Archives for: August 2010
Repetition – Getting That Move “Down Pat”
Repetition – Getting That Move “Down Pat”

Repetition is one of the single most important factors in getting a new move or technique added to your arsenal successfully. You need to practice new moves over and over again until they are almost instinct. For example, when you first learn a frontflip, you will not be landing it perfectly. After much practice, you start landing them on your [...]

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Limits, Extremes, Stupidity
Limits, Extremes, Stupidity

There’s pushing yourself to your limit, and then there is being crazy. Every time you attempt something new – a new flip, twist, anything that you’ve never done before, you are pushing your limits. If you attempt it with the right steps, and know the technique in some way, you are doing it without being crazy. If you are new [...]

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Ways to Cross Train
Ways to Cross Train

Cross Training is an important part of any sport. It can also make a huge difference in Parkour. If there is too much snow to actually run, then you need to come up with another training method. In the winter, I am a freestyle skier, so that is how I cross train. In freestyle skiing we practice many of the [...]

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How To Be Prepared For Parkour
How To Be Prepared For Parkour

When you first decide to get into Parkour and Free Running, you probably have these amazing visions of jumping off 20 foot ledges, doing gainers and fronflips off everything, and just being an all around ninja. Yes, those flips and such can be achieved, but it takes few months. I know I was doing Parkour for 3 months before I [...]

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