Juliebarkley seeks the positive

[Jules Andromeda]

22 hours ago, juliebarkley said:

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I'm feeling very uninspired and directionless on the exercise front. Does anyone have a book they've read that got them really excited about trying new moves or having new goals to work towards? I'm not much of a video person. I saw Becoming a Supple Leopard mentioned on @DoubleTrouble's thread. Does anyone else have one they'd recommend? I have no specific goal in mind - something parkour-y, gymnastic-y, flexy, or just cool tricks. But like, achievable. @WhiteGhost, @PaulG, @Mad Hatter, @raptron ? (Sorry to pester you guys, but you're into the cool stuff and I trust your advice!)

 

This is probably not at all what you're looking for.  But . . . someone recently recommended the phone running app, "Zombie, Run!" - which can work for walking or running, and I've been enjoying giving it a try.  It narrates a story, places you as a character in that story, and has you keep moving -- sometimes a little faster, depending to your proximity to zombies.  I started doing it with my son to supplement his Zoom PE classes as part of remote school.  We're enjoying getting into the narrative.  You can complete a "chapter" according to your own time frame, with a sliding scale that goes down to 21 minutes.  But, the actual moves?  Not so exciting.  Just walking / running.  Although, I suppose if you wanted parkour-style moves in your zombie avoidance toolkit that would be fine as well!

[WhiteGhost]

On 3/8/2021 at 4:04 PM, juliebarkley said:

Does anyone else have one they'd recommend? I have no specific goal in mind - something parkour-y, gymnastic-y, flexy, or just cool tricks.

I don't think I have ever read a single book on a fitness related topic.  All of my inspo comes from Youtube and watching others at the park.

[juliebarkley]

I shall catch up on replies in just a moment, but first a life update that may scupper the challenge.

That illness that I thought was food poisoning that my son had on Sunday? Was not food poisoning. It was worse when he woke up on Monday, so I called an ambulance, fearing appendicitis. It was, indeed, appendicitis, and we are both confined to the hospital until his Covid test comes back (because abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever all tick the Covid boxes). It looks like I will be here for the rest of the week to support him with maybe a chance to go home and shower in there somewhere (I am allowed to go home but nowhere else). He's out of surgery and doing pretty well.

 

I only have my computer, phone, and a handful of books with me, so many of my habits and goals for this challenge are not going to be possible for the next few days. It is what it is.

[juliebarkley]

  

On 3/8/2021 at 11:01 AM, Scaly Freak said:

And it could be sold for a fortune, at quantities that made it unavailable where it's desperately needed.... but apparently it's not? Which, to my inner cynic, is the real wonder and miracle here. 

Making a product that your target market can't afford to buy sounds like a great way to put yourself out of business. Or to tempt your competition to jump in, which is pretty much what happened. A couple of non-profits started making a very similar product and there was a lawsuit because they weren't paying royalty to the patent holder and then another potential lawsuit against another company. The international aid community did the equivalent of a stern look and a "dude, is this really the kind of person you want to be?" and they backed off. The patent is expired now and there are a bunch of companies making it, so the chances of the price getting jacked up is basically non-existent now.

 

On 3/8/2021 at 11:01 AM, Scaly Freak said:

Your good news challenge goals is making me happy.

Me too.

 

On 3/8/2021 at 11:25 AM, raptron said:

Oh hmmmm. I can't say I've read anything that includes cool tricks. I mostly get inspiration from Instagram and watching college gymnastics meets. 🙈 

7 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

I don't think I have ever read a single book on a fitness related topic.  All of my inspo comes from Youtube and watching others at the park.

Darn.

 

On 3/8/2021 at 11:57 AM, PaulG said:

When it comes to parkour and gymnastics, I don’t think there was ever really a market for books teaching acrobatic techniques — that’s difficult information to impart using the written word. Before YouTube I’d imagine it was mostly done in-person; now inspiration and instruction has moved into video format.

 

If you’re thinking of more strength-oriented stuff though, I found Overcoming Gravity by Steven Low very helpful and inspiring for showing me how to grow my strength training into different strength movements. If you’re interested in handstands, press to handstands, lever training, muscle-up training, etc, it’s a great book for that.

The goal isn't really to learn from the book - I would go to YouTube for instructional stuff. But just for ideas. Like, in your example, getting the idea that handstands would be a fun thing, or levers, or whatever. I find YouTube is good for the breakdown of a movement if I have one in mind already, but doesn't work for me for making me care in the first place. Books spark my imagination better. And I simply don't know enough about what's out there in these different movement families to know where to look first.

