Parkour is TOO DANGEROUS for kids - STS #92

[@shrewmastercomics]

This is like the perfect podcast for me to listen to as I work on finishing up my latest parkour comic, since it's also about dealing with training now that im also getting older. Great stuff as always guys. I'm just so glad to have more long form parkour content. please keep it up!

[@egondugas]

I hopped over from Spotify to talk about dailies. For my first year of training, i watched a TON of parkour, and I thought about it all day long. I was obsessed, but I would barely ever train. The main excuse was I didn't have any sppts close to me, but really, i'm just addicted to screens, and going outside alone and creating takes effort. For me, the daily account is just a way to keep myself accountable for my goal, which is to train and progress and play as often as I can. The knowledge that I have to post something every day, and somebody is going to see it if it's lame, is a good motivator to just have more sessions. My need for a daily gets me to the spot, or the curb, or the living room floor, and then, more often than not, I have to mess around for a whole before I find the coolest clip i'm willing to do that day. I still end up posting some really unentertaining dailies, and even some that technically arent really parkour. Like a clip of myself playing basketball with my brother, or a map of the route i biked, or whatever. But because of the daily project, over the kast 2 years I have had wayyy more sessions than I would have. It's probably like 3-5 days a week where I actually play outside for at least 15 minutes and do something I think is cool. The diary component is just a perk for me, though it has proven really helpful because it stores basically every parkour clip I've ever filmed. I have talked to a few other people about their daily goals. And I have 2 interesting ones to share: First is Elias Sell (movefearless), and he told me his objective was to do something that scares him every day. Awesome way to think about it imo, and i doubt he uses it this way, but an account like this could be good for working on applying bravery (which parkour develops so well) into athletes non-pk lives. I could use some of that myself 😅 The other is David Becker (thedailywebster) who is an example of the working-towards-a-specific-goal concept you guys mentioned. His objective was to land a standing webster (his most elite skill) in place on a handrail. He actually stopped posting on that account sadly, (i'm sure he will come back to it at some point, this is a callout) but yeah, it was really cool to watch that progress because the goal was so concrete and also so compelling because it's a crazy move. He got to the point where he could stick them on rail trainers, and really tall walls. That's all 😊