Hi everyone!
This is a video we made on Wednesday last week, I have only just got round to finishing it because I was having trouble exporting.
We have been training at the area for a couple of months now so decided just to record a few things and post them. We just want advice really on what we are doing wrong, but if there are any good things let us know. I tried my best with the edit, it’s not great, but I am learning. It would be great to talk with some guys who are experienced with premier.
I’m in the black trousers and Chris is wearing camos.
Happy viewing and please post your opinions and any constructive criticism!
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Ross and Chris Training Vid
Ross Gym Training
No updates for a while so we have a feast of vids to show you. First here is Ross training gymnastics in the gym.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
2nd Feb Friday Chemistry Sandwhich!
As i mentioned last week, we are able to use our free periods on a friday afternoon to train. We brought along a close mate who wanted to try parkour first hand. We started with some climbing practise at the swings. Then headed to the back of the estate to drill some precisions. Chris and Myself both did one we had never done previously:
Afterwards we headed to the playground for genral training and i managed a new precision:
Afterwards we headed to the playground for genral training and i managed a new precision:
Last Day in Jan - Training
After College Myself, Chris and Lao headed to Ivy for a bit of training. We started out with a little pktag to warm up. We later drilled some precisions and arm jumps. Chris and I experimented with rail arm jump grips and found a new arm jump. Lao did the running/steppingstone arm jump and drilled it to about 2pm, when he headed back. As a warm down the two of us headed to the disused swing to practise climbups and balance. Here are some videos from the day:
These are the arm jump rail grips, also used in the mission
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Ross & Chris Friday Ivy Training
Hello everyone, big update today!
Both Chris’ and my own college timetable have a three and a half hour gap on Friday afternoon. We decided that we should use this time to train at the Ivybridge estate. After stashing our bags in a mate’s locker we jogged to our destination. We headed straight to the playground area to warm up.
The playground area is one of the best places I have ever trained. It is really interesting because it has such a combination of different surfaces and shapes. It is enclosed by both a tall rail, and a low wall, making for some excellent combinations. In the middle of the playground, there is a frame, which has a climbing wall either side. We used this to practise the grip on our cat leaps. We experimented with many different combinations of grips and it encouraged us to be really creative. Only one realistic combination eluded us, as shown in the video below.
This shows our completed grip combinations.
Here is the mini video we made.
After a few playground missions we headed to the back of the estate where there are a couple of nice walls and rails. The walls rise up from a big metal grate, which is a great incentive to land your cat leaps cleanly. We decided to start a mission after spotting a few interesting structures on the walls. They serve as grips but actually hold the rail to the wall. We filmed our second attempt however we got it a lot faster afterwards. You will have to wait for Wednesday for that!
I found it very interesting that Chris and myself placed our hands on the rail differently. I found it easier to put my swinging hand over my holding hand. I believed this gave me more of a pivot to swing on. An analogy would be a weight on a longer string having more momentum. However we both completed it at a similar pace.
After that we headed round a few metres to a really interesting, derelict area. It has three different levels of concrete blocks, which lead to a cat leap. The most challenging part is being able to look up and spot the cat leap after treading on the blocks. However we both completed it in the end.
We later explored a couple of places we hadn’t really been before. I definitely spotted some awesome precisions I want to do this year.
As it approached 3.00pm it started to drizzle so we decided to head back via Tescos. However we hadn’t warmed down so I convinced Chris to jam in the playground one last time. After looking at some massive precisions earlier, I got up to one I had wanted to do ever since I first jammed there. Suddenly I just realised it was nothing and that I could do it. So I did. I felt so pleased; the hang time was the best part. Here it is on film.
From now on we will be holding regular sessions on Wed and Fri afternoons. Friday being more strength based. Thanks for reading and please feel free to leave comments or drop us an email.
Peace. Ross.
Both Chris’ and my own college timetable have a three and a half hour gap on Friday afternoon. We decided that we should use this time to train at the Ivybridge estate. After stashing our bags in a mate’s locker we jogged to our destination. We headed straight to the playground area to warm up.
