Workshop Madness

Well Saturday was the day that the Lincs Parkour Gym sessions had its biggest register ever, with over more than a hundred students turning up. what an outstanding turn out of little Lincolnshire !!

So any how about the workshop this week. It was truly crazy ! To begin with I took everybody outside (as it was such an awesome day) for a warm up/conditioning session. This included a lot of CV work for instance jogging round the football and rugby pitches, then sprints, side stepping, big skips and quadrapedal all the length of a rugby pitch twice ! After that we got into some jumping on your toes to get the calves burning (cant say the students were a big fan of this one) then some more leg work mainly on the quads though. Then I got the students doing some arm work then finally finishing of the conditioning with the core for example static abs, v-ups, crunches etc. Once we had finished conditioning I then took them through some stretches and then we all sprinted back into the hall after about 45 mins of warming up !

Once in the hall Me, Ryan, Jack Dale, Jammie and Jonny all took a group of the students and took them through different routes through a different set of obstacles, This included Tic-Tac precisions, slides, arm jumps, Cat pass – arm jumps, Balancing and a whole variety of just moving through round and over the red blocks ! It was all going well just getting the kids to move their own way maybe giving some ideas of what to do. After they got the idea we let them have about 45 mins to do as they pleased looking at different things seeing if they could overcome an obstacle their OWN way and if they wanted help to do something specific like help with a technique we were more than happy to help as I know me and Jammie set up a Cat Pass course to help students work on it. The students seemed happy yet tired as all of the moving and conditioning they had been doing but was amazing to see kids as young as 8 still trying their hardest. After their 45 minutes of “freedom” I then again took all the students outside for a warm down once finished the beginners went home and then It was time for advanced.

To start the advanced session of I got everyone outside and had more of an intense conditioning session/warm up with the guys ! this included a lot of muscular endurance work. Yet Again a lot of quad work was done however everyone was pushing themselves and it was great too see, after finishing the warm up we then, yet again sprinted back into the hall and let people get on with their own thing . Alot of nice techniques being performed and people trying a lot of new stuff was great too see, Yet again the tricking mats were a big favourite but its nice too see the guys actually trying tricking and pulling it of well rather than throwing themselves of red blocks ! It was a very productive session

Till Next Week Guys…

Peace x