This week I felt a progression in terms of strength, and flips.
Starting with strength training in the weights gym first, this week was a real killer week. But I've successfully survived this week, didn't missed a rep on the big days, except for the 5x5 straight sets which is honestly hard to keep but I don't think it will make much of a difference. It is good enough that I've managed to do a few sets. 24kg x 5reps pullups on monday. 76kg x 5reps squats on friday (with the fact that my body is tired from being forced to play soccer and also muscles havent fully recover). This shows abit of progression. The squat felt abit easier, and I thought I couldn't manage it at first. But I just have to do it, giving my full focus and then psyching up myself, and tried to not think too much about it, and I did it. Bench presses and deadlifts are still easy I don't know why but I shouldn't be complacent.
Next week, tomorrow I will be doing 25kg x 5 pullups, hopefully I could succeed in that so I can take a break from heavy pullups for a while. Squats will be a killer, tomorrow will be doing 74kgx5x5, I just hope to do 3 good sets and the other two just do how much I am able to. Same for the pullups 23kgx5x5 on friday. Benchpressing 54kg tomorrow, deadliftings 73kgx5x5 on wednesday. Squating 80kg on friday which is the main thing that I will focusing, hopefully I can manage this and on thursday I'll do nothing but rest and only rest, and eating well (will be handstanding though). Yeah, after week 4 things will get much easier for awhile till week8 comes, but week 4 is actually the main obstacle for this workout, same for week 9, so surviving this week means half the job done. Wish myself good luck.
Lets start talking about things that you guys can actually understand.
I also felt progression in my jumps. Remember the last week I said about the flat precision at future park. Yesterday I nailed it. After a few attempts. Not really forcing myself to nail but just thought to give it a shot. At first I ain't near reaching it but after a bit of warming up and could land them. It is 9 3/4 of my footsteps which is really huge for me, and yeah thats my max. Seeing that the bench was my ultimate goal, so I tried it, at first I thought it was just too far for me still. But again after properly warming up my legs, I tried it and nailed it, thrice. The maxest max precision already though. I could say it is the same length but just not on a flat ground. I don't think I will continue to push my standing jumps for distance already, but I'm going for height now.
Maybe I should focus on nailing the one at Shino really easily. As you know going for height is much more harder then going for distance. When I see jumps I usually know whether I could nail anot but yesterday was rather different, I don't think I can but I still nailed it. But if I really analyse the distance, it seems really impossible, and really can't believe I could clear this distance. At the Dame Du Lac (ashton spot), I nailed the running crane better now, but still really impactful and the first attempt I knocked my knee against the wall real hard. One big problem. And I nailed some other big jumps (considered big in the past) rather controlled and easily.
But yeah, big jumps are impactful. So the more you progress, you end up doing even bigger jumps, giving bigger impacts to your knees and more impact to absorb, and thus making things much more impactful. Ah, thats one thing I haven't changed this week. Trainings are still very impactful. Not just because of the things I do, but the time length of the training. Hais.
Flips are progressing too. Frontflip especially. I think I can nail frontflip all the time now, quite 2nd nature for me, but I'm avoiding concrete still. I don't think flips are meant to be done on concrete, because no matter how you land it is still very stressful. Two achievements for frontflips. Nailed standing fronts on flat and running punch front onto higher platform about shin height (still overrotated). Just one thing is that my control in my flips in the air still sucks, and still not sure when to untuck. Flips off heights are still really scary and I can't do a good landing off it. Backflips is really weird seriously, sometimes it is good sometimes it sucks, it feels different time and again and I still can't really control it well. I need more practice in them definitely. Sideflips are ok now as I got the technique and I could land them about 60% of the time already.
I still need the air awareness and control that is really needed for good flips. With that, flips will be really easier. I just need to practice alot alot more. I also wanna sharpen up my roundoff arabian and try out different flips, and maybe do sideflips off one leg. Before I progress to the different variation of backflips (like wallflip, gainer and even palmflip), I should seriously get my backflip properly inside of my system. I don't want another bail.
Oh yeah, I nailed my lache gainer again. Suprisingly didn't took long to get it back. Because the flip is really easier, all I need to do is to let go higher, pull higher, and tuck. I'll continue practicing that till everything is 2nd nature. Actually, even if so, you'll still need to focus on what you are doing. Focus is needed in everything, every single movement. In flips, you also can't freak out, no matter what you can't, or else you'll bail.
Got some mini bails yesterday, like the knock in the knee in the crane and alot of other small stuffs (which I forgot, lol). Sucks.
Oh and I nailed a shelter muscleup without the pause yesterday, quite good progression but I'll hope to get them consistent and on thicker shelters.
This week gonna be full of tests so, gonna be stressed. Study study study.. Physics, Chem, Amaths and Emaths.. Damn. It is gonna be hard. I hope I do well in all of them.
Next week will be the mass buangkok jam and I can already feel that it is going to be so sick. I will be filming the whole day down, but the video will be way different and trust me it will be nice.
Sunday is my rest day, so I won't be just lazing around but also do handstands practice and alot of stretching.
Nothing much to say this week.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Understanding of things.
Titling a post is really hard.
Yeah, recently I've been thinking about several stuffs, reading abit, being told abit, experimenting, asking myself.
Actually, after thinking about myself and how I react to others and things like that. I just realize I like to 'hate' or 'flame' others for the flaws that I myself do. Like saying the other guys as reckless, but I think I'm really reckless as well, which explains the number of bails I have. Everytime trying to push my limits but do not know when to stop, and usually force myself to nail something new/harder. And I do think I'm abit arrogant and like to boss about sometimes.
I think everyone should not say anything unless they totally sure about it. Do not anyhow assume stuffs that are not true (or not proven). Even if you are confident it is true or whatever, just keep comments to yourself, don't even tell others about what you think, because it doesn't speak much about yourself. I've wrongly assumed stuffs and I feel bad about it. Everything is not what you think it is, what it seems to be. And like I said earlier, dont criticise if you have the same problem.
