Awesomeness, Hilarity & Style

Week 5: Day Two

Last night’s class was so much fun! I’m really being pushed mentally to let my creativity flow and just go with it.  I also decided Lindsey Stirling is a great artist to listen to while doing parkour.  Try it, she’s awesome.

We started the late class with a little game of add-on where each person in line adds a move to the course and you have to follow along, repeating every person’s add-on.  This wasn’t getting weird enough for T so he had us play a game they played in his kid’s class.  Everyone had 15-30 seconds to run the course, doing anything that came to mind, and they would be judged on style, awesomeness and hilarity.  That’s a lot of pressure to be all three things at once.  Of course no one wanted to go first so finally T made one of the guys begin.  The chosen one looked at the course for a minute, dropped his pants and proceeded to run (hop) around, do some vaults and a cat leap and some rolls all with his pants around his ankles.  Hilarity: check.

It’s kind of hard to top that.  But we tried.  Everyone came up with some pretty stylish, funny ways to get through the course.  Eventually we we moved on to a jam-style session where we all just messed around on the course, teaching each other different moves and trying out new things we thought looked cool.  I learned some flow moves and messed around doing a straddle to a handstand on one of the vault boxes up against the wall.  Then we played around with the balance beam that was leaning up against one of the higher pull-up bars.  There was a rope hanging down near the bottom of the balance beam and a box a little farther away so our goal was as follows: run up the balance beam, slide down, catch the rope at the bottom and swing to land on the box nearby.  On my last try, I caught the rope and tapped the box but couldn’t quite land on it so I started swinging back towards the balance beam, where I pushed off and tried to get back on the box.  Not quite.  Swung back towards the balance beam and swung one more time towards the box and finally just managed to let go of the rope and stay on the box.

Accomplishments: balance beam to rope to box; handstand on vault box

Things to work on: creativity/flow