25-11-06 Lincoln

It was wet training in Lincoln today, as we had expected. When I arrived at Ruskington station, I preceded with my usualy warm-up and precision practise, and then tried a running precision to a kerb, diagonally from a slightly raised platform.
It was pouring it down in Lincoln, so we decided to sprint all the way to Lucy Towers carpark for a warm-up and training. All 14 of us arrived soaking wet but in high spirits, and put the second to top level of the carpark to good use, jogging, quadrupedal walking, basic vaults etc. Despite our best efforts to avoid CCTV, some people went in full view on the tope open level, so we got kicked after about 20 minutes. Luckily by then it had stopped raining and we were dry.
We stocked up on lunch at the Spar, then headed to the only other undercover training spot, which is underneath City Hall.
I did some arm jumps from rocks to a slippy wall, with no overgrip, which I was very pleased with:



I also did some very far (for my height)arm jumps from ledge to wall and rail, which was at ground level. We all practised vaults and had silent landing competitions in our socks. Throughout this, the weather eased off, and by 1:00 it was dry enough to go out. We headed over to Usher Gallery, training on the steps and doing the Usher Challenge (where we got kicked not even half way round).
After this, we split off, and my group consisted of me, Jammie, Jack, Stu and Tumo, and we headed up to the Castle. A policewoman always appeared wherever we went, obviously interested. When we explained what we were doing, she left us alone. We made our way back down, and ended up near City Hall. We trained on the slanted walls, drilling tic-tacs and vaults. Then the brown rails, where we couldnt do a lot, and then we headed back underneath City Hall, for a warm down and more training, less people meant we could do more things, and we mainly focused on flow work.
Then, we headed back into town, and went to watch Casino Royale, which was amazing. I met up with my parents there, and afterwards we went to Nando's for a pig out.

All in all, it was a very good day, despite the rain, we all stayed positive and had a great focused training session. I managed to film some video clips and get some photo's, which I will make into a training video.

Acheivements:

3 large arm jumps
Increased confidence
Improved quadrupedal walking
Improved flow and vaults