sure how I got it either.  I've had it for a while, like about 10 days, but It doesn't always hurt, like 10 days ago it hurt, but for about 3 days after that it stopped hurting, until I started doing more technique training once I started training again after I took off my wrist splint from a sprain. I'de rather not go to the doctor right away, so if you could possibly give me any tips to try to get over it myself that would be pretty neat.

Edit: It seems as if it's a lot easier to pop my bones in my shoulder blade area now there? When I roll my shoulder it keeps popping near my right shoulder blade, it doesn't hurt but I could do it before, but it pops a bit louder and it's easier now.

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General Fitness / Re: Workout Routine (needs modifications)
« on: May 09, 2011, 12:54:05 PM »
The only reason I'm doing wrist exercises is because I'm doing minor rehab on a sprain I had on it, and I don't want to sprain it again.   The A and B thing seems pretty smart, I'll reorganize a system later for that in a bit and start on it soon.  I'll probably cut out the pushups but the only reason I was doing those is because I need to work up the over head strength to do handstand pushups, I've been doing feet raised and body going down to get as much weight as i can onto my arms for that. I just learned about the dynamic and static stretching today, I'll try to incorporate that too, I've been doing only static stretches.

Thx for the help :)

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South Dakota / Falls Park, Sioux Falls meet up. 5/14/11
« on: May 09, 2011, 10:06:05 AM »
It's not really going to be a jam or anything, but I'll be there this Saturday, May 14 2011. I'm kind of just interested in meeting some of the people around the area that may have an interest in either starting parkour, or that are already practicing it.   I'll probably be there from around 1:00 pm to around 3:00 pm, if you want to contact me just hit me up with an email.   wolfpack.101@gmail.com

Edit: I will be there around 3:00 to 5:00, around 12:00 to 2:00 im busy getting tint in my car.  Hopefully I will still see a few people there.

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