Want to learn parkour in Dundee? The future of DUPK

Hey everyone! Thanks for checking back, yet again! :)

So, Dundee Parkour (DUPK) hasn't been holding any jams/training for over a year now, and I wanted to update you guys on the situation.. I am living out in Los Angeles right now, pursuing a career in the action film industry. California is pretty sweet, and I'm thinking of staying here for at least the forseeable future..

So.IF YOU WANT TO DO PARKOUR IN DUNDEE, check out my friends over at http://www.fifeparkour.co.uk/

"Fife Parkour Coaching"

They are a relatively newly established group, who run parkour and movement classes in Dundee, and several other cities throughout Fife. Check them out, you'll make some awesome friends and have an opportunity to journey into this awesome sport and way of life!

As this will probably be one of my last posts on this blog, I would just like to thank EVERYONE for your continued support! Thank you for making our group something really special, it was amazing getting to know you all and to train with you through those years! THANK YOU!

If you'd like to keep up to date on my travels, videos, films..or if you'd like to get in touch, check out my website - http://www.rusticb.com

Stay safe, train hard, and make sure you never stop growing and having fun!

- Rustic B

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This blog will stay up as an archive for the articles I've written, and so we have a record of our triumph! :)
Also, the DundeePK youtube page will stay up! http://youtube.com/dundeepk
..as well as the twitter page! http://twitter.com/DundeePK

St Andrews Spring Gathering & Jam 2011!!

..will be held on Sunday 20th March, 2011!

This will be our third annual spring St Andrews gathering!

Note how the "type" of jam isn't specified. This is because everyone is welcome. We would love to have freerunners, trickers, bboys, and anyone willing to learn come along!

We will kick the day off at 10:30am at our usual meeting place, the St Andrews bus station. The Spring event is always the best one, as the weather turns warmer and everyone is eager to be out training.

St Andrews has plenty of various spots to both trick (grass, beach, sand dunes) and to train parkour.

You can find some videos of previous jams here: http://youtube.com/dundeepk
But remember, this year is not strictly for parkour, we are celebrating all movement! :D

Once again, ALL are welcome! There is no cost, other than remember to bring some pocket money for lunch and bus. Also, bring your cameras!!

If you are coming to this jam from further away, please let me know in advance if you need a place to crash or any other help, and I'll see what can be arranged! The majority of us will be traveling from Dundee, and we will be catching the 9:30am bus to St Andrews. Return ticket from Dundee is £5.20.

I really hope to hear from you guys, and if you have any questions/concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me at: 07760 474207

Cheers, and see you soon!!

-Rustic

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On a side note, this will also probably be one of my last big jams in the UK for a while, as I am moving to LA in May. So it would be really great to hang out with as many people as possible! =]

St Andrews Winter Jam 2010 - last updates

Hey everyone,

Tomorrow is going to be amazing!

We are going to meet up at the St Andrews bus station at 11am, and should have an amazing day!

Here are some final pieces of info..

Things to bring: Water, Music, Cameras, Food Money, extra socks, and emergency Warm Clothes!

If you are arriving late or by car and need to park, or if for any other reason you won't be at the bus station at 11am, pleeease dont hesitate to call or text me on: 07760 474207

Can't wait to see all of you tomorrow!! Our first Winter jam should be jammin'! :D

-Rustic

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For people who are coming from Dundee, I will be at the Seagate bus station at 10:15am and will take a bus into St Andrews at 10:30..

News and Updates for 2010!

Hello everyone,

It's been an amazing year for our parkour group! I believe we've come a long way in terms of self-development, as well as raising awareness of our discipline.

Thank you to all of you who attended, supported, watched, and made this year as great as it was!!

I've got some news, updates, and the summer schedule here..

Training times for the summer are:

Wed - 12pm at the Overgate penguins in town

Sat - 12pm at the Overgate penguins again

I will also be out training hopefully every single day that the weather permits, so if it is ever sunny and you're up for some training, give me a txt!! (07760 474207)

Training will now be of a diferent format, the Wednesday classes will be run more like an actual class, and the difficulty level will be predominantly for beginners, but might get harder depending on who is able to attend.

Saturdays will be more of a "jam day" where we will run through a warmup, and just spend the day doing random training.