Went to the newcomers jam yesterday, was well good. The newcomers interact with each tohers alot, train by themselves before we came and I think some of them have potential, but some, are just nonsense. But I think if we keep making those jams then slowly we can see who is genuinely interested in this, and those who just do this to act cool and for fun and blah. Some of the newcomers attitude in the forums just pisses me off. But some are matured and handle things properly. Others are just yaya papaya. I hope that we can find more potential guys in the near future.
Another thing I wanna state out is Parkour's misconceptions. I watched Teghead new video just a week ago and as usual was really impressed. I just like the way how he doesn't think of what to do but just naturally do what he does to get over those obstacles, and somewhat force himselves over. I also realize my wallpasses are really slow in the climbing up part and thats something I must work on now. I think many people don't really do Parkour but they keep claiming they do. And they like to make false statements just to reassure themselves but they never thought of how useless most technique is to them. Only until they go for a real run or chase/escape scenario will they realize the number of redundant, useless movements they have trained for a few years. I don't want to go into further details but people should just think for themselves. I myself don't practice Parkour, I don't go for efficiency, but I know what is Parkour and I can move efficiently when I need to.
Indeed after seeing the 'some of the old, some of the new' video, I realize I've been doing so many SDCs and so many individual single movements which the thought of that just irritates me alot. How can I be only training just one thing and not focusing on one of the most important of movement - runs. Moving fast, not stopping. Hais, don't know what am I focusing at the moment. Flips? Runs? Strength training? Stupid shit. I think I should stop doing SDCs though, I think I've overtrained them. Anyway it is very good already, don't want to be so imbalanced.
Talking about flips, I think my frontflips is quite good right now, of course still not sure when to untuck and all, and still not to the point where it is really good for harder variations and stuffs. Backflips needs alot of tweaking, it is starting to get even weirder I don't know why, but I still need alot of practice before I go on to the other movements. Haven't really been trying my sideflips, so it still sucks but I should keep drilling them soon. This three basic flips. I want to get them to a good satisfiable level by April then things will get alot better. I was thinking of training standing frontflips as they will be a good way to focus on the tuck and technique, and once I can nail them quite well, frontflips with momemtum would be way easier. Aerial is another flip that I don't really like but still will train them when I have the time. I will be trying moonkick next month, while this month I will be focusing on sideflips. Not much time left though. Lache gainer.. still got fear. Hais..
Injuries from the faceplant are healing very good, most of my injuries are healed and I hope I could avoid bailing at all costs for now. Yesterday I bailed a couple of moves like the crane (a knock on the knee) and a really careless trip on a climbup sdc thing. Damn. Nothing serious but still something that is really stupid and can be avoided. Nobody wants to bail, but bailing happens. But I'm bailing too often man.. no good. Yet another thing to work on.. avoiding bails.
Flips aside, I think I placing too much emphasis on Parkour then I should since I want to improve more on my weaknesses (flips, handstands, etc.). Anyway, I'm drilling alot on my running precisions now, wanting to get more height in the jumps and the runnign catleap at castle, want to get them constant. Height is so damn important. I've thought about the things that I want to nail in Bishan. Still further and harder then I thought, don't think I can nail them anytime soon.
One thing I want to note that is I find my training damn impactful. One thing is because of the length of my training. I used to say I would only train like maximum 1hr30minutes but on Saturdays I usually train so much that I accumulate so many impact for just one days work. Not good. And you know the stuffs I do, including the number of bails and the level of jumps and impact I deliver to my knees, ankles and back, I'm not sure how long am I gonna last. Probably I will start feeling the damage when I'm 40, or earlier. I don't know why I keep doing all those impactful stuffs. And it is also thanks to flips (and I will only do flips on concrete when my flips on grass and is super good. and I'll do concrete tricking once in a while only). I should stay low impact now.. seriously.
On individual techniques.. my 180s cat to precisions are really weak. I still am not used to getting height from the kick yet. I can't nail the one at Bishan yet I don't know why. It is just the fear of not being able to kick up and get height enough. Which is weird.. I can do the one at ClarkeQuay quite easily. I used to be able to nail the lower one before don't know why I was scared today.
Cranes are impactful. I don't know why I crane the SDC2P at Bishan (at the first spot, coming from the other side from then sdc2cat). My toe on my trailing leg hits the wall with so much forward momentum it is really pain, then my right leg's knee that is landing on the wall is impacted alot as well. I think my trailing leg in my cranes are a big problem, it is the problem why I hit my knees on the wall in the running crane at the SK's Dame Du Lac and at Bishan the SDC2Cranecatthing. Sucks man. Need to work on my technique. And when I land cranes on stuffs that I can't get enough height for, I land on my arch, which is super impactful as well..
Lastly, my wallpass improved alot. My wall of doom is quite consistent already and I got abit of better technique as I feel. I nailed the wall near the bus stop near Shino and those stuffs that is jutting out in castle. Finally some improved. I hope to get them consistent though, and climbing up faster from it. Soon I will be able to nail a high wall in my area..
Strength training is awesome at the moment, 2 weeks down (extremely fast how time flies), no missed reps (although technically there is 1 rep and 1 set missed from wednesday session which arguably is the worse of all the 6). Week 3 next, this friday I will be squatting my PR I wonder how much I've progressed since then. Its gonna be super tough this week, I don't think I'll take this few sessions easily now, as I've going beyond my PRs in some. Week 4, don't need to talk, even worse, but I hope to survive through them without missing reps or lower the weight. Because I think the toughest week will be week 4 and week 9. I'll need alot of focus and rest for those days. Pullups are getting stronger I can see but squats are getting harder and harder. But I'll be confident to at least get over week 3. Bench Press don't seem much of a problem yet, same as deadlifts.
