Kingtheking's Posts - Bay Area Parkour2024-03-28T15:14:51Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingthekinghttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/62511391?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://baparkour.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=3fmfuhnyucsy1&xn_auth=noCollege, frontflips, and public speaking?!tag:baparkour.ning.com,2010-10-14:2070047:BlogPost:674792010-10-14T19:48:05.000Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingtheking
<p>So basically college is amazing. Theres a bunch of time to train, which totally destresses me, and I feel like I'm progressing a bunch. Also happened to recruit 2-3 new trainees haha.</p>
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<p>BUT, coolest thing yet, I learned how to frontflip! Which I'm super proud about. I never thought I'd be able to do that, but now that I can, I might start trying to learn more freerunning techniques like palm spins and what not to incorporate into my move set.</p>
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<p>FINALLY, I'm giving…</p>
<p>So basically college is amazing. Theres a bunch of time to train, which totally destresses me, and I feel like I'm progressing a bunch. Also happened to recruit 2-3 new trainees haha.</p>
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<p>BUT, coolest thing yet, I learned how to frontflip! Which I'm super proud about. I never thought I'd be able to do that, but now that I can, I might start trying to learn more freerunning techniques like palm spins and what not to incorporate into my move set.</p>
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<p>FINALLY, I'm giving an informative speech on parkour to my public speaking class next friday. starting it off by defining parkour and contrasting it to "The Office: Hardcore Parkour!" clip that everyone has seen lol. Then I'm probably talking about the origins, ending by moving into the community nowadays and of course attempting to recruit people to try it.</p>
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<p>Is there anything else that YOU would want to hear in an informative speech about parkour??????</p>2010 PK Goalstag:baparkour.ning.com,2010-03-03:2070047:BlogPost:592512010-03-03T08:14:11.000Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingtheking
<p>I looked back on 2009, and realized I didn't improve as much as I hoped. I didn't have much time to train due to college applications and Tennis. Personally, I think I'll work harder if I set some goals for this year:</p>
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<p>Goal 1: One Story Drop - Concrete (a story is 12 feet right? My best was 10)</p>
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<p>Goal 2: Lengthwise Picnic Table Kong (did a 6.5 foot kong outside today, getting there...)</p>
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<p>Goal 3: Improve Opposited Sided Vaults (righty speeds, lazys,…</p>
<p>I looked back on 2009, and realized I didn't improve as much as I hoped. I didn't have much time to train due to college applications and Tennis. Personally, I think I'll work harder if I set some goals for this year:</p>
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<p>Goal 1: One Story Drop - Concrete (a story is 12 feet right? My best was 10)</p>
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<p>Goal 2: Lengthwise Picnic Table Kong (did a 6.5 foot kong outside today, getting there...)</p>
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<p>Goal 3: Improve Opposited Sided Vaults (righty speeds, lazys, etc.... ambidexterity is quintessential)</p>
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<p>Goal 4: Improved Precision (in all manners)</p>
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<p>Most importantly...</p>
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<p>Goal 5: Increase the Speed of Everything</p>
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<p>And I shouldn't even need to remind myself that safety comes before anything else, after all I did get into my top choice college! =) ...might need my brain</p>
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<p>Goal 6: Start Active PK/FR Club at Cal Poly Next Year? (excited = yes)</p>
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Since 7th grade i've been addicted to one of the most unhealthy beverages known to mankind, soda. For<br />
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some reason it took me till now to realize how much better shape I could be in if I just stopped. Starting<br />
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today I'm going to try my best to drink water instead of soda, and hopefully lose some monumental<br />
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poundage. Not sure why but I felt like writing this made it more official... like a pledge or something, idk.
Since 7th grade i've been addicted to one of the most unhealthy beverages known to mankind, soda. For<br />
<br />
some reason it took me till now to realize how much better shape I could be in if I just stopped. Starting<br />
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today I'm going to try my best to drink water instead of soda, and hopefully lose some monumental<br />
<br />
poundage. Not sure why but I felt like writing this made it more official... like a pledge or something, idk.Im bAcKtag:baparkour.ning.com,2009-06-27:2070047:BlogPost:520422009-06-27T02:30:00.000Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingtheking
hey! so i haven't been able to train as much if at all in the city latley. I've been really busy with summer school and everything else going on. hopefully ill break the trend and start coming to the jams more often! oh and im trying to learn how to do a turn vault without landing on a ledge. so... like turn vault into a cat position... any advice?
