Second Chances

Second Chances

sounds cliche?

well I guess this will sound more cliche:

Everyone has second chances, and not just second, third and so-on-so-forth.

Everyone has heard this at least once, and I know you can already be annoyed as of the moment your are reading this. The saying itself is very cliche and very OU( Over Used ), but do we really understand what "a second chance" means? When does one have a second chance and when can one not bring back what is lost?

Second is defined in the dictionary as, "something that comes after the first." Therefore to have a second chance you must have a "first chance". 

Second chance can be defined by the society as "the time to change". But, what will you change if there was nothing to change right from the start? Therefore a first chance is needed

A first chance for it to happen as the first chance must happen before you get the second chance, therefore it must be in the past. So now we talk about the Past, Present, and Future. 

"What is done is done, you cannot bring time back." 

The Past is where the first chance was done and what's done is done we cannot bring time back. 

The Present, where you get the time to do you second chance. 

The Future is something we do not know. What you do in the present will change your Future.

So, what am I saying? Bringing Chances, Time Planes, and stuff onto this. Simple, The wrongs you did in the past cannot be changed, but in the present you can choose to fix it, and in the future you will harvest that which you fixed.

This whole thing sounded VERY cliche, but what if this "cliche-ness" helped somebody? What if this will be the change in a person? 

Peace out people

Patience

Patience is something most of us lack, and yes, I too fall to the pits of impatience.

People need to understand that patience isn't waiting, patience is knowing the right time to do something. 

A lot of beginners, nowadays, rush things. When they see a move, they think it's cool, they try it. Ending up with bail marys. They seem to think, that they should be able to do a move after they throw it once, not expecting a bail. But, they have to understand before we do our gainers and corks we went through a rigorous process of trial and error, learning progressions too the move, and even bailing every once in a while.

I remember the time when I was still learning how to do a gainer. I would bail every time I did it. I really could not tell what my problem was. So, I stopped attempting the move, worked through my other moves that I found were like the gainer. After some time, I decided it's time to do the gainer again. I started out with J-steps, didn't work, tried coming at it from a raiz, didn't work, tried from a scoop/scoot, I worked. Then I built on my Scoop to gainer, now I throw my gainers from raizes, TD raizes, butterfly kicks. 

What I'm trying to say here is, you have to learn to wait, and during that waiting time, don't be idle, do something else that can help you. Sometimes you just need sometime off, then boom before you know it you good to go. 

Just like Justin Sheaffer, he couldn't do a dash bomb on day one, he waited a couple of months, then he attempted it again then boom he did it.

Remember Parkour, is about control, and not just control in your movements, it's also control in your thoughts, mind, feelings, actions, soul, and control in your patience. 

Peace out people

Lemons

I'm writing this on the context of what I know/remember of August 24,2011

"When life gives you lemons...." what do you do?

Today must have been an anime scene in REAL life. Earlier, two of my grade 1 bussmates were literally punching and hitting each other. 

What does this have to do with LIFE? Simple, life is made of moments, moments that we cannot control. No matter how hard we try to not make something happen, if it must occur it simply will. Now the question is how you face the problem a.k.a the LEMON.

Do you just react negatively to the lemon? Or will you choose to make the most out of the situation, progress, and become better? 

People would often choose the first one, viewing problems as problems. Which would seem correct considering the context in which normal people understand ideas. PROBLEMS don't show up on the menu if we don't create or think about it. I once read this signature on the PPFA forums, "Mind over matter.. I don't mind... it doesn't matter." 

Problems aren't problems if we don't look at them as problems. Looking at problems as if they were not problems, is easier said than done. 

I found my way of curing this illusion we see as "problems" This is the way I see things; First, you control your thoughts -> second, you control your emotions -> third, your actions -> fourth, you CONTROL the situation.

Controlling your thoughts is the first thing one must do. Like my story earlier, two G1 students were punching each other. One of them obviously punched the other first, and resulted in the retaliation of the other. Now, if one of them control their thoughts, of not punching or retaliating then, there wouldn't have been a fight between them. 

