Found out an interesting correlation with my mental/physical disconnect: the gaps that I get really uncomfortable with tend to be around eight feet across.

I used to measure things in parkour training a lot; then I stopped; then I started again, with refined intention. Measurement, though often counterproductive when used to infer causation ("It's eight feet across; I can't make that") can still be very useful to set up simulations: what degree does the distance affect you? Well, eliminate every other factor and find out.

Seems obvious, but I've found it is much harder to implement that program than talk about it, because it can be *really* boring and it's hard to keep focus in something that seems boring. But that's training in general: most of your time is spent working on becoming incapable of getting things wrong.

@tcql Yeah, I wish I had video from when I started to now -- I didn't bother because I didn't want to carry around a camera. (Phone cameras somehow weren't obvious to me.) I say eight feet is an issue for me, but I'm pretty sure that's a big improvement (three? four? feet) from when I started. I just don't have the records of it :P

@tcql Out of curiosity, where are you at? I'll be attending American Rendezvous in Somerville/Boston next week.

@tcql Oh, cool! Is that Urban Evolution? I've heard of a couple and met some people from the DC area, but I haven't been there myself.

@tcql It could be! I know of movement parks built in Denmark and other places, but I don't know the chronology. (I guess the Dame du Lac in France was a gym at one point too if you don't mind legalities :P)