Posting this in the frenzy of getting ready for school lol

Gate keeping the full clip for the project 😝 Pretty happy with this as it was the end of the session. Might’ve hit my hips on the dive roll ON THE SAME ROPES THAT INJURED ME LAST TIME (in the final video) but it’s calm cuz you can barley tell haha But cheeky sneak peek (spoiler it’s landed in the final video so not too different 😂) File was sent through WhatsApp so not too clean shall get it if ying on Thursday.

Remembered to actually try this this session and was happy with how it went - keen to get it outside soon Did it beautifully off camera, decides to film an attempt, dies on the first attempt 😝

On Saturday I went to Dundee for my first comp since 2024! This is a part of Scottish Parkour Takeover League two colleagues and myself started in 2024 in Aberdeen. This has expanded across 5 cities with the help of 9 other athletes across Scotland managing the Takeover in the city they live in. I had a few reasons for going: 1. Train with people as I normally train solo. 2. See what impact taking part in the athlete programme has had on me mentally and physically. 3. To encourage my students to engage with the wider Scottish community and train in other places. So many of these challenges I would’ve walked away from just a month ago. I was honestly so pleased with some of these and didn’t imagine making some of these so quickly!

I think my main issue with running pre’s/ jumps in general is i dont produce enough vertical force and height, so i tried at AAPES to put a box down to prompt my body to naturally move more up and not just forward and i think it worked well to force my mind to actually make more of an arc rather than a flat straight line. (For the first three clips). Still very very bad though, since this is nearly my standing jump (excluding the box ofc lol) however I genuinely believe I can improve it with the right tips and commitment. The third clip actually was an accident unlike the first 2. I thought I was going to bail out and quit the jump mid air but weirdly I noticed mid air that I was actually closer to making it anyway so I then piked last second which is why it looks so weird and the landing is off. The last clip was a different trick of practicing vertical height - instead of forcing myself to jump over something and land on even/ flat terrain, I forced myself to jump *upwards* and land higher instead as another tactic to get better vertical momentum. I think these feel like good drills to gain that I don’t know. What do you guys think? Is my main weakness in my running jumps lack of vertical height or something else? And if it is vertical height, do you think these drills are the right ones to fix it? Let me know :)