10th May Jam Write Up

After what seemed like an endless winter of blisteringly cold winds and wet rails, things seem to be taking a huge turn for the better as we move into Lincs Parkours 3rd Summer together.

I arrived at City Hall early in the morning to find a small handful of tracers including Liam Houlden, Jack Ledbury, Johnny YEAH!, Cobie and new boy Connor from the workshops to name a few. After training here for a mere half an hour, we witnessed a very first in Lincs Parkour history. Kicked from City Hall on a saturday!
After trying to reason with the grumpy policeman i decided it would be best not to kick up a fuss and told everyone they should move on.

Whilst everyone made their way up to the castle, me and Liam made a short detour to Park Court and i attempted the Cat Pass precision there, although a small bail put me off attempting it any more and we preceded to catch up with the rest of the group.

Mirrors Edge

you may or may not have heard of this title, but it combines 3 of my favourite things in the world together: Parkour + Women + Video games

in the past we have seen many games with ‘Parkour’ in it. for example Assassins creed, Prince of Persia, Ninja Gaiden etc. but none of it has really captured Parkour as it should be. free flowing constant movement. with nothing in your way to stop you going to where you want to go… UNTIL NOW

this new game is called Mirrors Edge, its a First Person perspective game, and puts you in control of a character named faith. she is a female traceur and her sister has been kidnapped (that’s all we know about the story so far)
but that doesn’t matter, because what i am here to show you is about the movement. this game is slick! maybe not always realistic, but it sure as hell beats that crappy ‘free running’ game that was released a year or so ago.

the game asks you to build up momentum with your movements, allowing each thing you do in succession to be slightly bigger/faster than the one before it.

there are no ‘markers’ in the game as such. you are free to go where you want to go. but there is something called runner vision, which makes items appear brighter/more colourful/in focus if it is somewhere that would help your run. pretty much like real life, where you assess your surroundings whilst running, always looking for the best/easiest rout.

anyway. there is only so much you can say about a game that has only been shown off once, but im sure i can dig up some more info if people are interested

here is a video of the game in action

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Sick

So here I am at half 2 in the morning, £5 down on poker, feeling as ill as ever, and without the ability to sleep (even though I know I have to be up early tomorrow) you would probably guess I’m feeling pretty rubbish.

well that guess would be wrong!… to an extent!

I’ve just been checking out our forums, and found something that perked me right up

some back-story….
in case you didn’t know, Joe Hicks from Nottingham (Jiks on the forums) has been popping over to Lincoln for the last few weeks and has been having a wale of a time at our Saturday gym sessions, practising, taking photos and clowning around with all of us in Lincs Parkour we love him

anyway, he made a small video documenting this weeks Saturday activities, and it made me smile. I think its great edit and I look forward to seeing more from him
it made me smile and I hope it does the same for you

click below for his photos

Youtube Takeover

Just a quick post before i head off to uni today
letting you all know that today (may 2nd) is the day that Parkour takes over Youtube
our media loving friends Forrest and Dan over at Parkour Generations have struck a deal with the video sharing site, to get their pick of Parkour videos on the featured list for the whole day

” the YouTube homepage will feature NOTHING but parkour videos for the entire day and a little longer. We now know that as well as YouTube.com at least another 18 countries’ YouTube homepages will be running the Takeover Day, including the UK and France, making this easily the largest online exposure for the discipline in history. The aim is to showcase the true discipline, the training, the community, rather than the spectacle. “

one video they didn’t manage to put on there was the now world famous JUMP LINCOLN

every video is great, and this is my pick of the bunch

its some great PR for them and Parkour, check it out @ YOUTUBE