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: