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I hope you could also ask Callum's mindset during his jump in Hong Kong. Cause storror members said that was the most challenging or scariest jump they ever attempted and Callum did it twice.
I just wanna say this: Fear is your greatest friend, if you know how to talk to it. Above all else, fear is more honest than anyone you'll ever meet or know. It tells you exactly where you are, be that physically, mentally or just on the technical level. It tells you what you need to work on. At least when it comes to parkour. Fear is not to be battled or suppressed, but embraced to better understand yourself. IF you're not ready, the fear will let you know. However, you have to know how to work with it. If you let fear just run rampart, you'll believe you can't do anything or be ready for anything.
Love this, although I like a much simpler phrasing of this: "When you aren't feeling it, don't force it." Martial arts has taught me the importance of grasping the feeling first, and then the technique behind it, to really master techniques. From there I've realized how impactful feelings are when potential danger requires us to greatly rely on our instincts & muscle memory, instead of trying to be super analytical and psych ourselves out of a challenge. Only thing is, when we get good at shutting off the part of our brain that wants to say no. We've got to figure out how to still keep ourselves within safe reasonable limits. Otherwise injury happens, rather physically or even just from build up of mental pressure.
I see why you chose these two amazing athletes for this topic. Benj goes in deep and rips out the fear with as many exhales as it takes while Dom doesn't give himself the opportunity to expand on it, hence creating the habit of just doing it and often saying: this is my job. So, he just has to do it. And on the other hand, I think Benj loves POV filming because he can hear his breathing when rewatching. Love this! 🔥
lol I do extreme sports, I do things that are incredibly dangerous because they are dangerous - and I can say its not for adrenaline - but for the complete and utter peace I feel as I do it. It all comes down too the moment. The illusion of the past, and the future fall away, and all your left with is true reality, the present.
I think the end takeaway is really powerful; being able to reframe that mindset from "someone who can't do this" to "I can do this if I try" is a huge lesson that parkour's taught me over the years. I've always been a more fearful person, and even though that fear's still there, parkour really helps you learn how to expand your boundaries and make some scary shit happen! Amazing video, this one really knocked it out of the park :) - Tom
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Jimmy, for me this is the single most valuable video of yours I've yet seen. I'm nearly 70 so I'll never be a freerunner, but I've been in plenty of situations where I've had to battle, break down or outmaneuver fear. I'm learning that the real danger lies in teaching yourself techniques to avoid those situations. All you're doing then is teaching yourself to get old. That's gonna happen with or without your help. Someday someone is going to produce some groundbreaking research on parkour and mental health, but in the meantime, thank you for helping me stay young.
This is so right in every way. I don’t do parkour, but i do another action sport, mountain biking, and even just doing the sport on a lower level i understand this idea of things as challenges not things you cant do. I used to see redbull rampage and say “those guys are stupid” and now i see it and say “those guys are some of the most skilled people I’ve ever seen.” Its the same thing with my own skills, i used to see a 6 foot gap drop and say “i cant do that” but now that I’ve practiced i do it almost every weekend. Fear management is a thing I am working on and this video is a great way of explaining that to non action sport people. Nice video as always.
Literally the same dude, there was this massive 30 foot drop at a forest that I’m like I’ll never do that, but after tons of practice I went and did it with full confidence. And confidence comes with experience.
I have major anxiety issues so basically everything causes me fear. But I feel like this is a really good mindset to apply to my life, genuinely thank you
Breathe. Always breathe and imagine yourself in a calm place. Practice breathing, it will slow your heart rate down (which is the centre of anxiety). Imagine being in control and that everything around you is safe. Keep doing this and you will get control. Long slow inhales, long slow exhales (even longer than the inhale). Think of saying 'aaaaaaaah' as you exhale. This will drop your blood pressure for sure and you'll feel clamer.
I used to struggle with being at least mildly scared of nearly everything, especially new things. Maybe related to me possibly being autistic. But taking on challenges helps so much. Since starting parkour earlier this year, my intrusive thoughts got much better because by taking on parkour challenges all the time and battling with fear makes me feel so much more in control of myself. Maybe parkour could be good for you!
