Update & Holiday

I've not posted in months so I thought I should say something at least. I've been away for the last two weeks on holidays up in Queensland on both the Gold and Sunshine Coast. My knee is now better and my only real problem is my hip, but I'm managing. 

To be completely honest, I have not progressed at all, in fact, I have gotten worse and lost a lot of my confidence because I hadn't done anything for maybe about 2-3 months because of my knee. But I still managed to try and do my best and this time, for the first time ever, I brought a Video Camera! SO I went and got all these tapes and it turns out I didn't really use them, but I did get about 10 minutes  of footage but nothing worth making a fuss of though. 

One thing I was really proud of was the fact I attempted my very first backflip! I was walking along the beach for a walk with my Dad and he said "Go and do a backflip off that rail." I said "What?!!!" I thought he was joking but he was serious, I knew I could do it without difficulty but its one thing to be physically able to do it and mentally able to do it. So I took my Dad to the sand and told him how to Spot a person. We practiced for 10 minutes in front of my brother who had the camera on him. I was getting confident, still not confident enough to flip off a rail (it was about 1 meter 20) but still enough to keep going, that was until I landed on my neck. I couldn't do much for the rest of the day because it caused so much pain.

While up on the Sunshine Coast, I saw a guy (called Adam) showing off his flips and tricks, running up a wall and backflipping, jumping down a flight of 30 stairs and so I went up and asked if he did parkour. He did but has never attended a class. In the end he ended up helping me with my backflips. I still had a spotter but was doing all the work and they were just there for my confidence, then he took me to the wall and helped me there, in the end, I backflipped from about 1 meter up the wall and landed, unfortunately I did not have the camera at the time and I never met him again. 

On the way home we stopped at a beach at Coffs Harbor (about 6 hours from Sydney and 5 hours from the Gold Coast) and there I did a flip on my own without my Dad. I'm so pleased and I know I will get better with them as for parkour, I will be starting to attend training sessions and sessions a lot form now on.

Here is a quick video of two of my flips, they are not the best ones but the only ones I could find for the time, the first one is probably my 8th ever attempt, and I think Dad did a bit of the work but I am better now, the lat one is my injury, it doesn't look that bad in this video, but thats because of the camera angle, it really was a bad landing. 

Enjoy (sort of???)

Peace Josh - Eveevedayoflondonfun

No More Parkour!

Am not aloud to do parkour or any other sport for AT LEAST a month!

I have go a problem with my right knee where the outside muscle pulls the knee-cap out of place because the inside ones aren't as strong. this is painful and I fall over all the time. The physiotherapist  says I will make a comeback and I will find things easier then before but I have to do these SUPER ANNOYING, EVEN MORE PAINFUL EXERCISES! 

And to make that better I've just now got it in my left knee and how to do the same work on it!

Oh well, I'm going to have to do them cause, what else can I do? I'm just hoping that she is right and it will become easier so I can comeback and start training.  Especially now that I can train on most weekends with Antek and some other people at Sutherland! 

Look forwards to coming.

Josh

Pushups Record!

I have been training and conditioning really hard lately. 

I just wanted to say that I have broken my personal best record in pushups, I have reached 50 in one set witch is really very hard when you think about it and requires quite a fair bit of strength.

Also, I have been practicing handstands as a result of a saw knee I got from the parkour class but I have had problems and pain for a while there, I think I may have the early stages of Osgood-Schlatters. Any way I can nearly hold a handstand for as long as I want, you get to a stage when your not going to fall unless you want to. So I can nearly there, still not perfect yet, also I am trying to get a raise handstand. I have no chance at the moment as I am still not strong enough yet but will have that as my goal by say, end of August, and if I don't get it, well, I'll keep trying.

Bye For Now!

Josh

Peace/Piax

Here is a photo of one of my handstands. (Sorry, Video camera is broken so took a photo)

Sydney Parkour Class

Just quickly as it comes to mind,

If anyone who is in Sydney or likes driving REALY long distances is interested in starting or wishing to continue doing parkour, just feel free to come along to a Pyrmont class.

All of the necessary details are posted on the following site and much more.

