Any thoughts on how many reps to do? How many days rest between? How to modulate other training? How age affects these answers? And what about those forward rolls that we see in these clips? Is this a show-off technique or is it one that allows for greater absorbancy of the shock of the impact? Do we have a people who parachute who can give us some pointers?
I have a vauge memory of an airborne military person telling me something about if you were falling from a really big height that after the feet hit that it was better to fall to one side of the body than the other; something to do about the organs inside. Anyone?
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This guy trained every day, in fact he gave up martial arts altogether to train exclusively in parkour. There wasn't a set number of reps or time, most of the training sessions were 1 - 2 hrs. However, every day the would work on different things, jumps, landings, underbar ( going through under or inbetween railings), wall climbing etc... in between free runs.
Its like going to a skate boarding, although there are names to techniques there are no set ways to train them, its what atracts kids to these things, true freedom of expression. And they are kids. All the guys I saw doing this were under 25. As for the effect of age, the art hasn't been around long enough, the 2 founders are only in the early 30.
At 35, personally I found 10 min every day enough to increase my static landing. But for the most part its about listening to your body if something hurts stop move on to something else. For many (including me) it is about being goal driven, trying to beat a particular obstical, especially something like wall climbing. Repeating until you succeed ( or don't).
As for the rolls, yes it is an absorbtion technique. The goal in parkour is to keep moving, hence when you roll you keep you forward momentum so you can continue to run with out a break.
I used to hate to run, I found it completely boring and mind numbing. But by incorporating some parkour into it like rail jumping, wall vault, ledge balancing it make running more interesting (although some people might think you look like an idiot). Other added bonuses are upper body stregth development, balance, enviromental awareness and focus, you simply can't go on auto pilot like regular distance running. You can also do this type of running in woods (off trail) to get the same effect.
London Jump is a documentary about free running featuring the guy from Casino Royale.
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o==8 ) simply by putting aside the knowing that it could have been so more more. Howard's Conan is a figure deep in the dark primal archetypes. If only someone had been at the helm with the vision and courage to have gone there something truly great could have been made. Ah well, forward.
