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I haven’t really posted for a few days, my bad. For the few people who may care, here’s an update of my progress.

I didn’t do as much training as I would of liked over the weekend, I had originally planned to train hard over the two days but Saturday was occupied by a double-date. After that myself and Sam trained from 11pm till 1am around the main church in town. Personally I feel myself making progress, especially when Sam captured video of my movements so I could see how well they flowed.

Sunday was dull. No training at all, mainly because it rained and hailed. Bad times indeed. On the bright side, I done a fair bit of training today, I find it hard to train with a lot of people around because I’m too self-conscious at the moment, but that will soon pass when I know I look slightly better when I train.

Hoping to train all day tomorrow, if the girlfriend doesn’t require my presence. I’m a good boyfriend like that.

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• Answer:

  That’s okay :) sick blog btw!

Like a lot of people, I have family issues (without being to specific). When I go out training I get to see my new, second family, that of the freerunners and those that chill with us while we train. Tonight was a rough night for me, due to various reasons, but the whole time people were there to ensure I kept a decently healthy state of mind, and I appreciate that a limitless amount.

It’s nice knowing I have a place where I fit in, especially with people who encourage you to push yourself to improve, whether it be in freerunning, socially, or just at life in general. I’m truly blessed.

So, plan for tomorrow: wake up 9am, training from 9.30am till 11am, then the job hunt continues whilst I meet up with various people throughout the day. More training later in the day, then maybe some alcohol, we’ll see.

I love my new family.

The whole ‘train every day’ comment I made previously, went out the window. Not to my own fault to be fair, I fell ill a couple days ago, although I done some training yesterday (it’s 1am, so it was yesterday to be specific). I hate to be like ‘OMG I done this, that and the other, because I know I’m all new to this and people will look at it and think ‘that’s not hard at all’ - or is that just a bad assumption on my behalf? Anyways, I practiced a lot of wallrunning today, Sam said throughout the day that I was getting more flow in my movements, which is always a good thing.

It’s great training with someone who praises you for even the slightest progression, instead of someone slating you every time you fail. We plan to meet for more training today at 11am, the girlfriend’s not too thrilled though, she wants to come but it means she has to wake up early, haha.

I’m pumped for training, but I really should sleep beforehand, so here I go, to the Narnia in my head.

Sam runs the local freerunners and the ‘official’ activities we do. Recently, he was in talks with our local council to open a freerunning park in town, and got backing from the council in the form of planning permission and some funding. We’re all damn happy about it, minus the fact that we have to behave now to stay on the good side of the council.

Sam does so much for the community here, he’s teaching myself and a lot of other people how to improve, and he’s always got the ‘can-do’ attitude that gets you places in life.

That’s why he’s truly an inspiration.

Emma doing a bridge on the roof of the local abandoned pub.

Everyone in training was shocked at how good her posture is when she does this.

Just for the record, I capture photos from an iPod, sorry for lack of quality, really wish I could afford a good camera!

So today I had my first full length freerunning gym sessions down at the local sports centre. Originally, I had only planned to go to one out of the two that were on, but I got so into training during the first one that I went to the second aswell.

Done some really basic bar work, and also attempted a kong vault many times, only to fail every time. No worries, practice makes perfect! My mum and little brother watched the session from the observation area, which didn’t really help as it felt like I had more pressure on me to perform well. Still can’t do a front flip either, I hesitate way too much on the run up.

After the sessions myself, Emma, Bulbasaur, Alisha and these two randoms went to the local abandoned pub, climbed to the top (despite the security camera following us whilst we were doing so) and chilled for a bit still stoked about the sessions we just had. Got a pretty sick picture of Emma doing the crab on the roof too. All in all, good day!

Want to go train more, but I’m knackered.

I’ll also post the best picture I got of Emma, I really like it.

• Question: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET? - tumblrbot
• Answer:

  Pre tsunami, I would of said Japan. Now I guess my second choice would be New York.

  Pray for Japan.