Where to start? The gymnastics gym was great! It has been so long for me, especially since the last time I was there I received an injury that caused me to nearly bite through my bottom lip. I was attempting a wall front flip and did it but I landed while still tucked and the force of impact shoved my knees into my face. Well this time was different. I had no busted lips, ankle sprains, knee irritations, or ripped callouses. I was rockin'.
We got there and there was a Capoeira Demo Team there along with some trickers and a small group of parkour people. I introduced myself and my group that included my girlfriend and my roommate. I warmed up with dynamic kicks, stretches, and some rolling to get my blood flowing and immediately jumped in to the activities starting with some parkour vaults and quickly moving on to tricks into the foam pit.
Shortly after some more guys within the parkour community showed up and again I introduced everyone. Periodically more and more people would flow in and soon we had a large group of talented, fearless acrobats. Personally, I threw a bunch of new moves that I never thought I'd learn, or land. One of which is a flashy spin using only the hands of a vertical surface.
My girlfriend and roommate both tried their first backflips, a friend from school tried (and landed) his first wallspins and wallflips. I witnessed many amazing moves and techniques and even got to teach my personal method of retaining balance and precision jumping (jumping for one small, thin object to another).
At 6:30 we left out of the gym and got another guy to go have lunch/dinner with us at one of our traditional spots, Moe's Southwest Grill. We were HUNGRY so the food didn't last long, but we stayed in there for almost two hours talking about parkour and science and travel and all sorts of great things. That is one thing you can always rely on the parkour community for: quirky, but intelligent conversation. Many traceurs have extensive travel experience and generally love to move about and roam and explore so hearing about their times on road trips, or out of the country is always fun.
The next three days I was amazingly sore. For an entire day I didn't leave the room because of how hard I was going at the gym, but it was worth it.
To see some of these moves and fun gym times:
3Run
And for some AMAZING freerunning:
Tapp Brothers
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