Day 5 The End

I am writing this post from my own home as opposed to Washington, DC. I assume the other two made it home safe and sound (I said goodbye at the airport)
Yesterday was awesome. We slept in and Mark picked us up at the home we were staying at so we could drive to various outdoor locations to practice parkour.
First stop…Zen Park. A playground made of huge wooden posts sticking out of the ground in various formations, great for precision jumps. There is also a regular playground where Mark taught us the Under Bar. That’s literally what it is. You swing underneath a bar lifting your legs up to clear and obstacle. Luke and Kai hit their biggest jumps yet in Zen Park.
Second Stop…Silver Spring Metro Station. A garden area with huge cement walls and boxes, sweet spot for cat leaps, qm landings, and a few precision jumps. We spent awhile here, Luke nailed himself pretty bad cutting his arm on one of the boxes. The cement was slippery so getting up the walls was pretty hard. Mark had us run a route through the course a few times.
Then we had a discussion. “Have we been ‘doing’ parkour?” Yes, no, we’re just practicing it. So mark had us “do” parkour to get to our next location about a block away. Once we got their Mark asked again… “Did you ‘do’ parkour?” Answer, some of us did. I had a vaulted a fence that I could have run straight past. A new definition of parkour, “Practicing the most inefficient route so that when it is your only option you can do it.”
Running around with us were Will and Skipper, two members of The Tribe so we got to watch them doing kongs into precision, which I wont even try to describe. Then the security for the parking lot asked us to move along…so we did.
We will be getting pictures from Mark later this coming week of us training and leaping around DC. Those will be posted soon There will be posts every time we train or find something super amazing that has to do with parkour.

So read on,
Ness