The Flow reloaded. www.parkour.de Day 3

Jenny invited the group to join her at the gym....I had never been inside that building before and it was a pleasant surprise to have so much light flood through the huge windows...we left one exit door wide open for fresh air and Jenny introduced our "trasseur" Dimi to the group...after a few warm up rounds he gave us some background about this relatively new art of displacement and started us out on easy and yet modified roll-overs....

I knew right away that my body was not getting involved in any of these exercises - some other group members joined me and we took delight in watching the many stunts that followed.The above photo showing Dimi on what in Germany is called: The Horse is deliberately upside down to show the "drama" and the muscular strength that is a prerequisite for these exercises.

Most of "the boys" tried their skills as well and Dimi's teaching style was cheerful and never patronizing."Our" Jenny tried and showed her talents as well - she even managed to climb up the rope - without much assistance from her feet...I was greatly impressed. We finished the morning by watching two well done short Parkour movies and discussed how we would create our group's presentation to the rest of the student body this coming Monday morning.

Tomorrow will be our final work - out day.We plan to use climbing gear and Jenny mentioned that we will get a felt-sense of what the FLOW is all about.