Hey Guys and Gals,
Firstly, I would like to thank all of you who came down yesterday, and made our jam as great as it was! We had people from Wishaw, St Andrews, Fife, Dundee, and areas near Edinburgh. Sam, Andrew, and I were the only guys who attended from Dundee. In total, the jam comsisted of 11 freerunners (just 2 less than the St Andrews Jam), and ran from 11:30am to around 6pm, with immaculate weather.
After meeting up in town with one of the guys from St Andrews, James, we headed up to meet everyone at the Bus Station. Our jam then commenced with an hour long warm-up session at a set of walls across the road from the bus station, before we made our way back towards the center of town. Here, we waited for the Urban Elite guys to show up, before practicing a series of very big precision jumps, a couple of flips, and some more "naturally-flowing" tree climbing techniques.
An hour later, we headed off to Roseangle, where we practiced some tricking (Sam landed his first front tuck here!), and some more flow training at a spot with a corner railing and a very slippery wall. Tommo pulled off a very good tumble pass here, consisting of a roundoff, 5 back hand-springs, ending with a back tuck, while I got my standing back-tucks and b-twists (sort-of) back!
Another hour or so later, we were off again, to a new spot that we found recently, called the "fishy wall", which is a VERY good spot to practice dyno's while trying to ge up a 10-14ft (it slopes) wall. On the way there, though, El had a pretty epic bail on one of the spots that we used to train at. He tried to do a tic-tac off a wall and grab a walk-way bridgem but his legs accidentally swung under and he fell onto his back and wrists/elbows. You'll see this in our jam video, though...
After hanging about the fishy wall for a while, we all headed back into town to grab some food, before attempting to train at Caird Hall for a bit. Right on que, though, the usual security guard came out and told us to leave, so we headed towards another new spot we found, which is behind the Wellgate. Here, we practiced some very large precisions and cats, with various-heighted drops in between. I'm happy to report, that noone hurt themselves here, and even when James managed to pull off a front flip off of a 10ft wall nearby...
To close our jam, we headed to our usual training spot around the back of the Overgate, where I once again managed to perform a 13ft wal-run, while Cameron landed some tunnel-flips on concrete..but here two very unhappy guards came out (why, I'm not sure, because we always train here and they're fine with it) and told us to leave...in a very rude way o_0 (bastards?)
So after about 6-7 hours of hard, yet fun, training and jamming, we all decided to go and said our goodbyes, but not before Andrew managed to crack some class jokes at "other people's" expense. After the Urban Elite guys, and some of the street devilz decided to head, the last 5 of us headed to Jimmy Chungs for some long-awaited grub, and an all-you-can-eat buffet!
I'm very happy to say that I think our Dundee Fall jam went even better than planned, and I think everyone came out of it having learnt something new. I, for one, didn't feel the usual pains after a jam, but rather I felt the muscle tiredness, and "satisfaction" from a jam that went well.. Please keep a look-out for our video, which should be out within this week..thanks for reading, and I hope to see all of you, and more, at our Spring Jam 2010 in April!!
Peace,
Rustic
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