John aka Spidermonkey

I thought I'd pop up an intro before someone goes 'Who the hell does Spidermonkey think he is?'

So, my nickname is Spidermonkey; I've been training parkour since late 2003, and started with a few friends of mine training around JCU, Aplins weir and a few other places. I'm currently training with Parkour Generations in London (since 07), primarily with Blane, Forrest, Dan Edwardes, The Yamakasi, and the Vigroux brothers (google them if you have never heard of them!). I will be training in townsville in september, but back to live next year...

Very early on in our training there was very little information about parkour (ie, no Youtube!) so we had to try to learn techniques for ourselves after watch small snippets of David Belle videos. It was from pushing too hard and doing too many jumps that I suffered from a knee injury which took over a year to recover from.

It is primarily this reason that I relocated to Europe to learn from the founders and to carry the proper training back home.

Some of you that trained with me last year will realise that there is a lot of conditioning work that must take place before you start doing big things. Layers of muscles, tendons that require months of building upon, and ligaments which take even longer to build up is one of the hardest things (both physically and mentally) I have ever done (try doing 1000 deep squats after a long training session and you'll begin to see what I mean). But it is because of this that I am stronger and faster than I have even been before.

So yeah, that's me

haha I'd be surprised if anyone here hasn't heard of you apart from the newer tracuers

Welcome to the forums mate & good to hear you have lots of conditioning installed for us

With a lot of help from Dave on the site so many new comers have been introduced into the art of parkour. We recently had 'state focus' from channel 10 come to two of our jams and take some footage, I can only imagine the loads of people wanting to try ot out after seing that.
( not to sure when its broadcasting though, but will find it on the internet somewhere)

Anyways mate train safe & looking forward to catching up.