An Open Window to a Awaken Mind.

"Vision, certainty, peace, passion, pureness of a soul.
The kiss of an angel. Strength, vulnerability.
The adventurous spirit of a child.
Courage, expansion. Tolerance, wisdom.
Thirst and hunger. Care, dedication, power and discipline.
The union of matching energies.
Abundance, unselfishness.
Lust, love, care and curiosity.
Close your eyes, smell the breeze.
Open your senses listen to the wind."

Hawaii Parkour is Now an American Parkour Affiliate.

Guys and gals, we are proud to announce the union between HIpk and it's now Mothership site APK . What this means is that HIpk is now behind the support of American Parkour - the National and International leader on Parkour and Freerunning news, events, performance and everything related to the movement.

There will be a few small changes on the site, the biggest of them being the new forum. HIpk now has its own section on the APK forum. This will allow us to have much more exposure for all the HIpk community among other national communities. Also, making the HIpk's team work a bit easier.

This also means that the original forum will no longer be in use. We kept the boards that we thought necessary and took them with us to the Hawaii Section on the APK forum for us to maintain the same Hawaii Ohana spirit.

You will now have the opportunity to interact with other traceur(euses) around the states and the world, exchange ideas, method of training etc. They will also notice much more of the work we do.

So start using the HIpk Boards at APK now, and browse other threads from people all over the nation and the world.

So go ahead and register on the APK Site HERE so you can start posting. Check out the Hawaii section, just click on the image bellow.

HIpk and CFO PK Camp gone Ninja Warrior???

After the "Ninja Warrior Marathon" playing on G4 a few days ago and delighting myself with each and every episode of it, the HIPK Camp at Crossfit Oahu went mad yesterday when I decided to have a "Ninja Warrior - MovNat Challenge". A course inspired by, well, the already mentioned show and some of the elements of MovNat.

We covered;

Balance, throwing, catching, QM, jumping, climbing, lifting, jumping, landing, rolling, crawling, dragging, vaulting. All in one challenging and fun course.

Here is a brief description of the course.

1. Start by running/walking over a 15ft gymnastics balance beam.
2. 5 Wall Ball progression 8# to 20#
3. Hands-Feet traverse 15ft.
4. Cat onto building support bean.
5. Climb the beam 10ft and down.
6. Use rings to swing to monkey bar.
7. Traverse monkey bar all the way and drop.
8. Pick up katterbel 25kg each hand - step onto boxes from 8" to 20" drop weight
9. Clear 8ft gap and roll (running start)
10. QM/Crawl under 15ft "tunnel"
11. Pick up 45# weight and perform 4 lunges toward next obstacle.
12. Jump onto rope from about 5ft away and climb pass half and down.
13. Flip punching bag (I estimate it at least 100#) drag it 15ft
14. Vault box - end

It was a great time and cant wait to have many more classes to enjoy it or hate it, whichever the case will make me very happy.

Check out the rest of the pics HERE

National Parkour Day

We decided to hit this one spot we just found for some movnat training, the first of so many more to come. We tried to most of all the bases, we didint have any trees or much to balance or climb but the rest was well covered and we definitelly had a great time. We couldnt help do some flips and of course I had to get some sweet slowmo shoots in there.

For roxys fans, she did hike and jumped quite a bit but didnt remember to get her on video. She continues to join us and mess around with us. Next time she will be featured as well, promise.

Now go out there and train.

The beginning of a new class at CF.

Oh yesterday was great.

Started with CF WOD.
it was a weight workout. No time just power.

Front squats 5x5 (5 reps of 5)
starting with light weight and finishing with max. I didnt do max but ended up doing 195# on my heaviest.

Press 3x5 (3 reps of 5)
Same thing, looking for heavy finish. I finished with 115#

Not to heavy but didnt want to kill myself before the class.

Back to the PK classes. It was good, small crowd but mostly CFer's so they know whats up when it comes with conditioning.

We started with some hops to get the heart going. Had them there for a while burning the calfs and warming the ankles up. Some squats, stances, and jumps after that to get the legs into it.

We moved on to upper body with all kind of push up drills and definitelly heard some grunting in there. Then some more jumping and crawling and finish with some basic landing.

I was basically introducing them to the kind of exercises we will be doing during the class.
Did some stretching and we were done.

After the Pk class David, I and some friends stayed for some flips. That was the best part. I got two new flips on the first try. Did some regular standing gainers and kept over rotating, some wall fronts and was just a bit short. But I got the palm flip and tunnel flips both on my first try. Both much easier than thought. I also did some running gainers, pretty cool and landed them all except one but not quite confident about them yet. The whole running forward tucking back still gets me.

You can check them out here, this are not the best ones. I kept drilling after a film this and specially the palm flip was much better.

HIpk Parkour Awareness Month

During the month of April we did what we called a Parkour Awareness Party. What that meant was that we would bring our equipment to certain beach parks that we knew were busy on the weekends. We did one day out of every weekend (sat, sun, sat. sun) We set up at key busy points, always near the ocean, was very welcoming and we did make sure to invite or at least have a little chat with whomever was an observant. Our main goal was to open the doors to any question or interest to join and participate, to enjoy a different beach day. We had a banner and flyers. Got several people joining and still coming. Lots of normal inquires based on curiosity rather than interest, so I am sure we also did our part educating the regular curios type, perhaps if they see parkour/freerunning again in the future/media/etc they will think of the day at the beach when a group of some crazy jumpy people expressed to them how "crazy" this really journey.

Parkour Awareness Month - First meet.

Brief review.

So our first Parkour Awareness Party meet at Kapiolani Park was a great hit. With a line that went as far as David and I could scream while going over the techniques and people from HIpk as well as others who just walked by and joined the fun (including a few homeless)

Everyone had a taste of what parkour was, JC, Ian and a few others, were active and alert to invited those who stood there and just observe. Quickly reacting and doing their best to explain what it was we were doing.

It was a great sunny day full of fun and PK, what else could we all ask for? Footage of the event will be all put together at the end of the month.

Next meet will be next Sunday the in Waikiki and we cant wait.