 

On 3/8/2021 at 11:57 AM, PaulG said:

Do you want to learn new parkour moves you can practice in the environments around your house, or are you thinking of something else?

Around my home area, which is pretty devoid of manmade stuff. See, another area where I don't really know what I want and I just need some ideas on what's possible and fun to spark my imagination. There is a picnic table that I can use (though there's a canoe on it right now), a low wall (maybe 30cm high), and lots of open grassy flat space when the snow melts. Until the spring, I'm stuck indoors. It's really a case of "this sounds cool, but I have absolutely no idea what I actually want to do or how to get started".

 

22 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

There is definitely a selection of books available that I can think of (but haven't read), on parkour (Ryan Ford), flexibility (Kit Laughlin, Thomas Kurz), handstands (Yuri Marmerstein has a small ebook, Handstand Factory has great manuals), and I'm sure there's plenty of gymnastics ones. But you're right, books tend to be too dry for inspiration, and video is much more helpful for showing exercises than text or pictures. I'll sometimes listen to podcasts, but I'm the same as @raptron, most of my inspo comes from IG.

I'll have a look for those, thanks!

 

22 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Would you son be interested in doing something with you? I'm thinking acro yoga could be a fun thing to do together.  Otherwise there are sooo many things, it's hard to narrow it down! What type of movement is the most feasible or enjoyable right now?

We're pretty isolated, so anything we do has to be DIY. He's out of commission on physical activity for a couple of months now anyway. That kind of thing could be fun though.

See I have the opposite problem - I feel like I can't find anything and don't know where to look to find out what is even out there! Or if I do happen to see something that looks interesting, I don't know how to get progressions to get me there.  I just need ideas for stuff to try, and I'm kind of failing at coming up with them on my own.

 

16 hours ago, DoubleTrouble said:

Supple Leopard includes information about how to perform a certain set of exercises correctly, and mobilizations (including stretching, banded stretching, foam rolling-ish techniques) that will help your body to make the shapes needed in those exercises. It doesn't have any shinies. It's more about the recovery/injury prevention side of things.

Ah okay, good to know.

 

11 hours ago, Jules Andromeda said:

This is probably not at all what you're looking for.  But . . . someone recently recommended the phone running app, "Zombie, Run!" - which can work for walking or running, and I've been enjoying giving it a try.  It narrates a story, places you as a character in that story, and has you keep moving -- sometimes a little faster, depending to your proximity to zombies.  I started doing it with my son to supplement his Zoom PE classes as part of remote school.  We're enjoying getting into the narrative.  You can complete a "chapter" according to your own time frame, with a sliding scale that goes down to 21 minutes.  But, the actual moves?  Not so exciting.  Just walking / running.  Although, I suppose if you wanted parkour-style moves in your zombie avoidance toolkit that would be fine as well!

I have Zombies Run! on my phone and I intend to go back to it when it warms up a little. Running in boots on ice is no fun. I didn't know that you could adjust the length of the stories though? That might be a new feature from when I used it last (a couple of years ago). Or I just never noticed it (also very possible).

 

[Scaly Freak]

Ooof, that sounds painful for your poor son! I hope he recovers soon. 

 

...can you discretely collect some additional books when you're allowed to go home briefly?

 

As for challenge goals, screw them. This is more important.

[Jules Andromeda]

3 hours ago, juliebarkley said:

That illness that I thought was food poisoning that my son had on Sunday? Was not food poisoning. It was worse when he woke up on Monday, so I called an ambulance, fearing appendicitis. It was, indeed, appendicitis, and we are both confined to the hospital until his Covid test comes back (because abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever all tick the Covid boxes). It looks like I will be here for the rest of the week to support him with maybe a chance to go home and shower in there somewhere (I am allowed to go home but nowhere else). He's out of surgery and doing pretty well.

 

I only have my computer, phone, and a handful of books with me, so many of my habits and goals for this challenge are not going to be possible for the next few days. It is what it is.

Oh no!  You sound so calm about this, but I would be freaking out if everything were suddenly upended this way.  I will be hoping that the Covid test is negative, that your son gets excellent care for the appendicitis, and that you are able to keep your cool, calm head amidst all of these upheavals.   I'd say keeping any sort of routines that make you feel like life isn't spiraling out of hand is probably the main goal right now.  Never mind the challenge whatsoever. 

