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Good afternoon, friends! Тhere was a small delay of the issue because of reports` expec-tation from USSR Fre-erun Chal-lenge and Red Bull Art of Mo-tion. Unfortunately, Dekster had no time to prepare the written ver-sion of the report about his cit-ies` trip, that`s why it won’t be in this issue. Organizers will be satisfied with these reports. Originally I wanted to give my own com-ments about Red Bull Art of Mo-tion 2011, but when I wrote the report I understood that all were much deeper and more unpleas-ant. In general, go ahead and read it.
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Contents:
Progress and development 3
Biomechanics 9
Interview with Inna 17
Interview with Dexter 23
Principles of Healthy
Lifestyle 37
2011跑酷中国训练营选拔开始 47
Back from USSR 51
Red Bull Art of Motion 83
Eric and Sasha tell
us about AoM 93
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Progress and development
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Progress (Latin progressus –
a movement forward, success) -
the direction of development from
lower to higher, sustained forward
movement, for the better. “- this
definition gives us the Wikipedia in
Russia. That is true, but what does
progress mean in parkour?
We can consider progress
in parkour from three
sides: separate from
the physical or spiritual
development and into
the aggregate. What is
the physical progress?- it `s clear,
but how does the spiritual prog-
ress look, does it exist separately
and on its own? Yes, it does! And
you can see this spiritual develop-
ment in your life, not only in train-
ing. One of the examples is how
you deal with difficulties when you
are trying to achieve a goal.
However in parkour, if you
consider trainings where you ex-
ecute some elements or just move
for fun, spiritual development is
inseparable from the physical one.
It is practically impossible to ex-
ecute the element when you don’t
believe in yourself and haven`t got
right physique. You can
train yourself physically
to the element with GPP
and some other exercis-
es, but you cannot train
yourself spiritually by lying on the
sofa and listening to music.
A simple example: the tracer
can easily and clearly does accu-
racy at one meter height, but at
three meters height this confi-
dence is mysteriously dissolved.
Another similar example: tracer
“ spiritual development is
inseparable from the physical one ”
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tries to execute an element at the
same height, but during flight he
begins to fear and then he falls if
his experience or innate skill don`t
help him. Experienced
tracers can remember
their early training. Most
likely you were in the
same situations.
How can we devel-
op the spiritual side of
parkour? We should note that spir-
itual side of parkour is not only an
ability to overcome fear, difficulty
or obstacle, but also it is the abili-
ty to fight against what we depend
on, what restrains our freedom,
suppresses our individuality. It is
the fight against prejudice, public
opinion (because it is not always
true) and stereotypes imposed
by society. You will feel that you
choose the right way when you are
developing these qualities.
First of all, before you execute
a new element, it is necessary to
have confidence in what you do.
One of parkour’s principles is lack
of risk to save the tracer`s health.
You should start by executing the
element at small height
in more or less safe con-
ditions. If you study the
acrobatic element, use
the safety equipment.
Self-confidence relieves
of fear later, if you, of
course, believe in yourself 100%.
Here you can watch the video of
famous tracer in the world parkour
community
Daniel IIabaca’s «Choose Not
to Fall» where he says that if we
fall we choose to fall, because we
think that we can fall and we fear
it. If you analyze your most mem-
orable falls, you will come to the
same conclusion.
It`s also important to devel-
op your individuality and to devel-
op your spirit. You should learn to
use your imagination in trainings.
“spiritual side of parkour - it’s not only the ability
to overcome fear, difficulty, obstacle ”
Don`t use patterns and give a piece
of yourself to parkour, compose
boldly and think. It can lift your
mood to do your trainings with a
more variety and self-motivation.
This quality makes parkour simi-
lar to the art. Many people wonder
how some tracers have become fa-
mous on YouTube. We should say
that if you inappropriately execute
an element, it does not mean that
you have your own style or tech-
nique, it means that you need to
work harder, because your mis-
takes can damage your health.
You shouldn`t be like ev-
eryone else! A desire to emulate
any athlete who has his own style
which is suitable only to himself
leads to loss of individuality. If
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your friend does an element, you
are not obliged to repeat after him,
although desire to catch-up with
a friend who often helps to block
your fears, but only block, not get
rid of them! Don’t give in to this il-
lusion.
If your progress stopped it is
very important not to blame your
weight, growth, physique and so
on in this problem. It
is necessary to turn
your disadvantages
into your advantag-
es. It is more easily
to overcome this ob-
stacle by using an-
other element, which
is more suitable for
you. Maybe you have
not found “your” way
yet. But if you con-
tinue to train and
experiment, then, of
course, you will find
it. Features of your
body will help you to form your
own method of movement -the
fastest, most beautiful and the one
that satisfies you.
All of us live according to
some certain rules and perceive
our world mostly the same. If you
try to look at things differently, it
will be interesting, especially to
those people who complain that
in their town (or village - it does
not matter) there are no places to
train. You need only a border, iron
railing, stump and your imagina-
tion to begin training. You can do
such things that do not become
obviously immediately. It’s in your
hands, let`s do it! You should de-
velop and move in the right direc-
tion, and whatever it is – it is yours,
that`s why it`s always right.
by Mamichev Eugene
Biomechanics
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What is biomechanics?
This name includes the Greek
words bios – it is life and mex-
ane - a mechanism, a lever. Unlike
the traditional mechanics in which
movement and interaction of sub-
jects are considered, biomechanics
is the science concerned with the
internal and external forces acting
on the human body and the effects
produced by these forces.
In fitness, and in all sports,
especially mobile ones, the biome-
chanics is considered and used as
the base science of great impor-
tance. The basis of biomechanics is
physiology, geometry, mathemat-
ics, anatomy and physics in the sec-
tion of mechanics. Biomechanics is
not less connected with psychology
and biochemistry. All variants of
interaction of applied sciences are
useful and bring notable advan-
tage. The main producer of human
mechanical energy is skeletal mus-
cles and muscular groups. What al-
lows muscles to do their work and
interact together? Under what con-
ditions the functional properties of
skeletal muscle are most efficient
and how to achieve this mode? Bio-
mechanics can give us information
about it.
Biomechanical muscular work.
Work of any muscles of the
human musculoskeletal system is
based on muscles skills and capa-
bilities to shrink. The muscle short-
ens in the moment of muscles re-
duction, and both points of bones
fastening get closer to each other.
The movement of this extremity oc-
curs in this way: fixed point Inser-
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tion begins to approach the initial
fixed point of fastening Origin.
There is a way to do a certain
mechanical work (lifting a bar, the
movement of extremity on a dumb-
bell) by making different degree
of muscular effort if we apply this
quality and muscle matter to the
fitness area. Animal force in this
case will be defined by a square of
section of muscle fibers. The size of
muscle reduction is determined of
the length of muscle fibers. Bones`
connections and interaction with
the muscle groups are arranged in
the form of the mechanical lever,
allowing for the elementary work of
subjects` raising and movement.
Biomechanics teaches us that
the force of muscle will be used
more profitable if this muscle is at-
tached as far as possible from the
reference point. Petr Lesgaft quali-
fied strong muscles which have a
fastening further from a reference
point and fast or dexterous ones—
which have a point of fastenings
near to a leg.
Muscular movement is always
made in opposite directions. For
this reason, it is necessary to have
two muscles in opposite sides for
impellent process around one ref-
erence point. Movement directions
in biomechanics have received the
definitions as well: flexion and ex-
tension, reduction and abduction,
horizontal reduction and horizontal
abduction, medial and lateral rota-
tion.