Actually I've seen good improvement in my jumping strength, but forcing myself to jump my max really stresses my ankle and knees, even my back. That day at future park. Wow, I don't know why I forced myself to land that. It is because I can't believe I'm still not near from nailing it after like so many months, used to wanted to nail that since August. But still I can feel improvements in other things. Climbups are well good now and I can do it qutie fast from a hanging position which is a good achievement for me. Couple of goals I want to train for - Nail that fucking standing jump at future park, been eyeing that for a long time already. Nail a chest height standing box jump, the one at tree garden. And one more standing jump at my place, similar to the one at Shino but lower, only further. Probably my strength training routine will help with this.
I want to get a wide angle lens soon, maybe by the end of next week, because I'm seriously pissed by the narrowness of my camera lens. But actually from what I've read, Canon HV30 lens isn't that narrow because the other cameras are narrower. Wow. But whatever. I wonder how much it will cost though. Hope it is something that I can afford. I'll try to scout for a really good one. I need a mic as well for my documentary. I hope I don't screw up while buying. The reason why I want to buy them so quickly is because I don't want my mother to rob my money again.
I've been thinking of more artistic and depthful pieces of film. I don't feel like making just a normal typical video that most people can do. I hope I could start on Ashton's showreel soon, Fred's one almost done, and in process of collecting clips from Dblucy and Stephen. Also the documentary, thinking of ideas. I've finished editing the redhill jam video rather nonchalantly, I wonder what you guys will think of it. I've also thought I'll make another video similar to May-July where I feature alot of my friends instead of just me, just for a dedication. Buangkok jam video, it will probably be epic. And then when Qayyim returns.. BISHAN JAM. Well I said I wouldn't be making so many videos but wow.
O levels this year. I don't seem like I'm scared, or at least worried. I'm still kinda taking everything easy. When will I start studying seriously? I don't really listen in class especially for boring lessons.. things are getting more tougher, more stressful, more tests coming at a go. How to get good grades like that.. I can't wait till I get Olevels over and done with, then I'll have almost all the time of my life. Homeworks and everything.. what a pain in the ass.
Social-wise, not so good as well but I've just decided to heck care all this. I think its good enough interacting with the normal people I'm with. I mean it happens sometimes like when you walk past your classmate and act like you never seen each other before. It is kinda fucked up especially when you know the other person is not those quiet type. Lol. Random thoughts, but yeah. Oh yeah and bad news.
Alex Winslow and the other guys ain't coming anymore. The price has gone up, sadly. Everyone's disappointed, next time we should remember we shouldn't have our hopes too high for anything. Thanks to economic recession nowadays I've been trying to save money as much as possible. Not to eat outside, do not buy unnecessary comfort foods and try to be more money minded. I always bring my water out for one reason, if I keep buying water outside each time I go out, It'll cost alot. I'm not rich at all and I want to save up as much as possible for future overseas travelling. Time is precious now, as I can feel it is moving so quickly. March is coming very soon and my routine will be done in a flash. Ahhhh I should stop wasting time.
I just got a few things in mind now.
Work towards my goals - Handstands, those two strength training goals, flips.
Train flips - drill backflips, frontflips and sideflips.
Train properly - drill running jumps, faster wallpasses, more runs.
Avoid injuries, bails - stay safe, stay focused, stop being reckless.
Avoid impacts - stay low impact, don't train for extended periods of time.
Don't waste time - be productive with the use of time, care about things that only matters, start studying soon.
Save money - don't spend money on unnecessary stuffs, but don't go overboard.
Stay happy, optimistic, and train hard.
Fin.
Yeah, recently I've been thinking about several stuffs, reading abit, being told abit, experimenting, asking myself.
Actually, after thinking about myself and how I react to others and things like that. I just realize I like to 'hate' or 'flame' others for the flaws that I myself do. Like saying the other guys as reckless, but I think I'm really reckless as well, which explains the number of bails I have. Everytime trying to push my limits but do not know when to stop, and usually force myself to nail something new/harder. And I do think I'm abit arrogant and like to boss about sometimes.
I think everyone should not say anything unless they totally sure about it. Do not anyhow assume stuffs that are not true (or not proven). Even if you are confident it is true or whatever, just keep comments to yourself, don't even tell others about what you think, because it doesn't speak much about yourself. I've wrongly assumed stuffs and I feel bad about it. Everything is not what you think it is, what it seems to be. And like I said earlier, dont criticise if you have the same problem.
Went to the newcomers jam yesterday, was well good. The newcomers interact with each tohers alot, train by themselves before we came and I think some of them have potential, but some, are just nonsense. But I think if we keep making those jams then slowly we can see who is genuinely interested in this, and those who just do this to act cool and for fun and blah. Some of the newcomers attitude in the forums just pisses me off. But some are matured and handle things properly. Others are just yaya papaya. I hope that we can find more potential guys in the near future.
Another thing I wanna state out is Parkour's misconceptions. I watched Teghead new video just a week ago and as usual was really impressed. I just like the way how he doesn't think of what to do but just naturally do what he does to get over those obstacles, and somewhat force himselves over. I also realize my wallpasses are really slow in the climbing up part and thats something I must work on now. I think many people don't really do Parkour but they keep claiming they do. And they like to make false statements just to reassure themselves but they never thought of how useless most technique is to them. Only until they go for a real run or chase/escape scenario will they realize the number of redundant, useless movements they have trained for a few years. I don't want to go into further details but people should just think for themselves. I myself don't practice Parkour, I don't go for efficiency, but I know what is Parkour and I can move efficiently when I need to.
Indeed after seeing the 'some of the old, some of the new' video, I realize I've been doing so many SDCs and so many individual single movements which the thought of that just irritates me alot. How can I be only training just one thing and not focusing on one of the most important of movement - runs. Moving fast, not stopping. Hais, don't know what am I focusing at the moment. Flips? Runs? Strength training? Stupid shit. I think I should stop doing SDCs though, I think I've overtrained them. Anyway it is very good already, don't want to be so imbalanced.
