By Caroline Goes from ES, Brazil.
One weekly training and one of those movements where your mind holds your body back. Yes, I was there without courage to try to do it for the first time. A half hour later… So, a friend of mine (who always helps me) arrived and sat next to me. I thought that I would hear him say “Go! You can do it! You can make it!”. But, what he told me was that I was limiting my body. “You have the flexibility! You are taller than me and you were thinking that you can not make it and so you don’t even try!”
Ok! I did not expect to hear this. But, I noticed every time that I am training I look around; I think of all the negatives possibilities if I make a mistake. I can see each detail, rocks, holes, heights, distances… Everything takes my focus from where I want to arrive. It reminds me of a Bible passage in that Peter saw Jesus walking on the sea and tried too. He was going to Jesus, so he looked the waves… When he lost his focus, he began to sink into the water. But, in parkour we don’t have Jesus to help us when we fail or fall and giving up is the easiest option.
Trying another day, changing the place, sitting and imaging are always easier than trying again. Oh!! The mind is a very important thing in parkour. I stopped to train and thought about what that guy told me. Why am I forgetting my mind? Why do I not trust myself? Another friend distracted me and made me repeat to myself that “I can! I can!” I stopped to think where I was and began to think about where I wanted to arrive. I focused only where I wanted to be and I jumped.