The UK parkour community in general, will have more jams this summer. We are hoping to have a jam in a different city every two weeks, so keep checking the blog and forums for updates!

This summer Rustic is hoping to go to LA for a month, so we will make sure to either let you know if classes are finished, or to appoint someone else to lead them.

The next jams will be in June, starting with either a Kirkcaldy or St Andrews jam!!

Thanks again to everyone who has supported us either physically or mentally this year, and please be sure to check out some of our new videos!! (DUPK 2010 sampler is on its way)

http://youtube.com/DundeePK

Thanks everyone,

Rustic
07760 474207

Dundee Spring Jam 2010 is almost upon us!!

Hey guys,

Our 2nd annual Dundee Spring Parkour jam is this Sunday!!!

I'm starting training at 10am (so txt me if you want to start early)... but the jam starts officially at 11am at the Seagate Bus Station!!

I hope to see u guys there, please try and come along even if its just for a bit!! We should have more people from outside of Dundee there, this year, so it would be cool to show people our strength of numbers! :D

07760 474207

-Rustic

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Afterwards we'll go to Jimmy Chungs, like last time, so bring food money! :D

St Andrews Jam Video!!

Hey guys,

The St Andrews jam video is finally up!
Thanks for waiting the 3 weeks it took me to get time to edit it...I hope you enjoy! Please comment so I know what you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk7oRiFPvM

..and sorry I didn't get everyone who attended into the video...but I'm not in it either ..I just didn't get enough clips, as I was planning on the jam being 2 days instead of just one..I did put everyone in the credits though! :D

-Rustic

Dundee Spring Jam 2010

Hey Guys!!

Our 2nd annual Dundee Spring Parkour Jam will be on the 25th of April, this year!!

It would be amazing if everyone we know could come along, so we can show the other guys from around the UK that we have a strong community!

I'll have time to do a proper write-up a bit later, but make sure you reserve that date as free!! :D

-Rustic

St Andrews Spring '10 Jam Re-cap

It was amazing!

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who made it to the jam today!! You guys really made this day as great as it was! I really hope we can get everyone together again sometime soon! ..we really had a great day, and couldn't have asked for better weather! Traceurs attended from all over, we had guys from Glasgow, Dundee, Kirkcaldy, and areas in between. As I recall, we had around 17 freerunners, making this one of the biggest and most succesful jams we've hosted!

The day kicked off at quarter past 11, at the St Andrews bus station, where we met up with some of the Glasgow guys. We made our way along to around the back of the University for warm-ups, and spent about a half hour on stretching, quadripedal movement, and the eyeing of the amazing training spots there. The rest of the guys who attended the jam showed up at this point, and we had a grand total of 17 traceurs for the day! Sadly, after just managing to warm up, we got asked to move on by campus security. Well, being the courteous freerunners we are, we moved on, resolving to come back nearer to the end of the day..

Up next, we headed off to the british golf museum spots. Here, everyone was in their zone, and a lot of 'sweet moves' were soon dished out. Among the more daring movements were; huge kong-precisions over a drop, precisions and cats over an even larger drop, and general mayhem that would probably have older people reaching for more cough-medicine "because this stuff is just so good". Here, we also indulged in some tricking on the grassy areas, and Andrew got handstand-to-benches, after several rather awkward failed attempts (got one on camera! :D)

The 2 crates of Monster Energy we got given for this event were half gone by this point, and we decided it was time to take some sponsorship photos. So Andrew got creative with perspective and got videos of people jumping into, cat leaping, and doing flips into and over cans of Monster.. After spending about an hour or so at the golf museum, we crossed the near-by parking lot, to the rocky outcrops at the end of the beach. Until about 2pm we were lost in our own little world, trying bigger and bigger precisions, some rock climbing, picture-taking, and several new flips. Cameron landed his first side 540's today!! They look kind of like front 540's, but better! We will hopefully see one amongst the 2 or 3 videos of the day.

A reporter and a photographer from The Courier came along at about 2:30, and we had several interviews and pictures taken. We had a very good talk with the reporter, and I'm really looking forward to reading the article! (should be printed on Monday)

After the beach, we stopped by Tesco to grab some food, and walked over to the Cathedral to get some "scenic training". The beautiful ruins gave us the opportunity to practice quite a lot of different rock-climbing routes, as well as a lot of different sized precisions and little runs. Over here everyone also did quite a bit of tricking and flipping. I almost got my b-twists back, while Ross got his slant gainers again..then one of the glasgow guys (sorry I forgot your name!..Sam?) went and did a b-twist to swing-through gainer, as well as a cork, and blew us all away! We spent an hour or so at the Cathedral, finishing the last of the Monster, getting another couple of sponsor photos, and generally chillin'.