Talking about flips, I think my frontflips is quite good right now, of course still not sure when to untuck and all, and still not to the point where it is really good for harder variations and stuffs. Backflips needs alot of tweaking, it is starting to get even weirder I don't know why, but I still need alot of practice before I go on to the other movements. Haven't really been trying my sideflips, so it still sucks but I should keep drilling them soon. This three basic flips. I want to get them to a good satisfiable level by April then things will get alot better. I was thinking of training standing frontflips as they will be a good way to focus on the tuck and technique, and once I can nail them quite well, frontflips with momemtum would be way easier. Aerial is another flip that I don't really like but still will train them when I have the time. I will be trying moonkick next month, while this month I will be focusing on sideflips. Not much time left though. Lache gainer.. still got fear. Hais..
Injuries from the faceplant are healing very good, most of my injuries are healed and I hope I could avoid bailing at all costs for now. Yesterday I bailed a couple of moves like the crane (a knock on the knee) and a really careless trip on a climbup sdc thing. Damn. Nothing serious but still something that is really stupid and can be avoided. Nobody wants to bail, but bailing happens. But I'm bailing too often man.. no good. Yet another thing to work on.. avoiding bails.
Flips aside, I think I placing too much emphasis on Parkour then I should since I want to improve more on my weaknesses (flips, handstands, etc.). Anyway, I'm drilling alot on my running precisions now, wanting to get more height in the jumps and the runnign catleap at castle, want to get them constant. Height is so damn important. I've thought about the things that I want to nail in Bishan. Still further and harder then I thought, don't think I can nail them anytime soon.
One thing I want to note that is I find my training damn impactful. One thing is because of the length of my training. I used to say I would only train like maximum 1hr30minutes but on Saturdays I usually train so much that I accumulate so many impact for just one days work. Not good. And you know the stuffs I do, including the number of bails and the level of jumps and impact I deliver to my knees, ankles and back, I'm not sure how long am I gonna last. Probably I will start feeling the damage when I'm 40, or earlier. I don't know why I keep doing all those impactful stuffs. And it is also thanks to flips (and I will only do flips on concrete when my flips on grass and is super good. and I'll do concrete tricking once in a while only). I should stay low impact now.. seriously.
On individual techniques.. my 180s cat to precisions are really weak. I still am not used to getting height from the kick yet. I can't nail the one at Bishan yet I don't know why. It is just the fear of not being able to kick up and get height enough. Which is weird.. I can do the one at ClarkeQuay quite easily. I used to be able to nail the lower one before don't know why I was scared today.
Cranes are impactful. I don't know why I crane the SDC2P at Bishan (at the first spot, coming from the other side from then sdc2cat). My toe on my trailing leg hits the wall with so much forward momentum it is really pain, then my right leg's knee that is landing on the wall is impacted alot as well. I think my trailing leg in my cranes are a big problem, it is the problem why I hit my knees on the wall in the running crane at the SK's Dame Du Lac and at Bishan the SDC2Cranecatthing. Sucks man. Need to work on my technique. And when I land cranes on stuffs that I can't get enough height for, I land on my arch, which is super impactful as well..
Lastly, my wallpass improved alot. My wall of doom is quite consistent already and I got abit of better technique as I feel. I nailed the wall near the bus stop near Shino and those stuffs that is jutting out in castle. Finally some improved. I hope to get them consistent though, and climbing up faster from it. Soon I will be able to nail a high wall in my area..
Strength training is awesome at the moment, 2 weeks down (extremely fast how time flies), no missed reps (although technically there is 1 rep and 1 set missed from wednesday session which arguably is the worse of all the 6). Week 3 next, this friday I will be squatting my PR I wonder how much I've progressed since then. Its gonna be super tough this week, I don't think I'll take this few sessions easily now, as I've going beyond my PRs in some. Week 4, don't need to talk, even worse, but I hope to survive through them without missing reps or lower the weight. Because I think the toughest week will be week 4 and week 9. I'll need alot of focus and rest for those days. Pullups are getting stronger I can see but squats are getting harder and harder. But I'll be confident to at least get over week 3. Bench Press don't seem much of a problem yet, same as deadlifts.
Actually I've seen good improvement in my jumping strength, but forcing myself to jump my max really stresses my ankle and knees, even my back. That day at future park. Wow, I don't know why I forced myself to land that. It is because I can't believe I'm still not near from nailing it after like so many months, used to wanted to nail that since August. But still I can feel improvements in other things. Climbups are well good now and I can do it qutie fast from a hanging position which is a good achievement for me. Couple of goals I want to train for - Nail that fucking standing jump at future park, been eyeing that for a long time already. Nail a chest height standing box jump, the one at tree garden. And one more standing jump at my place, similar to the one at Shino but lower, only further. Probably my strength training routine will help with this.
I want to get a wide angle lens soon, maybe by the end of next week, because I'm seriously pissed by the narrowness of my camera lens. But actually from what I've read, Canon HV30 lens isn't that narrow because the other cameras are narrower. Wow. But whatever. I wonder how much it will cost though. Hope it is something that I can afford. I'll try to scout for a really good one. I need a mic as well for my documentary. I hope I don't screw up while buying. The reason why I want to buy them so quickly is because I don't want my mother to rob my money again.
I've been thinking of more artistic and depthful pieces of film. I don't feel like making just a normal typical video that most people can do. I hope I could start on Ashton's showreel soon, Fred's one almost done, and in process of collecting clips from Dblucy and Stephen. Also the documentary, thinking of ideas. I've finished editing the redhill jam video rather nonchalantly, I wonder what you guys will think of it. I've also thought I'll make another video similar to May-July where I feature alot of my friends instead of just me, just for a dedication. Buangkok jam video, it will probably be epic. And then when Qayyim returns.. BISHAN JAM. Well I said I wouldn't be making so many videos but wow.
O levels this year. I don't seem like I'm scared, or at least worried. I'm still kinda taking everything easy. When will I start studying seriously? I don't really listen in class especially for boring lessons.. things are getting more tougher, more stressful, more tests coming at a go. How to get good grades like that.. I can't wait till I get Olevels over and done with, then I'll have almost all the time of my life. Homeworks and everything.. what a pain in the ass.
