Tyson Cecka .:. Undaunted Parkour http://tysoncecka.com Welcome to my site's feed! I've tried to make this work in every reader well. Be aware though that I spent most of my time making sure my website works the best for my readers rather than my feed. So if you want the best experience I recommend viewing new posts directly so you don't miss out on anything rather than relying on the feed. Enjoy! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:06:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://www.tysoncecka.comhttp://www.tysoncecka.com/images/tysonvault110x110.jpgTyson Cecka's Parkour Blog1037555http://www.feedburner.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with RojoSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesWelcome to my site's feed! From here you can subscribe to receive my updates automatically in many different ways. Be aware though that I spent most of my time making sure my website works the best for my readers rather than my feed. So if you want the best experience I recommend viewing new posts directly so you don't miss out on anything rather than relying on the feed. Enjoy! It’s my turn http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/332572810/its-my-turn http://tysoncecka.com/archive/its-my-turn#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:39:58 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=220 To host some parkour travelers at my place, or at least it was my turn. I’m about to head out to the zipcar now to drive the last ones back to the airport. Just three days after coming back from the Chicago jam I had Ryan from Colorado, Matt from San Jose, Zac from Maryland, Jesse from New York, and Jereme from San Antonio all stay in Washington for about a week! I got to show off Freeway Park, Gasworks, UW, a bunch of cool people and jams from our scene, and then we even drove up to Bellingham for two days to train with Rafe and Dane at Whatcom and Clayton Beach :)

It was crazy fun and I’m really glad everything came together like it did, although I don’t think we managed to fit enough training in. Oh well, I’ll be seeing them all in Colorado soon anyway!

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/its-my-turn/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/its-my-turn Chicago National Jam http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/323021109/chicago-national-jam http://tysoncecka.com/archive/chicago-national-jam#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:22:44 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=219 I feel bad for not bringing my camera along on Saturday, I had no idea how beautiful Chicago is. Wandering around downtown with 70 traceurs next to the river surrounded by huge skyscrapers is quite the experience. Not that many amazing spots downtown that I could see, but the college campus we were at beforehand (UIC) was fricken awesome and we only saw a small portion of it.

Yesterday wasn’t particularly hard, but I just wasn’t feeling the energy for today at all and am looking forward to finally coming home tomorrow. We attempted to some parkour this morning before heading to the beach, but it ended up torrentially raining on us when we got there and we found ourselves surrounded and blocked out from the outside by the gay pride parade. After taking more than an hour to get the few miles back home, we just went and watched WALL-E ;) Which is an awesome movie! Since I’m sitting next to Zac whose working on a writeup as well I’ll just leave it at that… ;)

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/chicago-national-jam/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/chicago-national-jam NYPK 2008 jam http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/321826044/nypk-2008-jam http://tysoncecka.com/archive/nypk-2008-jam#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:31:46 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=218

It was then when a miracle was performed – the likes of which have never been seen at a Parkour event since the beginning of time. Not only did (almost) everyone get in bed before Midnight, but everyone was up by 6:30, and ready to go by 7:30. That’s right. 7:30. In the morning. AM. Ante Meridiem. Janine and Zac got up a bit early to make about sixty banana filled pancakes to serve to people as they woke up, and then the whole group of 25+ people got out the door and to the train station earlier than scheduled. Everyone split into two at the World Trade subway station, with one group of traceurs navigating their way through Central Park, and another exploring Roosevelt Island.

Zac’s writeup of PKNY is up on APK, his video and my thoughts after the gap.

First of all if you didn’t notice, Jesse’s backyard is awesome. And him and his parents hosting everyone with an included barbecue was incredible.

Secondly, Zac pretty much covered everything except the reason we got kicked out of Chinatown: “It’s not an exercise park, it’s a children’s park.” ;) And he missed the conditioning group with Jesse in Central Park (before the night conditioning session) which was awesome, nuff said.

