tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9466590549202665942024-02-02T13:53:46.732-08:00Matt "Mox" Parkour BlogThe path is more important than the goal: a blog following my journey through parkour.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940066345172365161noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-49095819586305630532013-08-21T01:22:00.001-07:002013-08-21T01:23:45.903-07:00Supa XXL - Uppsala, Sweden tripWe recently had a brilliant trip to Uppsala with a lot of the <a href="http://www.supaxxl.com/">Supa XXL</a> group, such fun times! <br /><br />Here's a nice video from Steve (who was the reason for us all going, to celebrate his getting married soon!) capturing some of the fun moments!<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xnJ09et7NCs?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-6952045759174662812013-08-21T01:17:00.002-07:002013-08-21T01:17:41.813-07:00Broken Men trip to DoverFrom our day trip to Dover earlier in the year, Mamo has put together a nice edit!<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hrYZ9Zr_I_E?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-11659110733913488612013-08-19T13:59:00.001-07:002013-08-19T13:59:17.264-07:00Sunday Trainings Supa XXLJust a quick addition today, adding a landing page for <a href="http://www.supaxxl.com/">http://www.supaxxl.com</a> to easily direct new people to the facebook group!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-30208612331315635462013-04-23T16:15:00.000-07:002013-04-23T16:15:29.837-07:00Barbara aerial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Barbara during a recent Supa XXL session:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1uxcmtQ5Nf3bJnbj9Iji4Tc8MjiqzMl2Zg15f6cDJ9AZ-gn1EgZX1de-3uGcTNwWoi3oTTKkBGM42ClyL9gib0mlFXGf6XEudVUG99FelpHO9CGkXNmRSLNuUUIQoXJcb7tzhgeExk2t/s1600/barbara_apr22.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1uxcmtQ5Nf3bJnbj9Iji4Tc8MjiqzMl2Zg15f6cDJ9AZ-gn1EgZX1de-3uGcTNwWoi3oTTKkBGM42ClyL9gib0mlFXGf6XEudVUG99FelpHO9CGkXNmRSLNuUUIQoXJcb7tzhgeExk2t/s1600/barbara_apr22.gif" /></a></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-31062795198505327912013-04-01T13:35:00.000-07:002013-04-01T13:35:21.092-07:00Broken Men update<br />
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Some great recent redesigns from Mamo on the Broken Men YouTube channel! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/BrokenMenTeam/">http://www.youtube.com/user/BrokenMenTeam/</a><br />
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Broken Men stuff will generally get posted to the facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/bbrokenmen">http://www.facebook.com/bbrokenmen</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-6786738052005115342013-04-01T13:27:00.001-07:002013-04-01T13:29:44.579-07:00Some random clipsI've thrown some random clips together for another minute of not-much.<br />
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<br /><br />Gaz (Stord Parkour) with some nice movement in Norway (from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWY5RJ12sk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWY5RJ12sk</a>)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-64304020100458286562013-01-08T15:27:00.001-08:002013-01-08T15:27:22.529-08:00Another successful session!This evening I managed to get a running precision in my local training spot that until today I'd only imagined, for a long while, as being something I'll hopefully do "one day".
