Train Hard - Stay Humble

Progression Session - now "on demand"!

Event Details

Time: August 3, 2012 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Location: To Be Decided
Street: To Be Decided
City/Town: SF
Event Type: progress, progression, parkour, conditioning, training, bapk, bay area, san francisco
Organized By: SafeNSure
Latest Activity: Aug 8, 2012

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Event Description

Please -anybody reading this and coming- sign up (=RSVP) in due time! (If you don't, you may very well not know where we will be. See below...)

A slightly different format; training location will be DECIDED WITH PARTICIPANTS , depending on: current weather conditions, number of participants, mood, etc. We'll either be meeting at the traditional 19th Ave. at Holloway (parking lot), or at Hensill Hall (a rare, albeit limited, outdoor covered spot, which allows for dry training even in pouring rain), or at some known spot specifically picked.

Only RSVPs will be contacted with final location, so please make sure you'll sign up in due time.

Last minute (only!) # contact is 9-uan-7-tree-7-uan-4-faiv-9-tree (txt preferred).
Now please read the session description.
:)

Session description:

This training provides a healthy and motivated atmosphere for existing practitioners to progress their parkour, and to do this in a safe, peer-reviewed, no-BS and no-sitting around way.

The goal of these sessions is to enhance the effectiveness of our parkour practice, through advancements in precision, speed, control, power, stamina, resistance, determination and confidence. The mean to achieve this, will be perfecting short combinations of basic movements through intense repetitions in order to ultimately trigger instinctive reactions and reduce transition time.

The more experienced practitioners will set a positive example by focusing on a thorough warm up, dynamic stretching, cardio-vascular resistance and precise repetition of movement (see examples). There will be no showing off, rather humbly passing on of knowledge, in a group effort to keep up the pace of the drills and advance together. Also we will try to maintain our focus on uninterrupted motion from drill start to finish (A-to-B). All while keeping safety as paramount.

While there may be different physical or technical skill levels represented at these sessions, everyone will keep an eye out for anybody needing advice or encouragement. Absolute novices, with no previous experience in group training of parkour or other physical disciplines, are advised to consider first beginning with a Basic Training (Sundays).

The perception that while the practice of parkour is fun, it's "a discipline, not a game" will be tangible and is required.

Everybody pls. check this frequently asked questions about liability.

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Comment by SafeNSure on July 12, 2012 at 10:14pm: ...it is on if you want it to be!

It's "on demand".
:)

Seriously: it has been going on with a consistent small group all winter/spring, slowing down about since summer start.
We typically connect the "yes" and "maybe"s on Friday afternoon with a location.
Time is always 7:00pm.

Comment by Fugginjo on July 12, 2012 at 9:10pm: this still on?

Comment by Jackson on June 26, 2012 at 11:32am: Out of town, unfortunately, but I'll be there Sunday

Comment by SafeNSure on June 26, 2012 at 10:33am: I'm out this upcoming Friday, but the nights have been so nice that you guys should try hitting up Aquatic Park or something...

Comment by SafeNSure on June 13, 2012 at 8:16am: I'll be tentative until last minute this week, so if anybody (i.e. regulars) feel like setting up something, please do (SFSU always works, meeting at Hensill Hall).

I might very well join last minute.

Comment by SafeNSure on June 6, 2012 at 11:05am: ...lol, yes!
But more thanks to the good company...
;)

Comment by Benforcer on June 6, 2012 at 10:34am: So georgio you saying you had fun :-P

Comment by SafeNSure on June 6, 2012 at 8:15am: I'm out this Friday.

We tried Dolores Park('s new playground) last week and there're a couple of things to be noted:

- We met at 7:00 and warmed up on the lawn in front, since the place was still overflown with shorties(and their tutors).

Due to the nice rubbery ground (nice for them more than for us) there's a fair amount of toddlers: while training around kids in general is not advisable, because of monkey-see-monkey-do type attitudes, training around toddlers and kindergarden age kids should be discouraged, because they are absolutely unpredictable in their movement, they are short and like to hide beyond obstacles, they are fairly quick for their size, they are fearless in a scary way (like when they toddle towards a swinging swing!), and because they tend to have overreacting (not unreasonably) parents.

Hence we had to wait about half an hour, until we could find large areas unattended, and we started working on perimeter obstacles first to blend in a bit.

Skateboarders who were standing by and looking on for the same reasons gave up and left.

- The playground is VERY nice, but not necessarily conducive to a good "progression" session, or anything that might be labeled a training. Granted, one can seriously train with anything (including just a picnic table, or a -solid- home), still when we look for new locations we look for something that constitutes an additional challenge to your normal surroundings. The PG offers a lot of tiny obstacles, which are great for precisions and strides (and stride-precisions), and a couple bigger ones which involve larger drops where one has to roll out of it, making the whole very visible (potentially show-offish), even from a distance, and there's no doubt that walkers-by (of all sorts and inclination) are monitoring the PG, just because it's a nice place theoretically for kids.

- Having said that, there's a playful attitude from all people involved: you see a lot of parents trying out the big slides and some of the other PG equipment, just becasue it's so nice, hence until it stays orderly and training-like, maybe a small group (3/4 people taking it easy) can train there, but forget about "perfecting short combinations of basic movements through intense repetitions" and "uninterrupted motion from drill start to finish (A-to-B)". Focus here has to be on not getting too much unwanted attention, and not constituting an hazard.

- PG is well lit after sunset, so at 9:00PM we basically owned the place, and then it was a bit more free-flow. So maybe in the winter that could be an option.

All in all, not my favorite spot for a Progression Session.