Monday, May 26, 2008

Time flies.

I've been wanting to blog since the last few days but I can't get my fingers to do the job.

Last Friday was movements practice and I think it got screwed up - yet again. Oh well thanks to my filming temptation I can't really focus on what I wanna do. I don't know when should I make a video again but it seems like I didn't like what I'd filmed last Friday, so I would need to retake whatever I took again. I really need to take my movements training more seriously now or not I wouldn't improve at all. My precisions are still not controlled and my armswinging is still cocked up. Same goes for my wallpasses, they really slackened after what-seemed-like-years of not practicing. Climbups improve but my "straight-armed" climbups still looks too ambitious for me. And I didn't even practiced rolls at all. Damn.

Tricking is worst. I can't backtuck properly anymore, its really gay and my aerial is worse. My one-handed cartwheel also got fucked after getting aerial into my muscle memory. Ahhh shit man, this really sucks. I really need to work on them seriously all over again. My tucking also needs alot of practice too, it really sucks too. I think losing skills are kinda normal, but I really hope I can get them back soon, but I shouldn't rush myself. But on the brighter side, my front tucks are awesome now, but I'm not gonna be complacent anymore.

As I can see, I still really lack of self-control. I told myself to practice handstands for a little while everyday as I need alot of practice to get a handstand, but I didnt. Same goes for rolls, climbup, aerial, backflip. I was planning to practice them consistently but I didn't. I have 7 goals for this month and I think I'm only gonna tick 2 of them. My mistake was that I didn't focus on them hard, like I put it there for show and never really trained hard for it. Also there might be too much goals, although most of them are just a show of self-control. I think I'm also too ambitious with my straight-armed climbup goal. Oh well I learnt a lesson, I hope not to repeat the same old mistakes with June's goals.

I also learnt alot more on how to strength train, which is really good. I should start my cycle after I come back for the vietnam trip. I think I should work on my bench press and front squats, as I'm getting the hang of it already, so slowly I could up the weights are train for strength. Goodmornings on the other hand still needs alot of work so I should find a day to just practice lifts for form so I can incorporate those new lifts into my strength training. I can see the effect of strength training now, and I'm going to continue.

Next week I'm going to Vietnam... and I hope its going to be good. The people over there is kinda lame like that fat ass, but the rest I could say its ok, just that I don't know them. Its going to be 5 days of no training, oh no. Also its going to be 5 days of eating weird stuffs, I hope its going to be nice food. And its going to be 5 days of lame stuffs, I'm not sure actually why am I going to this trip at the first place, but since everything is done, I couldn't do much already, and just take this opportunity to rest and slack and explore the overseas.

Anyway, yet another few things I've learnt.
About flaming and stuffs. I think although however retarded people maybe in Youtube posting really retarded videos which is totally not Parkour, but yet calling it parkour, and think that they are very good, we shouldn't flame them, somehow. It will only make things worst. Firstly insults are very demeaning and discouraging. I'm sure that we all started out noobs and don't know what parkour is at first. Secondly I think instead of flaming, we should clear things up and start educate those posers on what Parkour is. But if they don't wanna listen then there is nothing more we could do but ignore those faggots. I really hope the image of Parkour will get better but that is just wishful thinking.

And now more and more people know about Parkour (but of course don't know what it truly is anyway), and they think that it is just some streetstunts, tricking, rollerskating, skateboarding kinda thing, it looks cool, and they wish to do it, but they can't do it. But when some random guy comes up and do Parkour they will go "Wahh Parkour seh," or "Here comes to Parkour master!". But truly in their heart they are jealous and just wanna put us down by saying stuffs like that or "lame sia Parkour boy". Well everyone don't know what Parkour is anyway, all they know is to be jealous of people who can do stuffs that they cannot do. And they will think we are showoffs. Lol, I can't stand all this immature dumbasses. You got no freedom when you see this dumbasses.

Next, I'm not sure but I think I'm acting so pro towards the newcomers and insult whatever they say. I can honestly say I'm very direct but sometimes I'm not sure of how those people feels too. I think when they say or do or show something that is really retarded, I will start insulting them like assholes but I actually realize I'm too insensitive. Surely I don't wanna be treated like this, although people like Andi and Nazir already did stuffs like that but I think I'm pushing my limits too far. I'm sure that no one wants to be treated like that anyway so I shouldn't be one who keeps scolding and everything but rather talk nice (or ACT nice), as it will be alot better. I should be acting like Ashton or GPJ when it comes to teaching newcomers. Hahahahaha.

