To progress more in Parkour i have to change.

I was thinking over Christmas that 2007 a new start new way of doing things for me and my Parkour but I'm not good at sticking to things but now is the time to change for the better and sort out my life.

Sleep: My sleeping pattern is fucked to be honest and it is really affecting my training so i have now set a time which i try my best to stick too which is at 11pm 8 hours sleep wake up 7am on paper sounds easy, the main reason for me not sleeping well is TV, My Mum is addicted to those quiz shows try's to work out the puzzles for hours on end so the only time i get to watch TV is after that around 1 then either not get any sleep at all or go to bed at 9 in the morning which ain't healthy.

Fitness: I set up a fitness training programme for Parkour and my training for the Army this consists of a basic Warm-Up & Cool-Down, Steady Runs certain days of the week, Squats, Press-Ups, Sit-Ups, Calf Raises, Suicides, Circuit Training and a Brisk Walk on Sunday for 40 Minutes, each week i add more repetitions on and make it harder week by week to improve my fitness.

Personal Hygiene: Keep my body clean avoid diseases, after a hard night of conditioning and a jam going to have a cold bath.

Drugs/Alcohol/Smoking: This is a NO GO i don't smoke or do drugs and wont in the future. Alcohol i have cut down I'm sticking to 2 pints max at Football on Saturdays and only drinking on special occasions and a night out once a month.

Diet: A healthy diet is a must, but it's another thing I'm not very good at maintaining.

Breakfast: is the most important meal of the day, after sleeping the body needs good food to get you though the day if you exercise and train without breakfast, your body will start to eat your own muscle which is not good.

Pure orange/apple Juice, fruit smoothie, yoghurt, weetabix with sliced bannana strawberries, semi-skimmed milk, celery sticks.

Lunch: Chicken/Turkey/Tuna salad sandwich in brown bread, Grapes, Vitimin Water, Smoothie, piece of fruit, pasta

Dinner: Fish, salad, apple slices, potatoes, rice, green veg

Im going to have six meals a day. This doesn't mean overeat, this means cut all your usual portions in half and eat twice as often. This allows your body to digest the food easier as there is smaller amounts and since your never more than a few hours from more fuel, your body will always have energy.

Breakfast - 7:00

Snack - 10:00

Lunch - 12:00

Snack - 2:00

Dinner - 5:00

Snack - 8:00

Conditioning: Im fairly new to conditioning but know how much it will benefit me over time and important it is so im spending more of my time building up my body for Parkour, I'm going to try my best to attend and arrive on time lol at Bottom Level in Canterbury every Thursday, and set a night of alone training to focuson myself in Ramsgate Monday night best bet.

These are my aims to complete by the end of March 2007:

Press-Ups:
I really suck at push-ups and every time i try the bones in my left arm click and pop out feels wierd and puts me off, I can do 20 in one swift repetition and my aim is 30 by the end of the month adding 10 on each month.

Sit-Ups:
Another thing i aint really good at i will try to improve the quality of the sit up as well as the quanity i can do around 40 in one swift repition aiming for 60 .

Chin-Ups:
My upper body is very weak at the moment and im quite new to chin-ups i can do 10 in in one swift repetition aiming to double that so 20 Chin-Ups the target.

Pull-Ups:
Can do 5 same with the chin-ups aim to double it so 10 is the target.

Muscle-Ups:
In the gym when fully warmed up can do 5 nice ones, but ouside on scaffolding i stuggle to reach 2, im aiming to do 3 outside.

Climb-Ups:
From a arm jump position hanging from a roof i can do 8 swift reps aiming to double this so 16 is my target.

Pistol Squats:
I think i'm pretty good at pistols i can now do them on my weak left leg ok. My aim is to attempt 1 to 10 on each leg while on a rail so that will be 55 on each leg 110 alltogether.

Quadrupedal Movement:
Just going to practice this more and more till i find my rhythm more stair exercises and to improve my stamia of how long i can go for on all fours.

2006 A New Era

2006 was a new start i started to take Parkour seriously, I spoke on msn to a street monkey called Dizzy who said come along to one of their jams i first went to a Street Monkey Workshop in Sittingborne it was a great day out and experience, I bought along Mark as well we met loads of cool traceurs learnt so much and really enjoyed training in the gym, the Sunday after i attended my first Jam i went up with two of the RPK Matt and Mark to Chatham and since then been travelling all over Kent and London meeting people training having a good time, my summer was action packed and i felt so happy with my parkour.

I was speaking to Spence a Whitstable legend he said he had been training with a guy called Jason Matten so i went to Canterbury to meet him he is well known and respected in parkour community for Sin-Clan and PKVM Parkour Video-Mag amazing he taught me so much by using a tree to train my body in the natural method then after he teaches parkour at Canterbury High School this is on every Wednesday.

In December 2006 Jason set up a conditioning Night in Canterbury a car park on Castle street every Thursday this is a regular thing for teams and traceurs alone to do to reduce injury and be stronger to move faster it is called Bottom Level and it is hard trust me about 10 of us go and i soon see the effect it is having on me.

Me and Lewis Todd (Phobia) had set up a community based team and project called Urban Movement to help people learn and get started in parkour.

The Beginning for Me

Ok i started a blog for a number of reasons this Blog is about my parkour progression and other things to do with me or with parkour, i will update the Blog every week.

Ok for me my parkour journey started in January 2005 i was going though a tough time at home school cadets everywhere i was up late on night playing the ps2 i turned it off and on channel 4 i saw something that caught me eye i was impressed with what i saw the programme was Jump Britain and it was a programme on Free Running what really inspired me was John Kerr (Kerbie) what he said about how it had changed him.

It started from there i talked with friends about it around March time after spreading the word mys3elf and a mate of mine John Dickson set up a group called The Ramsgate Traceurs it had around 10 of us from school, cadets etc it soon grew at the time we all were new and it was just have fun muck around in the summer we changed our name to Ramsgate Parkour Krew we were all improving but were getting injures, people were taking the piss out of us but i didn’t care cos i felt good, i fractured my radius and was in a cast for 6 weeks i felt week mentally and physically and wanted to give it all up but i felt i have come this far love what i am doing and this is for me so i carried on the RPK spilt up members doing their own things noone knew what was going on.

In the winter training was hard but i met some Russian students who were over here to learn English they were more experienced and taught me and some of the RPK a lot i learned some movements they were called White Flying Angels after i realised if i want to progress i have to learn more and train more with other people i checked out forums websites learning more and more and put it into my training i wanted to pass on my knowledge on how parkour had helped me and what i learnt to others.