Simple Question?

[zon]

I have a simple question to which I think there isn't a simple answer!!

Q: Why are we ,as a Indian parkour community practitioners still don't have to skill level as the international practitioners!!
is it a question of:-
1.will
2.training method
3.landscape lack
4.sheer Indian procrastination and laziness??
5.all of the above!!
what is it???its bothering me deeply!!

[k9++]

Time in training.

They have had more number of years in training. And more number of hours each week. They haven't been asked to sit in for board examintaions and engineering entrances (the way we have been in this idiotic country ). That's one reason I'm trying to get out of here ASAP. It's so f***ing important to "study" here, that you need not be physically fit or mentally happy. I was asked not to attend my OWN grandparent's funeral because of studies. WTF??? In no country in the world, is studies so important that you even think of choosing between studies and attending an immediate-family funeral. This country is f***ed up and destined for a truckload of bullsh*t. I have only three emotions for this country: Hatred. Hatred. And Hatred.

Call me a traitor, I don't care. I can live with being disliked for telling the truth.

[NOS]

Answer to Animesh's question - All of the above, including whatever Kingshu said.

I think it all boils down to a complete lack of suitable infrastructure, coupled with Indian lifestyles.

It is also a question of will power - if you love something badly enough, you will find a way to overcome all obstacles between yourself and the thing you love.
http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/4919/378/


And lastly, the people internationally who you see are so good, are the ones who are into parkour professionally. All of them. Because only the ones who are into it professionally will have so much online exposure that everyone in the world will know of them, and how good they are. None of us here are into it professionally. I'm sure if you tried to become a professional in this tomorrow and started training for it day and night, you would become pretty good at it too.
There are traceurs out there internationally as well, who are just like us in their level of training. You don't get to hear of them because they too, like us, do not do this thing full time.

[Zshallburn]

Lack of a proper gym or proper training equipments.
At least that's what slowing me down.
Then yeah, we Indians do procrastinate and are genetically lazy
But some strive to change that. It's all in the head.

In UK, America, there are "Open Gyms" where they even train adults. No wonder.. any random chum in UK can do a series of different moves.
Here, gymnastic is only for kids. Or if u want to get in a SAI gym or somewhere its standard you must have like a million years background. Why? Not like I'm going for a national level competition or something. You will be ridiculed if you're 20 and approach a gymnasium looking to practice.
Few days back I spent like half an hour trying to convince them that the thing I do will need some training in the gym [I went to a SAI gym as NOS adviced]. But NO! The narrow minded fucks won't allow anything other than gymnastic. I'd have paid them for God's sake!! And even the so called "National Gymnasts" here can only do some by-the-book prehistoric moves that are pretty intermediate compared to Russia UK's standard. No creativity, no encouragement here!
My parents thought cricket is THE thing. Only if they'd have taught me something more physical like Gymnastics/Martial Arts. I'd have been more flippy and strong now. As a kid, even I thought cricket is THE thing. What a dumb kid I was.
But that's the way it is in India. Nothin to be depressed about. Hell I''ll still go on with whatever I have! Age does matter but u can still beat that. Like I said, It's all in the mind.

[k9++]

looks like this is gonna be the thread where all of us vent our frustration.

Also, have you even seen the depressing indian streets? Duliajan, being a small town, is the only place i can think of in this nation where i can actually go for a pk-run from one end to the other. The so-called advanced cities are bullsh*t. There's traffic-clogged streets, barb-wire fences, walls topped with bits of glass as anti-theft measures, non existent hand-rails, filth, garbage, dirt, mud, open sewers. Pk in this??

[Zshallburn]

Yeah.. adapt, evolve.
I was actually trying out a no handed wall hop on a small wall, imagining a line of glass shards above it. Still not successful. You guys try it out too. A more advanced version would be a no handed hop, then dive over the wall, cuz u really gotta shift your weight forward. [OK I think im talking fantasy by now]
But again, no harm in trying as long as you're doing it safely.

[NOS]

This is for you Diptarko.
http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/5235
The same guidelines apply to both asking for free materials as well as asking for permission to train.

Try it and see if it works sometime. If not, heck, the maximum anyone can say is 'no', so there's no harm in trying, is there?