I also feel that the friendship and spirit between traceurs are different then normal friends really. Look, I think after knowing Parkour and training it until now, I've been realizing so many new stuffs that made so huge an impact to my life. Traceurs that I know, GPJ, Ashton, NC, etc., I'm meeting more often then my normal friends (but it is a fact that I don't even hang out with friends at all). And I also appreciate them more then how I appreciate my normal friends, as we talk alot and share the same interest - movements. Thats what I think. Parkour is not just a normal sport or pastime or hobby or add your synonyms here, but instead it is way beyond it, its a different atmosphere within traceurs. I don't know, but this is how it is to me. Another reason could be because I don't really have good friends in school. Hahahahahahaha.

I'm not sure what other craps to add, so I think I'll stop here.

Monday, May 19, 2008

The 17th and 18th.

Here it is, my thoughts of the past two days.

I was looking forward to the event since Ashton told me about it. I knew it will be good event, as one of my things that I want to do is to film a video similar to "Cambridge Joy", but only in Singapore. I wanted to film that since last year, so this event, finally, gave me that very chance. Obviously I want and knew that the video will be dammmmm good, and all had turned out well. Although not much people came as expected, the event is really fun.

Qayyim came, finally met him. I watched his videos and they are really good, so to see him in real life is a really good privilege, same goes to be able to come for the event. The event turned out pretty well, and I'm not disappointed. :)

Ok, enough of all this gay shit.

Now the main thing is to compile all the clips and make a hell' good video thru editing. Now lets see what did I did wrong and what did I learnt through the 2 days of great training.
- Pushed myself too much (doing maximum precisionjumps, really far jumps, etc..)
- Wallpasses and climbups really slackened.
- Armswinging in precision jumps gone haywire, fuck.
- Rolls and landings still very sloppy.
- Not having a strict goal when training.
- Still too impactful, but since this is for the event, hmm..
- Aerial and backflip needs to be worked on hard now.
There is more I think but this are the main few. I guess I need to work on all those I've mentioned above, and work on it hard, while doing lotsa strength training too.

Anyway, few things worth mentioning :
Like I said before in one of my past posts, I practice l'art du displacement. But I now realize Parkour, Freerunning, Tricking, Streetstunts, Art-of-movements, blahblah are usually very close to each other, although terms shouldn't be used interchangably, but they contain the same elements - movements. The focus is only whether it is on efficiency, aesthetics, speed, or just fun. I think I'm more towards making my movements fun and aesthetically pleasing, because I like them, and I want to move gracefully and freely, and I want to move the way I want to. Remember the motto - "I move for myself.", so if people says shitty stuffs I can't give a fuck. I don't really care whether it is efficient (in terms of speed/safety/energy-efficient), but I could make my movements efficient as so whenever in need, I could use them, but those chances are negligible. I would also like my movements to be fluid, fast, explosive and that plays a part in making the movements look nicer. I've cleared my mind, and this is where I am going to head to. I'm sorry people but rest assured I'm not a parkour rip-off, and I just want to classify my style correctly. But whatever is, parkour and movements and etc. are comes from the same roots, so no matter what, it will be still more or less be similar, just different focuses, but we will still be together.

Posers on the other hand, deserve some ranting. Well just yesterday I saw a video which is sooooooo damn retarded, they are doing so stupid stuffs which everyone can do but most probably won't want to because it is so retarded. The people in the video are worse, when we insulted and flamed them, their replies are so immature and retarded, one even thought a guy which is clear-cuttedly flaming him, yet he thinks he is praising them, and he thanked him, and until he realized that he just got owned, he switched topic and said it was sarcasmsms. They even claim their video is better then mine, saying my music sucks, and one said my video is a waste of time and I suck and told me to do "better parkour", which is the biggest joke ever, the most ironic of all is that those are coming from those kids themselves. One said although they are noob(yep, very true), they are still doing parkour (lol, not true at all). Fucking hell, what a joke man. Still despite all the negative comments, their inflated ego still isn't convinced that they are wrong, and continue to fight back, but obviously failed miserably. Good thing is they deleted the video, but one guy hadn't put the matter to rest, and he tried so hard to insult me and my profile comment box. Nice try, but it just goes to show how retarded and immature those faggots are, and I got nothing to say, want to bother this kind of spoilt eggs are just a plain waste of time.