Social-wise, not so good as well but I've just decided to heck care all this. I think its good enough interacting with the normal people I'm with. I mean it happens sometimes like when you walk past your classmate and act like you never seen each other before. It is kinda fucked up especially when you know the other person is not those quiet type. Lol. Random thoughts, but yeah. Oh yeah and bad news.
Alex Winslow and the other guys ain't coming anymore. The price has gone up, sadly. Everyone's disappointed, next time we should remember we shouldn't have our hopes too high for anything. Thanks to economic recession nowadays I've been trying to save money as much as possible. Not to eat outside, do not buy unnecessary comfort foods and try to be more money minded. I always bring my water out for one reason, if I keep buying water outside each time I go out, It'll cost alot. I'm not rich at all and I want to save up as much as possible for future overseas travelling. Time is precious now, as I can feel it is moving so quickly. March is coming very soon and my routine will be done in a flash. Ahhhh I should stop wasting time.
I just got a few things in mind now.
Work towards my goals - Handstands, those two strength training goals, flips.
Train flips - drill backflips, frontflips and sideflips.
Train properly - drill running jumps, faster wallpasses, more runs.
Avoid injuries, bails - stay safe, stay focused, stop being reckless.
Avoid impacts - stay low impact, don't train for extended periods of time.
Don't waste time - be productive with the use of time, care about things that only matters, start studying soon.
Save money - don't spend money on unnecessary stuffs, but don't go overboard.
Stay happy, optimistic, and train hard.
Fin.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Series of unfortunate events.
Hell yeah, a fucking bad week.
To start off first, which was probably the main reason that provoke this much of thoughts that will be putting into this post, is my really reckless, careless, unfortunate bail in school. What it is? Bailed lache gainer, faceplants, grazed into the playgrounds mats, cuts and abrasions, scratches caused by my specs, even worse, disfigured ugly face. What happened? Released too early, didn't pull up for height for my lache gainer, tucked but the gainer is going downwards and very forward, causing one of my worse bail I think I've suffered. What a way to start February. Why? Never focus, overconfident, just whack, not aware of the consequences, careless, unlucky, stupid, and never focus. Before that, I landed a very poor lache gainer, then I got one with good height but uncontrolled landing, the third attempt was the serious injury.
Why must it happened.. how fucking careless and somewhat reckless of me. I bailed. Wait. I bailed, YET AGAIN. And what a place to do it, in school. I really felt like rewinding time then but was quick to realize the reality. Sucks. A moment's folly resulted in utter disappointment and regret. If you guys read my blog since the past, you will know this is not the first time such stupid incidents occured. But then, since things are already done, no point dwelling. Thing is, I hardly learn from my stupid mistakes. When will I learn my lesson? The stuffs that I've lost in Clementi. Did I learn my lesson? I still live my stuffs lying everywhere. Seriously man, I can't get things to stick permanently into my mind. After about a few months, sometimes even just weeks, I'll take things for granted again. So dumb.
One thing I realize. My school friends didn't make much noise. Rather showed some concern, no one made fun of me, looked at me like an asshole. They didn't go like "parkour again ah, then kena your face?", they said things like "what happened, what you do". I expected something stupid and irritating. This means, I think we do think badly of those typical humans, maybe some mats and stupid irritating people do so, but not all. We shouldn't generalize thing. It looks like we are the one thinking badly of them, not them thinking badly of us. Teachers did make noise, but they are like that, don't really care about them though. Parents are much more understanding now. Father said stuffs like, "you wanna do this stuffs also can, but learn to be safe, do stuffs in your capability." Not that bad, expected worse scoldings.
------Hold on. Edit. Seems like I was wrong. A couple of friends did in the end made fun of me after knowing what I did. Thought they would understand. Words goes "wanna act cool harh?" "*laughs non stop* that is so idiotic only stupid people will do that". I obviously feel pissed but yeah, realize that there is no point.. Still there are a few that understands and didn't made much noise. Was a very careless mistake at that point, I wonder when will I do another lache gainer.. To be honest I still think lache gainer is really easy, I've tried it on low bars, tried it with one swing, I could still land them nicely. Even if I bail lache gainers, the worse is on knees and hands, but still, I've rotated and still see the ground. But this time round, was horrible.
Let me think of my worse bails. One whole list, I know.
The sdc to underbar at Marine Parade, just force my legs to go through, never pull hard in the underbar, head knocked to the edge of the floor, head bleeds.
Twice in one day at sculpture park, really deep shin scar and bruised back, slip in my crane and gashed my shin, fingertips slipped in a catleap, falling back first 1metre down onto concrete.
Back in the poser days, really dive into an sdc to get distance, hands slipped, landing with my pinkie onto concrete, finger dislocated.
50 attempts wallpass, just to get one on film, failed horribly, knee pain. Not really a bail, but still stupid. This was a classic.
Another faceplant back in 2007, tried a frontflip at the beach of somehting, overrotated, face fall hard soon after my legs went into contact on the sand. Not much of a big deal but very dumb still. Bishan with Ish, slipped in an sdc. Castle while balancing, foot missed the rail, face hit the rail. More and more other bullshits.
There's still more of such bails. Alot more. But the rest are minor. Minor doesn't means good. Blane doesn't bail. Much others don't bail. They don't even impact themselves much. Why? Good control over their body, good focus, don't push limits too much, safety first.
I seriously should learn that for everything, you need to focus, no matter the conditions. Don't go blind and don't think about what you are doing. I wanna adapt the mindset that you can't afford to bail at all costs. Whether it is high risk low risk, in flips, in rail precisions, in huge catleaps. Not only bail, but everything I do, I better land, don't miss a move. Those kind of mindset. If I don't think I can land this running precision all the time, then I don't do it. When I do it, I make sure I nail it, and not far back. Or at least fall back down into a cat, so it won't be a miss or something. Maybe just one attempt, but thats all. If I can't means I can't so no point in keep doing it. I can't afford to bail. Not one move should I miss, bail, clip, slip. My training should be kept low impact from now on. Strength training routine is coming up. Last thing I want is more injuries.