Oh and also, if they have not fixed it yet, the classes actually now end at 4:00pm not 5:00pm anymore.

http://www.sydneyparkour.com

Sydney Parkour Class 13-07-2008

Yesterday was great as it was a sunday free. My family and I went to the city to go to the parkour class (obviously just my brother and I actually did the session, although they do encourage people of all ages and there are the occasional parents). I practiced muscle-ups on a tree with Antek before we started, and learnt a lot. When we started, we split up into two groups, first time and not first time, I went into first time even though I had been there before, this was because Tyler wanted to do it again and I had his drink-bottle. We did warm-ups, vaults, roles, arm-jumps, and tic-tacks before doing very painful conditioning then just some cool-downs. 

It was a great class but I wish I had done the other class, even if I was not able to do everything, I would have learnt a bit more. 

I have been trying to keep fit for parkour by doing these things in the morning and afternoon:

50 pushups in one set 

50 sit-ups in one set

15 seconds of the side thing on each side

and anything else I can think of on the spot.

I can already see the benefits as a couple of months ago I struggles doing 10 pushups.

Also, I hope to be training just locally with a guy from Sutherland called Antek, he is thinking about training with whoever soon.

Peace

Josh - Traceur

Parkour Training Blog

Just the other moment, while talking to a friend called Antek, I decided that from now on this will become my Parkour training blog! Hooray for me! If you don't know what it is, well…, well…, I'll tell you.

Parkour is a new French-discipline/sport/art, it is not very well recognized and usually given the wrong impression. Trasceurs (People who participate in parkour) are often seen as trespassers or idiots that just jump off buildings for fun. No that's not it at all. The idea is trying to get from A to B as efficiently and quick as humanly possible. It requires a lot of strength and fitness. Trasceurs are not just trying to clear the physical obstacles in the path, but also the mental obstacles. Vaults are common in parkour as it is the easiest way to clear an obstacle, just simply jump place hands on it and somehow get the rest of your body over. Flips and tricks are often thought to be parkour, but they actually belong to Free Running, (if you like parkour's brother). They are very similar but free running does not have to be efficient, so thinks like flips which use a lot of energy, is used are included.

Anyway, yes, I will dedicate this blog to my parkour and training, however, I will occasionally give an update of my band Lights Out (even though, we may change the name).

Any ways, got to go train.

Peace

New Guitar!

Today I bought a new Epiphone Limited Edition Pirates of the Caribbean Les Paul Studio!
I understand some people see it as a childs guitar because of the Pirates Of The Caribbean thing, but I don't care because its actually a very good guitar. Its worth $1,000 but I picked up a new one for $400 THATS A WHOLE 60% OFF! THATS INSANE! Any way here is a picture:

Amazing Parkour Video

This is quite an amazing video, this is not the original, the real video had different music and was an add for BBC tv. This is David Bele*, this is the founder of the art/sport/discipline and as you can see, very good at parkour. I added this video in particular because I like how the music sort of works (Especially at the beginning).
Enjoy,
Josh

Random Post

It's almost winter and half yearly exams are fast approaching, I just hate this time of the year. The point being I have slacked off with my Parkour training lately, and we haven't practiced in our band for a very long time! This upsets me. But not to worry, I'll get over this.
Okay today my friend Daniel was doing something on the computer with another friend, I wasn't paying that much attention, however I did notice that others were gathering around. Later he told me that they were on a website that could give an answer to any question you could ask it. E.G. How old am I? Peters Answer: 17. He went on to tell me the website name, www.peteranswerscom .
When I got on to this site I repeatedly typed the petition followed by a question and nothing happened. I soon realized that this was a tick you could pull on a friend. What I figured was the other friend was actually putting the answer into the petition without Daniel realizing. This simply means, when you type random letters into the petition it comes up as what you have typed, but, if you start with a "." thats right a fullstop, it starts a P in the petition, now type the answer to the question you will ask E.G. " .Parkour " It will come up as: " Peter, p " When you have written the answer but the pettition has not been finish, put another "." to end it and then continue with the actual petition.
It was a clever trick and can be use as a great prank! Some people will never get it.
Any Way, Bye For Now
Josh