Next, I was wondering whether I should continue flaming the videos. Firstly the video and description is an eyesore, but if I flame back, their soreloser replies will be yet another eyesore. I really don't know, to save the image of Singapore Parkour or just wait and hope things will get better? Or just don't care because there is actually no hope already. Also to flame is really a waste of time, so I shouldn't bother. Until I see a video which have potential I might try to help them or something, but that also depends on my mood, because the local parkour scene is just to saddening, and funny. Oh well, things are like that already, what to do...

Can't believe the month of May is going to end soon, June will surely contain alot of hard trainings and I can't wait to finish my videos for May and the PKSG video for this event. Maybe I will make a May/June video because I might not have enough time, and I will make a different video for a chance this May instead. Lets see how things goes...

Till then.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Up and coming.

News for all of you folks.

Strength training has been pushed to a higher level. New personal records for my squats and pullups, which is a very good thing. Things to work on and keep note of is to focus on my deadlift a little bit more as I find it still kinda sloppy. Standing/Bench presses are still bullshit, front squats and goodmornings getting the hang of it, and no clue on powercleans yet. Dips still at 15kg, deadlifts at 60kg. Squatting form is ok, although when I'm doing the 2rm it kinda sucken although it is normal, but not a good thing.

My thoughts, to stick to 70kg squats, try to squat those weights faster and more reps before adding another 5kg. Great progression already, for my age is very good, have another 7 months to reach my ultimate goal of 2x bodyweight squats. Only 20kg away (if my weight stays around 45kg). Also while bettering my deadlift form, slowly increase it to 70kg. Also, pullups are really slow so stick to 20kg until I could do 5 reps.

Current Personal Records :
Deadlifts - 60kg
Squats - 70kg
Pullups - 20kg
Dips - 15kg

War starts tomorrow, can't wait but I should make sure that I'm not doing any stupid and impactful stuffs and make sure I don't bail at all tomorrow and Sunday. Make sure everything is well within my standard. I'm hoping to join the guys in one of the funnest days probably. I will treat the first day as a normal movement training and the second day just joining the guys in what they wanna do. I can finally get my hands on to a professional camcorder, hahaha. And meet Qayyim!

Argh, I hate when people goes retarded when I do stuffs, I mean you know society nowadays, like to laugh at people no matter what, make fun and mock at you like one motherfucker for no reason. Whats wrong with training like this, I'm still human, am I some weirdo to you, does whatever I do affect you do at all? Hahaha, funny humans, can't stand it ah, but I could just laugh at them back anyway, as they are the dumbasses. Why am I even bothering anyway.

As now I see life even more different everyday. I'm starting to meet and get along better with my new class, and those people are not dumbass people from 2e1. This is some good news, at least for me. Results was ok but the expected Chinese and not really suprising Combined Humanities got bullshit results. English is another disappointing one. Other then that, everything is more or less good. L1R4 of a 9, I might be on my way.. :P

anyway,
I'm gonna stick to training really hard now.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Today.

LOL, soooo funny.

CP.\\ says: so... and it was because you saw me did a flip during the dec hols
CP.\\ says: thats why you wanna start tricking? i asking
yuanhan. says: Tricking is naturally impressive just that I never really did go and bother, after I saw you do it, it made everything look so much more possible. Then I thought maybe those stuff isn't impossible anyway. Lol actually you can say that that's why, but it just like sparked off my thoughts.

CP.\\ says: well, you looked at almost every movement i do
yuanhan. says: yeah well you're like some inspiration >_> going "woah" at what you do makes me think hmm maybe i can do that one day as well lol

I knew it anyway, all along everyone thinks whatever I do is easy. I only train for this 15+/-months, and this is my standard. Well, so thats why they think everything is so easy. FUCK YOU assholes. Just really, fuck you, sniff some carbon monoxide and die, please.

I seriously don't get it. What the fuck sia.

