Conditioning properly results in: Preparing body for additional work; Strengthening bones & muscles; Strengthening mind.

Song: Turtle Soup (Luke Vibert Mix) by DJ Food
--off of: ZEN RMX - A Retrospective Of Ninja Tune Remixes


A bit of a warm-up routine I do at Gasworks Park. Definitely can see the fatigue toward the end, and I still had to do a long rail traverse, (unfilmed, as there were people taking pictures of other people in front of said rail and I was well over effing with the camera by the time they were done.)

It's interesting; doing the routine one way for a while then doing all the same movements but in backwards order is great, because it gets harder again. Mixing it up further gives the same results. With a nice bike ride before and after movement practice, my days at Gasworks run pretty solid. The video could be more, but one must start somewhere, no?

I love quadrupedal work, how being low to the ground causes me to use my entire body to move, and it has proved invaluable in gaining upper body strength, endurance, and confidence in using my hands and arms to support my weight. Coupled with stairs: my life is complete ;P

--And it's so easy to forget the abnormality of using all four limbs to move; at my job (a women's spa) the other day I was caught monkey walking in the entryway, just passing time. The massage therapist looked at me so strangely, and all I said was, "You have no idea..." It was fair priceless.

Be well, all. Rest enough, and train safe.

Stuffy Nose and All

Video shot and edited by Tim Kahn at Gasworks Park. I had about forty five minutes to do stuff, and this is a rough cut of that day. I almost wish he'd put in some of what I'd said when asked about my greatest challenge to overcome in Parkour--asthma--but it's still a nice little video. And all I'd said about the asthma anyway was that it is my greatest challenge, a nice daily challenge, a nifty little thing that my body does to itself, to never use as an excuse and to always, constantly, conquer. I actually try to refrain from mentioning it ever, because it's not relevant to anyone else unless I'm having issues, (which I often keep to myself anyway.) I guess I'm mostly over keeping it secret, but I still go off to use my inhaler alone and out-of-sight. Would super man go and scream his utter love of kryptonite to the world? I have asthma, but I won't be called an asthmatic; I just don't like the way it sounds. So defining, confining, and gone is the time when I couldn't finish the run in P.E., coming in last at an oh-so-graceful laborious walk. Nope. I'll lead the conditioning, by golly, and ride my bike through the city, and forget, in the greatest of moments, that I ever cannot breathe optimally. And guess what? When I finally do get rid of the asthma, I'm gonna have freaking super powers, because right now I can't even imagine leaving the house without my plastic-and-canister life-saving device. I'll gain mad points instead of losing them. So there.