At this point we all decided to go back and try the spot behind the University again, but quite abruptly we got asked to leave again, by campus security (idk why, but hopefully next jam they won't be quite as attentive)..and we all made our way to the "grassy, raily, and wally" spot in front of a cafe in the town centre. We spent about an hour here training all sorts of different movements, including some which probably shouldn't be considered parkour.. Most of the guys who were there, landed Wilson's "standard" kong-precision on one side, and I got some amazing, and amusing stunts on film before my camera battery finally died (stupid forgetful-ness of the charging of my own camera! xD)

After it started getting a bit darker and a lot colder, and after another stop at Tesco, we walked over to "the ruins", a spot we haven't trained at in St Andrews, before. A couple of guys had to head home shortly after (it was around half 5), and the rest of us had a very nice cool-down stretching session, followed by a stop at a cafe and a surprisingly quite painless (unlike the usual) walk to the bus station..

All in all, I would have to say this jam was really a great success!! Everyone had fun, landed some new tricks, and got to meet and socialize with new people.. And once again, thanks to everyone who made it today, and I really hope we can all get together and train again very soon!

-Rustic

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I will hopefully have my version of the video up within the next few days. I didn't get too much footage, so it should be a very quick and painless edit.

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I really apologize to everyone who expected this jam to last for 2 days, but only 2 people who came on the first day would be able to make it to the 2nd, and we just decided to train in Dundee on the Sunday, instead..

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Is that too many p's? ..sorry if I went into too much detail!! Tell me what you think?

St Andrews Jam is now 2 days! :D

Guys, (skip to the edit at teh bottom please! :D )

I'm very sorry for this last-minute change, but the St Andrews jam has been re-scheduled for the 13th of March (this Saturday), instead of the 14th of March, as the 14th is Mother's Day.

I knew it was Mother's Day when I scheduled it, but I didn't realise until yesterday just how many people wouldn't be able to make it to the jam as a result..

The good news is that you still have a week to change any tickets you might have to the day before!! We're proceeding with the same times, but if you can get here earlier, that would be great, as I would love to go to St Andrews for 10am instead of 11am.

If you show up in Dundee and noone is at the bus station, make sure you txt me and catch the next 99 bus (any letter) to St Andrews! We will hang around the St Andrews bus station area until 11-11:30 as planned, though!

I hope to see you guys there, and make sure to text and call me if you have any questions, as that would be faster than email! My number is: 07760474207

-Rustic

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I'm really sorry for any inconveniences I might have caused by this! xD

[EDIT]
OK, after several complaints (sorry, guys) I've decided this will be a 2-day jam!! So if you can come to both, please do! And if you can't, I hope to see you on at least one of the days!!!

March 14th - St Andrews Spring Jam 2010!!

On Sunday March 14th,

Dundee Parkour (DUPK) will be hosting the second annual St Andrews Spring jam! Come one, come all!! Last year's jam was a great success, with a lot of traceurs attending. This year, we are looking for this event to be an even greater success!!

St Andrews is a beautiful town, and to the people who come, this will be a great opportunity to spend a day in a very scenic and friendly atmosphere, with fellow traceurs from all over Scotland (and hopefully some people from England!)

The jam will kick off at 11am at the St Andrews bus station, and we will be jamming until sunset! Bring money (for lunch), cameras, friends, and most importantly bring yourselves and the friendly banter!! We will wait near the bus station until around 11:30, to make sure everyone gets there, but then we're off on our day! I really hope you guys can make it, as this is definitely looking to be a great day, with an amazing atmosphere, and we also will have a couple of photographers and maybe even videographers (DusaTV) there!

