home is...

As you all know I have few time to write down everything and sometimes I have lack of inspiration but these last days have had such a great impact in my person...

I always thought I was going to be happy whenever I had some free days at school and I've been but I always feel this strange thing of me wanting to be outside and not here at home.... It's so complicated (eventhough I have not been at home all time long) I've started to develop a better indoor training, I had never given me the chance to really train at home, well I mean seriously and hard, I had always thought about conditioning and strenght at home... but Parkour??? well that was a big deal when I started discovering new things at home...and I am happy to discover improvements in techniques and strenght increase (in general) you all know how hard it's been for me getting stronger this is something I have to really focus on.

I hope to finish translating a new article I wrote this week and post it here as soon as possible... it is about strenght and some anatomy stuff (which made me investigate a lot!!)

Home is...home has been a new world to explore and now I feel somehow motivated it is really nice to know that home is where the people you love are but it is better knowing that home is where you can build a new world whenever you need to... so this is something I am not forgetting anymore... and now all my horizons have broadened (both physical and mentaly) at this moment I can only take what I can carry but I can carry all that can make me happy.. certainly the most important things I am carrying are not heavy but worthy otherwise I wouldn't be here... I wouldn't be the person I am now

News

Just some update for now... the girls training was sooo nice there were less girls than expected but it was absolutely great!

We visited two nice spots unfortunately the first one was kind of wet but we had a very nice time doing some wallruns and vaults, then we moved to the second spot and we were training on our own... it was nice when Frodo made us jump on a metal area and we had to make the less noise as possible...

Well I have not much inspiration to write more about it for now...

Regarding my training, things are going quite well my climb ups have improved a lot, training at home, well working on strenght at home (big back remember???) and practising my muscle ups more frequently definitely are making the difference...

As I am working I just want to add a photo and say good bye... well see you all next time..

Plans

here I add some plans:

1: The next traceuses gathering... on April 9 at 10 o'clock.... Metro Universidad
2: more dymanic movements
3: big back... well you know what I mean... don't you?? lol in general improve strenght
4: improve handstands
5: earn money... hope to travel to different places this year so this implies that I need money (unfortunately)
6: get a good semester at school.... this is extremely hard as I have tons of work at school (parkour related??? jaja for sure)

that's all for today

Back here

I've had lots of funny things during the last weeks.
Let me explain some things. Last week I travelled to Acapulco, I went to an "event" there, at the beginning I was feeling quite anxious and excited, I only knew Silex (from Canada) and didn't know how things were going to happen as the rest of the people were from different countries and I didn't know who they were.

There was so much fun during the next days.. I don't think I might be able to write down everything, but now I feel much more confident with lots of things and I met some great people (I was even Canadian for a week lol) all the guys over there are really nice and I found great friends (I was extremely happy to meet Silex) the only "bad" thing was that I hurt my ankle but it healed soon...

I was there... and I was so fortunate! Now everyhitng looks different here. I found motivation and learned lots from me and the people over there. I have even started training more and better, this was the best part. I learned and I'm quite motivated so I think things will go on much better and smoothly...

I want to say thank you to all of these guys who were so nice and trusted me... it was nice to know that they took me into account for this awesome event.

All of them (Silex, Dimmonk, Danno, Brayden, Lonnie, Ace, Cliff, Rene & Boris) are so cool... and I definitely want to see them again.. so Canada will be my next destination for a long trip.

now, I have to study (as always jaja) and train even more :)

Mental impact

AS time goes by and I "accumulate" days of training things clear up in my head...
Just some days before I just listened a so true phrase "Whatever is in you mind will certainly affect your physical reality" and this is absolutely true...

I've found some progress in lots of things including strenght, but unfortunately a couple of tecnhiques were showing some regression instead of some progression. I was just trying to connect this two concepts in my head and I just realised I was feeling much more confident regarding my body and when ecountering new challenges. So what was happening? I was training my body and I was really having an improvement in my general body strenght...

