Ok , I should have written about this alot earlier than I have but to be honest I just didn't feel up to writting much at all but haveing just experiment with something new i feel like I have to post.
So first of all, this weekend I met up with a whole load of old friends that I haven't seen in quite a while and had quite a good catch up session. I was really glad to jam with Andy again andeven though it wasn't a hardcore session liek we used to have it was just good to jam with someone I haven't seen in over 6 months but used to jam with more often than anyone else.
All in all it was just a bit of a piss about with some cool new things found and new storys exchanged.
Secondly I for the last week and a bit I have been trying some new strength skills that are really coming along quickly:
1. Elbow lever -> handstand
2. One armed elbow lever -> handstand
It's extrodinary how quickly these two skills have progressed, at first I realised that my legs were really vertical on my 2 armed elbow lever and now I'm within a hair's bredth of actually popping a one armed elbow lever to handstand all in about 8 days.
I'm going to try and get some video or pics of it because I'm quite proud of how strong im getting and how fast these techs are coming together
Friday, 18 January 2008
Sunday, 6 January 2008
6 Months and you guys haven't improved; what have you guys been doing?
So this last few weeks have been quite a change, I quit my job (I can hear a groan from all tax payers already, don't worry i'm on the look out for anouther and i'm not claiming JSA).
Anyway this has freed up a fair amount of time so I have decided to start turning up to weekly jams again, which has been awesome cause Matt and Ben have both been back from their new homes (Prague and scarborough respectively) so it's been really nice training with old friends.
However as with all nice things there is always a grey cloud on the horizon; those people that drove the majority of the comitted traceurs away from training in swindon apart from alone. they were just as annoying as I remember with their terrible self control, attrocious assumptions about parkour and their unbelievable lack of self preservation.
Ben and I were stood in a car park (a new spot that they had found),that just screamed hobo house, we were listening to the vast array of loud noises produced by careless landings, poor running technique and infact poor technique on nearly every front. The major bit of irony was when one of them(whom shall remain nameless at the moment) pointed out that one of the others had not protected his joints by not landing two footed into a cat leap but then proceded to make some of the worst cases of noisy landings I have ever witnessed, however nothing he could have done could possibly prepare me for the amount of noise that anouther one of the members of their group was making! the next statement is as honest as I can possibly make it without video or scientific evidence, the boys landings were so poor that not only could I hear it over the sound of a car passing by right next to me whilst he was at least 3 meters away BUT I could actually feel the floor vibrate everytime he made the same drop which in total was about 2 meters which wasn't just a straight drop but a vault intended to slow him down; needless to say everytime he approached a rail Ben and I tensed up and cringed as he landed, it often makes me wonder what his body will be like when he is 20. It has also evaded me how he could possibly make such a loud noise in a situation that could easily be recreated without so much as a tap when the concrete touched the person's feet; I can only presume that he was landing on his heels first and I know that he did little in the way of bending his knees to absorb any excess energy or shock. all in all this was the worst case of self harm I've ever witnessed.
After seeing how they train and the fact that every movement eventually ends up on camera no matter how un-fluid the motion is or how unimpressive in everyway (both in size and in my opinion more importantly technicality) it is; Ben pointed out to me that it is no surprise that in the 6 months we had been away they had not improved at all. I recognise that in the 6 months that my training has been scarce at best; I have decreased in strength, confidence and technical abilty, but every second I train it comes back very quickly where as these guys who have presumably been out regularly have not improved at all .
I can only put it down to a terrible partnership
A. fair weather traceurship (Never training when it's raining)
B. poor weather
midway through they day the majority of the guys left including the "commited, long term, X-TREME " members of the group leaving Ben and I with 3 other guys one of whom would leave within 10 minutes and one of the others within an extra 15. all because of the weather. what ever happened to training in the snow, ice, wind, rain and all the other things that mother nature could throw at you ?
Given this year the weather has pretty much been the worst on record there is no surprise that they have not improved at all, nor will it be any surprise when I have regained my strength, confidence and technical abilty alot quicker than any of them will be able to imagine and nor will it when I surpass my previous abilitys.