hey! so i haven't been able to train as much if at all in the city latley. I've been really busy with summer school and everything else going on. hopefully ill break the trend and start coming to the jams more often! oh and im trying to learn how to do a turn vault without landing on a ledge. so... like turn vault into a cat position... any advice?I... Am...So Pissed Off Right Now (Jumpers Knee!)tag:baparkour.ning.com,2009-05-11:2070047:BlogPost:474482009-05-11T00:16:04.000Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingtheking
so I've diagnosed myself with Jumpers Knee. According to the internet its like a slight form of tendonitus you get on the bottom of your kneecap where your shin connects. I noticed an amount of pain in that area after i trained for a couple weeks and had forgot to ice it every night after training =(. Eventually the pain started firing up without me training... NOT GOOD. So I've decided not to train until the West Coast Jam on May 23, that will be my first day back =). In the mean time i intend…
so I've diagnosed myself with Jumpers Knee. According to the internet its like a slight form of tendonitus you get on the bottom of your kneecap where your shin connects. I noticed an amount of pain in that area after i trained for a couple weeks and had forgot to ice it every night after training =(. Eventually the pain started firing up without me training... NOT GOOD. So I've decided not to train until the West Coast Jam on May 23, that will be my first day back =). In the mean time i intend on doing what the internet tells me lol... taking it easy and icing the area every night.<br />
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Has anyone else heard or had this condition before? If not, just remember to be really careful with your knees and listen to your body, if your knees say stop...THEN STOPKong to Cat!tag:baparkour.ning.com,2009-04-29:2070047:BlogPost:465192009-04-29T02:30:00.000Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingtheking
Just figured out how to do Kong to Cat's, along with Dash, Speed, and Lazy's into cat. pretty happy. this move had been<br />
bugging me for a while and now its in my growing bag of movements! +) ... its a cyclops... get it?<br />
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got a video of some cat work stuff idk wtf to call it...<br />
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Just figured out how to do Kong to Cat's, along with Dash, Speed, and Lazy's into cat. pretty happy. this move had been<br />
bugging me for a while and now its in my growing bag of movements! +) ... its a cyclops... get it?<br />
<br />
got a video of some cat work stuff idk wtf to call it...<br />
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comrades, fellow parkour/freerunning peoples of the bay area, would anyone be interested in having a jam in Marin County (my home-front) ?<br />
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I would willingly set up an event on the website but I'm not sure if anyone would have the impetus to make the trip. Anybody down? i know a great spot that we won't get kicked out of!<br />
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San Rafael High School: 50 seconds in through the end of the…
comrades, fellow parkour/freerunning peoples of the bay area, would anyone be interested in having a jam in Marin County (my home-front) ?<br />
<br />
I would willingly set up an event on the website but I'm not sure if anyone would have the impetus to make the trip. Anybody down? i know a great spot that we won't get kicked out of!<br />
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San Rafael High School: 50 seconds in through the end of the vid.<br />
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ZFQZuvzcSg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ZFQZuvzcSg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>GREAT SUCCESS - Finally Kong Vaulted a Picnic Tabletag:baparkour.ning.com,2008-10-21:2070047:BlogPost:209912008-10-21T04:42:25.000Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingtheking
FINALLY, i managed to kong vault a picnic table width-wise. I am pretty happy about this accomplishment (konging a picnic table is commonly known as the beginning steps to a true kong) so i just thought i would sorta brag :) . I also want to reiterate a very important point in parkour, progression. It took me around a full hour of just planting my feet at the edge of the table and jumping off before i was confident in my abilities to clear the table. progressing from landing and jumping off to…
FINALLY, i managed to kong vault a picnic table width-wise. I am pretty happy about this accomplishment (konging a picnic table is commonly known as the beginning steps to a true kong) so i just thought i would sorta brag :) . I also want to reiterate a very important point in parkour, progression. It took me around a full hour of just planting my feet at the edge of the table and jumping off before i was confident in my abilities to clear the table. progressing from landing and jumping off to just tipping my feet was really important. It boosted my confidence in my abilities to clear the full table. One easy way to get injured is to try something you had never done before and lose your confidence halfway through which usually leads to a face plant. Without steady progression i probably would have taken even longer to attempt this very fundamental movement. I want to thank everyone at the beginner training sessions for helping me progress with parkour since i started doing it. The sessions held on sundays, and i think i can speak for multiple beginners saying this, are amazingly useful tools for advancement. So thats about it... thanks again!Schools cracking down? loltag:baparkour.ning.com,2008-08-19:2070047:BlogPost:136782008-08-19T04:26:38.000Zkingthekinghttp://baparkour.ning.com/profile/kingtheking
Junior year is starting for me. It is getting harder and harder to find time to train and progress. I worked hard over the weekend so i could take a day off of summer homework and do some training. I went down to the school down my hill and was working on a kong vault by practicing over a picnic table. after a couple of minutes i was just bouncing off the end of the table. i went back to my starting position totally ready to clear the table when i hear a loud and angry "HEY!". Right before i…
Junior year is starting for me. It is getting harder and harder to find time to train and progress. I worked hard over the weekend so i could take a day off of summer homework and do some training. I went down to the school down my hill and was working on a kong vault by practicing over a picnic table. after a couple of minutes i was just bouncing off the end of the table. i went back to my starting position totally ready to clear the table when i hear a loud and angry "HEY!". Right before i tried to clear the table i was thrown out of the school because the principal was roaming around. I had never been kicked out of there before because many of the teachers and the janitor know me. I tried to reason with the principal saying i wasnt destroying property or anything but it was no use. I spent the rest of the day doing the one thing i hate most HOMEWORK. I had that table... so so so annoying