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Training from the last 2 weeks.
Thanks to Zak WINston for some of the filmings
Enjoy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDoEl4QCVIM

Yay, my name is mentioned!
Cool video Mike, some really awesome stuff in there. Huuuuuuge catpasses.

Thats really impressive. Well done =]

One question. Where is that?

mostly places around London form what i see.

Some nice movements, but for a majority, that's all I;m seeing them as, movements.

I question the amount of funtional use for them.



Brad

Fun brad, fun. Haha

Sorry?

good answer mike

brad,
i prefer parrkour when it's done for fun
doing large adrenaline fueled things or whatever
when everything you do is questioned in terms of functionality it ruins how fun it actually is, for me anyway
sounds the same for mike
becomes like a chore to train
whereas i'd rather just have fun and do perhaps silly movements rather than be entirely efficient and bored

I would suggest a change in your perspective then?

You aren't using the lessons presented to you, such as your knee or injuries or general health in which you keep commenting on.

With injuries or medical issues you may heave, doing "silly" movements may and could well be hindering your lingitivity and abaility to move as an adult and older person. Is it really worth it?

I just think you're perception, firstly, on what I am saying, and secondly your opinion in relaion to the practice of movement, is a little off the mark.

well brad, in all fairness,
parkour doesn't have to be limited to just "movement" training or whatever
you should practice bigger things too imo.
say you actually needed to use parkour in a chase situation,
and all you've been doing is practicing little movements,
and you come across a massive precision gap with nowhere else to go, or a massive wall pop
you won't be trained enough in that area to escape
so yeah, i find training larger movements to be equally beneficial.

Your still missing the point, everythign I was suggesting is what you just said, my point was that indivdual set movements really aren't that useful, Parkour needs to be trained and practiced in it's entirety of movement, what use is being able to overcome a given movement situation if you need to spend 5 minutes "gearing up for it".?

Life is not going to give that opportunity.