I find myself competing with them alot, which to be honest is a very bad thing! I should be competing with myself not others but I see them doing things that really haven't impressed me for a very long time and then them strutting about and boasting about it and I can't help but feel a need to throw a little something back in their faces, I will use this to my advantage, I will use this small annoyance they create as something to spur me on to TRAIN more NOT to out do them. I will know in myself that I am better than them , just as if ever I met any of my idols (Blaine, Jin, Daniel Illabaca, etc) they would know they are better than I am inside themselves but would use it in a positive way (e.g "well I was at that level once, I'm much better now, if I train hard I'll be anouther step up on the staircase that is parkour")
All in all I've really enjoyed myself recently and it's good that now i'm setting up jams with other friends i've not seen in a while, but I have alot to work towards.
I think tomorrow I am going to set up a list of things that I could do, Things that are now troubling me that I could do before and targets for the end of january (i.e back to my previous ability and then surpass it)
Anyway this has freed up a fair amount of time so I have decided to start turning up to weekly jams again, which has been awesome cause Matt and Ben have both been back from their new homes (Prague and scarborough respectively) so it's been really nice training with old friends.
However as with all nice things there is always a grey cloud on the horizon; those people that drove the majority of the comitted traceurs away from training in swindon apart from alone. they were just as annoying as I remember with their terrible self control, attrocious assumptions about parkour and their unbelievable lack of self preservation.
Ben and I were stood in a car park (a new spot that they had found),that just screamed hobo house, we were listening to the vast array of loud noises produced by careless landings, poor running technique and infact poor technique on nearly every front. The major bit of irony was when one of them(whom shall remain nameless at the moment) pointed out that one of the others had not protected his joints by not landing two footed into a cat leap but then proceded to make some of the worst cases of noisy landings I have ever witnessed, however nothing he could have done could possibly prepare me for the amount of noise that anouther one of the members of their group was making! the next statement is as honest as I can possibly make it without video or scientific evidence, the boys landings were so poor that not only could I hear it over the sound of a car passing by right next to me whilst he was at least 3 meters away BUT I could actually feel the floor vibrate everytime he made the same drop which in total was about 2 meters which wasn't just a straight drop but a vault intended to slow him down; needless to say everytime he approached a rail Ben and I tensed up and cringed as he landed, it often makes me wonder what his body will be like when he is 20. It has also evaded me how he could possibly make such a loud noise in a situation that could easily be recreated without so much as a tap when the concrete touched the person's feet; I can only presume that he was landing on his heels first and I know that he did little in the way of bending his knees to absorb any excess energy or shock. all in all this was the worst case of self harm I've ever witnessed.
After seeing how they train and the fact that every movement eventually ends up on camera no matter how un-fluid the motion is or how unimpressive in everyway (both in size and in my opinion more importantly technicality) it is; Ben pointed out to me that it is no surprise that in the 6 months we had been away they had not improved at all. I recognise that in the 6 months that my training has been scarce at best; I have decreased in strength, confidence and technical abilty, but every second I train it comes back very quickly where as these guys who have presumably been out regularly have not improved at all .
I can only put it down to a terrible partnership
A. fair weather traceurship (Never training when it's raining)
B. poor weather
midway through they day the majority of the guys left including the "commited, long term, X-TREME " members of the group leaving Ben and I with 3 other guys one of whom would leave within 10 minutes and one of the others within an extra 15. all because of the weather. what ever happened to training in the snow, ice, wind, rain and all the other things that mother nature could throw at you ?
Given this year the weather has pretty much been the worst on record there is no surprise that they have not improved at all, nor will it be any surprise when I have regained my strength, confidence and technical abilty alot quicker than any of them will be able to imagine and nor will it when I surpass my previous abilitys.
I find myself competing with them alot, which to be honest is a very bad thing! I should be competing with myself not others but I see them doing things that really haven't impressed me for a very long time and then them strutting about and boasting about it and I can't help but feel a need to throw a little something back in their faces, I will use this to my advantage, I will use this small annoyance they create as something to spur me on to TRAIN more NOT to out do them. I will know in myself that I am better than them , just as if ever I met any of my idols (Blaine, Jin, Daniel Illabaca, etc) they would know they are better than I am inside themselves but would use it in a positive way (e.g "well I was at that level once, I'm much better now, if I train hard I'll be anouther step up on the staircase that is parkour")
All in all I've really enjoyed myself recently and it's good that now i'm setting up jams with other friends i've not seen in a while, but I have alot to work towards.
I think tomorrow I am going to set up a list of things that I could do, Things that are now troubling me that I could do before and targets for the end of january (i.e back to my previous ability and then surpass it)
Friday, 9 November 2007
A whole month
Wow a Whole month has passed since i last updated this and for that i apologise i really should have posted as I have done quite a bit since then.