Muscle that causes the move-
ment at the reduction and takes
the main load is called muscle-ag-
onist -Prime mover. Each reduc-
tion of muscle-agonist leads to full
relaxation of opposite muscle-an-
tagonist. If we flex our elbow, ago-
nist will be a bicep and antagonist
will be a triceps. Both muscles will
balance each other and be a little
stretched after finish the move-
ment. This process is called mus-
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cle toning. Muscles synergists are
muscles which help to move mus-
cle-agonist in the same direction,
but they experience less stress
and a smaller degree of reduction.
Clamps are muscles which provide
stability and balance for a certain
joint during the movement.
At any moment of movement
bones follow muscular commands
and form mechanical levers. There
are two types of biomechanical
levers: the lever of the first sort
where points of application are lo-
cated in the opposite sides from
an axis and the second lever sort
where points of application are lo-
cated on the one side from an axis,
but at a different distance. That`s
why there are two types of levers:
“the force lever” and “the speed le-
ver”.
Let’s consider the types of le-
vers in more detail:
The first lever sort is called
“balance lever” in biomechanics.
Also, this lever is called “double-
armed” because of its points of ap-
plication. This lever demonstrates
backbone and cranium bond. There
is a balance at the rotating moment
of the force which affects on occipi-
tal part of a skull is equal the ro-
tating moment of the gravity which
affects the front part of a skull and
they have the same lever arm. It
is convenient for us because we
don`t notice multidirectional action
and our muscles are relaxed.
There are two types of the
second lever sort in biomechanics.
The name and action of this lever
depend on location of point of ap-
plication, but both types of levers
have resistance point of application
on one side from fulcrum and that`s
why both levers are “one- armed”.
Force lever forms at a point where
the arm length of muscles point of
application is longer than the resis-
tance. The example of this is a hu-
man foot.
The axis of rotation is heads of
instep bone, heel bone is a point of
application and gravity forms resis-
tance in an ankle. Speed lever has a
shorter arm of muscle point of ap-
plication than gravity. The example
is work of flexor muscle in an elbow.
Biceps are situated near an elbow
and that`s why it is necessary to
give more force to flexor muscle. We
should conclude that the muscle at-
tached closer to fulcrum of the lever
arm will be shorter and therefore
the loss in force will be greater.
Biokinetic pair forms when
two osteal pairs are connected. The
nature of biokinetic pair motion
is defined by structure of osteal,
muscles` work, tendons and reti-
naculums. There are a lot of factors
of the movement in a joint, such
as: sex, age, genetic structure and
work of CNS.
It is crucial to know principles
of the first and the second types of
lever work in order to take the initial
position for a correct exercise. It is
important to know that you should
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choose less loading positions of
limbs and a body frame. That way
you can increase arm lever length
for strengthening the impact on a
particular muscle group.
If you want to do technically
correct exercise you should know
in what direction a joint, which con-
nect active muscle group, works.
Human`s supporting-motor ap-
paratus contains of different oste-
als and joints. The human`s body
can move in six directions: forward
and backward, to the left and to
the right, up and down. There is a
joint`s classification which allows
the movement in these directions.
Three-axis joints are the
most flexible ones. They provide
the movement in three directions.
Here are some examples of it: the
connection of skull and spine, in-
tervertebral disc, arm joints, ra-
dial and coxofemoral ones. Such
joints have spherical shape. The
movement of these joints occurs
in sagittal, coronal and transverse
planes. A trainee has an opportu-
nity to do all moves: flexion and
extension, medial and lateral rota-
tion and so on.
Two-axis joints provide the
movement in two directions and
they are less active. They have el-
lipse or saddle shape. The move-
ment of these joints occurs in sag-
ittal and coronal planes. Some
examples include: fingers` joints,
radiocarpal joint. There can be flex-
ion and extension, reduction and
diversion.
One-axis joints provide the
movement in one direction. They
have cylinder and block shape.
There are also some examples of it:
humeroulnar, radial, genicular and
talocrural joints. The movement of
these joints occurs in sagittal plane
and it can be flexion and extension.
There can be lateral rotation (supi-
nation) and medial rotation (prona-
tion) in radial joint.
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Despite the fact that many
large muscles are considered in
anatomy as a whole, the different
parts and divisions of large mus-
cles can perform unequal motion.
For example Deltoid Anterior par-
ticipates in shoulder flexion and
Deltoid Posterior in shoulder ex-
tension. These skills are the basis
for individual training programs
which the instructor or the trainer
prepares for the trainee. It allows
choosing exercise that has a cor-
rect impact on a specific muscle or
a muscle group.
Performance of certain exer-
cise can become complicated or
be facilitated depending on the ini-
tial position of the trainee. Overall
training effectiveness depends on
initial position.
There are stoppers for smooth-
ing unbalance in body position with
unstable balance. Lying position is
very common. It is a closed kine-
matic chain because all body parts
are closed. Stability and balance
are quite high, the center of grav-
ity is low and bearing area is large.
Hangs can be example of upper sup-
port. Hangs can be stable enough.
The human body undergoes tensile
force under its own weight. Arms
straight and contact with the sup-
port in the fixed position. A hang
is a challenging exercise by itself.
Pull-ups are difficult heaving exer-
cises which only skilled sportsman
can do.
Walking is a daily human phys-
ical activity. Walking is an alternat-
ing movement of legs. One leg is
supporting while the other one is in
the air.
Running is fast cyclic steps
that require more energy, tension
of CNS and good physical shape
from supporting-motor apparatus.
It is measured by step`s length,
running speed and duration of time
interval.
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Squats are executed by feet
muscles. Bearing area is small
enough and that`s why a balance
is unstable. Squats are easier if we
use arms support. Deep squats are
heavier. You can do heavier squats
if you increase temp and the num-
ber of it and also use an additional
load.
Jumping is alternating body
repulsion from bearing area. Mus-
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cles of lower extremity do the main
work and body and arms muscles
provide auxiliary function.
Interview with Inna
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Here is a small interview
with freerunner girl - Inna. She is
a member of the Underways.RU
command.
Hi! What`s your name?
Hello. I`m Inna Kukuruka.
Please tell us something about
yourself.
I`m 22 years old. I’ve been
into sports since my childhood, in-
cluding extreme kinds of sport. I
have been swimming for 5 years,
dancing for 16 years, skateboard-
ing for 4 years and skydiving. I`m
also a very sociable girl.
How long have you been fre-
eruning?
I have been freerunning for
less than half a year.
How did you first get involved
in freerun? Why did you choose
this discipline?
I got interested in freerun in
2006 or 2007. I watched some pro-
gram about parkour and I liked it.
Then I decide to try it out myself. But
there was no one who could help me
to begin, so I danced. At the end of
2009 we needed people who could
execute tricks for our City Day`s per-
formance. And then tracers came to
us. We became friends and I began to
photograph them at different events.
Then I wanted to try it out myself
again and began to train at Dinamo.
And I became addicted to it.
How do you think that train-
ing is harder for you than for the
boys?
I think it is different. For in-
stance, some physical elements are
more difficult. And if it is acrobat-
ics I haven`t got enough practice,
but I try my best. But if we speak
about such element as stretch-
ing and flexibility I think those are
easier for me to execute.
Why are there not enough
girls in our discipline?
Actually, there are a lot of
girls here, but not everyone wants
to continue their trainings after the
first mistakes.
