Wednesday, February 27, 2008

treading on uncharted environments

know your limits, that always came to my mind when doing parkour, not this time heh.
as usual, we were doing parkour for RE, one sequence involved a turn vault to a drop that was of no consequence to me, or so i thought. I had not practiced the turn vault for a long time, really out of my emotional league. but frankly, if we let instinct take over, as animals with a few thousand years of experience on the good earth we live in, i didn't think it would let me down.

the film started, there was no space for 'what if i fall?', 'what if i fail?' I can't see the future and i'm pretty sure neither can you(but if you can feel free to drop me a message) at this point in time, you go into limbo, that experience was whack.

I turn vaulted, my only memory of that turn vault was an image of the 'ledge' my feet had to be planted on, then i dropped. half a second it felt fine, as if i was doing it all the time, the suddenly i had tread on uncharted environments, my body realised i had never dropped so far down before, instinct took over, and before i knew it, i landed, knees bent, hands on the ground, ninja style. Damn, never felt so euphoric in my life. Instinct is good, and I will never forget everything I feel about Parkour.

Parkour, instinct, it's just an extraordinary experience for ordinary people.

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