Another thing I wanna train on is, my wallpasses, especially the part when I'm climbing up. I think most people think the key for fast wallpasses is good climbups. But no, its leg coordination. Upperbody strength will help but people should realize using overgrip and forearms makes going up much more faster and easier and the kickup is super important. I should start training on reps just hanging with one hand on the wall, and rush to get up and over it.
Wanted to put more focus on more efficient things. Not that I practice pure parkour, but just want to get speed. Many people fail to realize the fact that SDCs are not parkour, neither most of their things are. Precisions, SDC2P and balance. I wonder when will people learn to understand. They can be efficient at times. But does that makes it parkour? Maybe they are just too brainwashed.
Only 2 out of the 27 workouts is done, with each workouts getting harder and more intense week to week, spreading for 9 weeks. As this is the first week, things are easy, but its gonna be a killer to withstand week 3, let alone week 4, 8 and week 9. You guys probably don't understand all this so don't bother, hahaha.
But yeah I really need to take more days off for rest and focus on proper strength training. It's gonna get way tougher down the weeks, and I don't want to miss any reps. I wanna make something out of this routine. Proper pysching up before 5rms or whatever as well.
Taking more rest means less movements training. But doing 15 backflips a day won't hurt. I was thinking of training backflip at home. I wanna get the movement of the backflip hardwired into my system. I could whack ok-ok backflip on concrete anytime I want now, which is good for now, the next thing I want to focus on is height and good technique. I decided to train on Tuesdays and Saturdays for movements, while keeping Thursdays and Sundays for full day rests.
My palm is abit bruised, my knee suffered a pretty painful abrasion. The cause of it, during my walk to school yesterday. Its rather traumatic, I was crossing a zebra crossing and was walking really slowly and I thought this motorbike will stop. I walked slowly because when it came closer it didn't look like it is going to stop. But it didn't stop and it banged into me. Seriously. No joke. One thing dumb is that why I didn't avoid it and dumb dumb let it hit me, because I was staring at the bike all the while. Maybe because I thought it is a zebra crossing and I'm not wrong walking slowly. I can handle a motorbike crash, which is weird, luckily it wasn't a car or not I wouldn't be here right now. But I got a stupid abrasion which hurts like hell.. fuck the motorist seriously should learn that even in a zebra crossing, learn to stop no matetr how slow the pedestrain is crossing. Damn traumatic, because it happened out of nowhere, and it went straight into me but I still managed to move, and luckily it was a car, and somemore I was just awake.. fuck I hate this feelings.
I still think my frontflips needs alot of work, same as my other flips. I think people think flips are rather easy but when you actually think about it, they are very hard, especially hard to land them floaty and with good technique, form, and confidence. Consistency is another problem. I think all the tricksters gone through the same thing, uncountable number of repetitions each training, till their flips are very solid. Thats the only way.. no choice. Sideflips are getting there.. almost there. Must keep practicing, keep drilling. I will, in time to come, have the standard of flips that I'd like.
I realize theres still many thing that I need to work on. Handstands have been neglecting alot. I feel that I'm really lazy to train my handstands, sometimes I don't feel any progress in them, which sucks. But I still do them occasionally. I seriously should start working on them if I wanna get them down this year. This needs discipline. And you know what, I think my rolls aren't good at all. Never been practicing them consistently. Still not totally used to them and sometimes I still need to think of pointers before doing them, not 2nd nature yet. Stupid man.
In school, everytime during recess I do flips after eating. I think I'm attracting too much attention. I wanna be a little more low profile. People do realize that I go fitness corner alone too, then train alone. Never socialize, never interact. In class, I hardly talk much as well, just the normal guys that I go with. Girls, don't know what subject to talk about. I lack social skills, communicative skills. I can hardly make a conversation last long, nothing else to talk about. I don't have much initiative, don't have much courage. Don't talk to everyone, just selected few. Can't keep eye contact, can't keep a proper face expression, can't contain an awkward silence. Quite sad eh? I think I should give it a fuck to the fitness corner thanks to the bail obviously, and go play soccer. Much safer, much more 'human'. Need to just chat more and go out more with my friends. This is the last secondary school year for me. I don't want to regret it. Friends are definitely important. Do need to understand my presence in life. So need to. But I shouldn't be too sensitive.
Money, I've gotten about $220 in my bank account. My mother took 300 of my scholarship money. I didn't make noise, but she'd better return me my money, I wanna get a microphone and wide angle lens soon. She'd also better return me my 400 bucks from my pay at Mac. Those were my own money, I got all rights to keep it for the things I want. Which is to travel to overseas. Thinking of this subject makes my blood boil. Its so retarded.. why parents don't understand of kids wanting to save up and keep money for themselves?
Food. I think my nutrition is somewhat OK now, eating more proteins now that I need alot more of them. I think I should vary my diet a little more just so I won't get bored of it. Chicken stays though. Vegetarians are stupid, zhiyang is gay.
I've been downloading more snowboard movies. I wanna watch them to my delight. I wanna film more artistic timelapse, random shots, and compile into a huge list then use it when I need it. Like mentioned. I want a mic and wide lens. Mic for documentary and better sounds, widelens for effectiveness. Working on a small video now, in process of editing. Nothing much, just a mess about. Also working on Freds, Stephens and.. Ashton's showreel.. when will the time come?
I've received news that Alex Winslow, Calum Lynch-Strachan, Joe Parker will be coming to Singapore this July. Awesome. Thanks to Ish to be honest, that he persuaded those guys to come visit the spots and us. Never thought I would have the chance to meet them. Those guys are quite popular if you guys don't know then too bad. They are pretty fucking talented. Qayyim and Sabree to meet us during April. Cool eh? More visitors. Dblucy said about the Kuwait guy coming to Singapore again during August? Rhys James and Shuan Wood would follow Ish to come to Singapore too but not sure when. Would be soooo sick. Can't wait for this events.