[Epsilonte]

Hope your son gets better soon! 

[DoubleTrouble]

Dang, that sucks. Hoping the recovery goes smoothly

[Xena]

Oh wow, that sounds stressful. Good that at least they figured out the problem and the surgery went well. Hope all goes smoothly and you can both go home soon.

 

[Xena]

I tried googling your sleep problem...it seems common enough that there should be a hack for it (I've definitely had that problem when I needed to get up very early to catch a plane or something).

 

I couldn't find any really good advice (besides normal stuff like keeping a sleep schedule, blah blah). I did look at some pages about sleep anxiety (anxiety about not sleeping enough etc), even though it wasn't quite specific to the issue. The thing that seemed most useful to me was to combat the anxiety by telling yourself what you would do if 'the worst' happened. ...if my alarm clock doesn't wake me up, it would be inconvenient, but I could...

[juliebarkley]

7 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Ooof, that sounds painful for your poor son! I hope he recovers soon. 

 

...can you discretely collect some additional books when you're allowed to go home briefly?

 

As for challenge goals, screw them. This is more important.

It has indeed been very rough for him. He's taken a bit of a turn down now (which is normal, they say), but painkillers and antiemetics have been a blessing.

 

I packed some while waiting for the ambulance.

 

It absolutely is. I am not going anywhere.

 

6 hours ago, Jules Andromeda said:

Oh no!  You sound so calm about this, but I would be freaking out if everything were suddenly upended this way.  I will be hoping that the Covid test is negative, that your son gets excellent care for the appendicitis, and that you are able to keep your cool, calm head amidst all of these upheavals.   I'd say keeping any sort of routines that make you feel like life isn't spiraling out of hand is probably the main goal right now.  Never mind the challenge whatsoever. 

I am pretty good in a crisis. I was most anxious in the time when I was deciding whether to call the ambulance and while he was in surgery. The Covid test just came back negative, woo!

 

5 hours ago, Epsilonte said:

Hope your son gets better soon! 

Thank you!

 

1 hour ago, DoubleTrouble said:

Dang, that sucks. Hoping the recovery goes smoothly

It's been mostly pretty well, with a bad turn just now, but it's still early days.

 

1 hour ago, Xena said:

Oh wow, that sounds stressful. Good that at least they figured out the problem and the surgery went well. Hope all goes smoothly and you can both go home soon.

I was told repeatedly that appendicitis was by far the most common thing that they treat here (childrens' hospital) and that it is way more common than most people realize. We've got a few days to go yet, but it's looking good.

 

56 minutes ago, Xena said:

I tried googling your sleep problem...it seems common enough that there should be a hack for it (I've definitely had that problem when I needed to get up very early to catch a plane or something).

 

I couldn't find any really good advice (besides normal stuff like keeping a sleep schedule, blah blah). I did look at some pages about sleep anxiety (anxiety about not sleeping enough etc), even though it wasn't quite specific to the issue. The thing that seemed most useful to me was to combat the anxiety by telling yourself what you would do if 'the worst' happened. ...if my alarm clock doesn't wake me up, it would be inconvenient, but I could...

Thank you so much for looking this up! I am trying to do the "what's the worst that can happen" thing, but it doesn't usually work. The trouble began in uni when I would occasionally mix up the AM and PM (and possibly occasionally either I slept through or I didn't turn it on) and I nearly missed final exams on two separate occasions. The consequences are nothing like so bad now - I'd just be late to work - but the body memory of those shocks just won't let me relax. I end up checking the time every ten minutes.

 

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Thank you everyone for your kind words and thoughts. ❤️

 

Today has been predictably exhausting. Sleep was interrupted more than once an hour by alarms or people, and then regular interruptions throughout the day. Little guy needs lots of help to do most anything really, and he's been up and down. And he feels guilty for it all, despite all assurances. That he's failing the medical team or being a burden or something.