Once you control thoughts you should proceed to controlling your emotions. Emotions are triggered by thoughts, but controlling your thoughts is not the same as controlling your emotions. But it does help, I wouldn't go against that. Pride is an emotion, an emotion we don't often see in ourselves but we easily see in others. Now, going back to my story, if one of them didn't think about PRIDE, and chose not to be the last one hitting, then there wouldn't be a fight. It works like a good game of basketball and soccer, the ball can't always be with you sometimes it will be on the other team, it's just the way games are, and the life is. Now what changes is how you play when the ball is with you, make the point, or pass it? It's up to you.

Once you've controlled your emotions, and thoughts, controlling your actions will be easier. When your filled with rage you'll just punch someone, it's the truth, you know it in yourself. But when there's control, balance, your muscles won't act on "impulse". 

You've controlled 3 already now it's time to control the situation. I can't tell you anything on how to control the situation. Everyone's different [just like everyone else], and when I teach Parkour I always say, "everyone's different, everyone has their own unique style in doing things." "Learn from my examples but don't learn my style. If you copy my style it won't be your LIFE, it's just going to be a COPY of my life. [ and trust me you won't find mine very nice]" 

So don't copy my way of facing problems [copyrights], learn from my way, make yours better by getting ideas from me and INCORPORATING them to your style. 

Now for the deep thinkers there, I know I have loose ends on this, so challenge yourselves, find your own way of facing lemons, post something like this, make the world a better place. 

Peace out people.

I woke up with a passion...

Why do you do Parkour? (or anything else for that matter)

Honestly, I do Parkour because it relaxes me (kahit nakakapagod). 

But why do we continue to do it? To Progress

Why do we do our best to progress?  To know our limits

What are the limits? I ask you what are the limits. 

Parkour is about breaking the limits, but what exactly are the limits that you want to break? You wanna break gravity, get ready to bail. Gravity IS a limit, a limit we cannot break no matter what, it's universal. 

Parkour is about being yourself, do things your way. But, rolling incorrectly will kill you, that's why we have a set way on how to do our rolls. So, the way we roll is not ours?

With those two in mind think about this; If there is a limit then there is a will be a time when you can no longer PROGRESS and that you will be THE BEST YOU. 

Then the question; "When am I the best me?" comes in. When I still did Kendo, I always sought the answer of "when do I become stronger?" I never found the answer while physically training. I always sought physical power, I did not satisfy the mind and the soul, I never became stronger. I remember one sparring match with a friend, I knew I was going to beat him, I was physically stronger, faster, but in the end I still lost. This made me ask myself, "Why did I loose?" He was obviously weaker than me, and slower. This was the first time I went "soul searching" in my entire life. Until I realized my faults, I headed into battle a little to headstrong, only going for the "bloodlust". I restarted my Kendo training here from the start, now feeding my mind and soul as well. 

A few months passed by, and I ask myself, "when is my Kendo at it's best?" I found the answer, " MY KENDO [AND THE SWORD IN GENERAL] IS AT ITS BEST WHEN THEY ARE NOT ON YOUR HANDS, YET YOU CAN STILL DO KENDO [OR USE THE SWORD]." Kendo is the art of the sword, yet I do it without the sword. It sound like I'm crazy but it is my realization. When I hold the sword my Kendo is not at it's best, but when I put my sword down and apply what I learned in Kendo at something else, I know I'm using the full potential of Kendo. 

Same for Parkour, we can apply it to something else, maybe dancing or martial arts, be creative. This is when, I think, we truly break the limits, when we do something which is "out of the box", not when we do a big jump or go up a "no climbing" wall (trespassing na yun). 

So in that sense, I applied what I learned in Kendo to Parkour, so when I do Parkour I am doing my Kendo at it's best. 

Now you know the thought "Something is at it's best when applied to something else" apply it, progress, and have fun

Peace out people