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/nypk-2008-jam/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/nypk-2008-jam Uncomfortable http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/320237146/uncomfortable http://tysoncecka.com/archive/uncomfortable#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:36:08 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=216 The East Coast sucks. It’s really hot, I keep getting bitten by crazy spiders and mosquitoes, and I think I got some weird rash following Erwan through the woods before heading over here. The traceurs are great though, here’s a quick recap (sorry no pictures right now):

MOVNAT was pretty sweet, not as beastly as I had hoped but challenging in some new aspects (writeup coming). The media from it is going to be amazing though.

Jesse hosted somewhere around 30 traceurs in his attic for PKNY, ate some hot coals (with mustard), brought us to some great places, and lead the most epic conditioning session ever. It involved a warmup covering a mile or so that was longer than the session itself, and me ending up doing climbups, double-taps, and traversal stuff for an hour straight teaching four sessions in a row until sometime around two in the morning. Watching the steam come off of my forearms in the dead of night during the cooldown was pretty surreal. Definitely a night to remember.

Primal Fitness is too hot, but it’s still fun because most of the Tribe is here to Get Shit Done (lots of computer work). Levi helped me figure out a crazy kipping alternate grip muscle up to reverse vault I’d been working on, and I found out how awesome pullups and muscle ups on a horizontal rope are.

More later, Chicago next.

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/uncomfortable/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/uncomfortable DELAYED http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/313404914/delayed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/delayed#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:27:27 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=215 This word pretty much sums up why I don’t like airports very much. It’s not like you can just go do something else or even sleep many times, it’s just delayed and you’ll know more in an hour (then it’s delayed again and you’ll know more in another hour). Oh well, at least it gave me an excuse to figure out how to tether my new phone (3G browsing is pretty nice). So I’m now due in to NYC probably around 3am, hopefully I can sleep on the way and not be totally screwed when I get there.

The MOVNAT clinic up in Bellingham was a lot of fun, Rafe and Erwan built a sweet course in the middle of the woods and we spent two quite full days working through the MOVNAT principles. The first focused on the course and building “combos” through it and the second was focused entirely on self defense principles. The best part though was when we created our own combination of tough stuff in the woods and ran it for 20 minutes straight :) Even with a full day it seemed like we didn’t have enough time though, as we spent more time working principles and techniques than we did really training hard (which I’m sure was more helpful to those with little parkour experience there). Look for a write-up plus photos and videos soon(ish).

I’m extremely excited for NYC though, and I’m about to board. See you there!

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/delayed/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/delayed Bullet Points http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/305188687/bullet-points http://tysoncecka.com/archive/bullet-points#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:20:10 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=213 The Tyson news today comes to you in bullet form, fun!

Parkour Generations in Ohio was crazy awesome. Some random photos oh mine -here- and a full writeup soon.

The last Parkour class of five for Billings Middle School went great! I didn’t really blog about these because Christian was the main guy heading them up, but I joined in for the majority of the classes and he did a great job. The last class had a longer time slot and the ability to split them up between four instructors which made everything really smooth. These have a great story behind them, will be up here or pnwpa.com

I’ve trained hard every day since coming back from Ohio except for these last two and it feels great! Been transforming the local jams a bit as well, getting everyone to push through a hard conditioning warmup and finish with a challenge and cooldown. Sounds like people have been really enjoying that, hopefully it will stick when I’m not around.

I’m moving my YouTube account and am going to start using it more, the new one is -here- . The PNWPA also has one which is being updated as well.

The 1023 is finally (just about) done! All five billion pages of it! When submitted and allowed to cook for awhile this turns into an official 501(c)3 certification which instantly gaining us thousands of dollars in donations and grants! Ok maybe not instantly….

Meetings! Coming up: UW Outreach Committee’s first meeting, first Board meeting after Ohio, first follow up meeting with Seattle Parks and Rec after WRPA conference. Guess who’s going to all of them!