Do you study or work and
when?
I graduated from the Univer-
sity of Hotel and Tourism Manage-
ment one year ago. Now I work for
a company of IT developments for
tourism.
What is your attitude towards
some other extreme kinds of sport?
Maybe some kind of it is special for
you.
Extreme is always great. Cer-
tainly I don’t love all of it. I like
skateboarding because I have
been skating for four years. When
you learn something new you have
great feelings. There are many di-
rections and many styles of riding
you anyone can choose!
Please give some advices to
the girls who are beginners in fre-
erun or want to try it.
Firstly, you should have a real
desire for it. It is very important
to practice on real results and feel
comfortable, but not for the sake
of learning some cool jacks to show
off to your friends. Secondly, your
body should be strong. If you are
sure that your hands are strong
you always achieve what you
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want. Thirdly, you shouldn`t try to
do difficult elements if you know
some basic ones. It is important
not to overestimate yourself. And
of course you should have willpow-
er, persistence and diligence. Also,
you need to understand that the
process can be painful, unpleasant
and sometimes offensive.
Interview with Dexter
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We also interviewed Oleg Ak-
senov.
Hello, Oleg! Almost six months
have passed since our first conver-
sation. Which role does sport play
in your life? Do you have any new
hobbies or you do follow your usu-
al trainings?
Hello! I always answer “main
one” because it is really so. I don`t
know people who get such fun from
new achievements and records as
me. I have never had usual train-
ings. Today I have 5 years expe-
rience (active 3 years) and I al-
ways change something in sport.
New directions of my sporty life
are added every year. If we speak
about last six months I have start-
ed practicing martial arts. I won`t
speak which ones because I didn`t
decide it at all. I prefer head-to-
head, especially street style. Also
I include pump iron in my “diet”,
because you cannot buff up all
muscles (in my opinion about 90%
of the body). That`s why I took
the most needed: benchpress, tra-
pezia exercises, grasp (pulling and
keeping of weight plate). And also
I begin to run more active. I am
going to run a marathon (42 km).
And if you think that I begin to
spend less time on horizontal bar
it doesn`t so, because two plus
two equals five.
You have a lot of sports hob-
bies. Certainly you can be named
a man who understands sport.
Please tell us how you started your
first trainings and what you men-
tioned firstly. I want to ask you
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this question because there are
many guys who cannot control the
number of stresses when they are
beginners. It is an important for
juniors. Can you tell us about your
experience: what have you been
accenting during active trainings?
Hmm… I need to think about
it. It`s logically to say that every-
thing you can achieve gradually
and I`m not an exception. My fist
sport was volleyball, beach volley-
ball, I`m a self-taught. I’ve been
into sports since a school. I rarely
play now because we haven`t got
a team. My “creation” on horizon-
tal bar began in 2002. My class-
mate did 12 pull-ups and I only 4.
It played a big role in my future
sportsmanship.
And then I began training. I
began to pull-ups harder. After 2
month I could do about 15-18 pull-
ups. But until spring 2006, it was
quite irregular and unstable train-
ings. There were several month
pauses because of simple laziness.
In 2006 there were new interests:
to climb on a roof, to do a flip, a
parachute jump. I interested in
it after watching famous video of
the parkour founder David Belle
and Cyril Raffaelli. Then I began to
learn the discipline in which a hori-
zontal bar was a part of training.
There was one lack I had a big stress
to my feet but then I were hard-
ened to it and began to strengthen
them by static load and squatting.
That`s why when I`m a trainer I
advice to my trainee GPP. I think
that is the base of all sport. GPP
strengthens the body, not only in
muscle, but the whole organism
too. Good level of GPP can save
from injury, especially from a con-
tusion or a drop. The stronger the
muscles, the more they protect
you from these injuries, because
they protect all organs and bones.
In addition I want to quote the
English experienced tracer Blaine:
“Try to do all dangerous moments
at 10% less than their limits.”
Full body development re-
quires a complex muscles training.
Certainly, the organism of every
person is unique. Please tell us do
you rely on your personal prefer-
ences or balance the development
of muscles of different body parts?
Every organism is unique, it
is no doubt! And how could you try
to keep a balance in development,
anyway, it turns out that one part
of the body is stronger than the
other. It depends on natural fac-
tors, heredity and your everyday
stresses. Yes, I prefer some things
- the outputs of the two, pumping
the press, run, strengthen the grip,
but also I try to align the balance of
the weaker functions of the body.
If you think that certain functions
of your body will not be useful in
life, sometime you will faced with
this problem and you need them,
that`s why I advise to align your
capabilities.
Most of our readers have al-
ready known that Oleg Aksenov
and a horizontal bar are friends.
It is not a secret that today many
guys cannot chin up at once. How
can juniors just begin working on
this problem? We can assume that
a man hasn`t got any pathology
in the development, but the arm
muscles are extremely weak. What
exercises will be more effective
to him and what training regimen
(the number of days exercises for
the arms) will be best for begin-
ners?
Yeah! It`s the best question!
Almost everyone asks about it when
he begins, because he is in confu-
sion and he doesn`t know what to
do. What does he start with? I col-
lect the information about it and
prepare training video about pull-
ups. Many people will be chuckle
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and say why? What are you going
to tell us? You just have to come
on the bar and try it because it is
very simple. I agree with it, it is
really easy. First of all you need
to have a desire and it is the first
step in everything! But there are
others: to begin, to continue, do
not stop, never give up, strive to
succeed, to believe in your dream.
It is quite difficult to say about it
because you should see it because
there are many nuances in the
usual pull-ups, especially at the
primary level. And the lighter the
element, especially the most ba-
sic, the more he should be given
time to explain.
So, you cannot pull-ups any
one time. But this future time is a
lot for those who are just begin-
ning, believe me. So I’ll divide it
into parts: a half of time, a quarter
times, or just slightly bend the el-
bows to climb up to the horizontal
bar. That’s what you need to do it
many times until you will cut the
distance from the horizontal bar to
the chin completely. Every day you
try to do it 20 times, and I’m sure
that after several (for example 5)
days you will pull-ups significantly
higher than in the first day. It was
the first way, which is the most ef-
fective. But people like the variety
and alternatives. Therefore, I pro-
pose the following: try to do it not
by force and do it by your jerk of
arms. You should raise the neck
as long as possible and try to stay
at the top of this point. Also you
should use the following method:
‘negative’ (reverse) pulling. It
takes less force. You need to keep
yourself when you are lowering,
and not to use force to climb up.
And, of course, there is the latest,
easiest and the most convenient
way, but less powerful it’s friend`s
help.
That’s all the ways which I
know. I don`t exclude that there
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are some others methods of lift-
ing the extra weight on the biceps,
a variety of exercises with a bar-
bell and dumbbells. There is no the
best way of pull-ups.
In the 21 century, people still
have the opinion that the more
repetitions of an exercise the bet-
ter the effect. Do you also think
so? Or you can perform, for exam-
ple, 15-30 sets of any exercise for
biceps and then do triceps by the
same scheme?
First of all I will give you a
short definition about sets and rep-
etitions. When you do an exercise
one time without stopping the ex-
ercise is named a repetition. The
set is a set of repetitions when you
stop an exercise and make pause
to rest and do the exercise again.
Yes, I share this philosophy, be-
cause the growth of repetitions on
this way. You can do as much as I
can and it means that your mus-
cles are completely exhausted in
this set, and you know your maxi-
mum.