Oh, fine, I'm a pro, I'm so good, I can do this, can do that. Sure. You know why? YOU KNOW FUCKING WHY? Use what, hack? Do nothing, after one day, can do already? Just sleep and slack, everyday think of being able to do that move, then just try can already? Just like anyhow do can already? HAHAHAHA.

My frontflips, I took like since last year, its already like I would say 8 to 9 months of practice (although kinda inconsistent practice), and it is still very sucky. My aerial, I have been wanting to land it since last year, it was until end of last month I could land, so its at least 5 to 6 months of trainings. Yeah sure its not hard practice, but I'm sure all that strength training, all the practice, all the hardwork, determination, and patience, takes alot alot of effort? So you expect to be able to do it like sitting down and hope and dream to be able to do so you can do? Lol, rofl, lmao, roflmfaol. Ok, fine.

Next, all my jumps, all my sdc, vaults, wallpass, precision, climbups, muscleups, lache, basically all my skills, are there because I have been training hard for the past years and months. Fine, I progress super fast, super fast compared to the pioneers. What I wanna tell the pioneers is, please don't be disheartened that how come I can progress so fast and kinda catching you guys up already but no, please don't be. I don't want to portray that perception too. I'm too fast, I need to slow down, or else I will die at an earlier age then you anyway. But rest assured I won't be pushing my limits and injure and kill myself. I will be training hard in terms of strength throughout my whole body. I won't be doing 100% maximum stuffs, big and impactful stuffs, crazy and stupid stuffs, pushing my limits to the fucking extent, killing my joints and body, force myself in anything, be a fucking competitive guy. NO hell no I wont. I won't disappoint, yes, I'm talking to you Ashton.

There is a motto on why I move, a really simple one. So simple, its only 4 words. "I move for myself." That is the motto I will uphold and live up to it. In whatever case, I practice l'art du displacement for myself, and no one else. Thats why I keep coming up with my own original movements and not follow whatever the trend is or what. All this thoughts are mine, not stolen and whatever. I move for myself, thats why the movements are not blindly copy-and-pasted from videos. Surely I have done some stuffs I see in videos and tried to mimic it but it keep it mind that I will need to be able to do stuffs no one (at least I've seen) have done before. Hmm, so what if I never seen anyone did a 360 sdc before? It is still possible.

I'm really afraid that if I keep posting videos and training with others and telling everyone what I've been able to do, they will copy it. Oh, I'm their inspiration. But sorry, I'm not here to inspire you at all, not here for you to enjoy my movements and copy it. Oh I can do a muscleup, they must be able to do it too, lol because it is a measurement of strength eh? I took 8 months of training to just whack one, and 10 to made it constant. Some others, could do it after 4/5 months, and they say they are very slow, LOL! FUCKERS. Stop being so fucking competitive man, and stop using my movements are a source of your goals.

I only met two people, shockingly both have so similar characteristics. People who keep competing with others so much, show off so much, progress so fast, follow others, keep buggering others, and think that they are very strong, but in fact so weak like fuck, I can't be bothered. There is no more hope, I don't wanna guide any newcomers anymore, seriously. Fuck those competitive assholes.

Can't they also have some sense of originality too? Find your own things to do, and stop using whatever people are doing or has done or what to be your aims. Stop following whatever I'm doing, and think you are very good. I'm sick of it. I just hate my originality being twisted. I hope one day I will be able to do something NO ONE can do, that is the best originality I can ever have. That will be the best goal of my life, not because I'm the only one who can do it, because I came up with something so original that no one can do it. Fuck you imitators.

Yeah I will still be posting videos because I just can't let this hinder my love of making videos. That will just be stupid. Although I know the consequences which is to let all of my stuffs being "INSPIRED" into their to-do-list, but I could fucking care less. Although it is fucking gay to be seeing 100s of people trying to act like me, I will just say that they suck because they can only do things that they have seen people doing before. That is why I bolded those texts in the first few paragraphs of this blogpost, and LOL'd. I just can't believe it.

I made it clear to myself, to stop entertaining all these jokers, posers and fucktards. I wanna block them and delete them from my MSN, try to right-click and delete them from my memory, and empty my memory's recyclebin. And I don't wanna entertain anymore obviously retarded people from Singapore. If I find that guy have a REAL potential, then I will thank god for giving us this one-of-the-thousands kinda guy. It is just impossible to find one who is the same kind of us. I feel the pain. I would just let those people train them and wreck their joints, while I happily laughed at their stupidity, and train with my good friends that I like, so I wouldn't need to suffer from laughter.

