Anniversary Jam 27/01/07
Today's jam was the 2nd anniversary of the first parkour meet-up in Sheffield (29/01/05) which was the first time I went out to meet people to do parkour, I Googled around for something local after watching Jump Britain, and that was posted on the Sheffield forum, so I went along, and have been doing so ever since.
The group photo
2 years' training has shown a change in me like I could never have expected. At first I was appealed by the idea of jumping around for a reason, calling it something, and it being an art, now I see parkour as the way I live my life. I literally live my life round it, I'm always thinking about parkour, whether I'm just out some place seeing potential obstacles, thinking about my diet, thinking about training and conditioning or thinking about my achievements and progression. It really goes to show how it has changed me and how I see the world.
I could be like the average 18 year old lad, going out getting wasted every weekend, eating burgers and chips, kebabs, crisps and biscuits, drinking beer, spirits, fizzy drinks, doing nothing of an evening but hanging around street corners and off licences or sat in the smokey pub. No. That's not for me.
Anyway, today was a great day, despite my injury preventing me from my usual training, I got to see old friends I haven't seen in months who came to visit from other cities, I did a bit of training myself, but was restricted and hence could not join in battling Freeman at kong distances!
Lewis came along today for the first time in about a year since he got signed for Rotherham United FC, and he got dropped last week so he's back into parkour for good. He used to be amazing, he knew no fear and could do things we thought impossible. He's had a long time out but I have no doubt he will catch up within three weeks and be better than us all, knowing him!
Visiters came from Manchester (Paul, Freeman, Dean, Jak and co.), York (Will, Will and Drew) and Woody and Tom came from Birmingham and Cambridge respectfully, as they trained in Sheffield all of last year, and returned for the special jam. Nice seeing everyone Hope it's not another year before we train together again!
The group photo2 years' training has shown a change in me like I could never have expected. At first I was appealed by the idea of jumping around for a reason, calling it something, and it being an art, now I see parkour as the way I live my life. I literally live my life round it, I'm always thinking about parkour, whether I'm just out some place seeing potential obstacles, thinking about my diet, thinking about training and conditioning or thinking about my achievements and progression. It really goes to show how it has changed me and how I see the world.
I could be like the average 18 year old lad, going out getting wasted every weekend, eating burgers and chips, kebabs, crisps and biscuits, drinking beer, spirits, fizzy drinks, doing nothing of an evening but hanging around street corners and off licences or sat in the smokey pub. No. That's not for me.
Anyway, today was a great day, despite my injury preventing me from my usual training, I got to see old friends I haven't seen in months who came to visit from other cities, I did a bit of training myself, but was restricted and hence could not join in battling Freeman at kong distances!
Lewis came along today for the first time in about a year since he got signed for Rotherham United FC, and he got dropped last week so he's back into parkour for good. He used to be amazing, he knew no fear and could do things we thought impossible. He's had a long time out but I have no doubt he will catch up within three weeks and be better than us all, knowing him!
Visiters came from Manchester (Paul, Freeman, Dean, Jak and co.), York (Will, Will and Drew) and Woody and Tom came from Birmingham and Cambridge respectfully, as they trained in Sheffield all of last year, and returned for the special jam. Nice seeing everyone Hope it's not another year before we train together again!
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Looks like a great turnout man,
Gutted i didnt make it, but i really couldn't move much with my back after overdoing it on friday,
Hope the ankle is getting better as well, and i hope im out this saturday, gotta get to a physio tomoro to get this back checked out, its getting silly now,
Aw man it's one thing after the other with you! Knee, back, what next?
Good luck at the physio, hope it's nothing serious.
Hope to see you out with us soon.
Ben
Yeah good luck Jin!
Haha Ben was an awesome day, did sooo much training. Although i wish that spot in between the spots was a bit less green and mossy:p LOL
Can't wait till i next come to Sheffield. I realy wonna get that huge kong-pre down by the Odeon. And the big arm jumps and other shizzle by the flats. And the roof gap! ARGH SO MUCH STUFF TO DO!
See you on saturday, will only be out for a few hours though.
Jak
Yeh that spot with all the moss is normally great, some huge precisions, arm jumps, combinations of cat passes and stuff like that. Jason and Jin loved that place the first time we took them.
Lots of cool spots are mossy at the moment, and the big English cat is covered in ivy. Well annoying!
I'd say you easily had the capability to do that gap, but I'd be bearing it on someone about 16, so you should think about it a while before you go for it. Leave it for now.
Sounds like a lot of fun - Shame I couldn't make it.
I will definately be seeing you guys shortly though - When I get some money and the weather clears
peace
Now all you need is to form your own government and force an unsuspecting tribe of benevolent simpletons into the ocean and take over their small island. That's my plan, anyway.
Haha WTF??
According to his profile, that guy is a gamer geek from Miami!
:/
sounded awesome, sheffields soo far away, i realy want to go there sometime but it'l take like 3 hours to get there, and probably cost a lot. good trainings mans
peace
good luck with your back jin hope its all good soon