Travel! MOVNAT with Rafe and Erwan in Bellingham on 14-15th. NYC for training with friends and PKNY 16th-23rd. Washington DC for training and Tribe meetup 23rd-27th. Chicago for national jam 28th-30th. Cya there!

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/bullet-points/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/bullet-points Columbus Landing http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/295586145/columbus-landing http://tysoncecka.com/archive/columbus-landing#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 05:32:28 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=211 Well that was an unnecessarily long travel time. I started out from Seattle at 3:30am, had a short layover in Houston, and finally arrived in Columbus at 4:30pm. Shortly afterward we all gathered to meet PK Gen as they came in and then went to dinner. I got to see Dan, Stephane, and Julie again, then got to meet Kazuma, Johann, and Forrest for the first time. Very cool to be talking with such experienced traceurs, I’m really looking forward to training with them and learning as much as I can.

The Ohio guys kick ass. They’ve arranged a crazy amount of stuff for this in short time, and still managed to fit everyone in (so far) for sleeping arrangements (the whole floor is covered in memory foam!) We had a quick late night creative training session that I really really enjoyed, and now I’m keeping everyone up with my typing…

Tomorrow is natural environment training on the rocks! Glad I brought my climbing shoes :)

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/columbus-landing/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/columbus-landing Parkour Generations in Ohio http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/294815541/parkour-generations-in-ohio http://tysoncecka.com/archive/parkour-generations-in-ohio#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 06:05:37 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=210

I’m off to Columbus, Ohio for the big Parkour Generations event that Parkour Horizons is putting on. Four straight days of jamming with awesome traceurs from all over the US and our special guests from the UK. Will be blogging as much as I can but I have no idea how much internet access or time I’ll be able to get as AT&T just majorly screwed up sending me my new phone and I’m still on the shitty one (no tethering or internet).

See you there!

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Updated with new footy!

Blog’s been quiet recently as I’ve been having a little mini-vacation with my folks in Vancouver, WA. I came down originally for a video shoot with some cool guys but I ended up staying down for Mother’s Day as well (love ya Mom!).

The shoot went really well though and I’m very excited to see the finished project. Why? We shot on the RED One digital camera system :) 110fps at 2K resolution, that’s about 4x slow motion in higher than full HD resolution.

Update: The song is “Death of a lonely superhero” by Clover. Here’s a link:

Click -here- to see a hires rough cut of a few locations, and see below for the photos!

One day of quick location scouting led us to an awesome MAX station stop and all the fun stuff around PSU. The next day was entirely filled with jumping over stuff and hugging hot women. Check it:

Was a crazy fun day, and the footage is looking absolutely amazing. Thanks go out to the folks at Picture This! and Sean Rawls, keep checking back for when I can release what we shot!

Click -here- for the full Flickr set.

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]]> http://tysoncecka.com/archive/portland-spec-shoot/feed http://tysoncecka.com/archive/portland-spec-shoot Pangea Day - May 10th http://feeds.tysoncecka.com/~r/tysoncecka/~3/286423254/pangea-day-may-10th http://tysoncecka.com/archive/pangea-day-may-10th#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 23:28:37 +0000 Tyson http://tysoncecka.com/?p=206 This is a huge event happening all over the world simultaneously through TV, mobile phones, theatres, and live showings in seven languages. The idea is simply to bring the world together to watch several inspiring and transforming films chosen from over 2,500 submissions to connect us all and get the world talking. Should be amazing as it came out of one of my favorite idea generators the TED conference. Check out the talk that started the project -here-

The program on Pangea Day, May 10, is a celebration of the power of film to unite us all. You’ll see films that are funny — sad — gorgeous — stark — powerful. Voices that have never been heard before. Things you’ve never seen. Scenes from worlds you didn’t know existed. A cross-section of our amazing, complicated, noisy, beautiful world. Tune in or find a viewing party to watch on May 10, 2008, at 11:00 AM PDT.

-Click here- to find the many ways to watch. I know there is a big thing going on at UW, should be easy to find a local showing to see with a group, or just tune in yourself!

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