Recent tings

Haven't had time to do much training recently so been starting my conditioning mania regime.

Tuck planche to handstand is looking a loooot closer at the moment; I can hold the position for about 5 seconds then bend my arms and press until I am in the handstand position but with bent arms that I can't straighten. So I need more arm and shoulder strength to press up from there or loads more core strength to be able to press with straightish arms. Feeling really confident though :D

We are definitely going to Cambridge again 22ND September. Can't wait to see how much my progression over the summer will affect what I can do there. Conditioning and coursework is now my life!!!! haha with the odd jump :P

Back to how I left off

Well I set myself the challenge today of getting backflips again and after hard conditioning and a loooot of stretching i attempted them. And got them within 10 failures where i jump slightly to the side. It was the first time I have done them since I broke my nose and am really glad I conquered it tonight.

The technique is lazy but I get round OK. And, not to make excuses, by the time I recorded this one I was knackered. But my plan is now to get them so I can do them every time first try onto cushions then progress onto hard ground. Unless of course I'm feeling mad tomorrow :D

I will upload the video onto youtube for a few days just for you Ross :) as blogger won't do anything with it. grrrrrrrr blogger grrrrrrr.

Year 10 and Winter Thoughts

Well I am trying to get myself organised for the next few months up to spring. Year 10 brings lots of hard academic work which I have to focus on over the next two years. So that's sort of priority from now on. Music will get harder and I have to work harder than I am doing now to achieve the high level of music that I want so desperately.

With parkour as well, the winter brings opportunity to condition and get my body into much better shape. Work harder on balance skills and particularly get a lot better at handbalancing. I aim to be doing tuck up to handstand after a climb up by my birthday (end of October). Flexibility will be a big part of this winter as well.

I really want to utilise my time more towards things that would help me progress; researching the body and how it works in relation to the mind and exactly how food effects what you are able to do.

Hopefully be able to go to Ipswich more frequently to train in an urban environment, making it slightly more easy to move confidently in the rain.

I have high hopes for next summer but know that no one gets to the high level I want without hard work. So bring on the winter.............. :D

Cambridge Trainingsss

9TH August we did go to Cambridge. Finally. The spots are amazing and full of different levels of things. The whole city just seems to have this great feel about it like no other I have ever been to.

It was tipping it down all day but we still got loads done and proved to ourselves that people like Phil Doyle etc. are not superhuman but just train a lot in good spots and look after themselves as much as we do. We just haven't been in good spots or doing it as long. So we are now desperate for more trips out there or at least Ipswich or Colchester. I also realised yesterday on a particularly difficult precision that I wasn't committing to with both feet how to get over something like that. I have been dropping my left foot a lot recently on precisions that are quite low and I spent about an hour on this one precision that was exactly the same. I didn't let it fustrate me to the point of not thinking straight, but instead pushed myself closer to committing all the time. Then just did it. Which felt nice :D

Now just apply it to the Wolsey precision to see if it really works.........

Many thanks to Steve and Ross for coming along. Special thanks to Ross for being a great guide and just generally making it a great day out. Steve as well of course.
Good to see Steve push himself and think about things properly and good to see Ross not get overwhelmed by the famous spots and thinking about everything the way he usually does.

Going again on the 22ND September latest. Should be hard to top yesterday; great day!

Summerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

A week into summer holiday and I feel great. Sore, but great. Ross made a training regime that takes us through the summer and I'm loving it. I'm feeling much stronger psychologically and a bit more controlled physically. The summer has this nice effect on everyone so I get a lot more freedom and everything feels like it's my own will. Cambridge has been arranged for 9TH August which should be amazing.



This is a video of recent trainings in Ipswich. Not terribly good but we hope to have at least another 2 videos by the end of the holidays to show a lot of progression in movement.

Conditioning progress

Only just realised how important being strong is - which is stupid becasue I've had 6 months to realise and do it.
I'm focusing much more on my whole body now to get my whole body up to a certain level of fitness and strength, focusing mainly on the abs and the shoulders for planches.
I just started this thing which ross has been doing for his abs and it seems to be working fast as it was followed by the longest tuck planche I've ever held. The difference now is I can repeat it instead of being so nackered that I can harldy move. Got one of them on video:

I guess this is where it all starts

Pain brings doubt. Doubt either makes something stronger, or breaks it. Pain brought doubt.

I was on the phone to my unlce and he said something that's inspired me: "one needs to push ones' limits, or one will will not progress"; he said it in the sarcastic way he usually speaks when telling me things. But the words also carried the solution to my doubt.