I'm proud of myself this week. I feel like I have worked very hard, both in my academic life and in my personal life. I've had a bunch of school work, but that can be said for anyone towards the end of the last semester in college. It's crazy how much time it takes up though. I am actually using more time in college for school than I was in high school with 6 classes giving out mandatory homework a day, band practices and football games, parkour training, and having a social life. It's crazy, but not all that surprising I guess. I knew I'd have to work hard, but I figured that would be to learn the concepts which was how it was last semester. Instead, I'm working hard so I can do arbitrary homework.

I'm my training life, however, things are going great. I should let my body rest though, because I can feel it start to break down. The parkour training at SPSU has become a little more regular and a lot more intense. Now, I have incorporated distance running, sprints, Quadrupedal Movement (QM), vaults and passments, and ad hoc techniques that are rarely practiced into just the warm up! I get a better total body work out outside using only my body than any of the guys pumping iron in the weight room. I'm not saying weight training is bad, but to see what I mean, do QM for 10-20 meters. You work muscles you didn't know existed.

I'm currently working on planche progressions and they are going well. Though I must admit, it's hard to progress on an upper body exercise when your arms are dead tired from two training days in a row. For anyone wondering, a planche is where you support your entire body weight on your hands in a pushup position. A planche looks like this:
Straddle Planche
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As you can see, they are extraordinarily difficult. I hope I will be able to get straddle planches by the end of this coming summer.

Speaking of parkour, my parkour community decided to have a little fun yesterday (April Fool's). One of the guys on Overflux (our forum) posted that his knees were in too much pain from parkour and that he had to stop. I wished him well along with a few others and then his training partner started attacking him for always whining and not training and yada yada. It became a big s###storm (or rather the illusion of one) and I made a post that can be summed up like this: "wtf?". After posting I immediately realized what the date was and replied saying: "At least no one "hacked" the site, dicks :p" (Referencing the previous years April Fool's Joke). All in all it was a great day.

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