Ican't rememebr exactly how many times i've gone out or whats happened but i do know that my training is really falling behind and its really a shame i just dont seem to get any time for training but i do nothing during the days, I really need to change that and fast.
I finished my pull up challenge which was good and i did notice that my climbups were back to the peak i had them at before my accident so thats awesome.
i went out a few weeks ago and my confidence wasnt very high so that needs improving
ive got back into trying to learn how to front flip; in my back garden with a couple of mattresses, im getting pretty close now.
all in all these last few months have been really bad for my parkour and fitness, im going to devote myself now to getting to an all time high, lets consider this a bit of a break and quite frankly i hated, im going to schedule at least 2-3 days a week from now on to train be it with OR without people with me which i think has been one of the hardest obstacles to overcome 2 of my best friends i am basically out of touch with entirely ben, who i havent spoken to since he went to uni and matt who is in prague so i get the odd email or ten minutes on msn with. these two people were the people i trained with the most so losing them has been hard
its also been over 2 years since i started parkour now so thats pretty cool
Ican't rememebr exactly how many times i've gone out or whats happened but i do know that my training is really falling behind and its really a shame i just dont seem to get any time for training but i do nothing during the days, I really need to change that and fast.
I finished my pull up challenge which was good and i did notice that my climbups were back to the peak i had them at before my accident so thats awesome.
i went out a few weeks ago and my confidence wasnt very high so that needs improving
ive got back into trying to learn how to front flip; in my back garden with a couple of mattresses, im getting pretty close now.
all in all these last few months have been really bad for my parkour and fitness, im going to devote myself now to getting to an all time high, lets consider this a bit of a break and quite frankly i hated, im going to schedule at least 2-3 days a week from now on to train be it with OR without people with me which i think has been one of the hardest obstacles to overcome 2 of my best friends i am basically out of touch with entirely ben, who i havent spoken to since he went to uni and matt who is in prague so i get the odd email or ten minutes on msn with. these two people were the people i trained with the most so losing them has been hard
its also been over 2 years since i started parkour now so thats pretty cool
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The end is near
That's right people, I know it's sad but the end is near for me...... and my 1,000 pull up challenge, sorry that was really poor, I realised very quickly that I would never manage 1,000 pullups by the end of september so I quickly changed my challenge to 1,000 pullups by the end of 30 days (I.E a month)so yeah i'm on day 27 which means 3 more days after today but i'm throwing in as many as I can today because Friday is unlikely to see any pullups what soever as i'm going to the NEC and thursday may only see a few.
one of the main problems I've had is actually getting up and doing them more than once (infact 8 days) I've done absolutely 0 pullups (whoops) so for the whole exercise I've been behind on how many pull ups I should have done, my excuse at first was my finger couldn't cope with the force for all that long but then after that it was pure lazyness; HOWEVER this turns out to be a good thing, it means I've been doing LOADS of pullups in the last few days.
I can't wait to try out some wall climbs and what not soon just to see how much stronger I have become.
one of the main problems I've had is actually getting up and doing them more than once (infact 8 days) I've done absolutely 0 pullups (whoops) so for the whole exercise I've been behind on how many pull ups I should have done, my excuse at first was my finger couldn't cope with the force for all that long but then after that it was pure lazyness; HOWEVER this turns out to be a good thing, it means I've been doing LOADS of pullups in the last few days.
I can't wait to try out some wall climbs and what not soon just to see how much stronger I have become.
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Parkour coaching
This Saturday just gone I woke up at the rediculously late time of 1 o'clock (I had worked the night before so it is justified slightly)I realsied I was late for the parkour coaching thing I had read on the internet so I jogged up to the rec in old town and joined in, a guy called chris who was obviously a very skilled traceur and when he moved made me realise how far from my personal goals I really was; which quite oddly was very comforting and inspiring
Chris taught me and the other kids that were there a vault I had never really seen anyone doing before (step vault) and then a variation of it (reverse step vault) that seemed to work very efficiently, i realise, infact i realised a long time ago, that parkour isn't about this vault or that vault but none the less it's always useful to learn a new way of moving as a bigger variety gives a better chance of moving efficiantly also this reverse sterp vault provides a better alternative to reverse vaults (more control and safer) so I'm definately going to practice this alot and focus on it becoming something im very comfortable with
later on I trained with forest who more than anything clearedf up a few things that I wasn't 100% sure on which is cool.
