Ah yes, parkour. The art of "free-running." Parkour is not you're average jog in the park. It's best to think of parkour as urban acrobatics. Running up/along walls, vaulting rails and other objects. Doing flips off of 15 ft structures and landing safely. Running from rooftop to rooftop eventually to once again land on the ground.

Parkour is a new hobby of mine. Today I successfully got to the first story of a building. I ran up the wall, and did a cat grab on the ledge in order to pull my self up. If had some confidence I would have found  way to get to the third story. However, I just started today. Trust me, for your first day, to be on the first story of a building, feels amazing. It's scary as hell when you look down.

In order to get down, I had to cat grab the ledge and propell myself off. Landing on asphault, it not fun. After impressing a few people, Max and I were *****ed at for being up where we were. The guy said if he "caught" us up there again, he would call the cops. As if we were doing anything illegal...

Batavia is one of the worst towns to practice parkour. You'd think it's a friendly town, but everyone is so *****y. IF you tried to do anything productive, that's also different, people are going to call the cops. It doesn't help that the cops are complete hardasses here either. They think they're above the law, and that everyone is inferior to them. There's like what, less than 20,000 people in this town? Calm down... you aren't ****

Back to the subject at hand. Later on we trained in the art of parkour. We then walked around our boring-ass town in search of places to show off our 1337 skillz. Sadly... there's no where. The best we found were a few loading docks behind Martin's. The only place we really did anything, was across a small stream (5'-10' across.) The stream itself was about 3 feet wide, but there were natural walls that made it difficult, and much wider.

I was the guinea pig both times. The first time we went, I made it. Across, and over. The real challenge was going back across. It was quite difficult. I had the longest, most difficult jump. I was about a half foot off from clearing it. Everyone learned from my mistakes and cleared it fine. So close...

Well, I'll update everyone more as I learn some more parkour.

-Rabidus