Rene Scavington

📍 Vancity Wall Crawler & Jumper ▪️Parkour Coach @originsparkour “I’m really strong, and I’m sticky

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@SteveSaretsky @LDoerkson @Conservative_BC LFG!

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Wondering the ideal amount of muscle/size/physique for #parkour ?
Check out world champion long/high jumpers and boulder/rock climbers.
Your ideal is somewhere in there.
Don’t train like a bodybuilder to get there.
Don’t try to look like a bodybuilder either.

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Atleast we can all agree that konging and cat-passing sound like stupid non-verbs.

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#XMen97 uncanny af.
Hit all the best parts of the original, upped the animation,
improved the script.

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Why are all the most viewed movie recaps on youtube voiced by cynical nerds that make lame jokes about the characters and plot?

Can someone just give me the notes like they actually enjoyed the story, so that I can get hyped?

#Dune2 was amazing btw.

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Parkour athletes purposefully gaining size is another example of the rewards of the sport itself not being enough. Either that or they don’t know that the size can be detrimental to performance.

If performance mattered enough you wouldn’t try to get big.

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Caught Paughs

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What would you use to measure a “successful” parkour business/brand?

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Resilient.

For a long time online I was “Res”. Some people still call me that. I even titled videos like: RESurrection, RENEsance, REStrictions, etc. So when I started planning my video 6 years ago, I thought RESilient would be a good title.
Then I started to hate it.

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Obviously I kept the title, because “RES” titles humour me, but also the double entendre:

Resilient: to bounce back quickly
- speed parkour.
- keeping active immediately after injury.

Tbh I’m a bit embarrassed to wield the word, but I couldn’t think of anything more fitting.

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Injury recovery = time x work
Injury stagnation = time x rest

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Two Parkour Program Tips:

1. Leverage your strengths.
Never stop what you’re already good at. This is how a skill goes from good to great to extraordinary.

2. Work on your weaknesses.
Sneak in reps. Warm up & cool down with it. Make it less intense so it’s easy to do often.

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A post showing a mobility skill (ex: pistol) in levels (1, 2, 3) with caption - “which one are you?” is like posting pictures of taller and taller people with the same caption.

These things are not trainable for everyone, and some people can do them without even training.

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In teaching a skill:

How to Coach > Knowledge of Skill

You need both, but only one gives you the framework to communicate, build rapport, and earn trust.

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Training helps, raw talent helps, but breaking a jump in parkour is so undeniably reliant on the skill of seizing and acting on that flash of a second where you can see yourself doing the jump.

That visual window is so short, but it’s everything.

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Every able bodied person can run, jump, climb, etc.

Parkour in many ways is just doing those things on and around structures that mess with your ideal movement. The fun part is learning how to move on or around the mess.

Every able bodied person can & probably should do this.

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General injury prescription for parkour or anything else.

Macro dose:
- local elevation above heart (if possible)
- compression
- aerobic training: 🏊‍♀️🚴 whatever’s painless
- massage muscles
- sleep
- visualize success

Micro dose:
- Movements right below pain threshold

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