Training
Didn't post anything personal on LJ in a while, but I figured that's what LJ is for, I'll try to keep it short.
In 2006 I started doing parkour together with a friend. I met him a few weeks earlier for the first time, we were some of the first people in Austria to have an imported PSP and met up to play. There was a game about freerunning announced (which never got released), that kind of got us to say "that looks fun, let's try".
Ecentually we ended up in a gym since a friend invited us. It was magical! Lots of people, all doing flips, twists and all kinds of other stuff, it was a playground full of people having tons of fun.
There was no pressure, no competition, just the joy of being in the air, doing stuff, and trying not to crash.
For the next few years this gym was my second home and the people there were my second family. I trained there 3 times per week, we also met up outside and did stupid stuff. Everything changed when the fire nation sports union attacked, which decided that the location right across the famous castle Schönbrunn would be better suited as a parking lot, despite there already being a big parking lot next to the gym.
They tore down the gym and the whole community as well. They built a half-assed replacement gym, but it's so expensive and remote that almost noone goes there, apart from actual gymnasts. For comarison, in 2007 2 hours of training were 2€. Now it costs 12€ in the new gym.
I still go training there due to lack of options of gyms with spring floors (Which is pathetic for "the city with the highest living standard in the world").
I also go to a freerunning training from the University Sports Institute, very nice folks there.
Thing is, almost none of my friends who I used to train with train anymore. Either that, or they're really big now, doing professional freerunning. I'm not amazing, I can do all the basic parkour stuff, the standard flips that most people know, but nothing like a double fulltwist or swingthru gainer. I never devoted 100% of my energy into it, even though it's very important to me. But it's hard as I have so many other things that mean a lot to me, like drawing, building costumes, electronics, programming, etc.
Parkour and acrobatics require constant pushing, and without my friends training I find it hard to motivate myself. I think I'm slowly getting used to training completely alone sometimes, but it's just much harder. I never really post a lot of videos of me training as I don't want to feel like a showoff, but also I feel a bit embarassed that after so many years my tricks don't look better yet. Maybe I should post videos though, as then I'd have at least some source of feedback that could create some more motivation, I don't know.
Anyway, I won't stop, and will try my best to push harder. After all, it's still fun and the best balance to the sitting around I usually do for all my other hobbies.
In 2006 I started doing parkour together with a friend. I met him a few weeks earlier for the first time, we were some of the first people in Austria to have an imported PSP and met up to play. There was a game about freerunning announced (which never got released), that kind of got us to say "that looks fun, let's try".
Ecentually we ended up in a gym since a friend invited us. It was magical! Lots of people, all doing flips, twists and all kinds of other stuff, it was a playground full of people having tons of fun.
There was no pressure, no competition, just the joy of being in the air, doing stuff, and trying not to crash.
For the next few years this gym was my second home and the people there were my second family. I trained there 3 times per week, we also met up outside and did stupid stuff. Everything changed when the fire nation sports union attacked, which decided that the location right across the famous castle Schönbrunn would be better suited as a parking lot, despite there already being a big parking lot next to the gym.
They tore down the gym and the whole community as well. They built a half-assed replacement gym, but it's so expensive and remote that almost noone goes there, apart from actual gymnasts. For comarison, in 2007 2 hours of training were 2€. Now it costs 12€ in the new gym.
I still go training there due to lack of options of gyms with spring floors (Which is pathetic for "the city with the highest living standard in the world").
I also go to a freerunning training from the University Sports Institute, very nice folks there.
Thing is, almost none of my friends who I used to train with train anymore. Either that, or they're really big now, doing professional freerunning. I'm not amazing, I can do all the basic parkour stuff, the standard flips that most people know, but nothing like a double fulltwist or swingthru gainer. I never devoted 100% of my energy into it, even though it's very important to me. But it's hard as I have so many other things that mean a lot to me, like drawing, building costumes, electronics, programming, etc.
Parkour and acrobatics require constant pushing, and without my friends training I find it hard to motivate myself. I think I'm slowly getting used to training completely alone sometimes, but it's just much harder. I never really post a lot of videos of me training as I don't want to feel like a showoff, but also I feel a bit embarassed that after so many years my tricks don't look better yet. Maybe I should post videos though, as then I'd have at least some source of feedback that could create some more motivation, I don't know.
Anyway, I won't stop, and will try my best to push harder. After all, it's still fun and the best balance to the sitting around I usually do for all my other hobbies.