I really need to train more this lack of training is disgusting but I'm sure every traceur has parts in their lives that get like this.
Chris taught me and the other kids that were there a vault I had never really seen anyone doing before (step vault) and then a variation of it (reverse step vault) that seemed to work very efficiently, i realise, infact i realised a long time ago, that parkour isn't about this vault or that vault but none the less it's always useful to learn a new way of moving as a bigger variety gives a better chance of moving efficiantly also this reverse sterp vault provides a better alternative to reverse vaults (more control and safer) so I'm definately going to practice this alot and focus on it becoming something im very comfortable with
later on I trained with forest who more than anything clearedf up a few things that I wasn't 100% sure on which is cool.
I really need to train more this lack of training is disgusting but I'm sure every traceur has parts in their lives that get like this.
Friday, 14 September 2007
Ooh god so much to say
Ok first of all I apologise for the rediculously long time between this post and the last, sorry guys I owe you a video or something.
As you saw in the last post I broke my little finger which prooved alot worse than it could have been and put me out of pretty much everything for about 6-8 weeks, well recently i've been easing myself in to everything again.
Anouther obstacle is that I got a job recently at a local bar so that limited the time I get to train and what not and i'm still trying to work it all back into this tighter schedule
I've lost a little weight since before my accident but this could be down to muscle wasting (however the weight loss makes it seem like i've not changed or perhaps got stronger because my climb ups aren't all that bad. my wrists however are much weeker so I keep having to work on those.
I've decided that a good idea to get myself back to my original fitness level (and then surpass it) is that I take on an ongoing task so i've decided after reading Paul (obsidian)'s blog and then watching his and danny wood's video to lisses (which is awesome) that his pull up challenge could be quite a good one (100,000 pullups on one specific bar) my challenge wont be as big as his as my wrist only really permit me to do about 5 pullups at anytime so would take me forever to make a serious dent in (although the more I do the stronger they'll become and thus the more pullups i'll be able to do at any one time) so at first i'm just goign to o for a measly 1,000 although once i've done these i'll probably say that i'll go to 10,000 and so on I hope to finish this by the end of the month but knowing my luck it'll take much longer!
Thanks to anyone who actually reads my blog and sorry about the wait
Anton
As you saw in the last post I broke my little finger which prooved alot worse than it could have been and put me out of pretty much everything for about 6-8 weeks, well recently i've been easing myself in to everything again.
Anouther obstacle is that I got a job recently at a local bar so that limited the time I get to train and what not and i'm still trying to work it all back into this tighter schedule
I've lost a little weight since before my accident but this could be down to muscle wasting (however the weight loss makes it seem like i've not changed or perhaps got stronger because my climb ups aren't all that bad. my wrists however are much weeker so I keep having to work on those.
I've decided that a good idea to get myself back to my original fitness level (and then surpass it) is that I take on an ongoing task so i've decided after reading Paul (obsidian)'s blog and then watching his and danny wood's video to lisses (which is awesome) that his pull up challenge could be quite a good one (100,000 pullups on one specific bar) my challenge wont be as big as his as my wrist only really permit me to do about 5 pullups at anytime so would take me forever to make a serious dent in (although the more I do the stronger they'll become and thus the more pullups i'll be able to do at any one time) so at first i'm just goign to o for a measly 1,000 although once i've done these i'll probably say that i'll go to 10,000 and so on I hope to finish this by the end of the month but knowing my luck it'll take much longer!
Thanks to anyone who actually reads my blog and sorry about the wait
Anton
Sunday, 17 June 2007
What a weekend!!!
So this weekend was ..... different. Saturday started really well, finding all sorts of new techniques and movements and then Jack gave me some tips on how to do frontflips and I came extremely close to landing a couple. unfortunately the heavens opened and it pissed it down for the rest of the day so i only really got about an hour and a half of training.
today i met up with luke and after about 3/4 of an hour of playing about in the park behind his house doing a little bit of pk we then moved to farringdon road park where we intended to perfect flips after a quick warm up i psyched myself up and went through a few practice tucks then on my first attempt of the day ran hopped and thats where something went wrong I landed in a heap after hurtling at the floor in a dive posistion and i instantly knew i had dislocated my little finger, 4 hours later i was at home after finding out i have also fractured it.