 

Instead of good news, today I have gratitude:

• I am glad that the ambulance arrived in a reasonable amount of time (10-15 min). When I was a kid, the average ambulance call took 48 minutes, and we all just accepted that in a real crisis emergency, we were probably going to die. The call itself was also way faster and easier than when I called when my dad had his heart attack in 2015.
• The actual in-hospital stuff up to the operation was astonishingly fast. Like, at the same time as we were getting the ultrasound results, someone came in to let us know that the OR was booked for ten minutes later and they needed to start the prep. Everything just aligned really well with virtually no waiting; miraculous.
• The hospital staff have all been attentive and untiringly helpful.
• I am grateful that his prognosis looks very good.
• I am grateful that I had zero trouble getting the time off work to be able to stay here.
• I am grateful for cheap, effective, and readily available painkillers: tylenol, advil, morphine, and anesthetic.
• I am very, very grateful to live in a time and place where the death rate from appendicitis is one in a million. If we lived before antibiotics or in a place where medical care is days away, this whole story would have been very different.

[Scaly Freak]

This all makes it sound like your son is going to be fine when all is said and done. That's great news!

 

[WhiteGhost]

8 hours ago, juliebarkley said:

today I have gratitude:

That's a lot of good things to be grateful for.  Glad to hear everything seems to be going as smoothly as could be hoped for.  

 

We missed you in D&D this morning.  I decided to wait until everyone was present before launching the actual campaign, so I had everyone spend another day in the jungle fighting random encounters - this time was all kinds of spiders (and ettercaps).

[Mad Hatter]

What a bummer! Wishing kiddo a speedy recovery.

[Mike Wazowski]

Sorry to hear your son is going through a hospital stay! Best wishes for a speedy recovery for him, and I'm glad you're able to find so many consoling reasons for gratitude in spite of how hard the past few days have been.

 

Crossing my fingers for negative COVID tests as well, for both of you.

[Jupiter]

Hope your son gets better soon. *hugs*

[juliebarkley]

23 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

This all makes it sound like your son is going to be fine when all is said and done. That's great news!

I certainly hope so! It's a bit of two steps forward, one step back, but progress is being made.

 

17 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

That's a lot of good things to be grateful for.  Glad to hear everything seems to be going as smoothly as could be hoped for.  

 

We missed you in D&D this morning.  I decided to wait until everyone was present before launching the actual campaign, so I had everyone spend another day in the jungle fighting random encounters - this time was all kinds of spiders (and ettercaps).

It really is. I find that when something bad happens, it brings into sharp focus how much worse things could have been, and how many wonderful things you really still have. You sort of focus on what's important, you know?

 

That is so nice of you! I'm honestly touched. I missed you guys too! I wouldn't have been able to participate anyway because I was pulled away to deal with a bad nausea episode for a good hour and a half. I saw you all in the voice channel, though. I'm glad it could go forward. What were those things in the Discord chat? Scary looking beasties....

 

13 hours ago, Mike Wazowski said:

Sorry to hear your son is going through a hospital stay! Best wishes for a speedy recovery for him, and I'm glad you're able to find so many consoling reasons for gratitude in spite of how hard the past few days have been.

 

Crossing my fingers for negative COVID tests as well, for both of you.

Negative Covid test, yup! I was kinda hoping it would take longer to come back as we had a private room till then. Exactly no one was anticipating a positive result - he's homeschooled and hadn't been out near non-family members since a week prior, and even then it was a masked, distanced hike outdoors.

 

2 hours ago, Jupiter said:

Hope your son gets better soon. *hugs*

Thanks Jupiter. Little by little.

 

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I don't have a ton to report without spreading my son's private health information about. He's getting better, but it's a slow thing. Patience. I am grateful today that I can enjoy solid food, even though procuring it has been a bit of a challenge. I haven't eaten all that much in the last three days, but I managed to get a 12' sub and a soup this evening, so I am pleasantly full after being lightheaded and weak just before. I finished Dracula. I read through a bunch of old and new NF threads. Some email. And lots of personal medical assistanty activities and interruptions. I believe I got interrupted about 10 times while writing this post!

 

A good news item:

This one is local to me. It is the story of how one man used his unique skills to make the world a better place. To me it's a good example of how, no matter what your skills, there is something that you can do to help others. In this case, the skills were farming and radio broadcasting.

