Woke up at 7:10 to drop my sister off at school because I'm a wonderful, caring brother that values my sister's education.
Just kidding, my parents had to practically drag me out of bed because I really wanted to sleep in today.
But I guess it's a pretty good thing that I have to drop my sister off at school every day for the rest of the month. Waking up before 10 AM means that I actually get a chance to run and/or do parkour in the morning, which I did.
A big thing I've always wanted to try with parkour was flow outside of a gym. Stuff like this video. See how they do everything without slowing down? Yeah, that's flow. Up until today, all of the parkour stuff I've done outside of a gym were single tricks that I practiced in a drill-like fashion. Even though that sort of repetitive, single-task oriented exercise helps me learn the movements, it's... well, it's pretty boring.
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| Yeah, this looks fun now, but it won't be after the first 30 minutes. |
So today, I decided to change that and practice some real flow. Living in suburbia, I don't really have many obstacles to utilize, but the park and the front of Ericson Elementary had some pretty okay stuff. So I went crazy (or, as crazy as intermediate parkour skills would let me).
And you know what? I actually had a LOT of fun. Even though I was doing really simple stuff (pretty much just vaults and precisions), the fact that I could connect those moves smoothly just made the entire workout so much more awesome. I mean not to brag, but I was pretty amazed at myself for doing some of the things I did there.
It's a really strange feeling to describe, but at some point during the exercise, it almost felt like my body was running on autopilot. Usually when I do parkour I have to meticulously plan out every movement that I'll make, but when I practiced flow earlier today, I didn't even have to think about what I was going to do, I just ran towards an obstacle and trusted myself that I would somehow find a way through it. It didn't require any conscious decisions on my part, it just felt so fluid and natural. Even when I stumbled and fell at one point (got my foot caught on a fence while I speed vaulted over it), I just automatically saved myself by rolling and kept on running, which I thought was incredible. God, this probably sounds super cheesy, but in that hour or so that I was doing parkour, I felt really free.
Hopefully that entire paragraph sort of made sense. I might have been rambling, but really, that sort of feeling is difficult to transcribe through words. In short, I'll be practicing flow again very soon. Heck, maybe I'll even film myself with my GoPro so I can show you guys.
Oh, scratch that. Before I work on flow again, gotta work on long distance running. I got really tired out after the just 10 minutes of flow, which is AWFUL, so I'll definitely work on building up that endurance over summer. Landing could use a bit of work too, my legs hurt like CRAZY after the fifth precision or so. A few hundred more squats should solve that problem.
Same day, 11:46 PM PDT
Went to Angela's house, along with Nick and Kayla. When I got there, they were watching some weird (and frankly, kinda crappy) WWII movie. It had special effects that I could probably pull off if you gave me enough time and the dialogue was really weird. I wasn't really paying attention when it happened in the movie because I was playing Temple Run on Kayla's Kindle, but a character in the movie said the words "Yankee Doodle" or something and it made everyone watching the movie laugh? I don't know. Angela said it sucked, so I'll take her word for it.
Anyway, Angela got a WiiU a few days before school ended, so she invited us over to play Mario Kart 8. And HOLY CRAP IS IT AWESOME. It's got flying sections, it's got drifting, it's got awesome new (and ridiculously overpowered) items, it's got catchy as hell music, it's got an EPIC antigravity mode, and it's got HIGHLIGHT REELS THAT CAN BE PLAYED IN SLOW MOTION AFTER EVERY RACE.
Look at it. Just look at it.
JESUS, I am SO IMPRESSED with how amazing Mario Kart 8 is. I mean I loved Mario Kart Wii, but this just BLOWS EVERYTHING OUT OF THE WATER. Seriously, they added SO MANY MORE AWESOME THINGS, I can't even BELIEVE IT.
I want it. I want it now.
RFotD: Mario Kart 8 is the first game in the series to use a sexy, sexy 60 FPS frame rate.
SGAT: Worked on the anniversary story a bit. And by "a bit," I mean two lines. I suck at this.
Went to Angela's house, along with Nick and Kayla. When I got there, they were watching some weird (and frankly, kinda crappy) WWII movie. It had special effects that I could probably pull off if you gave me enough time and the dialogue was really weird. I wasn't really paying attention when it happened in the movie because I was playing Temple Run on Kayla's Kindle, but a character in the movie said the words "Yankee Doodle" or something and it made everyone watching the movie laugh? I don't know. Angela said it sucked, so I'll take her word for it.
Anyway, Angela got a WiiU a few days before school ended, so she invited us over to play Mario Kart 8. And HOLY CRAP IS IT AWESOME. It's got flying sections, it's got drifting, it's got awesome new (and ridiculously overpowered) items, it's got catchy as hell music, it's got an EPIC antigravity mode, and it's got HIGHLIGHT REELS THAT CAN BE PLAYED IN SLOW MOTION AFTER EVERY RACE.
Look at it. Just look at it.
JESUS, I am SO IMPRESSED with how amazing Mario Kart 8 is. I mean I loved Mario Kart Wii, but this just BLOWS EVERYTHING OUT OF THE WATER. Seriously, they added SO MANY MORE AWESOME THINGS, I can't even BELIEVE IT.
I want it. I want it now.
RFotD: Mario Kart 8 is the first game in the series to use a sexy, sexy 60 FPS frame rate.
SGAT: Worked on the anniversary story a bit. And by "a bit," I mean two lines. I suck at this.
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