I wanna go to Bishan and Buangkok to train again.. good spots. I wanna find more potential in those two areas. All I can say those two spots rocks. If I were to travel, this two places will be my first choices.
Studies are still fine. Nothing too stressful still. Can cope with things.
Time management. Is crap. Sleep times are messed up. I want to sleep at about 11 latest, now its 11.30. Don't know what am I doing in the computer too at times. Watch video, listen to songs, talk talk talk in MSN, don't know what else. Never take the time out and learn more on video editing, clearing up my hard disk space. Always do homework last minute. Waste so much time blogging.. time is precious.
To sum up. I will be taking a break from movements training for about a week. Just to get my injuries settled. Then focus on restarting anew.
As always, I hope for a better week next week.
To start off first, which was probably the main reason that provoke this much of thoughts that will be putting into this post, is my really reckless, careless, unfortunate bail in school. What it is? Bailed lache gainer, faceplants, grazed into the playgrounds mats, cuts and abrasions, scratches caused by my specs, even worse, disfigured ugly face. What happened? Released too early, didn't pull up for height for my lache gainer, tucked but the gainer is going downwards and very forward, causing one of my worse bail I think I've suffered. What a way to start February. Why? Never focus, overconfident, just whack, not aware of the consequences, careless, unlucky, stupid, and never focus. Before that, I landed a very poor lache gainer, then I got one with good height but uncontrolled landing, the third attempt was the serious injury.
Why must it happened.. how fucking careless and somewhat reckless of me. I bailed. Wait. I bailed, YET AGAIN. And what a place to do it, in school. I really felt like rewinding time then but was quick to realize the reality. Sucks. A moment's folly resulted in utter disappointment and regret. If you guys read my blog since the past, you will know this is not the first time such stupid incidents occured. But then, since things are already done, no point dwelling. Thing is, I hardly learn from my stupid mistakes. When will I learn my lesson? The stuffs that I've lost in Clementi. Did I learn my lesson? I still live my stuffs lying everywhere. Seriously man, I can't get things to stick permanently into my mind. After about a few months, sometimes even just weeks, I'll take things for granted again. So dumb.
One thing I realize. My school friends didn't make much noise. Rather showed some concern, no one made fun of me, looked at me like an asshole. They didn't go like "parkour again ah, then kena your face?", they said things like "what happened, what you do". I expected something stupid and irritating. This means, I think we do think badly of those typical humans, maybe some mats and stupid irritating people do so, but not all. We shouldn't generalize thing. It looks like we are the one thinking badly of them, not them thinking badly of us. Teachers did make noise, but they are like that, don't really care about them though. Parents are much more understanding now. Father said stuffs like, "you wanna do this stuffs also can, but learn to be safe, do stuffs in your capability." Not that bad, expected worse scoldings.
------Hold on. Edit. Seems like I was wrong. A couple of friends did in the end made fun of me after knowing what I did. Thought they would understand. Words goes "wanna act cool harh?" "*laughs non stop* that is so idiotic only stupid people will do that". I obviously feel pissed but yeah, realize that there is no point.. Still there are a few that understands and didn't made much noise. Was a very careless mistake at that point, I wonder when will I do another lache gainer.. To be honest I still think lache gainer is really easy, I've tried it on low bars, tried it with one swing, I could still land them nicely. Even if I bail lache gainers, the worse is on knees and hands, but still, I've rotated and still see the ground. But this time round, was horrible.
Let me think of my worse bails. One whole list, I know.
The sdc to underbar at Marine Parade, just force my legs to go through, never pull hard in the underbar, head knocked to the edge of the floor, head bleeds.
Twice in one day at sculpture park, really deep shin scar and bruised back, slip in my crane and gashed my shin, fingertips slipped in a catleap, falling back first 1metre down onto concrete.
Back in the poser days, really dive into an sdc to get distance, hands slipped, landing with my pinkie onto concrete, finger dislocated.
50 attempts wallpass, just to get one on film, failed horribly, knee pain. Not really a bail, but still stupid. This was a classic.
Another faceplant back in 2007, tried a frontflip at the beach of somehting, overrotated, face fall hard soon after my legs went into contact on the sand. Not much of a big deal but very dumb still. Bishan with Ish, slipped in an sdc. Castle while balancing, foot missed the rail, face hit the rail. More and more other bullshits.
There's still more of such bails. Alot more. But the rest are minor. Minor doesn't means good. Blane doesn't bail. Much others don't bail. They don't even impact themselves much. Why? Good control over their body, good focus, don't push limits too much, safety first.
I seriously should learn that for everything, you need to focus, no matter the conditions. Don't go blind and don't think about what you are doing. I wanna adapt the mindset that you can't afford to bail at all costs. Whether it is high risk low risk, in flips, in rail precisions, in huge catleaps. Not only bail, but everything I do, I better land, don't miss a move. Those kind of mindset. If I don't think I can land this running precision all the time, then I don't do it. When I do it, I make sure I nail it, and not far back. Or at least fall back down into a cat, so it won't be a miss or something. Maybe just one attempt, but thats all. If I can't means I can't so no point in keep doing it. I can't afford to bail. Not one move should I miss, bail, clip, slip. My training should be kept low impact from now on. Strength training routine is coming up. Last thing I want is more injuries.
Another thing I wanna train on is, my wallpasses, especially the part when I'm climbing up. I think most people think the key for fast wallpasses is good climbups. But no, its leg coordination. Upperbody strength will help but people should realize using overgrip and forearms makes going up much more faster and easier and the kickup is super important. I should start training on reps just hanging with one hand on the wall, and rush to get up and over it.
Wanted to put more focus on more efficient things. Not that I practice pure parkour, but just want to get speed. Many people fail to realize the fact that SDCs are not parkour, neither most of their things are. Precisions, SDC2P and balance. I wonder when will people learn to understand. They can be efficient at times. But does that makes it parkour? Maybe they are just too brainwashed.