 

CBC Radio has branches across the country, and the Ottawa branch hired George Atkins, formerly a farmer, way back in 1955. He became an agricultural reporter doing farm stuff for radio and TV, and he ended up at a farm radio workshop in Zambia in 1975. On the bus next to him were two other broadcasters, one from Nigeria and one from Sierra Leone. So they talked about what sort of stuff they put in their broadcasts, as you do. The Nigerian talked about pesticides, fertilizers, and other modern stuff. The Sierra Leonean had done his most recent program on how to fix spark plugs in a tractor. "But how many of your listeners have tractors?" asked George. "About 1 in 80,000." "So you are talking to 10 people?!". He was confused. Why were these two broadcasters talking about things that their audience couldn't afford, instead of things like oxen? The broadcasters were just working with the information that they had, they said; the information that would really help their audience just wasn't easily available to them. But they were interested, so George offered to send them some, in a form they could easily use (prewritten scripts that they could translate into the local language). He took a sabbatical to travel and talk to farmers and broadcasters, build a network of connections, and research and write scripts about things they could use. They were a hit, and that was the beginning of Farm Radio International.

Their goal is to help farmers help themselves by getting information to the people who could use it. No one is pressured to adopt any one solution or technique - they can take what they're interested in and leave the rest. Almost all farmers have a radio or access to one, and they tend to bring it into the fields with them to listen. Plus, can be broadcast in local languages over wide areas, provides the opportunity for interactivity, and lets you reach people who can't read. Farm Radio has information on new crops (including the crop's benefits, sowing, harvesting, cooking, and marketing instructions all delivered as the crop matures), recipes to improve nutrition from existing crops or a new crop that they may have suggested (because you don't take a chance on a crop you don't know how to cook!), up-to-the-minute pest information (I remember watching the fall armyworm march across Africa through their updates in late 2017), environmental issues and sustainability, call-in shows so that farmers can share what works and doesn't work with each other, and so much more. The organization now works with partners in 41 countries by providing resources and training and works more closely with 11 on development work.

[raptron]

Glad you got a hearty meal in. ❤️ 

[juliebarkley]

14 hours ago, raptron said:

Glad you got a hearty meal in. ❤️ 

Me. Too. Not having easy access to food all of the time is low-key stressful, I tell you. I toured the vending machines tonight because I could not stop thinking about chocolate (even though if I had eaten chocolate it would not have fixed the craving), but also just to assure myself that food was there.

 

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I am living a pretty boring life right now. I read three volumes of Black Butler. I internetted. I unplugged and replugged machines a lot. I mostly didn't leave this chair. I anticipate at least two more days of this. But boring is good right now. Exciting would be bad.

 

Super-quick good news resourcefulness story. A New Zealand man realized his local dog park lacked good play sticks, so he saved some pruned branches from his house, built a box to put them in, wrote "Stick Library: Please return" on the box, and set it out. Like a Little Free Library, but for dogs. And sticks. It has been well used, I gather. The story of the stick library spread on the internet, and another father and son in Saskatoon read about it and decided to build one for their local park. It's a cute idea; I hope it has spread to other places too.

[Xena]

I like the farm radio story and the stick library. Thanks for sharing them.

[juliebarkley]

On 3/12/2021 at 7:18 PM, Xena said:

I like the farm radio story and the stick library. Thanks for sharing them.

You're welcome! Bringing smiles to people was part of this goal.

 

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Not much new. Life still unexciting (which is still good) and still stuck in hospital.

 

I have finished six volumes of Black Butler, some NF, and some professional development internetting. I am keeping up with Duo. My son and I looked for things in a Where's Waldo book that we borrowed from the hospital playroom, so that was a fun together activity.

 

I have done some thinking about where I am with fitness, where I want to be, and how I might get there. While I still want some skill goals to work towards, I realized that what I really need right now is to want to move, to enjoy movement. That's what appeals to me about parkour, gymnasticky things, etc. - the movements look fun to do and I want to have fun moving. I have lost a lot of that spark lately. The experimentation my son and I did with the bear walks highlighted this for me too. My word of the year is Foundations, and that does appear to be the root of my exercise woes and lack of direction and motivation. I'm at a bit of a plateau in my current program, and I've been spotty for a little while, so it's not a bad time to try something different from that angle, either. I've been reading GMB's website, and their approach may be what I need right now. I think I might try Elements and just try to have fun challenging myself by playing with movement. I like the primal movement/MovNat type stuff too, so if anyone has any great resources on that (especially books, but websites too) I would appreciate.

 

A few good short news stories around a theme: people who used their daily walk as an opportunity to help their communities in creative ways.