The technicalities:
Make sure you have March 14th free.. If you book now, megabus tickets should be dirt cheap, and I will meet up with everyone who gets the bus, at the Dundee bus station no later than 10:30, after which we'll catch a bus to St Andrews. A round trip ticket to St Andrews from Dundee costs around £5, and if you end up getting a later bus, you will still have time to catch the St Andrews bus (any of the 99's) and make it to us.
Also, it would be great if whoever is coming, or is thinking about coming, could please send us an email to dundeepk@gmail.com so I could give potential journalists a rough headcount for the event!
If you would like to call/txt me with questions, or anything else, my mobile is: 07760 474207
Hope to hear from you!

-Rustic

Ice Training in Tayport

Yesterday, on Dec 28th, I took a trip over to Tayport to do some winter training. This was an event I organized two weeks in advance, but sadly not many were able to make it, and the day progressed with only me, Ross, and Cameron (of the Street Devils) training.

The day started at 12pm. I took a bus over from the Dundee Bus station. This was my first time to tayport, so after asking for directions for when to get off a couple of times) I finally made it. Upon arrival, Cameron and Ross's mom very generously fed us all with soup and hot food, before we went "out on the town".

The training started with a nice set of parallel rails, close to their house, after which we went down to the primary school, where we found some amazing precisions and cat leaps. Here we spent about an hour and a half, training to the soudn of Jedi mind Tricks (they've got some amazing music!) We foudn several interesting combos, and Cameron and I spent about half an hour perfecting a short "run" between another two sets of rails.

From here, we went (and slid) over to a pond near "the common", which ended up being completely frozen over. Here we spent about an hour, testing how far we could get out onto the ice without it breaking, and I'm very happy to say that all of us survived without falling in to a very cold and wet fate..

Then we slid on over to check out an adult-sized (I think?) playground, where Cameron showed me the incredible potential of the place..had it been warmer, I would have gotten some great footage there!

As it sadly grew darker and colder, like it does around 3:30 these days, we went back to their house, where we spent another half an hour practicing muscle-ups and filming random things.

I'm very pleased with the way that the day went, and I definitely want to train in Tayport again sometime! Also, training in the cold and ice isn't as bad as it sounds, I feel it actually made me more aware of my body, and the cold temperature is actually quite invigorating, and keeps you awake! :D I only wish it wasn't soooo slidy..

-Rustic

Dundee Parkour updates and some Kouro Media news!

Hey everyone!

Just to let you know, we will be resuming our "classes" as we had them last year, starting straight after re-freshers week! We will be at the re-fresher's fair, getting students to sign up to our "club" (as they call it) after which we will have several beginner sessions, followed by several jams!

At the moment, I hope everyone is training! Don't forget to do some sit-ups after the feasting of the past 2 days! ;) And on behalf of DUPK I would like to wish all of you a VERY Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!!

I really hope this year will bring us some good weather and opportunities, so we can seize the moment and train the hell out of this year!

In other news, Kouro Media (a media endeavour I've started has just launched a new series called "Assassination for Dummies". It is broken down into lessons, which are voiced by our very own Andrew (ask)! So please take the time to watch, and help support our new media production branch!! And I think you will enjoy them, too! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhQcqmnybA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAyAnjTPn1Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_CC2gMrLFk

If you have any questions please send us an email!!

Seasons Greetings,
Rustic

The Castrator - DUPK VIdeo Tutorial

Hey guys,

Just posting a short, fun video we made during the summer. Calum Mccune brings you a new parkour move, cleverly named (by him) "The Castrator". Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXU--wLbC0

-Rustic

Dundee Fall '09 Parkour Jam Video

Yes! It is finally edited and uploaded!

Enjoy this footage of the Dundee Parkour Jam, edited to music from Jedi Mind Tricks! Sadly, I wasn't filming the whole day, so some parts are left out, but the Street Devils are going to release a big video of all of the jams this fall, in the near future!

Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUWeo7A5ZXk

-Rustic

Gym and Film Project Updates

Hey everyone,

Just a quick post to bring you up to speed on what's going on in DUPK and Team Kouro / Kouro Media at the moment..

Seeing as it gets very cold and dark early in the days, we are switching out schedule around a bit..

Thursdays: Gym sessions at 3pm, might get changed to 4pm depending on attendance.
Saturdays: PK is still on at 1pm in town, unless I say otherwise on the forum during the week. This Saturday (Nov 21st), we are having a gym session from 12-1pm before going outside to do some filming.

