The fuck.

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These guys are inspiration.

By the power of physics

Yesterday out training I had managed to get a cat to the level where I was happy with it and prepared to move up. So, grabbed a bench and decided to add that on top.

It was fucking heavy. About 5x1.5x1.5 ft of solid wood. I couldn't get it up by myself. So I dragged another bench over. Bit of lever action later and I had this second bench sitting where I wanted it.

As I arrived to start training today, couple of guys on their way back from the gym were walking past. One of them went over to it and lifted it up a little.

"Yeah. Would have taken a group of guys to get this up."

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Haven't got that jump yet. I know I can cat the height (theres a nipple high box that I can get on to, I was actually hoping this jump would help me train to clear that one). In general though my cats are still quite temperamental, sometimes feeling technically excellent and sometimes I can't even get through to visualising the technique. Weird.

Got cat-pops today though. That was nice.

More lessons

Spent the past couple of weeks trying to get some parkour in everyday. Seems to help a lot better than the once or twice a week I've been doing so far, the continual reinforcement helps. Started following my 10-minute room timer a bit more rigorously too and hence I'm sorer than I've been since my gym membership expired.

On Monday I had managed after a few tries to pull off a wallrun in my five fingers which I wasn't able to get in my 5-10s. After a rather poor session today I decided to go back to it and improve on it. Took me a long time to get it again. Maybe 30 tries. Got pretty dissapointed early in the process, but my technique improved a lot in the interim - lesson: even the failures are useful. The step became a lot more solid and I walked up a lot easier each time. The try on which I actually got it I was tired (and a little angry, which might've helped), but still got a solid hand to it (the grip is difficult because its slippery metal, requires a bit of contact or a dyno up to the next handhold. I'll work on the two-hands to the wall next, and then to the dyno I think.) and clambered up.

Best part about that wallrun was the landings though. A lot of drops onto concrete in five fingers and no pain whatsoever. Landing technique is improving.