Sunday 30 September 2012

"I saw an exhibition of Miro once. Miro the painter. His very last painting was a dot. I was wondering why everyone says hes a great painter. I can make dots. Yet he is a great painter. I looked at his evolution. First I thought he couldn't draw. Then I saw his early drawings, and they're works of art. His figures are full of detail, his landscapes. Its like looking at a photograph. So I looked at his evolution, and saw that gradually there were fewer details. He was paying less attention to the external, and more to the internal. I thought about it, that little dot, and I understood. Everything else was false, he had just retained the truth."

Saturday 15 September 2012

Monday 10 September 2012

Parkour
"You can be Good, better or Best, but make sure your Good be better and your better be Best"

Saturday 8 September 2012

Danger

Danger is always present when practicing Parkour, but it has been said that the discipline is "only as dangerous as you make it." The risk of injury is obviously at a maximum if the traceur is going beyond his abilities, attempting overly difficult maneuvers for show, or is tired and losing focus. The danger is minimised by checking the surroundings for any loose objects regularly, and progressing at a reasonable rate. However, many young teenagers forget that traceurs such as David Belle have been practising for close to twenty years. They want to immediately perform the same kind of moves as the traceurs they see in videos. They forget their limits and incur injuries.
In August 2005, a UK teenager, Alex Leatherbarrow died after trying to jump a two-metre gap between two buildings. He and a friend had just seen some traceurs at a local skate park and decided to try Parkour. While his friend made the jump successfully, Alex slipped while standing on the edge of the building and eyeing up the gap, later dying of his injuries. The global parkour community was incredibly saddened by the tragedy, which highlighted the inherent danger in untrained traceurs attempting to replicate the large roof-gaps they see on TV, which are almost always set up purely for the media.

Friday 7 September 2012

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Monday 3 September 2012

 Energy Drinks Explained
The internet, magazines, sports matches, supermarkets; everywhere we look we are told about the best energy/sports drink to improve our performance. As practitioners of Parkour/Freerun, we often train longer and harder than we set out to do so, depleting our glycogen energy stores in the process. We all know that we are at our most vulnerable to mistakes and injuries when we are tired and our energy levels are depleted, but the addiction of training (especially when we’re having fun) often makes us ignore of ‘forget’ to fuel our bodies properly.
Energy drinks