All that is within me.....

2009-06-15T23:26:00.000-07:00

hmm.. lol.. long time since i touched this blog. again. stuff to do , things to see. well, im having my break now that is until my results come out. I was wondering whether to work or i'll just watch tv and online for 24 hours . lol. im gonna try my best to update this blog if i have enough will power. . haha. i seriously dont know what to write. @_@ . cya

2008-09-16T05:25:00.001-07:00

i'm currently not free to update my blog .. will do it once i have time. thanksx

Its been awhile

2008-09-14T04:38:00.000-07:00

lol. its been a while since i posted a new blog entry. a while? i mean looong. lol. i forgot the link to this blog until this morning. well. i have nothing much to blog about and i 'll try to keep this blog alive. i hope..

Parkour VS FreeRunning

2006-12-05T07:27:00.000-08:00

Parkour VS FreeRunning

Free Running? A kind of demonstration mixing parkour techniques, and acrobatics to be more spectacular and serve the medias and marketing, but also a sport.

The term Parkour has been invented by David Belle and Hubert Koundé in 1998 and the word Free Running has been created much later by Sebastien Foucan for the purpose of spreading Parkour in a marketing fashion (they thought the word “parkour” wasn’t international enough and Sebastien Foucan proposed them this word).

The problem is that they fully mixed acrobatics to impress people. This is where Freerunning becomes different from Parkour.

To make a comparison, Free Running is like artistic katas in martial arts, the goal is only to be spectacular.

So it is related to parkour but doesn’t answer to the same philosophy. I mean, when you practice to show how spectacular your jump is gonna be, people aren’t focused anymore on the difficulty, on the obstacle but on you.

This showing off attitude isn’t the parkour philosophy which preaches for humility. In this, Free Running and Parkour are fundamentally opposite even if the first one is related to the second one. Like the traditional way and the freestyle way.

Parkour ::

2006-12-05T07:22:00.000-08:00

More than an art — a way of life!
Sensations, adrenaline and giddiness.
Power, fluidity and control.
Parkour responds to a deep-seated need of humans: to move.
It’s an art that demands the true spirit of a warrior, and offers pure action to its practitioners.

I think for this first post I’ll just put some article on parkour.

Basically, Parkour is a natural method to train the human body to be able to move forward quickly, making use of the environment that’s around us at any given time. This ‘art of displacement’ requires neither specific structure nor accessory for its practice. The body is the only tool. It’s an athletic discipline accessible to all, because it combines all the natural skills of the human body: running, jumping, climbing… It’s a sport that permits exploration of the potential offered by your body. It’s about being able to face the obstacles with which you are presented, whether they be in the natural environment or in the urban environment, in a search for movement that combines effectiveness and control.

The necessary equipment is simply a T-shirt, a pair of light jogging-type trousers, and a pair of running shoes.

“C‘est comme si votre corps avait toujours été en pilotage automatique et que vous découvriez soudain que vous êtes capable de le piloter vous même”. — or, it’s as if your body has always been on autopilot, and you’ve discovered for the first time that you are able to control it!

Running on foot, crawling, jumps, rolling and other methods of catching yourself, grabbing hold of things, hanging from things and balancing are the essence of what fuels this sport. All this towards a single goal: never to be stopped by any obstacle (whether it be wall, grille, hedge, railings, trees, other foliage, bushes, rocks, vehicles, gaps… etc), but to continually adapt.

This way of moving has existed since the dawn of time, where early men had to learn to move skillfully to hunt, to attack and to defend themselves. Later, special groups such as the ninja and, later, commando soldiers were taught movements in order for them to carry out infiltration missions. Today, firefighters, soldiers, and special police intervention teams still learn how to move without being hindered by obstacles.

One man — David Belle — has devoted his life to the development of this art. Surrounded by a family comprised of sporting heroes, David practiced sports which had physical action as their base and which allowed him to move effectively (such as gymnastics, athletics, climbing and martial arts).

On this matter, David Belle said (translated from the French): “Passion, way of life, and today sport — Parkour, first of all, was a natural method to develop all the qualities that are at the natural disposal of the human body. Increasing strength, agility, speed and power were the first steps in this search. As a practitioner of gymnastics, athletics and martial arts I already had certain basic abilities and skills that I found to be limited by the structures required by the various sports I was doing. So, I decided to create a sport in my own style, that is to say, without material constraints; a pair of jogging trousers, a T-shirt, a good pair of running shoes, and myself.

“While running, I’d fix on a point to represent an objective, and tell myself: ‘I’m going to go there; I’m going to go there directly; I’m going to go there quickly; and nothing will stop me’. I must add that I was always an enthusiastic admirer and reader of Daredevil, Spider-Man and other superhuman characters from comics, animation and action movies. All excellent warriors, and all so free.”