Only 2 out of the 27 workouts is done, with each workouts getting harder and more intense week to week, spreading for 9 weeks. As this is the first week, things are easy, but its gonna be a killer to withstand week 3, let alone week 4, 8 and week 9. You guys probably don't understand all this so don't bother, hahaha.
But yeah I really need to take more days off for rest and focus on proper strength training. It's gonna get way tougher down the weeks, and I don't want to miss any reps. I wanna make something out of this routine. Proper pysching up before 5rms or whatever as well.
Taking more rest means less movements training. But doing 15 backflips a day won't hurt. I was thinking of training backflip at home. I wanna get the movement of the backflip hardwired into my system. I could whack ok-ok backflip on concrete anytime I want now, which is good for now, the next thing I want to focus on is height and good technique. I decided to train on Tuesdays and Saturdays for movements, while keeping Thursdays and Sundays for full day rests.
My palm is abit bruised, my knee suffered a pretty painful abrasion. The cause of it, during my walk to school yesterday. Its rather traumatic, I was crossing a zebra crossing and was walking really slowly and I thought this motorbike will stop. I walked slowly because when it came closer it didn't look like it is going to stop. But it didn't stop and it banged into me. Seriously. No joke. One thing dumb is that why I didn't avoid it and dumb dumb let it hit me, because I was staring at the bike all the while. Maybe because I thought it is a zebra crossing and I'm not wrong walking slowly. I can handle a motorbike crash, which is weird, luckily it wasn't a car or not I wouldn't be here right now. But I got a stupid abrasion which hurts like hell.. fuck the motorist seriously should learn that even in a zebra crossing, learn to stop no matetr how slow the pedestrain is crossing. Damn traumatic, because it happened out of nowhere, and it went straight into me but I still managed to move, and luckily it was a car, and somemore I was just awake.. fuck I hate this feelings.
I still think my frontflips needs alot of work, same as my other flips. I think people think flips are rather easy but when you actually think about it, they are very hard, especially hard to land them floaty and with good technique, form, and confidence. Consistency is another problem. I think all the tricksters gone through the same thing, uncountable number of repetitions each training, till their flips are very solid. Thats the only way.. no choice. Sideflips are getting there.. almost there. Must keep practicing, keep drilling. I will, in time to come, have the standard of flips that I'd like.
I realize theres still many thing that I need to work on. Handstands have been neglecting alot. I feel that I'm really lazy to train my handstands, sometimes I don't feel any progress in them, which sucks. But I still do them occasionally. I seriously should start working on them if I wanna get them down this year. This needs discipline. And you know what, I think my rolls aren't good at all. Never been practicing them consistently. Still not totally used to them and sometimes I still need to think of pointers before doing them, not 2nd nature yet. Stupid man.
In school, everytime during recess I do flips after eating. I think I'm attracting too much attention. I wanna be a little more low profile. People do realize that I go fitness corner alone too, then train alone. Never socialize, never interact. In class, I hardly talk much as well, just the normal guys that I go with. Girls, don't know what subject to talk about. I lack social skills, communicative skills. I can hardly make a conversation last long, nothing else to talk about. I don't have much initiative, don't have much courage. Don't talk to everyone, just selected few. Can't keep eye contact, can't keep a proper face expression, can't contain an awkward silence. Quite sad eh? I think I should give it a fuck to the fitness corner thanks to the bail obviously, and go play soccer. Much safer, much more 'human'. Need to just chat more and go out more with my friends. This is the last secondary school year for me. I don't want to regret it. Friends are definitely important. Do need to understand my presence in life. So need to. But I shouldn't be too sensitive.
Money, I've gotten about $220 in my bank account. My mother took 300 of my scholarship money. I didn't make noise, but she'd better return me my money, I wanna get a microphone and wide angle lens soon. She'd also better return me my 400 bucks from my pay at Mac. Those were my own money, I got all rights to keep it for the things I want. Which is to travel to overseas. Thinking of this subject makes my blood boil. Its so retarded.. why parents don't understand of kids wanting to save up and keep money for themselves?
Food. I think my nutrition is somewhat OK now, eating more proteins now that I need alot more of them. I think I should vary my diet a little more just so I won't get bored of it. Chicken stays though. Vegetarians are stupid, zhiyang is gay.
I've been downloading more snowboard movies. I wanna watch them to my delight. I wanna film more artistic timelapse, random shots, and compile into a huge list then use it when I need it. Like mentioned. I want a mic and wide lens. Mic for documentary and better sounds, widelens for effectiveness. Working on a small video now, in process of editing. Nothing much, just a mess about. Also working on Freds, Stephens and.. Ashton's showreel.. when will the time come?
I've received news that Alex Winslow, Calum Lynch-Strachan, Joe Parker will be coming to Singapore this July. Awesome. Thanks to Ish to be honest, that he persuaded those guys to come visit the spots and us. Never thought I would have the chance to meet them. Those guys are quite popular if you guys don't know then too bad. They are pretty fucking talented. Qayyim and Sabree to meet us during April. Cool eh? More visitors. Dblucy said about the Kuwait guy coming to Singapore again during August? Rhys James and Shuan Wood would follow Ish to come to Singapore too but not sure when. Would be soooo sick. Can't wait for this events.
I wanna go to Bishan and Buangkok to train again.. good spots. I wanna find more potential in those two areas. All I can say those two spots rocks. If I were to travel, this two places will be my first choices.
Studies are still fine. Nothing too stressful still. Can cope with things.
Time management. Is crap. Sleep times are messed up. I want to sleep at about 11 latest, now its 11.30. Don't know what am I doing in the computer too at times. Watch video, listen to songs, talk talk talk in MSN, don't know what else. Never take the time out and learn more on video editing, clearing up my hard disk space. Always do homework last minute. Waste so much time blogging.. time is precious.
To sum up. I will be taking a break from movements training for about a week. Just to get my injuries settled. Then focus on restarting anew.
As always, I hope for a better week next week.
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