Tyson Cecka .:. Undaunted Parkour http://tysoncecka.com Welcome to my site's feed! I've tried to make this work in every reader well. Be aware though that I spent most of my time making sure my website works the best for my readers rather than my feed. So if you want the best experience I recommend viewing new posts directly so you don't miss out on anything rather than relying on the feed. Enjoy! Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:15:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/http://www.tysoncecka.comhttp://www.tysoncecka.com/images/tysonvault110x110.jpgTyson Cecka's Parkour Blog1037555http://www.feedburner.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with RojoSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesWelcome to my site's feed! From here you can subscribe to receive my updates automatically in many different ways. Be aware though that I spent most of my time making sure my website works the best for my readers rather than my feed. So if you want the best experience I recommend viewing new posts directly so you don't miss out on anything rather than relying on the feed. Enjoy! SF Landing http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/455785137/sf-landing http://tysoncecka.com/archive/sf-landing#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:12:06 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=368 So I got into San Francisco last night and crashed at NoSole’s place. Today we went to UC Santa Cruz for SFparkour’s monthly jam and it was amazing. The campus is like a giant REI combined with freeway park and handicap ramps :) Led a fun warmup for the guys, took some great pictures, and trained until I couldn’t jump no more.

This trip is rather off the cuff, I’m bouncing around between a few traceur’s couches and am getting a bunch of exploring done while people work at those things called jobs. Send me a twitter message or email if you are in the area and want to train!

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A DAY OF FEW SPOKEN WORDS HD from KASPARWORKS on Vimeo.

Rather excellent video from my friends in Tokyo by Kaspar Astrup Schröder. Makes me want to go back! See http://pktk.jp for more. Thanks Brian!

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We didn’t have any issues while there except maybe for Mark taking too many photos of the army guys with the big guns… ;) But really we felt rather safe after the first day of craziness passed, and we’re definitely hoping to go back. Even met a nice local traceur who joined us in the show!

I’m on a crazy sleep schedule right because of the ten hour lag and built up quite the number of unread emails while over there but I’ll try to get the photos processed and uploaded as soon as I can, there’s a lot of media for this one with all of us combined…

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If you missed the announcement on the PNWPA blog or APK, I’m heading to Beirut, Lebanon with the Tribe next week on behalf of the US Embassy to teach kids parkour!

That’s going to be absolutely amazing but I thought I’d also let everyone know I’m also planning trips to San Jose to visit the parkour witch doctor and friends as well as the big trip to London for Rendezvous 3! San Jose will probably be mid to late November, and London will be Dec 3rd to the 22nd. If you’re around let me know and we’ll train!

Follow my trips in Dopplr! Apparently I have the same average velocity as a duck right now…

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So these past few days have been fun. A random email from some film students brought two really cool guys up to Seattle to stay at my place and train for two days. It ended being a nice break for me from all the stupid red tape we’ve been sifting through with the PNWPA - to actually got some solid training in. An amazing night session at Gasworks by the water and a fun session the next day at Cowen.

Running these sort of jams with visitors always reminds me of how much I really love this stuff. The thrill of new locations (or old locations with new eyes), losing track of time from training so hard long into the night, sharing what you’ve learned with others, challenging each other, building good memories on top of sore muscles…I’m looking forward to Rendezvous 3 so much :)

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Last Wednesday I taught the hardest class I had yet at NW Crossfit. For the entire class we only used three precision trainers! All balance conditioning, all class long :) Small classes can get that way easily I think. The next day I got pulled into a brutal Crossfit workout, then Rafe came back from Europe and shared what he had learned about the necessities of conditioning. We started with 10 minutes straight of various QM work, then went to precision training, courses, and some really interesting conditioning stuff at the end.

All in all my legs are really feeling it! I think I’ve been settling into a routine teaching the classes and getting so busy with PNWPA stuff, gotta introduce some more hard stuff and train more.

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Update: I’ve moved this post over to the PNWPA blog where a lot of this stuff will go now, check it out!

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Not all that bad! They hit on the newish http://www.parkour-online.com/, Blane’s excellent blog, and a bunch of the stuff I’ve been doing including the RED video shoots with NuRD Productions and the classes we’ve started to teach through the nonprofit Pacific Northwest Parkour Association with the whole thing illustrated through pictures pulled from my Flickr and video from my Youtube! (enough linkage for ya?)

So if you came here through AOTS, welcome to the blog and I hope you enjoy it or it helps in your training :) It needs some cleaning and re-purposing but I still dig it.

Train hard,
-”One of the best known traceurs in the world” hahaha…

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Nice job to Chase, Morgan, and Daetan who did the original shoot (and the excellent Ninja followup)! I’m a big fan of Chase’s blog as he is a ridiculously good photographer who’s very open about his work. Hopefully in the future we can get him out to shoot some more Parkour shots with us, possibly donated to the PNWPA…hint hint….

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrPeYPE-7e8

A 20-30 minute portion of this warmup I believe was inspired by my inability to hold that sitting pose Forrest pushes people into much at all in the previous days warmup ;) Also the reason I was up front and center…


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMEgqTFRk8

Watch the control Stephane and Kazuma are demonstrating here.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xw24SaAEg

Wow. I was right there in the bandana and black shirt, and I don’t even remember how rock solid Kazuma’s balance is. That’s ridiculous.

Oh BTW, that jump to the railing he tests first has a 10ft drop on the other side…hence the spotters.

Cheers to Parkour Generations, Julie Angel, and Parkour Horizons for these!

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