The fundamental idea is a man who runs, and whom nothing stops.

Parkour aims to be a ‘complete’ sport; by the mindset that it inspires in its practitioners just as much as by the many skills that it develops. It’s a difficult discipline to train, because it continually tests the limits of each practitioner. It’s all about knowing if one is prepared to stick with existing limits, or if one is prepared to push back those limits as far as possible…

Accessible to all who are 15 or older (due to the necessary physical development), Parkour makes it possible to develop physical fitness and coordination while developing willpower, determination, motivation, strength, endurance, agility and courage: essential qualities in life! It educates and informs young people who are eager for new experiences.

Parkour is much more than a sport. It is a way of life, the way to ‘find yourself’, even; to learn how to know and control one’s own body. One becomes stronger, and learns how to surmount mental obstacles just as much as physical ones.

A word of warning: Certain people — the reckless — who assume too much about their physical abilities, and/or do not take full account of the risks are often given a nasty shock — or even, seriously injured. In the world of Parkour, the mindset is to combine body and spirit, power and control. It’s ridiculous to ’seek freedom’ but end up broken in a wheelchair — so, have prudence!

Once could also suggest that a good Traceur (Parkour practitioner) will be an excellent participant in other sports that require cool-headedness, agility, power, good self-control, the ability to be observant and so many other qualities developed in the Traceur as they practice “L’Art du Deplacement”, to use a French term.

This is the reason why Parkour is the most complete sport. It recruits and demands all the physical capabilities of the human body at the same time as it requires a perpetual consideration that is, in effect, “3D” — evaluation of distances, evaluation of capability, evaluation of risk.

Today, Parkour has developed throughout the world, with regional quirks springing up here and there. The media have gradually seized this opportunity; Traceurs have been used for music videos, advertisements and even movies!

2006-06-06T09:18:00.000-07:00

done 2 essays the most .. cant write so many in one day.. out of words.. blanks off

2006-06-05T19:48:00.000-07:00

2nd day of project.. today ! aiming for 50% of completion . must! i hope -_- sigh..

Later days..

2006-06-05T06:04:00.000-07:00

sigh sigh, fuh , a day which has almost come to an end. disappointed as the only thing i did for my moral project was ..................... *drum roll* penghargaan? z.z lol.. haha.. got distracted by ps2, comp, and a movie. haha.. well, got to go to have my dinner.. signing off .. kazzeezzzz

First day of moral project..

2006-06-04T20:09:00.000-07:00

Ah.. i will rise for now , to THE MORAL project that i long for .. *yeah right*

Target Project : Moral
Due Date : After the holiday
Aiming date : 6th or 7th June
Duration : 2 days
Comments : Nothing to die for. =p

Alright , means here i go , risking my online time just to finish the project. Allas , tschus.

2006-06-04T09:06:00.000-07:00

ahhh .. disappointed as i was .. lol.. i cant believed i squashed a cockroach.. gross. well , sorry cockroach..... *turns surrounding to funeral style* As we gather here today , to bury Sir Cockroach in this mundane night.... *oh wait, i am loosing signal .. ahhh.. its the zombie... * zz beeps off ~~~~~~~~

2006-06-04T03:27:00.000-07:00

Haha.. made a signature recently. Didnt know that it will be such fun to do it. :D

I give up..

2006-06-04T02:09:00.000-07:00

Since there are so many people making blogs now of these days.. well, might as well make one too.. i am not much of a writer. So maybe making blog can improve my writing skill? o.O .. wierd.. there's one kind of feeling when i am writing this blog.. like an undescribeable feeling.. oops .. sounds like Aladin.. lol.. i got a strange feeling writing this blog.. wait wait.. correction .. no feelings.. that's sissy.. with all the feelings and all .. ahah..
Great .. holidays are almost over and i got nothing out of it. Nothing accomplished . Just a few games , hanging out , more games ,playing with my guitar , listen to songs, posting useless things on the sbs forum , alot more gaming and etc etc etc.

Well ! Time is running out . I am going to stand up and start with the most annoying task of all. Moral project. Yes, a project given to all the students of form 4 and 5 . Feeling lazy , i planned to do it this week. I hope i can finish it on time. Ah , well . Just a matter of writting a few pages of nonsense and taking a few useless pictures of myself posing doing chores. Lol. Dreadful though i feel, it still has to be done. Like my granpa used to say .. *stares at the sky*

Well , signing of of my new blog . I remembered i created one blog last time , which lasted like a few months only. So i guessed that old account has been deleted. =/ Well , thats all from me. Tschus.