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Sunday, 16 July 2006
Sunday in Manchester
A fecking fantastic day of training today!Parkour in Manchester is a love of mine, and I got the chance to train in a small group of dedicated practitioners, which is ideal, including Paul, Danny, Will, Will and Will. I think four straight days (Five out of the past Six days) of solid training is more than I am used to, but it didn't kill me, it made me stronger. I feel like I was achieving more and more right to the very end, even as people were thinming of going to get the train, Will (original) and I were still practising and gaining more out of the day, oh and Paul was with us at that point too (it seems so long ago...). I was going for a standing rail-kong to precision round the corner from the main meetup with the benches at UMIST, I hit it two or three times and bounced back, but I'm certain I can make the distance fully next time. After all, it was at the end of four days' hard training.
Where there's a Will there's a way!
Well we had four Wills with us, so we were alright in that respect. Will (original, from Sheffield), Will 1 (York) and Will 2 (York - Razorhelm) came with us on the train, and we met Will (Wings) later on in the day. JK and Sam Corbett came on the train with us too.
The day's parkour started with some wallruns at Castlefield (videos to be posted) after a warm-up at the Spar. Will decided to go for the wallruns with minimum run up, which I joined him in doing, which was sucessful, to the extent that we could get the top hold with about three/four steps.
We visited some nice spots (thanks for that, Paul!) and did some funky shit between the few of us. I personally enjoyd my standing rail-kong to precisions all over the place, as I've been practising them for some time now, I rather liked the look of Danny's kong-to-cat attempts, I actually branded that as a no-go, but he was getting close! Everything of Will's was supernatural as usual, but I particularly liked his running kongs, and of course his bail! Yes, really. Will couldn't quite get enough of himslelf onto the ledge after a rail-kong over a gap, and fell backwards into the gap, using his arms to break his fall on both sides of the gap, which resulted in him landing softly enough to have not done himself any harm. He got back up and did it again.
The other Will (Razorhelm)'s speeds were impressive, and I was moved by his catleap onto the rock at the Geological gardens. Speaking of which, I did my dash again, after about 30 attempts! It took me soooo long to actually get myself over the wall and perform the vault. I was really showing tiredness by then.
Thanks to everyone who turned up, especially the ones I trained with today, it was a superb group.
An uber huge thanks to Dave for organising this whole gathering weekend. I know all the people I spoke to enjoyed it and learned from the other attendees. Well done, Dave. It was a fantastic event! Thanks.
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 23:35 