After some hours (well days) of thinking about this, an idea just came to me... I was focused on this techniques but completely inside my head, regarding my body I had reached a comfort zone and was just staying there, this seemed to represent no problem but then I realised my body was literally asking me to go out of this comfort zone and stretch to new limits...
when this idea appeared it was really late I had to go to sleep and give my head some chance the next morning, so I woke up the next day as early as possible adn went to school two hours before I was really wanting to give my theory a try.
So there I was, in front of a couple of rails and some walls... I sarted warming up and decided I was onyl going to listen to my body... I just forgot about "routines or special exercises" and started listening to my body.

I managed to make really large precisions and when I felt I was reaching a distance that needed much effort I stopped and wonderfully did 50 clean and silent repetitions there....

So what this come for?? I've been observing and many people tend to find comfort zones, I mean we all have certain movements wich are kind of natural for our body and with which we feel absolutely confortable... or we reach some level in which we feel satisfied and we are nicely placed in this area... it might be good for some time but if we stay there for too long it might start having nasty consequences... the cure??

Make a mental impact,a positive one,focused and affect your physical reality with that focused mind

New vision

Well I know it has been too long since I last wrote anything here, the thing is that some things just complicated and I've finally gone back into Uni...

Got to say I have reached a point in which my body is starting to feel much more confident, but I'm now totally aware that this is just coming as a result of my mental training (if I can call this thing like that and it feels well... this new state of awareness is something I was looking for (for a looong long long time)

The female winter trainings have finished and I'm really pleased with the results, the girls achieved a lot of goals and I learned lots from them... it's true that what I'm now it's marked by the person I was some minutes ago, some years or months ago, so I'm pleased to be who I am... an cretainly I know who I want to be in the future and where I want to be.

I've started a new programme (of however it is), this may include what I've learned through this years and what I expect to learn... now this personal "Ixek" programme may include some extra training in some areas and will definitely be based on "Mind affects your reality"... I have got some great ideas from lots of people (much of them are not even traceurs but scientists) and this sounds great... I'll let you know how it works

So here I have some resolutions to achieve...
a) more dynamic and strong movements
b) vault+precision landings improvement
c) vault+vault combinations
d) stronger, more efficient climb ups and muscle ups

That's it... hope to write soon

Trainings

I just wanted so write some quick thoughts and achievements from the last couple of days.

This Monday I was feeling bored at home so I decided to go out and train a bit by myself, so I went to the University. I ran a bit and warmed up, I decided to practice some precisions, I found some walls (about 1.5 meters tall) and I started jumping from one to another I started on a pair that are completely parallel and the precisions were quite easy so I moved to another pair of walls that are not completelly parallel so you can make some precision jumps from different distances, I was trying to make soft and noiseless landings and they were quite well, but then I found myself feeling a bit anxious at a certain distance... somehow I started losing some confidence and found some nice things frome this, I just tried to silence that strange voice in my head that started doubting... every time I had that feeling of fear I just remembered myself that my whole body knows how to jump, how to land... so I just trusted my body and every time I felt kind of reluctant I closed my eyes and "imagined" myself jumping, feeling the air, feeling the wall under my feet when landing... and that really worked. So in some minutes my brain was well aware of distances and my legs just knew by themselves how much I needed to jump... so at the end I got down of the walls and just kind of measured the final distance I was jumping, and I was surprised to notice that I've earned some distance from my apparent distance limit.

I was feeling full of energy so I started making some series of conditioning exercises.

Then as I had not much time I decided vaulting, but soon I found a stone and decided making some vaults landing on the target, so I placed it on the ground (I was not really aware of the distance.. this was kind of arbitrary) and started trying, the first attemps seem to be weak and I even though the distance was too long, but then I just decided not moving the target and to feel the movement instead of thinking, then the attempts became better, longer and more controlled, so then I felt quiet comfortable, landing softly and accurately on the target, I tried some other distances after that.

That was all... but I felt really calmed, and refueled =) It's quite amazing how our body works. I don't want that strange voice to keep on bothering, but sometimes it just appears, and I'm sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about... what I really mean is that sometimes we just need to stop paying attention to it and pay attention to our body and its abilities.

Today I had girls training and practised this too... the results?? more confidence when trying new movements or jumping to new targets... I went to a new place so I had no idea of what I would find there, but I felt a voice inside me... not that voice bothering and being afraid... but a voice telling me "Go for it, averything you need to do it is in you"