Parkour is definitely something you can start on a very basic level, like pracitising on some stairs or rails. You should start with very easy things that don't require any momentum to do right like safety vault and then you'll see what you are comfortable with. I've seen a guy with a dad bod practising parkour who was doing things which were suitable for his skill level. I'm sorry it's a pretty long comment but the takeaway is that parkour is really for everyone
Parkour is for everyone. Babies do parkour when they crawl for the first time, walk, run. Regardless of how old you are, just getting down and crawling under the dinining room table and getting up on the other side, can be parkour. Practice it and make it quicker, find new creative ways to do it, even if your bones are quaking
The only times I've been badly injured while doing parkour have been when I've tried something go haven't done before. Practice builds confidence, and you shouldn't try any jumps you aren't confident about
Agreed. Same here. When I first started pk I used to hurt myself a lot. But after hours of training I can do more difficult jumps by minimizing the risk. Never give up. Life is a series of obstacles
Exactly that! For me the current 5th metatarsus fracture happened from a jump I haven't done before but it looked so silly easy I didn't even prep well and do... with the consequence
@@Woodzal yea. I don't hurt myself that many times. Benn doing pk for 3 years and never fractured or broke bones or amything like that. Most of my friends that hurt themselves badly didn't prep for the jump and simply sent it. When you do that, you din't calculate the risk
I'm not a freerunner, but i wanted to share my fear anyways. I think the thing that causes me the most fear is this thing i'm working on, or more accurately, the thing i want to be working on, but am terrified to start. **This is a really long comment. And i dont expect people to read what amounts to my whole life story all the way through. I should probably save this kind of thing for my autobiography. (if i was actually planning on writing one anyway, but i have no interest in that.)** I've always been the kind of person to look for a shortcut instead of putting in the effort, this is probably because i've struggled my whole life with energy and motivation. I suffer from a mostly undiagnosed mental disorder that distorts my perception of sensory information. Theoretically, it could have been so bad it made me schizophrenic, or so mild it made me bad at remembering lyrics to music or something. But what it ended up doing mas making eating a viciously unpleasant experience for me. They used to call me a picky eater as a kid, but when i was 5, i almost died of stravtion, because i had been secretly throwing up all my food after meals. And my family had to face the grim reality of the situation i was in. Everything about eating sickens me. The texture of food, the feeling of swallowing, the way i can feel it being digested...Have you ever heard that fun fact, that digestion is really painful, but your brain tells you not to worry about it? Well my brain doesn't do that, so i feel every inch or the process. Its torture for me to eat, and has been since i was a child. I've had to be put on IV's in the past because i couldn't keep food down and was nearing death. Everyday i am forced to do something that makes me feel sick and uncomfortable, just to survive. So the result is that i can't do many things, and my body is constantly trying to find ways to optimize my daily life to conserve energy. From silly little things, like asking my brother to fetch the remote for me, all the way to calculating how frequently to breath, or deciding that the effort of reaching up to grab the cereal is more than the cereal will give me back. To say that it has crippled me would be no understatement. Since i cant ever do much moving, my muscles are atrophied to a dangerous point. I train everyday, as much as i can to fight this. By doing low impact exercise like going on long walks, or sitting up without using my arms to strengthen my core, but i cant do much more than that. I cant lift more than 30 pounds without my legs buckling, and probably never will. It's because of this that i became an artist. It was the only thing i thought i could do in my condition, and for the last 5 years, i've had something big brewing in the back of my mind. This comment is already ridiculously long enough without me going into an explanation of what it is, so i wont bother since the details aren't important. All you have to know is it's something very important to me, and that i feel like i need to do, even if it kills me. I'm not the type to have big, grand dreams and aspirations. If i manage to swallow a bite of something that day it's a victory, so you would never catch me saying something bold like protagonist in some action movie. In novels and shows the heroes always climb up to the rooftop, and proudly proclaim that they will be the next hokage, or that they will avenge their father's death or something. Watching that always made me feel weak, knowing that i could never dare to dream so big, knowing that i will never have that kind of motivation. This is the closest i have ever gotten to the wild and daring dreams of my heroes, and it feels like if i cant do it, then there is no point in living anymore. What am i, if i cant even do this.. Something only i can do, that uses the one skill i have? Finally doing it would prove