Every next time you will try to
do more and become stronger and
sturdier (but there are some cases
when you can do more at the same
day). It is the basic principle. Lack
of willpower, laziness and pain can
stop you. You don`t want to do it
(but you can) and perform the last
2, 3, 5 or more times because you
haven`t such goal: to beat your
record or set a limit. You keep
yourself in shape, do exercise “for
the soul”. This way of training for
those who need a certain level, re-
lief, reasonable force and a mass.
This way I usually use when I’m
not in a great shape. I use the first
principle more often, and it really
helps me because I like to set re-
cords.
Please tell us in more details
about “one training day of Oleg
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Aksenov”. Which exercises do you
prefer for a warm up? How do you
relax after training?
I have a lot of exercises for
it, and some of them are radical-
ly different from each other. It is
associated with type of training,
a company in which you train,
your mood, your forces and etc.
So I`ll tell you about GPP training
day.
Warm up: I run to the place
of training in 90% of cases. You
heat your body, train the respira-
tory system even save your time.
In winter it is also an opportunity
to give you a warm (I dress very
warmly before it).
When I arrive to the place,
I spend a couple of minutes only
for joints` warm up, from the top
to the bottom, you can remember
them as a saying: neck, shoulders,
elbows, hands, fingers, back, hips,
knees and ankle. Then I begin to
do exercises from simple to com-
plex. You should select the items
that you do without tension and
start with them. For me it is the
exercise with two hands, and also
some technical elements that are
connected in combinations. Then,
I train something which is more
difficult, something that I have re-
cently learned or it was hard for
me. Then, of course, I try to do
something new, which I don`t
know.
After all experiments and at-
tempt, which are successful and
unsuccessful, I begin to “mali-
ciously” to pump my body! And
the main principle is training to the
limit and almost the entire force.
For example, if I want to pump the
press, hanging on the bar, I’ll do it
until hands quit hold of it. But, of
course, I don`t always do that, but
in the most cases, I can make just
a couple of sets and spend about
50-60% of my capacity. I always
try to start pumping with exercis-
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es, which require more forces. It is
logical, because it is clear that it is
better to practice pull-ups on one
arm, and after it to pull with two
hands.
After some exercises (the
press or the back) I like to finish
of static. It means that you stand
in one position a few seconds and
keep the legs or arms in the air, it
additionally trains the muscles and
ligaments.
At the end of training there is
a cooldown. A cooldown - the op-
posite of warm-up, it relaxes the
body after the training and pre-
pares muscles for the initial po-
sition. There are some exercises:
stretching, breathing recovery and
relax. Usually I haven`t got a meal
during an hour and drink almost
only water because it is the best
drink when you are thirsty.
It is just one of my training,
but they are very diverse. I tell you
some of them next time.
Wise approach is needed to
every sport. Safety is first. In what
clothes do you train and what kind
of shoes do you choose? Is it ac-
ceptable to practice barefoot?
Of cause I prefer to wear
bouffant sports clothes. The flimsy
clothes, the easier to train. I pre-
fer Kalenji shoes, the second place
is Asics. Trousers for dry weather
should be made from flimsy and
soft materials, because they are
comfortable to move, run and
jump. In wet or winter weather
it should be the most waterproof
ones. I choose T-shirts and so on
by the same principle. In the warm
weather I wear my favorite free
green cotton T-shirt, in the rainy
weather I wear a windbreaker.
Comfort is the main thing. If these
clothes are comfortable, you are
safe.
You can run and jump when
you are barefoot only in the sur-
face, which was created by nature.
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I would not advise you to move in
the asphalt or other artificial turf
a lot and for a long time, our skin
isn`t ready for it. But on grass,
sand, even the stones (only cau-
tiously) it is useful. The favorite
surface for me is the hot sand:).
You have got excellent phys-
ical shape. But the way of this is
repetitions of a small set of exer-
cises, and the constant addition of
something new. What is closer for
you- regular experiments or loyalty
to classics?
Classic is certainly respectable
for me, because it’s a great experi-
ence of the great people from the
past. But I dislike repeating and
I`m always experimenting, creat-
ing new or upgrading an old one.
You can get much more pleasure
from it than from a result.
So I prefer the classics when
during trainings “I have no one
idea”.
I think that it will be interest-
ing for many people to know about
sports impact on your life. Do you
reconsider your views on some-
thing because of training? Do you
change your values? Does sport
help you psychologically?
Sport is a huge part of my life
that I cannot express in words! It
has changed, it changes, and I will
change everything in me. I’m get-
ting stronger, faster, more experi-
enced in the physical and psycho-
logical terms. I get decisive, brave
and confident. My training is more
difficult and dangerous year by
year, so I’m trying to lead a cor-
rect way of life, diet and sleep.
This great phrase was fixed in my
mind: “Be strong to be useful”. It
is one of the main values of life
that I have.
Thank you Oleg Aksenov
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Principles of Healthy Lifestyle
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Principles of Healthy Lifestyle
by Eddie Will
Health is the highest value,
which we have in our life. It can-
not be bought at any price. Health
is happiness, because a sick man
cannot be happy and have full life
even he has all world`s wealth. Ev-
eryone person can prolong his life
and be health if he knows rules of
hygiene, balanced diet and physical
activity. Everyone should do it for
itself, for the relatives and for the
country. People blame someone or
something. It can be ecology, God
in the end, but they don`t blame
themselves. Health and longevity –
are not a miracle and God’s gift. It
is result of constant observe of laws
about health which can achieve ev-
eryone.
I have read enough books
about health and prolong life and
some of it tried itself. I think that it
is my duty to share my knowledge
with people. There are some princi-
ples. According to them you will be
strong and healthy for a long time.
1. The principle to be closer
to nature
This principle is the most im-
portant and fundamental. All next
principles will be proceeding from
it. The main idea of the principle
is the aim of natural lifestyle. It is
necessary to achieve the maximum
of closeness to nature in food,
clothing, recreation, and the sim-
plest living habits. We are part of
nature and live by its laws, as we
would not want it. If we break the
laws, it harms our health. I do not
believe in any drugs except nature.
There is the reason in a basis of ev-
ery illness, which cannot cure any
drug.
2. The principle of a natural
food
“We are what we eat” - said
the ancient. It is difficult to imag-
ine a harmonious and happy life
without a diet. A diet is the base of
health, it affects not only on phys-
ical health but also on the psyche
and even the spiritual life. Ac-
cording to the human diet you can
easily determine what lifestyle he
leads, his intellectual and spiritual
level and, finally, his health! The
most reasonable solution is eating
natural food. It is harmoniously to
combine the products of animal
and vegetable origin for receiving
protein, fats, carbohydrates, vita-
mins and minerals. You should to
exclude different food “garbage”
from the diet such as chips, soda,
chewing gum, fast food and etc.
3. The principle of fasting
Fasting is a natural way to remove
toxins from the organism. Primi-
tive humans had only a method of
treatment. This is an instinct which
any animal has, and that a human
have lost during its existence. You
probably have noticed that ani-
mals, when they were sick, did not
eat, because they spend the en-
ergy to clean the organism. I also
want to add that fasting is useful
both for those who want to lose
weight, and for those who are try-
ing to gain it. There are one cause
of overweight and underweight. It
is the disturbed metabolism. When
the metabolism is broken, every-
thing that you eat does not digest,
and you don`t gain the weight.
Fasting normalizes metabolism.