The playground area is one of the best places I have ever trained. It is really interesting because it has such a combination of different surfaces and shapes. It is enclosed by both a tall rail, and a low wall, making for some excellent combinations. In the middle of the playground, there is a frame, which has a climbing wall either side. We used this to practise the grip on our cat leaps. We experimented with many different combinations of grips and it encouraged us to be really creative. Only one realistic combination eluded us, as shown in the video below.
This shows our completed grip combinations.
Here is the mini video we made.
After a few playground missions we headed to the back of the estate where there are a couple of nice walls and rails. The walls rise up from a big metal grate, which is a great incentive to land your cat leaps cleanly. We decided to start a mission after spotting a few interesting structures on the walls. They serve as grips but actually hold the rail to the wall. We filmed our second attempt however we got it a lot faster afterwards. You will have to wait for Wednesday for that!
I found it very interesting that Chris and myself placed our hands on the rail differently. I found it easier to put my swinging hand over my holding hand. I believed this gave me more of a pivot to swing on. An analogy would be a weight on a longer string having more momentum. However we both completed it at a similar pace.
After that we headed round a few metres to a really interesting, derelict area. It has three different levels of concrete blocks, which lead to a cat leap. The most challenging part is being able to look up and spot the cat leap after treading on the blocks. However we both completed it in the end.
We later explored a couple of places we hadn’t really been before. I definitely spotted some awesome precisions I want to do this year.
As it approached 3.00pm it started to drizzle so we decided to head back via Tescos. However we hadn’t warmed down so I convinced Chris to jam in the playground one last time. After looking at some massive precisions earlier, I got up to one I had wanted to do ever since I first jammed there. Suddenly I just realised it was nothing and that I could do it. So I did. I felt so pleased; the hang time was the best part. Here it is on film.
From now on we will be holding regular sessions on Wed and Fri afternoons. Friday being more strength based. Thanks for reading and please feel free to leave comments or drop us an email.
Peace. Ross.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
A new year and new surroundings
First of all, happy New Year everyone!
We had the most amazing session today. We jammed at a place called the Ivybridge Estate. It has to be one of the best places to train not only because of the variety of different spots, but also its similarity to the estates in Lisses. From what we saw it has everything, and DC and Nick only showed us their select spots. We started off at the disused swing area.
There are tonnes of rails there for balancing and precisioning. The main attraction is this long rail, which gets progressively unstable the further you go down. Such an interesting way to improve balance. No doubt it will add a little competition to spur us on in our training!
Next was another flat building area with many bollards. The bollards go round in semi-circle and I was the closest to making it all the way round, it was just the wall that defeated me!
Then next was the playground area. Here were some precisions again, some wall to rail and wall to wall. Everyone was having go and the adrenaline was pumping. Law did get frustrated at one point where he kept bouncing off the wall for a wall to wall precision I’m sure he will get it next week as he had a break for personal reasons. Jo and I also made the precision. Joe did it after a two month lay off. Kudos to him!
Next we went to a nice wall which we were able to cat leap to. It had an element of height to which played with the minds of the NBT members but Chris and me managed to make it with some average climb ups!
Then DC and Nick had to leave and we were left to our own devices. So we played “Parkour Tag” in the playground. It was one of the most rewarding parts of the jam as we could really see ourselves progressing in that area. We all could now balance on the bollards without falling off. It just shows there are many different ways to train. Try it if your jam needs some livening up!
P.S On Chris’s car leap, DC gives his nod of approval after munching on a kettle chip!
Chris cat leap:
Ross's cat leap:
Chris's kong to cat:
We had the most amazing session today. We jammed at a place called the Ivybridge Estate. It has to be one of the best places to train not only because of the variety of different spots, but also its similarity to the estates in Lisses. From what we saw it has everything, and DC and Nick only showed us their select spots. We started off at the disused swing area.
There are tonnes of rails there for balancing and precisioning. The main attraction is this long rail, which gets progressively unstable the further you go down. Such an interesting way to improve balance. No doubt it will add a little competition to spur us on in our training!
Next was another flat building area with many bollards. The bollards go round in semi-circle and I was the closest to making it all the way round, it was just the wall that defeated me!
