Madrid Parkour

I feel like I should explain my current situation. Madrid is my current location. I'm here because I'm taking part in a series for BBC Three, which we are filming for over the next four months. The idea is that we (the group of five guys of which I am one) travel to eight locations around the world and complete some form of training in a specific discipline. Our previous location, location one, was Ecuador. Madrid is location 1.5, due to a change in schedule, so we stop here for a while before going on to Russia, which was location three. We will fit in location two some time soon.

So I've just got back from a long recce around Madrid looking for some good spots for training. Parkour is one of my main interests and I have been training for around 5 years. I come from Hertfordshire in the UK where we have an online forum for anybody who would like to come and train with us (www.hertsparkour.co.uk). Anyway, I have discovered that Madrid holds a lot of promise for Parkour and I am actually surprised that I did not see anyone training.

I feel good about my level of ability today. For a long time I have been feeling down that my progression is not as I would like and I feel like I have been limiting myself. However, as is my usual way having not been able to do much Parkour for a couple of weeks now, I return to it and find that everything feels more refined. Also it is fantastic to be given new training locations every week or so.

Also on my travels I have discovered an amazing vegetarian sandwich bar called 'Maoz', that I now hope to visit for breakfast and lunch every day. As if I needed any more encouragement to find food it is opposite a Pizzeria that smells amazing but that I have not yet had a chance to try. I am glad that I have found this road as it has so far been extremely difficult to find vegitarian food in Spanish speaking countries.

This evening I think we are going to go out for a bit of a rave with some others from our hostel. Firstly I think I will have to try out this pizza place.