Fasting also helps to improve your
health and has a strong impact on
the spiritual side of human exis-
tence. Pythagoras demanded his
disciples to have forty days of
fasting before dedicate them in
secrets of his philosophical teach-
ings. He believed that according to
this way you could clean and clarify
the mind to perceive the depth of
the teachings about life mysteries.
However, it is necessary to read
enough books about it and consult
a doctor before it. But I think that
it is enough to have 24-hour fast-
ing once a week or two for clean-
ing the organism and improve your
health.
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4. The principle of deep
breathing
When we born we take a big
and deep breath. When we die we
stop breathing. Our life depends
on the oxygen. We can live with-
out food about 30 days and sur-
vive, without air we can live few
minutes. We take the oxygen from
the air. This product is needed for
each body cell, which takes away
the deadly carbon dioxide, which
dissolved the poisonous toxins. If
a human doesn`t receive enough
oxygen, he is poisoned his organ-
ism. Thus, the oxygen, as well as
fasting, expels toxins from the
organism. But how can we get
enough oxygen?
First of all you need to be
physically active, take long walks
in the fresh air, run, swim and etc.
When we do all these active ex-
ercises, we absorb more oxygen
than leading a sedentary lifestyle.
Secondly, you need to practice in
deep slow breathing. Scientists
have proved that the deeper the
man can breathe, the less breaths
he produces in one minute, and
the longer his life. It is confirmed
in the animal world: animals that
produce fewer breaths per minute
live very long. There are plenty
of breathing exercises that I will
not describe. The main thing that
you should know is the slower
and deeper you breathe, the bet-
ter you will feel and the longer
you will live. Therefore, you need
to do exercises and run. It is bet-
ter to run in parks or even out of
town, if it is possible, where a lot
of trees.
5. The principle of physi-
cal activity
Physical activity is the law
of life. It is necessary for good
health and well being. Strength
and development of each organ
depends on its using. If we do
not use our muscles, we “lose”
them. We should always use our
body and train it to safe the body
young and strong. Daily exercis-
es make our blood circulate and
also clean the body of poisons.
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The best exercises are stimulat-
ing the development of all human
body muscles. The body becomes
beautiful and strong. Develop-
ment of the back muscles, chest
and torso leads to the develop-
ment of healthy internal organs.
Thus we can say that activity is
life, inactivity is death.
6. The principle of setting
priorities among three human be-
ginnings.
Human nature has three be-
ginnings: will, mind and body.
Will must prevail over mind and
mind must prevail over the body.
Otherwise it is impossible harmo-
nious development of personal-
ity. Flesh is stupid. Do not forget
about it. The body controls the
mind by a false philosophy, like:
“Eat, drink and joy, do not think
about tomorrow.” This is the great
delusion.
Living by this philosophy, you’re
not going to die tomorrow, but
after 10-20 years turn into a
prematurely aged man, day and
night, suffering from disease. Bad
habits are the best example of
how the body controls the mind.
People don`t die, they kill them-
selves. Therefore, you must allow
your mind to become the master
of the body.
That’s all principles that I
wanted to describe. There can
be more principles, but I think
that it’s very basic, and it`s
quite enough. You may not agree
with me and it is your right. It is
not only true of truth. They are
my methods, which allow me to
maintain my health at different
levels and develop my personal-
ity. And I’m happy to share them
with people who need it.
by Edward «Eddie Will» Strel-
nikov
Parkour Camp in China
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2011跑酷中国训练营选拔开始请选出心中最佳创意跑酷运动已经进入中国5年时间,从最初少数的几家俱乐部发展到现在全国跑酷俱乐部近200家,参与跑酷运动近20万人,相关网络视频的点击几十亿。第二届全国极限跑酷大赛将于“五一黄金周“期间继续在北京举行。三天大赛,远不能满足跑酷爱好者对技与艺的交流要求——“红牛TOP跑酷中国训练营”计划应运而生。“红牛TOP跑酷中国训练营”将由海选出国内十名跑酷高手与法国元老级跑酷团队YAMAKASI进行为期6天的深度交流。
Screening participant 2011
for the trip to parkour training
camp has already started. You are
invited to consider the best cre-
ative ideas.
In China Parkour appeared 5
years ago. Originally there were
only a few teams that specialized
in it. However, the development
was very fast and now there are
about 200 teams. The number of
people who are fond of parkour is
about 200 thousand. The number
of views on theme sites reaches a
few billion. Second All-China con-
test of extreme parkour will held
in Beijing during the May holidays.
The contest will be three days, but
it isn`t possible to share people`s
art and technique skills together
in this period. That`s why we had
the idea of creating the “Chinese
parkour camps for professionals,
which will be sponsored by Red
Bull. There will be screen ten mas-
ters of this discipline in China, and
will be invited a team of parkour
veterans from French YAMAKASI.
TOP跑酷中国训练营从3月1日正式开始启动,通过全国各大网络进行全国性招募,全国的跑酷爱好者可按指定要求将一篇记录自己跑酷感悟的文字和两部视
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频短片(个人,团队)寄至第二届红牛全国极限跑酷大赛组委会,参赛作品将通过大众评选+专家团评定及相关合作媒体网络投票进行评选,最终获得入营资格10名选手将于4月15日通过各大网络予以公布。4月21日入围选手和法国YAMAKASI团队将抵京入驻为期五天的训练营。
Training camp for masters of
parkour officially opened ithe doors
on the 1st of March. We search
participants on the Internet. They
could sent one article which de-
scribe their own feelings and im-
pressions of parkour and also sent
two videos (individual workout or
in team) to the Organizing Com-
mittee of Second All-China ex-
treme parkour contest.
These materials were selected
and evaluated of specialized team
and also there was\the Internet
voting on the resources of media
partners. Then there were select-
ed 10 participants who went to the
parkour camp. Voting results were
published on the main theme sites.
Participants and French team YA-
MAKASI would arrive in Beijing to
take part in training camp on the
21st of April.
“红牛TOP跑酷中国训练营”将分成媒体日、交流日、公共活动日等多个场景日。活动期间将汇集国内知名媒体深度探班采访、国内新生代导演临阵拍摄4部彰显跑酷魅力的短片,各跑酷精英们也将有机会成为国内知名网络社区的当红达人,成为其旗下杂志的封面人物,这将是一场跑酷界的平民造星的星工场。训练营期间拍摄的短片将通过国内权威媒体进行传播及评比,同时也会在第二届红牛全国极限大赛现场播放,并与现场观众进行微博互动,最终的获胜选手将在大赛最后一天予以公布。优胜者将获得由红牛维他命饮料有限公司提供的5万元跑酷成长基金。
“Parkour-camp Red Bull” will
be divided into days: a media day,
a communication day, daily so-
cial activities and etc. During the
event, well-known journalists and
columnists will interview partici-
pants and famous directors. Then
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there will be shoot 4 exciting mov-
ie about parkour. Each outstand-
ing participant will has the oppor-
tunity to become real celebrity in
the Chinese social networking sites
and forums and also get on a fa-
mous magazines cover. Thus, this
event becomes a kind of American
Idol in the parkour world. Dur-
ing the parkour camp, these vid-
eos will be shown to prestigious
Chinese media and the films will
be given feedback. However, the
films will be shown at the Second
All-China extreme parkour compe-
tition. Also there will be a micro
blog with the audience. Winners
will be announced on the last day
of competition.
The winner (or winners) will
receive a prize from the company
“Red Bull”, it is 50 000 Yuan.