I reckon, in 5 years time, people who train 2years will be close to my standards, because as time flies by, people will progress 10x faster, while I will be progressing and my comfortable pace. But even if they are better me, somehow, I can't be damned.

While I rant out all this agony going through my head now, I could only make myself feel better by knowing obviously they are weak beings, who don't even know how to train but just action only, and whatever they do now, no matter how UNimpressive, or how gaytarded, or how fast (hint: hack), I can only say they are destroying their gay bodies, while I, concentrating to be stronger and stronger everyday PROPERLY, by training in a gradual, incremental and progressive manner, while training with no other goal then enjoyment and fun, and obviously, for myself. I made this clear to me right now, whatever it is (for trainings), strength and safety is the main aim, then come fun.

Well today I trained, train alot to be exact, but it was bad, oh so bad. Although I notice my improvements, it is that I kept pushing it to far extents and also doing alot of impactful stuffs, really impactful stuffs. I think I screwed up my knee, and also my ankle. I need some good rest. Also bailed twice, but small bails, but I hate bailing, shit man. And I never really trained much of what I planned. Not a very good day today. But what I can't believe is I landed an aerial on concrete, YES! And my movements are better, from now I wouldnt call them "freestyle moves" but just "movements". I will slowly train them till they are better. I need to rest for the upcoming big event on the 17th and 18th, but I have to bear in mind that this is no need to rush and push myself just for the camera.

Like I said countless of times already. Here comes all the hard trainings now, to be up overall body strength and functionality, to get ready for the very impactful nature of the art. I need to build up strength especially in my knee and ankle joints as they are the more vulnerable ones. And I also want the strength from my legs for propelling my body upwards and forwards, and sprints (recently tried it out, improvement was immense!), and absorbing impacts. All this will need constant self-discipline.

Although I will still continue training my movements on fridays and strength training on all the other days, I will find a new job and have fun with my life and also make more videos and everything. It is not the only thing in my life. I wanna spend more time with my friends too. Spend more time in researching, eating, watching videos. Using time more efficiently. I won't skip a day of training. Exams are over, there are no excuses. I will need to plan my june holidays schedule too.

I can't wait to get my results. (except chinese and humanities)

I need to stop doing impactful stuffs, today was a horrendous day, I don't know why, but I have to make sure this doesn't happens again. I have to still keep in mind that safety and focus is the most important in movement trainings, and make sure that I'm handling things well within my level and I'm not doing too much stupid stuffs, and also not pushing myself too much.

As each day gets tougher and tougher, you get tougher and tougher each day.

Thanks for reading. (seriously)

SMALL UPDATE:
Decided that there is more to rant on this topic.

I realize, everytime when I train with newcomers (so far I met two different groups, and another different one not yet met up, but all of them are retarded), everytime they see you do something, they will go WOAH!. Its so fucking irritating, it makes you feel like a showoff even though you are not. And they ALWAYS look at you, some so irritating as fuck, even as you to show them. We are not there for your entertainment, get it, immature faggots? Can you like give us a peace of mind, and do your own thing. Do you fucking know how irritating it is? Do you want me to look at you all the time, looking at your weak landings and ARGH!!!! everytime? Never ask someone to go "Can you do that again?" because you will make them feel so irritated, and they might not hesitate to kick your ass. If you wanna train with me or us, make sure you are not there to SEE what we are doing, if so, you will be blacklisted. Lame sia, come to training session to watch people train, go to hell. Go watch David Belle's video lah, much more PRO and INSPIRING, hahahahaha.

I really hate to train with newbies nowadays. For that very reason, train with you just to see what you are doing, and go WOAH!!!! like some motherfucker.

Well, some people will also target you, and be able to do whatever you can do, and progress at a very fast rate. Competitiveness rocks. Watch your video and go out and keep trying to nail the move over and over again, or not you will go home and sulk. And they actually think they are conditioning, alright! Train clean climbups when they climb with forearms soooo slowly, and try to do muscleups do show how strong they are. Always wanna do things the experienced traceurs can do, and think they are so strong... Lmao. Compete and compete!! YAY! I MUST BE THE BEST, WORLD FASTEST PROGRESSING POSER IN THE WORLD, WOOT! AND IM SO STRONG!