to myself that i'm not worthless.. But still, i cant start. Its to big, its to daunting. It would take years, and for all i know i might not even live that long! If i do it, it will be the hardest thing i ever do in my life, by a factor of a million. What if i start, and half way through, i realize i cant do it. That its just too much. I'm determined to do it by myself, so what if its so hard i cant manage it alone? And i have to resort to teaming up with someone? That would mean i wasn't strong enough to do it myself, that even with art- the one thing i'm good at! ..I'm still not good enough to meet my own expectations.. But the scariest part, is what happens if i do it? What do i do next? Will it do what i'm hoping it will, and make me believe in myself again? Push me to even greater heights? Is this only the first trial of many to come? Or is this the cliff i climb, only to reach a plateau, and never go higher.. Will finishing it just leave me empty, and devoid of purpose in life? Once i start, that means that i will one day end. Maybe it's better to live knowing i could one day try, than to actually try, only to fail. For the last 5 years i've been putting off actually starting. I would do all the planning first, that way it would be perfect, and then half way through, i would decide to change everything because: "It could be even better, if i just keep thinking, and i dont rush into it" But that just made me keep making it bigger, and bigger, and more and more unachievable, until finally..Its hard for me to imagine it living up to its potential. Hard for my to imagine being skilled enough to do my planning justice.. i'm here at the end... Its perfect, i cant even imagine a way to improve it any further. But honestly, im glad i waited, i really am. If i could go back in time, and show myself from 5 years ago, what it has become.. I wouldn't have believed my eyes. But since i can't justify delaying it anymore, its finally time to put my metal to the grindstone, and try to make it a reality. Right now, im standing at the starting line, and once the gun is fired, i can either run towards the finish line, or stay put, and let these last 5 years go to waste. It probably sounds like an easy choice to make for you, but for me.. its not so simple.. If i back out now, i will never have to face what happens next. I cant live the rest of my life imaging the magical heights i could climb, and never have to confront the ugly truth of my limitations. So it's safer just never begin... iv known that from the start... It's much safer to just sit here, and wait for my body to finally shut down for good. But can i really leave this world contented like that? Could i even live with myself knowing i failed myself so miserably. My brother says "If you dont think you can do it, then dont. Nobody expects you to push yourself like this. You dont have to prove anything to anyone." But he's wrong. Well half wrong at least.. He's right that i dont have to prove myself to anyone, but i still have to prove it to myself.. That's what he doesn't understand, what he never understood.. Nobody expects me to do great things, because they assume im incapable of it. But i dont want to be weak, i never signed up for this! They just assume that i never wanted to do great things in the first place, and that i use this condition to justify my laziness. And maybe they are right.. But i can i really except that? That not who i am! Or at least, that's not who i wanted to be... But despite saying that. Can i really do it.. A part of me says i can't, that its simply too much. But i can't tell if its the logical part of my brain, or the self-destructive part of my brain that's saying it.. So... i'm afraid. Not just nervous. It's not 'the jitters'. Or whatever things people usually feel. For me it might as well be life and death. Its fear, real fear. Fear that keeps me up at night, that makes me sweat through my shirts. The fear that i can never be enough. That my life is pointless. And that i'm doomed to die full of regret and shame. This videos helped a little i think. Hearing about how Don Tomato just counts to 3 and jumps.. It feels similar to what i have to do.. Just take the plunge, and have confidence that iv put in the work and the practice. That i'm good enough already, and just need to let go of my fear and trust myself. That it if i really didn't think i was capable of it, that i would have given up a long time ago.. So thank you for that. Especially in these difficult times, everybody needs a little confidence boost now and then🙂
Went to my first parkour lesson a couple of days ago. Guy told us the first day would be about coping with fear. As someone petrified of heights it was really useful even if just standing and looking over a small fire exit was a pure 'fear is the mind killer' moment 😅
I really want one of the big Parkour crews to train at my work place (university of Leeds)... I don't do Parkour, but I love watching it, and especially being able to look at gaps in person, and think "Wow - people can do that?!" Inspires me.
As a child when out with friends I found that I was afraid of heights, nothing unusual in that but what I also found out was that I was even more scared of showing fear to other people. This has led me to do some really terrifying things throughout my life, but it also means that I have accomplished far more than I ever dreamed was possible. If I'm on my own I will walk away but if others are there, nothing will stop me.
