Havent written in a while now. Been to busy keeping my body in motion and training hard ;)
Just got home from a nice 3 hour indoor training session with the people in Uppsala. Was a good fun day! Always alot of fun to train with them.
Did some nice progress I felt there today, and I can hardly wait till the summer comes in all its glory.. I mean, I still train outside even tho we have ice, snow and such here. But I am a bit "crippled" due to the ice and snow. Its a challenge to overcome, and in a way I guess that is what parkour is all about.
But I must say, its alot more fun to train when its atleast a little warmer outside, and no snow.. So I am really looking forward to spring and summer now. Atleast the sun has started to show itself alot more recently. Have had a great week so far with alot of sun, and some nice times outdoors.
I am however having some feelings in my left knee. Something I have felt since the last summer. Recently tho I have started to have a bit more pains in my knee, so I think I will have to look it up. Hopefully I wont have to do any surgery.. But we will see what x-ray and the physiotherapist will say.
Today I have had some thoughts regarding training, parkour and competition. Something I do not endorce in any way when it comes to parkour, or freerunning. However, competition is defined in many ways. Do we not compete when we challenge our friend to do what we just did? Or when we "play" and we try to "push" eachother in a reasonable fashion?
Sometimes competition doesnt always mean that we compete for money, and for winners and losers. Sometimes, maybe we compete against our friends in a friendly fashion, we compete against our self. Our past achivements, do we not always strife to overcome them? We always aim to be stronger, faster and more able to help, and be there for those in need. One day, maybe we compete against death..
Anyway, to conclude what I have written, I do not think we can have traditional competitions in le parkour, as it removes the whole idea of what is parkour. We can however compete against ourselves. And we have to wonder about the word, and how we define "competition". Competition is always competition. But the outcome of competition is what can differ.
But in the end, I guess there are more negative aspects involving the word competitions. Hopefully parkour will evolve with the help of people like David Belle, Yamakasi and parkour generations towards an understanding that makes competition unthinkable for the mass of practioners of the art. In the spirit of le parkour, there can be no winners, and no losers.. Only practioners.
Compete against yourself. And challenge your friends!
/Ronnie
About me
- Ronnie
- Sweden
- I was born 30:th of may, 1981. And in the end of may, 27 years later I found out about the french discipline; "Le-parkour". And I was imediatly hooked. Since then, I have trained hard to improve myself both physical and mental. Im constantly trying to improve myself, so I can be useful. Im very inspired with the ideas and philosophies surronding "Méthode naturelle", even tho I do not train exactly like that. I train mostly parkour related exercices, conditioning using my body, and attending the gym. I have slowly started to grow away from the free weight training tho. I prefer more, to use my own body, and to be outside while training. Stay safe everyone, and remember to; "Be strong, be useful".
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