• Joseph Beer, 15, noticed, while taking his daily walks, that street maintenance in his town was subpar. In particular, the street signs were obscured by moss and untrimmed hedges. He rigged a trailer up to his bike so that he could hold some basic equipment, and would go out to different parts of his town every day to scrub the signs until they were readable again and clear any branches blocking them from view. (So I guess the walks evolved into bike rides, but close enough).
• Ryan van Emmenis also noticed something that needed cleaning on his walks - neglected headstones. He's careful to be respectful of the graves and makes sure that the products he uses won't damage the stonework (he is a cleaner by profession). He has posted a few pictures of his work on social media, and gotten replies from grateful family members who haven't been able to visit the graves in many years so glad that someone was taking care of their relatives.
• Plant lovers are jotting down the names of plants they find growing in and next to sidewalks in sidewalk chalk to make people aware of the diversity of plant life around them, to promote love of nature (and maybe a bit less eagerness to pull out the weedkiller).
• Shawn Dromgoole lives in the same neighbourhood he grew up in, but as it slowly gentrified, getting richer and whiter, he began to feel out of place. He noticed people staring at him when he went out, and after the Black Lives Matter protests started, he grew uncomfortable just walking in his own community. He put up a short note on a community bulletin board where he expressed his fear of walking alone, not even asking for anything, and got a flood of replies from friends and strangers that they would like to walk with him so that he would feel safe. So he posted a time and place, and 75 people joined him for a walk. The walks spread to other cities as well, but I think this first story, of a community spontaneously rallying round one of its own just by walking together, is the most moving.

[juliebarkley]

Fingers crossed, if all goes well tonight, we can go home tomorrow! I have done more internetting and computer cleanup type stuff. I will finally get my schedule made tonight; I really have no excuses, do I?

 

Good news story:

Note: This is probably not exclusive to Namibia, but that's where the study was done.

 

Long-line fisheries send out a long line to trawl behind their boats with a series of hooks attached. This is quite tempting for seabirds, who try to steal fish from the lines. Unfortunately they can get caught on the hooks or in the lines and drown. This is actually a serious survival issue for this category of birds, because they tend to be long-lived (albatrosses, for instance, can live 60 years), mature late, and have few offspring. 52% of seabird species are declining, 28% are threatened, and among albatrosses in particular, 15 of 22 species are near threatened or worse, and all are vulnerable and longlines are believed to be their biggest threat. The Albatross Task Force identified a simple way to dramatically reduce the death toll of the birds: bird scaring lines. These streamers act like scarecrows to keep the birds away from the dangerous fishing lines. They engaged directly with the fishermen to teach them how to use the lines and convince them of their importance (both to the birds and to their own bottom line by preserving their catch), and they began to be adopted voluntarily. Only later, after those relationships had been built, did they persuade the government to make the lines mandatory. As a result, the fishermen have a positive relationship with the conservation agency: 100% were interested in further training, and one instructor describes teaching bird identification to the crew members, who were becoming interested in them . The bycatch of birds went from over 20,000 to fewer than 300 per year once the lines were introduced; a reduction of 98%. As an added bonus, the lines are made locally by a women's group, providing employment for women who had few employment opportunities.

[Jupiter]

4 hours ago, juliebarkley said:

Fingers crossed, if all goes well tonight, we can go home tomorrow! I have done more internetting and computer cleanup type stuff. I will finally get my schedule made tonight; I really have no excuses, do I?

 

Oh yay, that's great! Keeping my fingers crossed for you.  

[Mad Hatter]

Yay for going home! Hope all goes well!

 

I was thinking about writing about movement, and while I still can't think of any books for inspiration (except maybe for Katy Bowman's move your DNA, for general movement, not shiny things) maybe blogs would work?

 

I love this article for example about adding cues to your movement to make it more joyful (could be any movement)
https://flowmovement.net/thoughts/2020/3/12/celebrate-it 

 

And maybe you could find something interesting here? I can't find any good ones now, but I remember reading some interesting perspectives. Here's a random (not great) one:

https://www.yuenjon.com/articles/2019/9/2/b91cvd6edief0h7ngrg62utyulp4w2

 

Also I know you said no videos, but here's one of my favourite parkour videos. Not so much of the specific moves, but the fun fun vibes, which sounds like you're missing a bit right now. ☺️

Spoiler

 

 

[Scaly Freak]

13 minutes ago, Mad Hatter said:

 

Also I know you said no videos, but here's one of my favourite parkour videos. Not so much of the specific moves, but the fun fun vibes, which sounds like you're missing a bit right now. ☺️

 

 

I love that they threw in a bunch of bloopers, seemingly out of nowhere. And that they obviously are having so much fun with what they're doing.