Then next was the playground area. Here were some precisions again, some wall to rail and wall to wall. Everyone was having go and the adrenaline was pumping. Law did get frustrated at one point where he kept bouncing off the wall for a wall to wall precision I’m sure he will get it next week as he had a break for personal reasons. Jo and I also made the precision. Joe did it after a two month lay off. Kudos to him!
Next we went to a nice wall which we were able to cat leap to. It had an element of height to which played with the minds of the NBT members but Chris and me managed to make it with some average climb ups!
Then DC and Nick had to leave and we were left to our own devices. So we played “Parkour Tag” in the playground. It was one of the most rewarding parts of the jam as we could really see ourselves progressing in that area. We all could now balance on the bollards without falling off. It just shows there are many different ways to train. Try it if your jam needs some livening up!
P.S On Chris’s car leap, DC gives his nod of approval after munching on a kettle chip!
Chris cat leap:
Ross's cat leap:
Chris's kong to cat:
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Belated update
So it's been errrrm 2-3 weeks since the last update. Since then the group has kind of got back into training regulary, well sort of. It's the winter season what do you expect!
We;re gonna make wednesday afternoon sessions, conditioning sessions. So with the one just gone we did our circuit at the library. Since it was ross, nath and i there we each took in turns to do climb ups with a rail as a handle and the wall was only waist height, walking on a rail (which gets more wonky as you move along), climb ups on a wall about 7-8ft and jumping on a waist high wall with two feet take off. Each time we did it for 1 min and we tried to do as many as we could. Then we would say how many we done and the challenge was the next person to beat it. I have to say it was pretty good to do and will build out upper body strength and its endurance. Next was leg work.
So basically nick aka Rip suggested that to improve the distance of your precisions you obviously need to improve your leg muscles. So we went to our relatively easy precision spot. The distance is only 7-8 feet (my own feet). What we had to do was bend our legs so that they were a 90 degrees keeping our backs as straight as possible. It's almost as if you're getting ready for takeoff but there is a delay, a delay of 10 seconds and then you jump and land. We did that 10 times. It hurts your quads after that, really tired.
However after that ross managed this bin precision which can be seen on the PKVM4 episode soon.
bin precision on Vimeo
A week earlier i trained with chris and lao but with chris and just me for the first hour. It was 3 weeks for him since his last sess and he is now getting back into the swing of things.
He did this sort of drop down thing with a roll. hard to describe, just watch.
drop down on Vimeo
So this sunday will be hopefully training at the southbank, apparently lao needs some inspiration and rich just wants to go.
With the christmas period coming, from everyone here, have a happy christmas :D
We;re gonna make wednesday afternoon sessions, conditioning sessions. So with the one just gone we did our circuit at the library. Since it was ross, nath and i there we each took in turns to do climb ups with a rail as a handle and the wall was only waist height, walking on a rail (which gets more wonky as you move along), climb ups on a wall about 7-8ft and jumping on a waist high wall with two feet take off. Each time we did it for 1 min and we tried to do as many as we could. Then we would say how many we done and the challenge was the next person to beat it. I have to say it was pretty good to do and will build out upper body strength and its endurance. Next was leg work.
So basically nick aka Rip suggested that to improve the distance of your precisions you obviously need to improve your leg muscles. So we went to our relatively easy precision spot. The distance is only 7-8 feet (my own feet). What we had to do was bend our legs so that they were a 90 degrees keeping our backs as straight as possible. It's almost as if you're getting ready for takeoff but there is a delay, a delay of 10 seconds and then you jump and land. We did that 10 times. It hurts your quads after that, really tired.
However after that ross managed this bin precision which can be seen on the PKVM4 episode soon.
bin precision on Vimeo
A week earlier i trained with chris and lao but with chris and just me for the first hour. It was 3 weeks for him since his last sess and he is now getting back into the swing of things.
He did this sort of drop down thing with a roll. hard to describe, just watch.
drop down on Vimeo
So this sunday will be hopefully training at the southbank, apparently lao needs some inspiration and rich just wants to go.
With the christmas period coming, from everyone here, have a happy christmas :D
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