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-75851455941489085162012-12-31T13:28:00.000-08:002012-12-31T13:28:14.251-08:00Lish is a beast.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-61234317804225221202012-12-30T11:16:00.000-08:002012-12-30T11:19:25.189-08:00Maximum jump.This was the large precision today:
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Thanks to Deepak for the photo!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-74456842643295540462012-12-30T11:03:00.001-08:002012-12-30T11:05:05.907-08:00Happy new year!I broke a jump today at the final Parkour Generations Off the Wall / Sunday Trainings Supa XXL session of the year: my largest standing precision by far! I didn't capture it on video though (perhaps another day).<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-79301542041175881592012-10-08T05:40:00.003-07:002012-10-08T05:40:41.876-07:00Coming soon...From my Broken Men teammates:<br />
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<br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-65943904968126786372012-08-06T13:58:00.000-07:002012-08-06T14:03:58.842-07:00Glasgow trainingAfter a full day at Roots of Movement, we went to check out an amazing Glasgow spot known locally as "bins". After a few attempts at breaking a plyometric box jump to precision I started filming, managing to break the jump but then working my legs to failure attempting the standing precision. I missed a few attempts due to somehow managing to miss pressing the button a few times, but this was the result:<br />
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My target for my next trip to Glasgow is to get the standing precision properly, so even more conditioning in my future...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-83750217232131716032012-08-03T13:56:00.000-07:002012-08-03T13:58:16.066-07:00BKN Parkour / Broken Men<span style="text-align: left;">If you haven't already (why not!), "Like" our team's facebook page to see photos from training sessions, videos, etc: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/BKN-Parkour/253754101310057">https://www.facebook.com/pages/BKN-Parkour/253754101310057</a><br />
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Also, here's a nice old photo with most of us together:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-46366110098626255802012-08-02T16:50:00.001-07:002012-08-02T16:50:51.664-07:00Norwegian D2 magazine articleLast summer during the Parkour Generations event Rendezvous there was a journalist and photographer from a Norwegian magazine interviewing several traceurs and taking some shots, including of myself.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-32816112000335039802012-08-02T15:55:00.001-07:002012-08-06T14:03:58.839-07:00Basingstoke trip - breaking jumps!I took a trip to Basingstoke on Saturday to explore, guided by a friend (Richard). I managed to have a very productive day breaking jumps and was very happy with range of spots I was at!<br /><br />This is his video from the day:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kxpJ7kx37JQ" width="560"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-15111715021309219752012-07-09T16:27:00.000-07:002012-09-02T12:36:43.001-07:00Stord ParkourA precision in Norway that I was very happy with:<br />
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A better video of the whole trip (by Steve): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXm5IpyMwvo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXm5IpyMwvo</a><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sXm5IpyMwvo" width="420"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946659054920266594.post-28253723176297880652011-10-26T11:48:00.000-07:002011-10-26T12:18:59.146-07:00Upper body progressionI've been focused purely on progressing my upper body lately. Having an injured wrist for most of my time training until recently, I have a very weak base to start from, but hopefully that means I'll have the early stage gains quickly giving me the feeling of progress, and whilst my knee recovers it gives me more of an upper body focus to work with.<br /><br />I've been working on my muscle ups, aiming to have a couple of sessions a week where I'm practicing them on a pull-up bar in a local park. I'm finally able to perform muscle ups with both arms together instead of always having to lock out one arm first and then struggle to get the other up above the bar.<br /><br />The main way this has happened has been through technique, attempting to get up to the top of the bar "gymnast style" which is almost purely done through swinging, pushing out the chest and kicking high, so the swing takes you to the top of the bar and much less strength is required. Right now I'm completely unable to do this! The motion of kicking up with both of my legs seems unnatural to me so I always perform the motion of attempting a standard muscle up, but it has taught me to utilise the pushing out my chest as part of the initial swing and allows me to finally perform clean muscle ups, so I'm pleased with that. I've also in the last few weeks been able to do multiple reps in a single set which is much more a test of strength and technique so my training going forward will be performing multiple reps each time.<br /><br />The other area that I'd like to progress in is gaining the ability to hold a handstand. Before last month I could count the number of sessions that I'd attempted handstands on one hand, and having my injured wrist means I'd never had the motivation to try and potentially hurt myself (it's fine for handstand now, even turning on that wrist to get out of the handstand when I go too far over). <br /><br />The main way I've been practicing is by trying to go straight into a free handstand from squat and jumping up into position, hoping to hold position. I've definitely made progress but it's still very rare that I reach the balance point and hold it for even a second, though occasionally I'm there for a good few seconds. I've decided to definitely change strategy and will start working on my frog stands, developing the instinct to counterbalance and regain control primarily using my hands, pushing from my fingertips or my palm, and generally get used to the motion and position of balancing on my hands, and hope the understanding I gain will transfer well into my handstand practice. This is also something I can practice at home in the tiny space that I have which would not permit handstands at all, so that's also reserved for the local park.<br /><br />Other news is that on my first attempt to go up into handstand position whilst holding onto my pushups bars (having taken them outside) ended with me tipping, landing on one of the bars and breaking it; not the best first attempt!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09014019114634210773noreply@blogger.com0