跑酷运动起源于80年代的法国,其内核是“城市疾走”。它突破自身局限,跨越一切障碍,彰显当下年轻一族的生活方式。面对各种各样的未知的障碍,跑酷运动员用独具创意的动作表现自己面对障碍的解决方
式,或穿越,或翻越,无论方式如何,都用专属于自己的动作达到自己心中的目标。它表达了年轻人积极、阳光、敢于挑战极限、无畏困难的精神。
Parkour appeared in 80 years
in France, the essence of the sport
is “a hurdle race in the city”. Par-
kour makes people to overcome
their own limitations, as well as any
obstacles. Then it became a par-
ticular style of young people life.
Parkour athletes express them-
selves by using unique and cre-
ative movement, and emphasize
their own distinctive approach to
overcome difficulties. Passage or
climb, it doesn`t matter how you
will overcome the obstacle, the
goal is your achievement through
movements and technique. This
sport reflects the activity of young
people.
在2002年,跑酷运动随着一部《B13》电影,全世界风靡。随后的几年中,跑酷运动来到了中国,并迅速成为中国青少年热爱的极限运动。目前国内从
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事这项运动的运动员有约20万人,经过几年的市场培养,中国已涌现出相当一大批热爱跑酷运动的年轻人。他们不畏困难,积极向上,最终形成了中国跑酷运动发展的中坚力量。以下是本次训练营征集的视频,请网友就各创意进行投票。排名前20位的选手将入围“跑酷中国最佳人气选手”,专家评审再从“跑酷中国最佳人气选手”中评选出10位“跑酷中国TOP10”选手,入围“红牛TOP跑酷中国训练营”。十佳选手名单将于4月18日揭晓,并在新浪官方网站公布。
In 2002, after the film
“B13”parkour became a popular
sport around the world. During
next few years, parkour has pen-
etrated into China, and instant-
ly became very popular extreme
sport among young people. Cur-
rently, the number of athletes has
reached about 200,000 people.
Young people are not afraid of dif-
ficulties, always strive forward and
form the base of China’s parkour.
Then there will be created some
videos. We ask for Internet us-
ers to vote for any of them. The
first 20 winners will be included in
the list of “most popular athletes
of Parkour in China”. Experts will
choose “ TOP 10 athletes of Park-
our”, which will be included in the
list of participants in training camp
Red Bull”. List of top ten athletes
will be known on the 18th of April
and will be published on the offi-
cial website of Xin Lan.
Final preparations for the
journey have already taken place
at the Belarusian railway station.
Someone bought the food and
someone, probably, flipped a som-
ersault at the station building.
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Back from USSR
There were six people. Ath-
letes: Vitaly Chung and Sadedin
«Sad» Nuraliev, Azamat «Azm»
Ermatov and Anton Plekhanov
(photographers), and an accom-
panying group: Fetisov, Alexan-
der and Suhih Marina. Our train`s
neighbors quickly realized that it
wouldn`t be a quiet journey.
The 1st of April in 2011, the day of
arrival to Minsk
Messages of my mobile op-
erator woke me through the night.
They informed about the roaming.
Prices for the roaming were scared.
In the morning we found out that
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we should be put one hour back
our watches. We arrived at 08:26
a.m. to the Minsk railway station.
The huge railway station building
was looked modern and spacious.
The guys did not miss the oppor-
tunity to jump here.
First of all we went to the ex-
change office to buy Belarusian ru-
bles. On average, 1 Russian ruble
is equal to 100 Belarusian. It was
difficult to get used to the money.
There were a lot of banknotes and
no one coin. It was funny to keep
in the hands 10 cents with the in-
scription “10 rubles”. And
when we had
d i n -
ner in a pizzeria our bill was
157,000 rubles and we were sur-
prised. We found out that prices
in Minsk are sometimes cheaper
than in Moscow.
We bought 6 (!) trip tickets
in underground and it costs 50
Russian rubles. For comparison:
in Moscow we couldn`t buy two
tickets on this sum. Tickets were
beautiful pink tokens.
Minsk was surprisingly clean
and spacious city. Garbage was not
noticeable even near the building
construction. There were not stray
dogs, any homeless person or any
migrant workers. There were not
many people (everywhere except
McDonalds), and there was not
traffic jams!
We bought a map of Minsk
in the first kiosk, in Rus-
sian. But names of sta-
t i o n s
were in Belarusian. Some of them
we could translate, they were the
same in Moscow. But some of the
names were completely new for
us and they sounded
completely different.
Once we couldn`t un-
derstand where we
went. In general, the
Belarusian language
seemed to us the most fun of all
things. It was very similar to Rus-
sian, but sometimes the spell-
ing led me into a shock: such as
commom “Ы” after “Ч” and “A”,
when we usually write “O”, for ex-
ample “Выход” (exit) (in Belarus
“ВыхАд”)” Город “(a city) (in Be-
larus” ГорАд).
The rooms were booked in
one of the best hotels in Minsk.
When we read comments about
the other hotels in Minsk, we de-
cided to live more civilize.
We went to the hotel before
the check-in. Therefore, we had
time: athletes and photographers
to train and take a photo, and for
Sasha and me to explore the sur-
rounding locality.
12:00 p.m., The 1st of April
(by the way, everybody forget
about the day of fools), the recep-53
tion of the Hotel “Турыст” (in Rus-
sian “ТурИст”) (it’s not a bug, it’s
the Belarusian language).
Young pretty girl-manager:
“Did you jump on the hotel terri-
tory? Several guests had called at
the reception (at that moment, I
thought that now our friendly com-
pany got a fine). They said they
liked it! “.
We were
pleased with
it, and took the
keys and had a breakfast. We
checked in three double rooms,
located next to each other. Rooms
were nice and comfortable.
We planned to take pictures
in the evening, but when we ar-
rived at the right station, there
was the rain. Sasha and I decided
not to get wet and go to the room.
Vitaly, Sad, Anton and Azm went
to train with tracers’ friends which
came to competition.
“Let`s ask the guys, what did they
do all this time?”
Marina: Let`s ask the guys,
what did they do all this time?
Sad: We went to the guys`
training at the University and met
guys from the PK-City and had a
little practice. Then there went
more guys and we all went to
“Let`s ask the guys,
what did they do all
this time?”
train and went back to the hotel.
Anton Plekhanov: We ar-
rived at the station and saw the
tracer and followed him. There
were 20 people. All of us stood
under the roof and some websters
jumped arabian somersault and
etc. Then we met other tracers from
M o s -
cow: Blade, Shev,
Shade and so on. Then we went
back to the hotel.
I knew exactly when the guys
came back because of the thunder
and the laughter behind the wall.
After the evening walk, we decid-
ed to go to bed early and sleep
before a difficult day.
The 2 of April in 2011, the
day of USSR Freerun Challenge
Next morning, the day of the
championship, we were happy to
because we had tasty meal at the
buffet breakfast. Athletes could
eat enough to gain forces.
Sasha: “Only Russian can
come to breakfast with a camera.”
After breakfast, we packed
up and left hotel at 12 p.m.
Thank you the «Турист» ho-
tel.
And we went to the city cen-
ter to understand its character
and look at something interesting.
There were large areas, govern-
ment buildings, theaters, an offi-
cer’s house, a circus, a park, the
tank. The patrol, which looked for
the order in the government terri-
tory, made us to delete all pictures
of the Government building. We
went to the local square to make a
few good photos on freerun theme
and feed the ducks.
