Parkour Training : Precisions

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Matthew Willis and I am with Texas Parkour and I am going to be talking to you a little bit about precisions today. Precisions are going to take lots of balancing skills and just straight out nerves and conquering of your fears. A lot of times these are done with ledges or with rails, so what you want is a good grippy shoe. Make sure that your shoes are not wet before you try to approach a rail. In doing a precision, what you are going to want to do is get mostly up on the balls of your feet before you jump. When you jump, you are going to band crouching not more than 90 degree angle with your knees and you are going to push away from the object. When you push away from the object, you want to get in a nice touch position in the air and spot your landing. When you are landing, you want to either land some what close to the back of your foot; somewhere in the middle of your foot almost and you are going to be propelling your arms backwards behind you. This is to stabilize you and to get you so that you can actually land and stay on the rail. While precisioning. you are going to try and do different types of things. You can do vault to precisions; one of those urban movements that I talked to you about earlier and what you are going to be doing is you are going to be actually trying to spot as much as you can to the actual mark that you are going to be landing on. A lot of times you are going to be vaulting a ledge or a rail and you are going to be landing on a ledge or a rail, curb or other things like that. When you are trying to get down, you can do something like a turn vault and you will be up on top of a rail or ledge and then you are going to do almost a 180 and re-grasp into a cat that I talked about earlier. "