1:50 - cheeky feature 👀 personally I'm starting to feel like I'm able to cope with fear and mental blocks and over come them. For me, the key is just repeating moves you're comfortable with and learning how to bounce and crane ect
12:20 "It is true of any subject that the person that succeeds in anything has the realistic viewpoint at the beginning and [knows] that the problem is large and that he has to take it a step at a time and that he has to enjoy the step-by-step learning procedure" From the universal mind of bill evans (One of the great jazz pianists) He knew, Storror knows it, everybody who peruses what they want truly knows it
I’m into freestyle skiing (rails and jumps and stuff) and these processes are very similar to what I do, this can also be applied to a lot of other sports like skateboarding and snowboarding as well. For me the biggest thing was to commit, because most injuries come from not committing, not not being able to do it. Backflips are a good example of this
For me the thing that scares me is not being confident in my abilities. I know I have the distance I just dont know if I'd piss up the landing. I have only been training a few years and I can see myself getting better but I think especially foot placement does me in because every time it's a little different and I dont yet have full control over my legs
that awareness is also your tool to become better. That's the thing about fear, or atleast how we freerunners/parkour people use fear, is that fear is your greatest friend. If you know how to talk to it. Fear, above all else, is more honest than anyone you'll ever meet or know. It tells you exactly where you are, be that physically, mentally or just on the technical level. I remember what it felt like, not being ready for a jump that i should easily be able to do, but afraid of because weird angle or whatever that triggered. What i did to overcome that, was 2 things. 1. Breathing, like Benj talked about 2. Start doing easy/short precisions from slightly weird angles or positions, preferably on rails so that feeling was even worse. I used to really hate doing rail precisions. Now i look for weird angled rails. When you've done enough variations of 1 thing, you'll get to a point, where it's just the physical barrier that becomes the obstacle. Like... i can't do standing 16feet precision, so why even look at that? :P
I totally feel that. I've only been training 3 years but, sometimes, to get over my fear(temporarily) I think of the people that matter most to me. Usually that helps. Also if I dont get it the first time, I'll never get it for another year lol
Hiya just wanted to say im 43 and have been rather obsessed about watching parkour and freerunning vids for a while now, mainly as my son introduced me via ronnie shalvis. Then found ryan doyle, storror, dom tomato etc. The thing is, back in 1989 when i was 12, i was basically doing parkour without realising, mainly as no one knew what it was. I always wondered why there was a strange desire in me to want to front flip off small two foot walls etc, i think it was the fact i idolised bruce lee and all things ninja, but it was their acrobatic abilities that really captivated me. Now over 30 years later i really love the idea that what i obsessed about all those years ago has now become this amazing sport and a small part of me wish i was 20 odd years younger lol! But ive surprised myself through doing aikido also, that i can still do this stuff with my body, pk rolls mainly but would love to take this further in terms of ground based flipping etc. It really does seem the future of adult exercise, but cant help but feel people would think its me avin a midlife crisis lol! Would be great to hear some thoughts on how, freerunning can be practiced into middle age and beyond. I remember thinking years ago wouldnt it be great to have adult play parks, and now they exist!
Please check out @asbeau1 on Instagram, he is around 50 and trains very well in London & the founder Sébastien still trains and is the most energetic person I've met! Contact your local scene on Facebook or a gym. I'm sure they'd be very welcoming.
I'm 42 and got interested in parkour about 5 years ago, but I'd had a pretty bad bike accident that wrecked my shoulder, major surgery and a year's recovery before I could use my arm again with a decent range of motion, and I was getting to that stage of life where it was clear that I wasn't indestructible anymore. My joints and bones didn't feel like I could trust them with impacts like I used to (in gymnastics, martial arts, etc). I thought there was no safe way I could get involved in such a high impact sport at my age. But over the past two years I've been experimenting with diet and related biohacking, and now I feel like I did as a teenager again (and weigh less than I did then, with more strength and way more endurance). Joint pain and feeling a bit fragile are gone and so now I've started on parkour and I'm really enjoying it. I think that a lot of what we've accepted as the natural process of ageing isn't that at all, but the slow accumulation of damage from the relentless assault on our health over time (mainly from the food we eat). The science just isn't there yet to know exactly what to do to fix it, but I encourage anyone feeling like I did that wants to be able to do stuff like this again to experiment on themselves, read the research that is being done, measure the relevant parameters like inflammation markers (standard bloodwork) and epigenetic age if that's available where you live, try things (diet, stress management, sleep) and see if they move the needle. If they don't, tweak them until you find what works for your body - the results can be amazing.
as a street skateboarder its cool to see the scene of freerunning/parkour, theres a lot of parallels between the two as far as battling fear and making use of urban environment
I really like the idea of breaking down something that you might fear into smaller elements you know you are capable of. A lot of times I'm scared about going into new situations or roles in life, and I think the idea of breaking things down into elements that i can work on seperatley or realizing that I'm already familiar with some aspects in a different setting will be very helpful. Thanks for the awesome vid and life advice!