At 2:00 p.m.we arrived at
the station «Спортыуная» (Sport-
ivnaya).
We went to the front entrance
and told guards that we are partici-
pants. And they asked a question,
what kind of competition? And where
were your special bracelets? In gen-
eral, it was clear that we will not
understand each other. Some guys
trained near the Ice Palace, they
told us how to get to the contest.
We went inside from the “black” en-
trance into the arena. One-third of
the arena was for parkour area. The
other two thirds ... were for dance
competitions! It was terrible and I
had a desire to be a sniper.
The organization was not
good. We didn`t know how to en-
ter to PK area, what we should do,
where we could leave our luggage
and where we could register. It was
unclear who could tell us about it.
Meanwhile, there was
not any place to seat.
We met our trac-
ers’ friends. The guys
ran to jump with the
others, but Sasha and
I tried to understand
what to do. After that
there was someone with
a badge on his chest -
probably some repre-
sentatives. They asked
to leave the area. The
organizer went to us
and began to explain
that now the athletes
would go to PK area and
organizers would make
a list of participants.
Sasha took the initiative: “We
promised to let photographers
from the organization to shoot the
event.» After a pause, the orga-
nizer said: “We will solve this is-
sue. » All tracers who participated
in contest with photographer went
to the area.
Other viewers sit in the
stands. All our luggage was took
more seats than we both with Sa-
sha.
Championship started at 4
p.m. It was 4:45 p.m. - we fall
asleep in the stands. Our athletes 58
went upstairs to us and said: “I
cannot wait more ...”. Meanwhile,
freerun challenge didn`t begin.
Organizers haven`t ever
heard about safety. When you
landed from the height to the mats,
a thrilling flight a la magic carpet
was guaranteed. There were many
people in this small area, Garbage
(some papers on the area and cans
of soda under the ramp) gradually
became more. I also did not notice
any documents about safety,.
And “dancing” had a break and
gave to tracers about 20 minutes
(!) for the contest. The organizers
and referees of the freerun cham-
pionship asked to leave those peo-
ple who did not take a part.
Referees were:
• Ez - Representative of World
Freerun Association (England);
• Eric Mukhametshin (Rus-
sia);
• Edward Karyakin (Russia);
• Denis Saperov (Belarus).
There were 21 participants.
There were rumors that the list of
participants has changed during
the competition. In addition, the
host of USSR Freerun Challenge in
a cute hat and in a T-shirt Urban
Free Flow, asked the participants
to spend one or one and a half
minutes to their show.
It was 5 p.m. After the in-
troductory speech and group pho-
to there was a qualifying round,
where should be defined 8 lucky
winners in the final. And the final
began.
Participants tried to show the
wonders of freerun, someone was
successful, and someone not.
I tell you without any hesita-
tion that Underways team show
was amazing and one of the best
in compare with others. I want
to respect Alexandra Shevchen-
ko which was the only girl among
participants.
Unfortunately I could note
that there were very few parkour
(so-called «old-school parkour» in
Russia). There were mostly acro-
batics. Fans who didn`t want to
watch the show from the stands
went down to the athletes. Ath-
letes had to slow down because
they crashed into photographers
or operators which were a lot. They
also didn`t use some construc-
tions because there were fans.
The organizers promised that each
athlete would be able to perform
under any desired track. But in
such conditions it was impossible.
Therefore, the musical accompa-
niment provided DJ of the Ice Pal-
ace and it was bad.
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“I’m so tired”
All participants couldn`t show
their program during 20 minutes.
So during the break, we continued
to watch dances from the stands,
and PK area looked like a pasture
again.
There was a long waiting
again. Finally, the tournament of
dancing ended and their host gave
the word to our host.
USSR Freerun Challenge
host: “Thank you to allow (!) us to
continue the contest” ... and the
competition continued. During the
next break chaos began again.
It was very “funny” when po-
lice and Special Forces began to
turn people out the hall. Everyone
took their luggage and went outside.
There formed a crowd of people. We
had time to discuss this chaos. Sa-
sha met Daniel, the organizer of the
contest of Minsk tracers.
Sasha: What is happening
here?
Daniel: “The organizers are
crossed up us. I am very shocked
this situation. “
After, probably, an hour, peo-
ple started to enter inside. But only
athletes and refereeing could go to
USSR Freerun Challenge. Photog-
raphers were pushed through. Or-
ganizers promised it would be free
for fans` groups but the prudish
representative of the Ice Palace
has declared that we had to buy
tickets (the cost was 200 Russian
rubles). All right, 200 rubles are
not a question. We went to
the ticket office. Ticket office was
closed! We didn`t buy any tickets
and missed our athletes.
Marina: What was happen-
ing inside? We asked the guys:
Sad: They turned the lights
off and switched searchlights on
and the show continued. It was
the same show but with the light-
ing.
Anton Plekhanov: Every-
thing was great! Vitali and Vlad
were the best! Many people (in-
cluding 2 referees) came to Vitale
told him that they liked his per-
formance. But he did not give any
prizes.
While Sad, Acne, Azm and An-
ton were in the championship, Sa-
sha and I had to go to the city and
search where we could put mon-
ey into mobile phones. Nobody
knew about Beeline in Minsk.
Megaphone`s network didn`t
work. It was unreasonable
to wait for our guys on the
street because we could not
connect to them. We were al-
most ready to wait for them
at the railway station. But we
met them earlier. They were
waiting for us near the Ice
Palace.
And the winners were:
1 st place: Ivan «Low-
Kick» Savchuk
2 nd place: Alexander
«Shade» Gisych
3 rd place: Glory «Denim»
Petin
The prizes were bags for
shoes, earphones and cups.
Marina: Guys, what do you
think about the event? What can
you say about refereeing?
Sad: The event was good,
but not great. I enjoyed only a
friendly atmosphere, and I didn`t
like that there were dancers, be-
cause we always waited for them.
We were tired and I felt so bad.
And that`s why it was even worse.
Anton Plekhanov: The PK
area could be better. I didn`t like
that there were participants who
hadn`t the same level. There was
no organization! Our guys were
great, I liked it! Unfortunately
they didn’t win the prizes.
Vlad «Blade» Erovikov:
I really liked the event because
it was great, positive and it can
stimulate the growth of level. Ref-
ereeing was fair.
When we went to the local
McDonald’s at the metro station
Pushkinskaya our boys almost
broke their necks because they
looked for beautiful girls. Then we
went to the station together. We
looked for exchange office, but
we couldn’t exchange money be-
cause of some problems. In this
way foreign banknotes leave their
homeland.
We were afraid to miss the
train, and that`s why we ran. We
were tired and happy. We took our
seats and went to home.
Marina: Guys, What are your
impressions of Minsk?
Sad: I liked the city. There
are a lot of places where you can
jump! And girls are beautiful.
Anton Plekhanov: The city
is beautiful, groomed. There are a
lot of spots to train! I liked every-
thing except the organization.
Vlad «Blade» Erovikov:
The city is good. This city reminds
me Moscow. In addition, there are
many places for jumping.
Marina: Vlad, you went and
lived separately from the main
group Underways. What were the
living conditions?
Vlad «Blade» Erovikov: I
didn`t plan to participate because
of my injury. I went to Minsk for
fun and communications. But there
were not enough participants, and
I had to do it. We lived with trac-
ers from other cities in two huge
three-storey cottages. There were
about 60-70 people! And it was
very cool, fun and friendship.