Before trying to out-talk someone, be sure you get your facts right. I don't think you ever want to mess with a guy with tons of experience in the "sport" itself and flame wars. What a narcissistic remark.

Nevermind, anyway why am I getting so uptight over a fucking weak newfag poser? Or newbies in general. HAHAHHAHAHA I seriously can't be bothered. What a sad mistake to ever think of entertaining someone of that kind. I will learn from that mistake.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Exams are over!

...in one day's time.

Yep, can't wait for the results though, except for Chinese, and maybe Humanities.. gay subjects. The rest are hopefully good results, and I'm scared for AMaths tomorrow.. Damn. I'm gonna start studying soon.

Anyway, I decided to privatized my blog as I don't want this to be known much, but can't believe the internet is so powerful. Everybody can easy find my blog, which I don't want. And recently everyone has been knowing me, through youtube PM, pksg, lol, sucks. But, hais its already done. I will only let my "dear" readers get to read this blog :P. Don't go big headed hor.

Yeah it does suck to let alot of people know you, well, good in a way yet bad in a way. Good is that you can know more people, and bad you might have people buggering you lol. You know the Singapore scene these days are really retarded, sometimes I can't be bothered to talk to those newcomers, like I said so already. I don't feel like teaching others nor commenting and whatever, just don't care them and mind my own business.. Its a sad thing.

Now, that exams are over, lets start the hardcore trainings.

I need to go strenght training like fuck now, I need my squats and deadlifts to have big numbers by the end of this year. I need to be able to jump, jump FUCKING JUMP! Oh hell yeah, I need a fucking good powerful legs, and the ability to blast off into the air vertically and horizontally, and the ability to withstand impacts. And I must have incredible reactive speed, oh yeah speed, SPEED I say. With sprints as fast as a 4.8x seconds 40 yard dash, jumps as high as chest height boxjumps, and aiming for a good vert, and 9.5 steps++ precision jump. I wanna feel very very weightless, and jump really explosively. Oh yeah, I need this, speed, power, strength. Soon I can't wait to see how easy to land a flip, do a wallpass, do this precision jump, sdc to p, anything. I need effortless jumps! OHHH hell yeah, but all this are just wishful thinking, unless I really put all my effort to train them hard, but there is no rush too.

Next for upperbody, I need some great climbup speed too, and do a planche en force. I need pulling and pushing strength, I need the handstand by this year end. Hoping to get around 30kg pullups or more and 30kg dips too. I need alot of strength now, not bullshit endurance or lame stuffs. Hopefully I can do alot handstand feats and get near to the OAC, but I won't go to that yet. Some effortless muscle ups too maybe, and good laches.

Also, for movements, I don't have much real aims but yeah, I wanna be really strong in my legs so most of my movements are very easy to do. And I wanna start training "freestyle" movements such as palmspin, bar tricks, backwards sdc, wall stuffs. And of course tricks and flips, need alot of work on them, and handstands. I need alot of practice for all of this, and mental courage and obviously determination. I'm also coming up with alot of original movements I wish to be able to do, but I need strength and skill, although no one have done it before, with practice and strength, I will be able to do it some day.

I'm gonna make this May video good, oh yeah damn good. Its theme is called creativity. We will be training pretty much usual, but we some twists with creative movements (not necessarily efficient but I don't train parkour anyway), funny stuffs, and things which are out of the normal. You won't be disappointed, and rest assured the filming and editing will be nice too. Oh yeah. And I might take down some videos which I'm progressing in, such as flips, climbups and rolls, and some other stuffs. It will be a fun video. I will be featuring other good friends too, like GPJ :P. Not you, I know what you are thinking. I need to get alot of ideas now, I need music and ideas! Although I have alot already. Maybe drum and bass? Too much of chill out already. Lets see.

And then I will be training movements harder as ever, but safety in mind. I'm still gonna train "parkour movements" but will be focusing more on freestyle and flips, well continue strength training more often, can't wait to be so much stronger. But now I'm going to train harder and that is the most important.