Just an Update

So we held our jam yesterday, or should I say, Pete and David did?

I joined the Jam for the first hour to share some sweat and pain with the peeps by taking care of the upper body warm up. It was fun actually, and also felt like I was finally doing something since I sprained my ankle. Was able to do quite a lot, so I should stop being such a lazy ass and get to work on upper body while I heal. Also, even though I was able to do performed wee, I barely get the opportunity to be trashed, mainly because I go until I see the rest my peers already struggling, burning, moaning or even collapsed due to the exercise. Sometimes I wonder if I am really working out up to my level like when I do at CF. I just wanna travel to the mainland so bad and train with the big communities to see where I really am in terms of endurance. Expand my horizons.

I set myself the goal of starting after a week of full rest, so I guess that gives me one more day to slack. And after that time is to get powerful =)

We also had the opportunity to meet with another local paper, cool guy, younger than expected. He joined us for some of the warm up, I'll ty to get him to join a session some time maybe. The interview went great, and this time they took pictures of all of us and Gen too representing the females, she also was interviewed. He said it will be an image based story so maybe it wont be only me this time. I am excited to see the finished article that will come out on Oct 15th.

I worked on a shorter version of the year demo today, came out really tight (so I think anyway) it would be a good one to show since it is a lot shorter.

Anyway, here is it check it out.

Ironies Of life

Talking about preservation of the body, safe training methods, starting a new regimen to get stronger.

Oh man.
I was looking forward for a gym session last night, wanted to try a few things, yet still related to what I already know, so nothing crazy. Got there, warmed up, the nice was chilly, lot of breeze coming in from the huge warehouse door that protects the gym. Some drills, flow, I just wanted to get the blood pumping really.

After a got a good sweat is was flips time, a few side flips, fronts. Everything good and smooth, "god this is a good session" I remember thinking to myself.

Time came to try my new stuff, a simple standing side flip facing forward I just want to learn from when I do precision I can finish dismounting with style. So here I go, a few failed attempts, a bit short, a bit too much. Every try was better and better. So I decided to ry it off of the low parallel bars. After all, that is what I am training it for, so I can do it off of rails.

I set myself, check the mat for cushioning, felt good. Should I put another one? I decided not to, this mat is soft enough. I got on the bar, balance on it, trying to get comfy. Turn around facing my landing spot, got ready and here I go. Everything is good, maybe a little to out, rotation is going great, I am over rotating a bit, I touch down and I hear POP along with a very familiar type of pain. I get up, yell a couple cuss words and I sat down while I saw the next 6 months of my life playing like a fast forward movie, right in fron of my eyes.

Full rest for about month until I can manage to dedicate to upper body conditioning, ankle conditioning, small flow, and then after several months the great feeling of doing flips after I work on building up courage again.

All over agan, it hasnt even been over a year since last time I sprained my ankle.
Two times in one year, this is just bull crap.
The paper is coming to our next jam, way to rep, someone in a boot talking about how safe PK is.

Well, people say things happen for a reason, I hope this is a good one.

My Parkour Tribute 1st Year Of Training.

This month is my year mark since I adopted the parkour training into my life. Wow, one year, it seems long ago since I started actually. Maybe because I have managed to achieve quite a few goal. Wait, goals? Did I set these "goal" when I started? Hmm. It is interesting how all of a sudden we find something that just takes over your mind, filling your head of different thoughts. Pk took over my head, I should say my body too. I suppose.

I cant complain though, during this year I started a community, I managed to be lucky to meet the right people who led me to be in a TV commercial. Worked with the media in several occasion. its been good. It's been great actually.

I guess looking back I wish I didnt rush into things though, my methods of training were not the best, thinking that I was already strong enough was a big mistake, probably the biggest mistaken I have made in my entire life. My body is not the same. Now I am smarter, I train smarter that is. Hoping to get the strength the let the body be one more time as string as it use to be. This year will be different, I will focus on be stronger mentally and smarted physically. Train the little things that will allow me to gain the power I really wish to have. I am excite to see what more is there to come, things are just getting better and better and I must be strong. For me and for my community.

I consider myself still a very immature traceur in the stages of the best experimenting of our journey. A playful kid that only thinks of the next time he can take over the concrete playground once more time.

A made a video for my year of training, this video is my tribute to Parkour. I tried to forget about fancy tricks or death defying moves and probably nothing that will impress most peopl. It is simple what I think parkour really is. These are almost all the spots around my neighborhood and are literately in somewhat of a continuous line. I had a lot of fun filming this(not so much editing it, what a pain changing from one program to another) and it is full of lots of time investing and hard work.

I made this for my own satisfaction and for those of you who appreciate the real essence of parkour, I hope you can enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

I want to thank of all you who have been there when needed, weather it is to answer a question or to share laughter.

Anyway, enough blah blah here is the vid.


You can download it in HD quality HERE

Welcome to my Blog

With so much time of my hands right now, still waiting to get my residency paperwork taken care of, why not have a blog where I can spend a little more time writing about what I love doing, Parkour. Maybe this will motivate me to write more articles, share my experiences and "discoveries" I don know, whatever might be worth sharing. maybe just an excuse to get back to writing down my thoughts, something I haven't done in a long time.

Expect craziness, randomness and deep thought, rebellion and anarchy who knows, but everything fun, honest and from the heart. Oh and my crazy typos and grammar.

This is my life, this is my passion, simple Ozzi. Welcome into my heart.

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