Training With Laws and Richard

On the weekend I made my way to Teddington to do some light training with Laws, and Richard. Who is starting to get back into regular training after giving up some time back. After scouting the area for a bit, we found some new scaffolding had been put up and proceeded to do a little bit of strength and swing training on it. After that we tried to construct some small runs on it and I found a new technique for swinging with one arm. Here is a video with my run on taken on Laws Mobile.

After some more training we decided to head to the teddington locks where there are some very nice, grippy walls and some benches outside a small boat shop. The owners had never complained about us using the place to train so we thought nothing of climbing on and around the walls. Anyway me and Law set ourselves a goal to get proper two hand climb ups and a faster speed. After about half an hour, this is the result!

Ross:

Law:

During the filming of this we were accused by a community officer of breaking a concrete block plain in half. We tried to reason with her but she just assumed that it was us without any proof or reasoning and told us to go as the area was private property. The “NBT” and indeed the “TT” have all trained there previously with no trouble. Midway through talking to us she got a call on her radio telling her to stop and “interrogate” the old man who didn’t get off his bike while riding across the bridge. Community officers, making “bridges in their community”. Yeah my arse. These offices are causing way more problems then they are solving and their inexperienced methods often leave to conflicts and arguments. Which is of course not a good thing. Often its way better and more civilised to talk to people and do some research into the activities of the community before branding people as criminals etc. We tried to enquire whether the place was private property and came to the conclusion that it probably wasn’t. However we ill check to make sure. Rant over.

We then went to the library and filmed some runs. On this run I was trying to do with minimal steps and hesitation. I’m still not pleased with it but I thought id put it up because I need help with getting my left foot up as you can see in the vid!

Overall a great session barring the Officer. Next blog will be Sunday night probabally!