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RoKk, a buddy of mine from Mexico, just posted up an interesting interview he did with me a few weeks ago. He was nice enough to post both an English and Spanish version, check them out on the Monos Urbanos website.

And the future? What do you think will happen with Parkour in the next few years?

I feel almost as if a physical revolution is coming (especially here in the states). Where everyone realizes how lazy of an animal they’ve become and reclaims their natural movement capacities and sense of play, through Parkour! This stuff really isn’t all that new, we just tend to forget when it’s easier to order in and watch TV….

Full interview: English, Spanish

Finally some Parkour classes in Seattle! Check out the space:

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And check out -the details-

Be sure to come this Saturday at 12 noon to check it out and learn some stuff!

They cut out a few cool things, but the quality is amazing! Behind the scenes post is -here-

Edit: Check out http://nurdproductions.com for the HD version!

So what do you do in Colorado (the deserty place) on rest days when you get bored (after climbing mountains and training the few days prior)? You drive up above the clouds, have a snowball fight, and climb even scarier mountains of course! We need a little work on this whole “staying on the trail” thing. I also need work on remembering to bring my good camera

Snowball fight!

Estes Park

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Yes we are very high

Estes Park

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Estes Park

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Estes Park

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-See Levi’s picture’s here-

The day is done!

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Before the first video has even been completely finished and released, a new one we just shot in Seattle is coming out this Friday the 8th. Graciously sponsored by Stoel Rives law firm, this one focuses on a race in a full business suit across Seattle shot in full 4K (about 8 times the size of 720 HD) by the RED ONE camera.

Running 3

Stills for an upcoming Parkour spot sponsored by Stoel Rives LLP and produced by NüRD Productions, starring Tyson Cecka

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Vault 2

Stills for an upcoming Parkour spot sponsored by Stoel Rives LLP and produced by NüRD Productions, starring Tyson Cecka

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Death drop #1

Freaky as hell, can't wait to see this shot

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Alternate angle

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I’ve been pretty depressed the last few days. I think what happens is that I come back from these trips (quite a bit I haven’t been blogging about, sorry!) to a larger workload than when I left, and I usually reserve the day or two afterward for resting and recovering which lives quite a lot I have to catch up on. The last few days all this random crap weighed down on me and I started procrastinating and sleeping a lot, which just makes everything worse

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To host some parkour travelers at my place, or at least it was my turn. I’m about to head out to the zipcar now to drive the last ones back to the airport. Just three days after coming back from the Chicago jam I had Ryan from Colorado, Matt from San Jose, Zac from Maryland, Jesse from New York, and Jereme from San Antonio all stay in Washington for about a week! I got to show off Freeway Park, Gasworks, UW, a bunch of cool people and jams from our scene, and then we even drove up to Bellingham for two days to train with Rafe and Dane at Whatcom and Clayton Beach

It was crazy fun and I’m really glad everything came together like it did, although I don’t think we managed to fit enough training in. Oh well, I’ll be seeing them all in Colorado soon anyway!

I feel bad for not bringing my camera along on Saturday, I had no idea how beautiful Chicago is. Wandering around downtown with 70 traceurs next to the river surrounded by huge skyscrapers is quite the experience. Not that many amazing spots downtown that I could see, but the college campus we were at beforehand (UIC) was fricken awesome and we only saw a small portion of it.

Yesterday wasn’t particularly hard, but I just wasn’t feeling the energy for today at all and am looking forward to finally coming home tomorrow. We attempted to some parkour this morning before heading to the beach, but it ended up torrentially raining on us when we got there and we found ourselves surrounded and blocked out from the outside by the gay pride parade. After taking more than an hour to get the few miles back home, we just went and watched WALL-E Which is an awesome movie! Since I’m sitting next to Zac whose working on a writeup as well I’ll just leave it at that…

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It was then when a miracle was performed – the likes of which have never been seen at a Parkour event since the beginning of time. Not only did (almost) everyone get in bed before Midnight, but everyone was up by 6:30, and ready to go by 7:30. That’s right. 7:30. In the morning. AM. Ante Meridiem. Janine and Zac got up a bit early to make about sixty banana filled pancakes to serve to people as they woke up, and then the whole group of 25+ people got out the door and to the train station earlier than scheduled. Everyone split into two at the World Trade subway station, with one group of traceurs navigating their way through Central Park, and another exploring Roosevelt Island.

Zac’s writeup of PKNY is up on APK, his video and my thoughts after the gap.

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The East Coast sucks. It’s really hot, I keep getting bitten by crazy spiders and mosquitoes, and I think I got some weird rash following Erwan through the woods before heading over here. The traceurs are great though, here’s a quick recap (sorry no pictures right now):

MOVNAT was pretty sweet, not as beastly as I had hoped but challenging in some new aspects (writeup coming). The media from it is going to be amazing though.

Jesse hosted somewhere around 30 traceurs in his attic for PKNY, ate some hot coals (with mustard), brought us to some great places, and lead the most epic conditioning session ever. It involved a warmup covering a mile or so that was longer than the session itself, and me ending up doing climbups, double-taps, and traversal stuff for an hour straight teaching four sessions in a row until sometime around two in the morning. Watching the steam come off of my forearms in the dead of night during the cooldown was pretty surreal. Definitely a night to remember.

Primal Fitness is too hot, but it’s still fun because most of the Tribe is here to Get Shit Done (lots of computer work). Levi helped me figure out a crazy kipping alternate grip muscle up to reverse vault I’d been working on, and I found out how awesome pullups and muscle ups on a horizontal rope are.

More later, Chicago next.