The fear of failure. When I write stories, I'm too focused on avoiding what could go wrong, that it restricts my writing capabilities. I need to stop worrying about failure so much so that I can write to the best of my ability. But my inner critic keeps building up that wall! I'm gonna break through it some day I hope
This is a great question! I recommend anyone to watch Free Solo - about the guy who climbed El Capitan without a rope. “If I feel adrenaline, it usually means I’ve messed up”
Really enjoyed this video! I've had quite a struggle with fear recently, which stemmed from accidentally doing double twists instead of singles. I let it get to a point where I couldn't trust myself to commit to anything, even basics like kong pres and backflips, because I didn't know what my body would do once I was in the air. So I had to take a step back, start from the beginning and work my way back up, training moves that didn't scare me as much and experimenting with more creative movement. The key to my progress was learning to have fun training even if I wasn't progressing, so I could regain confidence in my mind and body. I'm still too scared to do things like corks and double fulls, but now I'm at least comfortable with my movement again and able to challenge myself mentally. Interesting to hear from professional athletes and their experiences, there's definitely a lot to learn!
Oh my word, my heart when Lucas the Spider showed up... I melted! Also, I think I realized I was obsessed with parkour when I get really excited to see your parkour essays all the time!
Great video. I spent last year getting a skydive licence, it took 25 jumps. Everything you said was how I tackled it; breaking it down and visualizing everything I am going to do before I do so, so that I know everything that is about to happent. Likewise getting in a relaxed headspace is the main focus over the 10-15 minutes it takes for the plane to get to altitude.
So true. I'm 100% into climbing since a good year. I did overcome so many obstacles. I think this is the one true reason why you need a hobby. It makes you realize, that everything which looks impossible is something you can propably do. So without a passionate hobby you got no motivation in life. But if you care about your hobby, you will always master your life as well.
I've been struggling to do a side flip on flat ground instead of off a trampoline or diving board, and I think that this video has helped me to overcome that. Thanks Jimmy!
FUD. Fear is based on Uncertainty and self Doubt. Remove the Uncertainty and the Doubt and you have nothing to fear. Your comment about looking at things differently is exactly the right attitude. Kudos to you guys. Some very dedicated athletic skills being put to use. Parkour should be an olympic sport IMO.
I think my problem is not only the fear, but that I'm not actually confident in my abilities.... like I don't actually really know quite yet what I can and can't do, so that leads me to be even more fearful. But thanks for this, overcoming fear is a great thing to do. :)
10:54 yeah that'll also help many aspects of your life if you make promise and you actually do it, it'll become a habit and you'll stop procrastinating or giving up and be more productive
my biggest fear on doing parkour is intercepting gravity by rolling... i'm not comfortable on my roll when i applied it to big drops... but when i do it relaxed and calm it's almost nothing happened...
It's mainly hurting myself is causing me fear. But not anymore now thanks to my own personal developments, accept myself, moving on and this is video of yours made me want to continue to do what I loved without fear. Keep it up with what you're doing, my man!
I overcame an obstacle with swimming a few years ago. I never learned to swim until an adult and even then I rarely swam or just went in shallow water. I also had fear of being underwater. Even when canoeing I could never do the underwater flip back upright again because I'd panic underwater. I have also got more & more scared of heights as I've got older. After starting swimming again a few years ago, I'm proud to say by the end of 6 months swimming, I was diving head first from the high board, and swimming underwater 25 metres along the entire length of the pool
I can verify that the feeling of being invincible leads to danger, a few months back I had a pretty severe leg break doing triple backflip, simply because I didn't know my limits and figured since I had never been seriously hurt up to that point nothing would go wrong this time. It's important to reason through why you are scared before you do something and consider the potential risk; that one mistake set me back on so many months of training, I'm only now just getting back into it.
Randomly stumbled on your page this morning, been watching ever since. I'm not knowledgeable or a follower of parkour, but your insight and the way you construct your videos has me hooked! Earned a sub.