I will summarize: the orga-
nization was fail. Organizers of
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the Ice Palace were guilty in it. If
you want to organize and hold an
event you should be careful with
your partners!
Marina Syhih, Underways.RU
Special for PK-MAG
Red Bull AoM 2011
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The 19th of March at 12:56
p.m. I was in London after a two-
hour journey in Liverpool. I had
to go about an hour to the South
Bank and the National Theatre. I
was not upset because I had got
a small luggage. We met with JJ
Goda and Matty Maletnear near the
theater, where the main contest
began at 1:30 p.m. They agreed
to pass me on the PK area. I did
not notice the time. The morning
was a half cloudy and a half clear.
When we got to the area - there
was anyone except police
officers and work-
ers who tested con-
structions. There
were not any events
and we’re going to train
with athletes who would partici-
pate in the contest. We walked in
the city, because there was no en-
trance to the athletes.
Phil D. called after 6 p.m. and
said that they were going to Wa-
terloo station to take a few pho-
tos and work out together. As a re-
sult, there were only 7 or 8 people
of participants and others were
somewhere else or even stayed at
the hotel, we did not understand.
There was a famous spot at the
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Waterloo station, you could see
it in hundreds of videos. We were
there a lot of time. It was a bit
cold, about 6 degrees Celsius or
more, but many people jammed
in T-shirts. Then everybody left to
the hotel, and we went to Mattie.
There was a seminar
where should be all
athletes. It was probably
done for the publicity. Park-
our in England is only tricks and
extreme sport. Although here the
understanding of parkour is great-
er than, for example, in Germany
or France. There were 12 people
who participate in a seminar. Per-
haps it was done purely symbolic,
because there was not a seminar
at the previous championships
in Austria.
Later we could train. Only
a few athletes trained because
constructions were dangerous,
and they could be damaged.
There were levels of height
constructions which couldn`t
allow to move. We had to
be extremely careful. Peo-
ple who choose the way
of acrobatics were right.
Few people damaged at
this day, on the 20th of
March, when they per-
formed the elements on the mats.
There were about 2 hundred view-
ers. It was open event that`s why
we did not have to pay for it. The
main task of Red Bull AOM was
popularization of parkour, and in
fact nothing more, except PR of
the PR WFPF and Red Bull.
The 21st of March. The day of
the contest.
The atmosphere was tense.
The audience began to come at
11a.m. although the competi-
tion started at 6 p.m. I thought
that athletes were nervous. And
I could understand it because the
event was a large scale. A trialist
prepared on the constructions, he
was also an athlete of Red Bull.
The contest started, the music
started to play. The first perfor-
mance of the athletes was a quali-
fication, after there were selected
10 finalists. But there were 12
people in the final. It was not clear.
The first part was good except a
really terrible fall of Frenchman
Leroux. People thought that he
broke his ribs, but he told fans on
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facebook that it wasn`t true. Also
Dido (from Bulgaria) was injured
after a double internal somersault
in horizontal bar. Then there were
a few falls. You can watch them on
YouTube and Vkontakte. In gener-
al it was a fascinating show.
Preparation for the event was
at the highest level except some
strangeness. I won`t tell you
about my performance because
you could find it on the Internet.
I would try to pay your attention
to the strangeness. There was a
man who spoke about something
with the athletes. It could seem
quite common but there were
some strangeness. As you know,
the winners were: Tim Shieff, Mar-
cus Gustaffson and Ryan Doyle.
Lucy Steele won Women’s Cup,
Eric Mukhametshin won a prize for
the crazy trick. An hour earlier the
finalists were 10 and then in the
final there were 12 people. Two of
them were athletes of WFPF.
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After the show, the winners
were award, and then there be-
gan the main strangeness. After
the words: “and the winner is ...”
People in the crowd started to cry
“Eric”. I was not in the crowd, so
I couldn`t say it was athletes or
viewers. But the winner was Tim
Shieff and many people didn`t
agree with this decision but some-
body applauded to him. All 3 win-
ners were from WFPF, and one of
them was Ryan Doyle, the athlete
of Red Bull. Their own athletes
usually win at their events, except
AOM. Moreover, referees were also
from WFPF, and everything be-
came clear. Nicky Capo from Apex
team from England (Moreton) told
us that he had to be the fourth
referee, but instead of him Paul
‘Blue’ Joseph became a referee.
And what was the result? It
was a successful event ... for the
audience, but how the communi-
ty remembered it? That’s another
question.
It`s a show for the viewers.
For those people who only watch.
It has no real value for the com-
munity. It was a good occasion for
meeting with some friends from
England, Switzerland and Austria.
Also it was a good occasion for
athletes meeting, joint training,
exchange of experience among
the “best”, etc.
But it was not a champion-
ship. I would to say some words
which I heard on the 20th of March
in the contest: “It is not a compe-
tition! It is fun, don`t worry. Have
a rest.“
Article was made with the help of
Urban FreeFlow.
Photos from Redbull
Eric and Sasha tell us about AoM
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We asked the participants of
Red Bull ‘AOM’ from Russia.
PK-MAG: Please tell us
about your trip in London. What
do you think?
Eric: It was great! We com-
municated a lot, there was a great
atmosphere, everyone was happy
to each other.
PK-MAG: What do you think
about competitions?
Eric: I disliked competi-
tions. There were a lot of orga-
nizational mistakes and referees
were wrong. Everybody know this
story.
PK-MAG: What can you say
about construction?
Eric: There were a lot of
mistakes too. Very big height was
not suitable for freerun and for
acrostreet too. It was not a good
place for event.
PK-MAG: How do you think
refereeing was fair in champion-
ship?
Eric: I have already an-
swered that no. But I don`t
think that I`m the best tracer. Of
course it could be the best, but I
couldn`t be sure in it. Although I
think that I could be in the top of
three.
PK-MAG: How do you tabu-
late the results itself?
Eric: It is a difficult ques-
tion. I don`t want to answer this
question.
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PK-MAG: Hi! Please tell us
about your trip in London.
Alexandra: I really liked this
journey! There was a really friend-
ly atmosphere, beautiful pure city
and perfect organization of this
event!
PK-MAG: What do you think
about competition?
Alexandra: In my opinion
It wasn`t a competition it was a
show. Refereeing was absent.
PK-MAG: What can you say
about construction?
Alexandra: I disliked these
constructions. There were big
heights and there was really close-
ly. I could do only rounded flip.
Horizontal bars were located close
to each other. It was normal for
me, but Eric touched them when
he made turns and it disturbed.
It was an area for one element.
There were only drops.
PK-MAG: Is it necessary to
hold such events further?
Alexandra: Of course! From
participant side it is really fun,
friendly and you have an experi-
ence. From observer’s side it is
spectacular, beautiful and atmo-
spheric.
PK-MAG: Do the girls need to
participate in such competitions?
Alexandra: Yes they do! But
unfortunately we haven`t got the
same level.
By Edward Karjakin
Special for PK-MAG
Great Thanks to all the peo-
ple, who made this issue:
Marina Suschih
Oleg Aksenov
Edward Koriakin
Olga Schvitko
Roman Emelianov
Pitirim Stegneev
Eugenia Zagvozdina
Thanks to all people, who
took part in our contest and sent
to us their photos and articles!
They definetly will be published in
the next issue of the magazine.
If I forgot about somebody,
kick me!=)
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Chief Editor and page-proofs
Borodin Nikita