cloud city tricksters – raindrops

Always good TheReimBlog does it with great slomo. Check it:

Ryan Doyle Vs Damien Walters?

Ryan Doyle Vs Damien Walters? There’s a video I’d like to see. Damien a background in Gymnastics and formally trained. Ryan with a background in Free-running (martial arts?) and self taught? (you tell me). Both are media darlings atm, and both can put on one hell of a show.

Check Ryan latest video, then go leave some love on his YT page:

And in case you’re one of the 4.5million people how missed Damiens 2009 video, check it:

Airborne: Tracksuits and tops off flipping.

Just over 3 mins of grey tracksuit bottoms has dropped on Youtube from the airborne crew. Mighty footage in lovely arty farty black and whiteness, now with 50% added slomo. Rocking:

The Ultimate Parkour Game?

Yep, its http://www.canabalt.com/. You uhh, click the screen and the dude jumps – if you figure out any other controls, leave a comment. You’ll need headphones or the ‘mute’ button if you’re in a public place.

MTV’s Ultimate Parkour Challenge Trailer

Might be worth a watch innit?

Out of Time

15mins of incredible footage to brighten up your Saturday. Check the full size version out on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/6495648 from Dree out of Latvia

Tucc – Tümer Extreme Jumps

footballfreestyler is more known for his erm, football freestyle than his flips, but its nice to see the flipping skills are just as strong too. I like multi-skilled people. check it:

Talking to oneself

Gym tonight. Student night it is too, and I’ve knackered my ankle skating at the wkend, so I’m basically going for a decent stretch and the social element. Will take me camera and document something – I fancy capturing some audio (yes ‘audio’) tonight. I have an idea y’see.

(note to self: use the damn camera!!!)

Mad for double flips

Everyone’s doing double flips, even if they can’t do them! Nice vid from amineayach1989

4 months off

I want to mention that I recently returned to the gym after a 4months off. Off for the reason of? The sun came out. Enabling me to get some vitamin D, a t-shirt tan and work on my vert skating. All the while, I knew I was getting out of sync with the physical act of flipping. I knew it would only be a temporary thing. Sooner or later the weather would turn and I’d be back in the gym enjoying the trampoline week after week again.

Whilst being absent, visitors here will have noticed that I haven’t kept up with this place much at all. This has been a good thing. The excitement has disappeared with Tricking and free running etc, I’m certainly not tracking so many videos either. Though I had noticed something had changed with my Google RSS feeds, meaning that I haven’t been able to access anywhere up to around 500 videos a day as much as I have in the past. A blessing in diguise methinks?

‘Life’ and all its buckets of joy have over taken me too. Again, this is a good thing, change is great, but I’m settling back into a rhythm once more, and hope to be finally set in the closing months of this year.

During this time away I’ve reflected how much I’ve hurt my body more in the past few years flipping about, than 25 yrs of skateboarding. So much for skating being dangerous. All that gym foam and peer pressure is contageous, addictive and more dangerous.

My left shoulder slops around in its socket, I can only sleep at night with my left knee bent, and I swear my neck has never been good since I landed on it- several times.

So what next? What for this place? Well, as I say, I’ll be back at the gym again in the wetter months as soon as they arrive, but i’ll be focusing on interesting thoughts that strike me as and when they happen. I’m not going to chase people for footage, killer photos, or go out of my way to attend gatherings and newly discovered web content.

I might change the format here a bit tho, keep my eyes opening for different perspectives and invite some people to contribute if they wish. Who knows? I certainly don’t.

Oh and after 4 months break, everything aches again… and damn it feels good :)

Hello, welcome and goodbye again.