so this is my first ever proper injury let alone during pk/freerunning not too bad as it's only a minor injury apparently its going to be about 4 weeks till its healed, ahh well at least it's not my right hand im sure i'll fill my time with fitness somehow
today i met up with luke and after about 3/4 of an hour of playing about in the park behind his house doing a little bit of pk we then moved to farringdon road park where we intended to perfect flips after a quick warm up i psyched myself up and went through a few practice tucks then on my first attempt of the day ran hopped and thats where something went wrong I landed in a heap after hurtling at the floor in a dive posistion and i instantly knew i had dislocated my little finger, 4 hours later i was at home after finding out i have also fractured it.
so this is my first ever proper injury let alone during pk/freerunning not too bad as it's only a minor injury apparently its going to be about 4 weeks till its healed, ahh well at least it's not my right hand im sure i'll fill my time with fitness somehow
Saturday, 9 June 2007
monday 4th june and ...... today
This week I went out twice for training, monday was the first time where I did an hour or so of parkour, I was alone and manged to get over a few of my fears and blocks and whilst out I filmed a load of what I was doing so I got this video put together with alot of which will go into the main video that I am shooting at the moment I've included all of the things that went wrong for me whilst shooting so this isn't a proper video I was just a bit annoyed at the lack of vids I've put on here.
I also went out today down to Lydiard park and did a little bit of tricking with Matt and Luke, it wasn't a serious jam we were actually at a picnic and were just amusing ourselves. I think I've finnaly got to a point where I am confident that the next time I try a butterfly twist I might actually land it, this is because as I tryed the only one I tryed today I kicked, twisted but didn't think I was spinning very much and thought that i had only turned about 10 degrees and that I was going to land on my first side if I carryed on so I stopped spinning, I then fell for ages in which time I could have span quite a bit and landed much further round than I thought I had, this says to me that had I continued I would have landed a nice B-twist so that's definately something I will have to try again soon
I also went out today down to Lydiard park and did a little bit of tricking with Matt and Luke, it wasn't a serious jam we were actually at a picnic and were just amusing ourselves. I think I've finnaly got to a point where I am confident that the next time I try a butterfly twist I might actually land it, this is because as I tryed the only one I tryed today I kicked, twisted but didn't think I was spinning very much and thought that i had only turned about 10 degrees and that I was going to land on my first side if I carryed on so I stopped spinning, I then fell for ages in which time I could have span quite a bit and landed much further round than I thought I had, this says to me that had I continued I would have landed a nice B-twist so that's definately something I will have to try again soon
Friday, 1 June 2007
I really need to keep up to date with this !!
So last Friday was my birthday which was extrememly cool, my Dad bought me a home gym which has already seen a good pint or two of my sweat, its pretty nifty, it has all sorts of exercises to do including the use of a pec dec !!
The only real training I've done is on my new home gym and I went out and did hell night this wednesday with Ben and Jack which towards the end of I was feelign very sick which I have attributed to exercising almost immediately after eating, which I will never be doing again.
I didn't do any parkour this weekend because I was at karate camp which was also REALLY cool, two days of lots of exercise and lots of karate with a night of partying and general abuse of the body through drink and burgers, I know it's not good for the body and my parkour to drink but I believe it is necessary to just let ones hair down occasionally and enjoy some of life's less healthy options.
I am not sure how my body is doing at the moment, occasionally I feel alot stronger than I have doen before and then I feel weaker than before, I'm blaming the lack of sleep I have been getting recently for the weekness and perhaps I am just getting stornger then tired and feeling weak.
I also bought some whey protein the otherday after my dad gave me the home gym, I realised that the extra training could result in muscle wasting if I am not getting sufficient nutrition so the extra protien almost seemed like a must and as holland and barrat are haveing a better than half price sale on protein at the moment I snatched it up. I would definately advise it to peopel who are starting to work out more intensely, I got vanilla so I can mix it with stuff and it tastes awesome, also since drinking after intense work out I have noticed I don't experience the DOMS as much even if my warm down is less than it usually is (I am not at all advising not warming down)
thats about all for now, keep training
The only real training I've done is on my new home gym and I went out and did hell night this wednesday with Ben and Jack which towards the end of I was feelign very sick which I have attributed to exercising almost immediately after eating, which I will never be doing again.
I didn't do any parkour this weekend because I was at karate camp which was also REALLY cool, two days of lots of exercise and lots of karate with a night of partying and general abuse of the body through drink and burgers, I know it's not good for the body and my parkour to drink but I believe it is necessary to just let ones hair down occasionally and enjoy some of life's less healthy options.
