Sunday! - SF Weekend Training for Beginners 8/3 (itinerant!) - Sunday!

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Comment by SafeNSure on August 1, 2008 at 10:15am

to Frenchie: the purpose of the "nomadic" or "itinerant" session is, aside of checking out more spots, being able to check out "spots that you are very likely to get kicked out of". This is annoying and (very) disappointing to beginners/newcomers, but it's an unfortunate reality of Parkour, contradicting the wide usage of the discipline in movies and advertisement (which btw. proves how little positive fallback real-life practitioners can draw by the "commercialization of pk"... but that's only my opinion...).

Typically, what would happen is: we warm up without hitting architectural elements and w/o hindering foot traffic (as any bootcamp session); then we start exemplifying and practicing moves on whatever we can find, w/o damaging property; then we run a couple of lines through the elements; at that point we very likely have attracted enough attention and we move on to another spot a little further away and repeat.
At any time after the warm up, depending on a combination of factors -not lastly, luck- we may be asked to stop practicing and move along by security/safety officers, which we immediately do, while politely explaining what we were doing (usually one/two guys most experienced with this particular instance...). Then we move somewhere else (usually off-premises) and keep on training...

This IS Parkour, and it's a great experience for everybody who hasn't done it yet...

to D.Rod 004: see above and substitute "intense" with "instructional".. we are not going to be chased away, and we are not going to have to run away...
We may have to move along, and trying to avoid that, we'll be stay permanently "on the move" as Ryan said.

This is feasible by anybody who can jog... otherwise you may speedwalk... but watch out for the snickers! Lol...

Comment by D.Rod 004 on August 1, 2008 at 8:18am

Is this really for beginners? It seems kinda intense. haha. I think i am going to go. Just a little worried that this is only my second time. Def a first in a "red zone".

Comment by Frenchie on July 31, 2008 at 9:58pm

wait wait, isn't state a red zone on the map? wasn't there trouble with security?

Comment by Ryan Fulmer on July 31, 2008 at 9:32pm

we are DEFINITELY gonna be "on the move" the whole time at STATE, just a heads up....

Comment by SafeNSure on July 31, 2008 at 7:00pm

(sorry again it's 8/3... sorry again it's 8/3... sorry again it's 8/3... sorry again it's 8/3... sorry again it's 8/3... sorry again it's 8/3... )

Comment by Sin on July 31, 2008 at 6:08pm

sad i missed last week, def up for it this week

Comment by technique on July 31, 2008 at 4:41pm

Duh. Looked at the map.

Comment by technique on July 31, 2008 at 4:40pm

Sweet! 2 block commute. Where at SF State?

Comment by SafeNSure on July 31, 2008 at 9:23am

SORRY!!!!

Wrong day/time in the description: 8/2 12:00pm (as usual!)
Age and late hours are taking a toll... lol!
=/

...good catch everybody.

Comment by Brownie on July 31, 2008 at 9:05am

this is the last chance i have to come out before going out to hippie camp
and if it's on 8/2, why does the time say 8/7? at 6pm?

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