That driving comparison is super good. I skate and I would never do something that I was uncomfortable with unless I knew it wouldn't kill me lol! Everytime I drop in I know what can happen, but also know there is a good chance I can get out of it if things go awry, like on the 9-11 foot vert.
My biggest fear is things out of my control. Sure there are all sorts of this and that and the rest to reduce my lack of control but for me there things like my chronic illness that really are out of my control. At the same time, 30 years has taught me what you said about getting out of my mind and emotions and into my body. This is the second greatest reason why I love parkour. Being afraid is o.k. but I prefer not to be controlled by that! Breathing, rituals, etc. do work. The athletes that I follow talk about the challenges and fear in ways that are real and not drama or posturing. Awesome video!
It would be great to have that skill to be able to silence the fear part of our brain in certain situations. Maybe we will never use it, but unfortunately, sometimes during our life we could need it in a life-death situation. In fact, having a cold mind could save our life if we keep calm and focused. It's easier to panic and freak out when our life is in danger, and having this skill would be amazing. Nice video!
You should make a video on spot finding. A thing i've notoced over my 10+ years of training is that a spot is more about imagination. Sometimes (usually when travelling to a different city) i see a jump that the locals said they heve never even thought about it and they train at this spot daily. Another thing you can mention is spot building. Sometimes you can find stuff laying around, which you can use to "build" a spot. I like using loose curbstones to create kong precisions (just make sure you put them on grass, otherwise they slide around too much). Anyway, i love the videos. Keep it up!
Id never thought that something this silly but still so awesome could could become so big, I never thought that parkour would get so famous, I just wanna say thank you for starting this type of content!!
Nice interviews! And extended version of them will rock. The mental aspect of overcoming obstacles is one the reasons why I started parkour so I'm happy about this. Keep at it!
i do feel the pump when in sparring or working out or running and all that, but though the fear is there it is just at the start. but when i was attempting free running/parkour on my own and made one mistake (my shin hit an edge after an attempted jump) its like i was always afraid. even simple jumps from one point to another where i was 5ft above the other point i wanted to precisely land on the fear of heights just kicked in. parkour is just different man.. props to the people who overcome that fear there. you could probably kick my ass and beat me up or cut my forearms when i'm doing my best to get that knife away or if its just bareknuckles against few people but the fear of making that mistake when you fall IMPROPERLY is a really scary thing.
This video was really helpful because a lot of jumps i do in parkour i am about 50 percent of the time taken over by fear, it’s mainly hesitation over drops, even the smallest ones can give me serious adrenaline and jelly legs, however i’m looking forward to applying these teqnuiqes to my training to try and make me a better freerunner
Also for people who struggle with being in their head and paralysed by fear when facing a jump I have a trick that works 99% of the time: stop staring at that jump and do similar moves at lower risk for a little while. When you come back your body will have a reference and you'll be able to see yourself do the jump :D
JimmyTheGiant I've during school time once wanted to do the vault called ''monkey'' over a set of a bench and table, but I got a pretty good friend who was willing to repeatly show me how to do the monkey (i forgot how the start of the vault was done), and then gave me a good method to gain confidence. I always said ''I can't do it'', but with his help, I was able to gain enough confidence to do it by saying ''I CAN do it''. So to anyone reading this: If you got too low confidence to do something you KNOW you can do, just change negativity to positivity, like changing ''I can't do it'' to ''I CAN do it'', or changing ''I can't do it'' to ''I need to practice it''
That was perfect. I tapped the right side of my screen like four times a second into the sponsorship and it perfectly skipped to exactly the end of it.
I like how you described that shaky feeling of being full of adrenaline. And we dont want that when doing dangerous stuff. Like Im an alpine skier and rollerblader, if Im shaking Im gonna chicken out from the grind, gap, drop, huge air etc. To help with the fear, I reinspect the spot and visualize how im gonna do it. And then of course, you gotta send it. Camt stomp if you dont 😂
I’ve been doing parkour for 4 years and I have many ways of dealing with fear! But my favorite one has been the way the Benj does it! Break everything down step by step and I’m confident in my ability that I can do it so then I do the dom tomato strategy where in the preset moment I’m committed I take a deep breath and say 3..2...1 and at that moment I fully commit
This is why i love parkour, its so good for your mental health and physical health (not if you fall tho haha) its really helped me gain confidence in every thing including bieng social. And to whoever doesnt do Parkour and likes watching it should try something that takes mental strength to do it doesn't have to be parkour but thats my advice! Thank you for coming to my ted talk 😂
Thanks Jimmy it really helped me out a few years ago i started doing parkour and i really needed this because i can now normally face fear. Thanks for that!
