Class Updates

This is an update i should have made a while back,

ok, so as you may know by now, you probably know that the saturday classes in lincoln are temporarily off. the official reasoning behind it is “restructuring” whic involves setting class numbers/structures which are still in the planning stages, and insurance situations which would mean that we can teach in public areas outisde which would be nice.

I would like to think there is a summer break to ensure that everyone goes and practices outside in the glorious sunshine (if we ever get any)

The classes will definately be coming back and by definately I mean the ‘beginners classes’ will be coming back, the advanced/community workshops may not!

This is due to challenges from the school about who/when people have been climbing on the rooves, they have discovered the rooftop videos that some people have made whilst waiting for advanced sessions to start. so I may have a lot of negotiations to make before the advanced come back
it may end up becoming a once a month thing, which i wouldn’t mind to be honest~

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.