In regards to the film projects, Team Kouro (stunt team I started), is practicing a lot for falls and other stunts that we will do in the future. My script is in production at the moment, I still have to write the dialogue, but the filming is already in pre-production with a (hopefully) launch date in mid-spring. This saturday we will be filming some moves we've been practing, to include in our showreels, and we are also filming a short film that Andrew (ASK) has come up with, to practice our filming, editing, and stage-fighting techniques. Expect that to be up in a week or so!

If you have any questions, email us at dundeepk@gmail.com or better yet, go to our forum!! It's at: http://dundeepk.proboards.com

-Rustic

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Twitter has our most recent updates: http://twitter.com/dundeepk

Team Kouro launches Kouro Media (press release and IMPORTANT info for everyone!! must read!!

Hey everyone,

This will be a very important post in the "evolution" of DUPK and Team Kouro. Team Kouro is a tricking/stunt team started up in early 2008, and now we've launched a new branch which is called Kouro Media. This is the official "release" and we're hoping to publish it in a future press release, once we get a bit more projects finished or under way. Anyway, here goes...

*******PRESS RELEASE*******

In September of 2009, Team Kouro (a performance/stunt team started in early 2008 by Rustic Bodomov) launched a new branch called Kouro Media. This is a very important development in the entertainment industry for this part of Scotland. Based in Dundee, Team Kouro consists of a group of free-runners, traceurs (practitioners of the new French urban sport known as Parkour), Martial Artists, Trickers (people who practice for extreme martial arts displays), and stunt-men and women. The team also includes several videographers, graphics designers, and is hoping in the near future to sign on a couple of music artists for their film/video productions. The stunt team has members in several points throughout the UK, but also reaches to several countries such as the USA and Australia.

Right now, Kouro Media is in pre-production for a couple of films they will produce this Spring and Summer, and team Kouro is training up and organizing future roles in the UK's film and music video industries. You can find out more about Team Kouro and Kouro Media on their forum, which is located at: http://kouro.proboards.com/ ; and you can see some of their demonstrations/showreels at: http://youtube.com/KouroMedia and http://youtube.com/TeamKouro

Team Kouro is also organizing to teach classes, and will be available for sports performances and for various events in the near future.

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What do you guys think of this?? We need to get crackin' on some showreels and samplers!!
Let me know what you think, guys!!

-Rustic

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we will be organizing a photoshoot for everyone who is part of the team, and is involved with Kouro Media and Team Kouro! This means everyone who was at the jam...basically every traceur/tricker (who's at least decent) in Scotland...try and not make a huge hype about it, but let people know that if they've never met me before, they should email kouromedia@gmail.com first with a sample of either their stunt-work (parkour etc) or if not that, then music/graphics etc..

The Dash Vault - personal tips

Hey guys,

Last thursday noone showed up for training as it was raining, so I decided to train by myself for a bit. I went to a wall to practice some vaults. After about half an hour of video-ing myself doing different vaults, I tried a dash vault. Now, I haven't really trained these much recently as a result of some conversations I had about the "useless-ness" of it in a realy situation.

Anyway, getting to the point. I found a way to do the dash vault much better and faster than I used to teach it. I have video of it, but I'll put it up in a few days. Basically, (as some of you know) wghen I used to teach the dash vault, I used to say spread your legs while you''re in the air, vertically, and kick out, landing one foot at a time. The problem with this usually was that you'd still land with both feet at the same time but without front-wards momentum, effectively stopping or slowing down your run.

The "new" way I found to do it (this might just be a personal discovery also), was that when you do the dash vault, you should still spread your legs, but only for a tiny bit. (maybe like a foot's distance between your feet) You should still land with your legs one at a time, but if you do it this way, it lets you concentrate on carrying your weight forwards instead of up and then down. The 'new' motion also makes you feel like a tensed spring, and when you land, you land much faster and can keep running. In my opinion, as long as the obstacle is just like a "normal" sized wall, the landings are better after the dash vault, then after a kong or even a speed vault. I will definitelyuse this one more in the future.

But once again, this might just be a mixture of personal preference, and just a move that suits my body type/weight etc.

Hope you found this little article useful, and a video will follow in a couple of days! It will be on: http://youtube.com/kellock71

Train hard,
Rustic

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

Kirkcaldy Fall '09 Jam Review

Hai Gaiz!!