I’ve been a gymnast for couple of years. Then I got injured, not really bad but I couldn’t continue anymore. After I fully recovered I wanted to do a backflip and I couldn’t do it. Something I’ve done hundreds of times and that I always thought it would be a bit like riding a bicycle. So I basically had to “learn” the backflip again. The first I ever I’ve done into water (and it worked perfectly) and then on the ground. It worked as ever before. It was just in my had.
As someone who has no interest in doing free running myself, I love this video since I'm in an activity called Drum Corps, where I'm apart of the color guard. I've only been in one group over one season (crossmen 2018) and before every show I used to freak myself out by getting way to nervous about catching tosses. My nerves and adrenaline caused me to over toss a toss on the rifle every single show. I knew it was nerves and not technique because each show it would be a different toss each show. Since then I've been practicing tosses and cementing my toss technique, but even now when I think about performing I get a chill of anxiety. This video (along with just talking with friends who know me) reminds me that I don't need to worry and I can be confident, not in myself necessarily, but in the years of practice and technique that I have. Now that I'm going back to doing drum corps (Blue Stars 2021 Babyyy) I can take lessons like these with me and remind myself before shows that I am able to trust in my technique and be confident. Thank you for that
great video man. you said it, life and evolution is parkour! i recently attempted to climb to the top of a tree, and i can climb it easy, but i'm held up by fear of falling. my obstacle is the mental barrier of fear.
Another great tool for concurring fear I often use is visualization. You play out in your head what your abut to do like a movie and when you do that you visualize how you succeed in the challenge. It's kind of tracking your brain to believe that you already got it. Try it next time you won't be disappointed 😉
Kinda at a point we're it feels like life's obstacles seem to bother. Think this can open me up to just seeing diff ways to get over them. Skated, did long jumps and tracks (when younger) and learned some flips playing around. Wanna try something new and get good at it too. Gonna give it a go and c how addictive this new hobby can b. Hope to c u all out and imma keep watching vids
I always try to break down a scary jump a bit. If have good trust in my abilities and if I see a jump and am certain to make it, I commit to it even though it’s scary, fear is just helpful to a certain level and often it’s irrational
Iv`e never been frightened of heights but iv`e always been wary of them. When i was younger i would climb all over the scaffolding on site 3,4,5 stories high. No problem. Now in my later years and the health and safety rules i cannot do it, but i still yearn to do it. These guys are absolute nutters but you have to admire them.
One thing I've learned in life (and have successfully applied to "fearful" situations) is that the fear of doing something is ALWAYS worse than actually doing it. The physical sensations of fear and excitement are exactly the same so it basically all boils down to what you tell yourself in your head; am I scared of this thing? No, I'm excited by it! I used this theory to conquer my fear of approach anxiety when I was single and managed to get to a point where I could fearlessly approach any woman I desired, stone cold sober and in broad daylight too. Now I have an extremely beautiful Georgian girlfriend who absolutely adores me and the confident vibe I project. Get out there and do it, gentlemen....and ladies!
This is my first year of seriously training tricking and freerunning and I learned that I have a lot of false confidence. Like I'm able to do the stuff but because I'm still subconsciously doubting I end up getting injured. Flips have been scary lately until I started thinking from my old gtramp point of commitment and now I can do a lot more stuff in fewer sets or run ups.
For me I try to escape to a calm place. I wipe my shoes and thats my mental cue that Im about to do whatever Ive just looked at. I hyper focus on the challenge, on the obstavle, on what I have to do, on imagining what that will feel lile, and then I go and focus solely on the task at hand.
I am a beginner and I really have fear.... I am feared of leaping, I hope you get that but i am like : ' if i wanna do that 180, i'll have to leap backwards towards the wall' and that is scary for me ... i am watching tis vid again and i'll keep visiting it to learn thanks jimmy , your channel is really underrated! it should grow [ and it will ; )
Jimmy, this is your best video yet! Fascinating essay. When you interview Dom he is wearing this sick Redbull tshirt... I really want one of those tshirts.
