Bet you’ll never guess who fucked up their drawing arm tonight at parkour! LOLZ!

I completely missed last week’s sessions because I was taking a personal survey of local hospital standards (see, I use humor to deflect personal anguish) so I was fully prepared to get my ass kicked up and down the Primal Fitness gym. And sure enough, it was rightly kicked!

Today’s new skill is called “cat leaps.” Mastering this skill will allow us to perform “top outs” which will in turn allow us to impress all the ladies with our mad YouTube skills. To perform a cat leap, you jump at a wall feet first (in this case a five foot block), make contact with the wall, grab on the top ledge with your fingers (no palms!), and let you butt hang low below your feets which are now tucked in. When you hang there, you look like a cat hanging from a curtain. It’s essential to not grab the ledge with your whole hand as I found out after trying four of five of these when my right wrist decided to see what it would feel like to be in two different places at once. Fucking OUCH!

As I type this, it’s starting to throb, reminding me that I should head directly to the freezer now before I meet up with my brother, his wife, and the new baby. They’ve come in from Redmond, WA to visit dad. So it’s off to ice I go!

Oh, and by now you should all know that I highly recommend Primal Fitness. If you live in the Metro area, it’s a great gym for learning parkour and in general. They also have an olympic weight lifting class that looks like it kicks serious ass. If you want to get in shape in a damn hurry, this is the place. Never been to a Gold’s before, but I dare say Primal Fitness will get you there faster.

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