Here's my re-cap of the Kirkcaldy jam. Unfortunately, due to some drunken escapades in Leeds, I wasn't able to be there the whole day. But my train arrived at 1pm so I'll tell you what happened from then on ;)

As I said before, I arrived at the Kirkcaldy jam at 1pm, this past Saturday (26th). All of the guys who attended were nice enough to be waiting for me there, as I have only been to "kdy" once before...the weather was really rainy and grey throughout the whole country on Saturday, but after a couple of hurried texts, everyone decided to come out to train anyway.

The first place we went to (after grabbing some lunch from Tesco) was a multi-story car park. As it was raining at this moment, we really tried to keep to sheltered (roofed-in) areas, to avoid "catching the greyness" of the day... I'm not sure which car-park this was, but I do know that we had about an hour's woth of fun here. We trained different climbing techniques to go up and down the stories, we trained "ground zero" stuff, as we traversed one of the outside walls without touching the ground, and closer to the end of our car-park time, we found a nice set of corner rails to practice some flowing movement. Cameron (Street Devils) was the only guy who had a camera on him that day, so I think he got some pretty good footage from our efforts..

After the car-park, the skies began clearing up a little, so we braved the outside and proceeded to the Kirkcaldy beach area. here we found an interesting Kong-Precision over a VERY cold fast running stream..after a couple of tries by "Jonathan the Brave", I along with a couple of more guys removed our shoes and gave it a try. It was some pretty scary stuff, but we did manage to make it across (most of us) without getting ourselves extremely wet and cold.. After this spot, we went along to some BIG abandoned concrete blocks just laying there in the sand (I think these were either building foundations, or left-overs from some kind of war) and here I practiced some "runs"..it was very interesting trying to find different routes through the blocks..

Further along the beach, though, we all found a place with some soft sand to practice flips into. Here, we spent about an hour and a half, and some of the landed tricks were a Double Cork (off of a big block, by Wilson), an aerial twist by one of the guys (sorry forgot your name!), and Jonathan came really close to landing some of his first front flips! :D

After spending some "quality" time with the blocks, we went back towards town, practicing some big drops (big jumps and landings) into sand, and just generally trying to find a more interesting spot. We eventually came to right outside of tesco, where we practiced trying to stay quiet while moving across concrete terrain...the day ended soon after, and as I sat on the train on my way back, I thought it was another jam well run! Seriously, I think we've had a lucky streak or something, looking by how good all of our events for the past month or two have been!

I hope you guys enjoyed this review, and I hope to see you at our next gathering! We are either planning to go train with the Urban Elite guys in Glasgow, or go to an Edinburgh gymnastics gym training session next!

-Rustic

Dundee Fall '09 Jam Review

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

Kirkcaldy Fall Jam - 24th October

Hey guys and girls,

I have just received confirmation that the Street Devils (fife) will be hosting a BIG jam in Kirkcaldy, on Saturday, the 24th of October. Everyone will meet at 11am outside of the train/bus stations, which are about a minute apart from each other, then meet up to start the day. The jam will go on until about 6pm. Several videos will be made, among them the "Kirkcaldy Training Part 2" from the Street Devilz, as well as the first few clips for the new project DUPK is working on..as well as samplers and jam videos, of course.

This jam will be the biggest jam for Kirkcaldy this year, and we are expecting a substantial turn-out, so please try to be there for this historic (sort-of) event!!

This jam is set to be on the last Saturday before the end of the October holidays, that way everyone should be able to make it, and you should all still have Sunday to rest up before school starts again. This will basically, then, be held on the last few days of the last "holidays" before the end of the year, and quite possibly the last opportunity to jam in the nicer spectrum of the Scottish weather. After this jam, everyone will be either holding small training sessions, or jams..but we don't expect there to be turn-outs bigger than 10 or so people.

In the past, we've had lots of jams with people from different areas participating, and everyone is once again welcomed back to our side of the island for an awesome and fun day! The next big jam over here will be the Dundee Spring Jam, in April.

Anyway...to get off of the depressing subjects, PLEASE COME ALONG!!! And please try and get as many people as you can to come, too, as this jam should be bigger than this year's Dundee Spring one, with about 25-30 people.

Hope to see you all there!!
Rustic

ps
If you have any questions, please take down these numbers:
James - 07889 133159
Rustic - 07760 474207