The Meaning of Cat Leaping
There are some tips for you to do certain exercise when you join in the parkour. The exercise is divided into different actions and you can do them one by one. You need to jump by your hands and feet.
You may meet corners or obstacles in the process of running and sometimes you need enlarge the jumping distance. At this time you could use your hands and elbows against the walls to get more energy so that you can enlarge the leaping distance. The exact jumping could be exercised by jumping from one destination to another. At the beginning you can jump to the near distance and in the process of exercising you can increase the distance. At last you may jump to the farthest place and you do this just for accuracy. Climbing the wall is the most basic exercise. After a while of free running,
when you approach to the goal you need to strengthen your energy and make use of one foot against the wall then use your hands to grasp the wall. And immediately you use another foot to push the wall and enable another foot to get forward with energy made from your hands. When you plan to avoid some obstacles on the road, you will need TIC-TAC, an ordinary skill. If you are running you can not slow down your speed to a great extend. When there is a well in front of you, you can not stop running but to step trees or walls to jump across the well and go on running after you land on the ground. Only your feet are allowed to use in the whole process. A person who is good at parkour can jump over it after step four or five times. In case the road is blocked, walls can be helpful for you to step and run forward.
After jumping by hand you can make use of your hands to seize another goal. You can also use one hand to jump and another to grasp or both hands to grasp another wall after pushing from one wall. This way you can exercise the feedback speed of your hands. After that, you can exercise landing. After high jump you can only make use of your legs to deaden the force coming from the ground and can not use side roll to continue the next action. Blind jumping is rather dangerous. You can exercise it after you are familiar with the accurate leaps. You can close your eyes during leaping under some occasions but you can also feel the destination. As long as you have already scanned the target place before you jump, you can ignore the destination during the jumping. And this is the so-called blind jumping. You can learn from cat action such as cat jumping. When you jump from one wall to another you can learn landing method from cats. In generally there are two methods, feet sliding and hands grasping. The basic skill of orangutans is the orangutans jumping. During the running we can straddle our legs to get across the obstacle on which our hands to press. Walking to and fro on a stick and climbing like cats can train us the accuracy and balance.