St Andrews Jam '09 Review

Hey everyone,

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who came along to our jam yesterday! The day turned out to be great, the people were awesome, the tricks were awesome, and most importantly, the weather was awesome! ..even though it was supposed to rain most of the day..

Sadly, Mike and I were the only guys to attend from Dundee, but we also got five more people from Glasgow, and 4 from Kirkcaldy, at the last minute, so our participant total was 13 people! The jam started when we got to St Andrews at 12:15pm. We kicked it off with a tricking warm-up session on the grass outside of a church by the St Andrews bus station. Just when we arrived, we were greeted with warm smiles and pats on the back from everyone, and we introduced ourselves, and got introduced to the new guys there for the day.

Soon after, we decided to make our way to Tesco to buy some lunch, stopping at some more random and interesting spots on the way.. After "replenishing" ourselves, we took the whole group to around the roof area of the St Andrews Golf Museum. (From the side we approached it, though, the roof was at ground level) After a half-hour session there, we made our way closer to the beach area and practiced a lot of different flips and tricks off of a concrete block, onto the sand. At one point, we were amused to find a group of about 50-60 university age girls (we guessed that they were on a tour of some kind) standing a bit further away, and cheering us on! After showing off for their cameras for a bit, we decided to head off to the beloved St Andrews sand dunes..

At the sand dunes we all got to learn some new tricks, and re-learn our old ones, as there is almost no fear. Admittedly, there were some close calls (including myself), but I'm glad to say that noone got injured, and everyone had a lot of fun!

After the sand dunes, we headed off to the cathedral, where we practiced some actual parkour movements, and where we all got our group pictures.

As the day was drawing to a close, we all stopped by a burger shack to grab a bite, and then walked everyone back to the bus station, to head for home.

Once again, I am very happy to say that today was an awesome day, and I can't wait for the next jam that will be organized!

I also want to thank the Street Devils for hosting the jam in St Andrews, and the Urban Elite guys for making the effort to come down from all the way out in Glasgow. Thanks to you guys, we all gained some experience, and definitely a lot of footage for our samplers and videos!

Keep Training,
Rustic B

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The next thing we organize will either be a Kirckaldy jam, or a big trip to a very good gymnastics gym in Edinburgh..so please keep checking our forum for the latest news! http://dundeepk.proboards.com

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The St Andrews Jam video will be out within this week hopefully.