I am not sure how my body is doing at the moment, occasionally I feel alot stronger than I have doen before and then I feel weaker than before, I'm blaming the lack of sleep I have been getting recently for the weekness and perhaps I am just getting stornger then tired and feeling weak.
I also bought some whey protein the otherday after my dad gave me the home gym, I realised that the extra training could result in muscle wasting if I am not getting sufficient nutrition so the extra protien almost seemed like a must and as holland and barrat are haveing a better than half price sale on protein at the moment I snatched it up. I would definately advise it to peopel who are starting to work out more intensely, I got vanilla so I can mix it with stuff and it tastes awesome, also since drinking after intense work out I have noticed I don't experience the DOMS as much even if my warm down is less than it usually is (I am not at all advising not warming down)
thats about all for now, keep training
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
oooh haven't wrote about last week oops
Ok first off I apologise for not writing in my blog about last week up until now, i really should have done so I just haven't found the time or inspiration at the moment.
Last wednesday we went out and finally did hell night again it was so awesome to really beast myself with everyone else and I was knackered for about 2 days afterwards, it was only a light session in comparison to the ones we used to do but was still about an hour and a half of pain and suffering.
This weekend I only went out on saturday which was quite a downer really, but recently I have been finding it really hard to be inspired to train hard and regularly I think it's about time I got out and did parkour on my own every now and then.
The good things that happened this weekend though are, I finnaly managed to do anouther muscle up, I believe thats the 3rd I have ever done, although this one was VERY momentum based i got to the point where my fore arms were resting on the bar that I was doing it on and then just swung my legs back and forth and just timed it right, it took about 5 attempts wiht the first 4 ending in me landing on my stomach but not balancing and falling off, but the 5th attempt I didn't really rely on balancing on my stomach at all and just shot up into the muscle up posistion, I know it shouldn't really count as a msucle up because the vast majority of it was just catching my momentum at the right point and using it to my advantage. so I will be trying my hardest to set that right from now on,
The best bit of that muscle up though was how well controlled I managed to descend I must have stretched it out to a good 3 seconds descending time which was quite an achievement.
The last thing that made me quite happy was something odd which I thought up at the wyvern (which seems to be happening alot recently) I approach the obstacle (a wall with a rail on top) as a kong but when planting my hands on the rail I posistion them as I would for a turn vault this allows me to swing round into a catleap. whcih in my opinion looks pretty sex. this thinkinging up new ways to move seems to be happening alot recently to me which I think may be the reason i'm not motivated very much (which doesn't make to much sense) I think it may be i'm bored of the way I move and I want to move differently, the only problem is ...... I don't know how yet.
I think I will try researching this turning kong thing that I am doing as well as watching more vids of people doing muscle ups to see where I am going wrong.
Last wednesday we went out and finally did hell night again it was so awesome to really beast myself with everyone else and I was knackered for about 2 days afterwards, it was only a light session in comparison to the ones we used to do but was still about an hour and a half of pain and suffering.
This weekend I only went out on saturday which was quite a downer really, but recently I have been finding it really hard to be inspired to train hard and regularly I think it's about time I got out and did parkour on my own every now and then.
The good things that happened this weekend though are, I finnaly managed to do anouther muscle up, I believe thats the 3rd I have ever done, although this one was VERY momentum based i got to the point where my fore arms were resting on the bar that I was doing it on and then just swung my legs back and forth and just timed it right, it took about 5 attempts wiht the first 4 ending in me landing on my stomach but not balancing and falling off, but the 5th attempt I didn't really rely on balancing on my stomach at all and just shot up into the muscle up posistion, I know it shouldn't really count as a msucle up because the vast majority of it was just catching my momentum at the right point and using it to my advantage. so I will be trying my hardest to set that right from now on,
The best bit of that muscle up though was how well controlled I managed to descend I must have stretched it out to a good 3 seconds descending time which was quite an achievement.
The last thing that made me quite happy was something odd which I thought up at the wyvern (which seems to be happening alot recently) I approach the obstacle (a wall with a rail on top) as a kong but when planting my hands on the rail I posistion them as I would for a turn vault this allows me to swing round into a catleap. whcih in my opinion looks pretty sex. this thinkinging up new ways to move seems to be happening alot recently to me which I think may be the reason i'm not motivated very much (which doesn't make to much sense) I think it may be i'm bored of the way I move and I want to move differently, the only problem is ...... I don't know how yet.
I think I will try researching this turning kong thing that I am doing as well as watching more vids of people doing muscle ups to see where I am going wrong.
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