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Posts Tagged ‘vault’

Liner wins Wipeout.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Not too many of you know Caroline Lee.  She used to come to the parkour classes a while back.  She’s a very good friend of Jill Sprague who still attends the parkour classes while her kids Will & Matthew take gymnastics or grommit parkour.  (The two girls are x-teammates from the UCLA women’s gymnastics team.)  Jill invited Caroline (aka Liner) over for the parkour classes, but  Liner lives way out in Los Gatos, so she’s only been able to make a handful of them. 

Jailbreak with her college team mate Jill Sprague

Caroline (Jailbreak on Wipeout Season 3 Episode 9) with her college team mate Jill Sprague.

 

Liner practicing her Kongs at the old-school CFM Big Studio.  This must have been around April of 2009 when Shane & I were running the parkour program

Liner practicing her Kongs at the old-school CFM Big Studio. This must have been around April of 2009 when Shane & I were running the parkour program

Liner practicing her pop-vaults with while Shane coaches.

Liner practicing her pop-vaults with while Shane coaches.

 One day we were surprised to find out that she had made it over with the specific goal of training for “Wipeout”.  This knarly little game show has the contestants put themselves through a very evil and abusive obstacle course with the ultimate goal of beating everyone else through the course and taking home $50K.  What actually happens to most of them is that they “wipeout” over and over again much to the entertainment of the audience.  It’s a very funny show and I highly recommend it.  

(Our heroine wipes out at about 1:21 in this video)

Jill was rather perplexed because she knew that the show had already been filmed but due to the contract, Liner was obligated to not tell anyone if she had won or not until after the episode aired.  

Liner's Wipeout viewing party AND Birthday Party!

Liner's Wipeout viewing party AND Birthday Party!

Wipeout happens to be one of Russell’s favorite shows, and when Jill invited him to come tag along to Liner’s Wipeout viewing party in Los Altos on July 15th, he was really jazzed to come.   Russell was a bit mezmorized while watching the show.  Liner showed up in her “Jailbreak” outfit with which she scored the audition.  Here’s a picture of Caroline with Russ looking a little star-struck:

 

 

Russell and his new Heroine

Russell and his new Heroine

Here is the complete episode.  Enjoy- It’s hilarious!

http://abc.go.com/watch/wipeout/SH5568487/VD5576450/feed-jill

Time Warp Parkour… (How this stuff works)

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Here is one of my favorite parkour clips, some of the science behind it all.  The founders of CrossFit Marin are really just a couple of nerds that have an unhealthy obsession with exercise and stupid human-tricks.  We rather enjoy shows like “Time Warp”.

Later this week:  Ninja Warrior Submissions.

Dash Vault Tutorial- (Tomorrow’s Skill Training is Basic Parkour Vaults)

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Here’s a nice dash vault tutorial from Ozzie from Urban Current.  You can study it and maybe hit some Dash Vaults during tomorrow’s CF classes during the skill training segment.

Parkour, Literally

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Here’s another parkour video, but don’t just watch the video and go “ohh..  wow”.  The point is to actually study the moves, look at the subtleties and style.  Does the traceur have any moves that he is particularly good at?  Notice that this guy slows down and extends his strides a bit before some big moves.  He also uses the “Kash” vault very effectively when he intends to drop off of a height, because it lowers his center of gravity in comparison to if he were standing on the obstacle and jumping off.  Another move he uses effectively is kind of leaning back into the last part of a lazy when he is stepping off of something.  He ususally touches his right hand for this.   Aero teaches this move very well.  Do you see any other interesting idiosyncrasies?  Any comparison to some of the other parkour videos we’ve posted?