A new day a new ambition.

A sudden strike of inspiration. I grab my camera and pick up my pen. On such a dreary day the sun has not shone brighter. I look out upon the world with clouds stretching to the end of the sky. I stand in the cold rain but all I can see is the greatness the world holds. All I can feel is the warm feelings of my friends and family. A raindrop falls on my spine and bring chills through my body bringing me back to reality. I look out upon the dreary world and smile, because the sun will always shine.

I wrote this on the spur of the moment, and I have another poem blossoming in my mind that I want to accompany the pictures I have taken. So here you go, another view into my mind.

Peace, and remember no mater how bad it is, at the very least this insignificant boy you have never met... He still want you to smile and would be willing to take whatever pain you have just for that chance.

A small view into my mind

So for no real reason the thought of gaining anything I wanted through wishes came to mind. It occurred to me there were a few things I wouldn't wish for, for example: excellent skills in parkour. Then there were other things that I would not mind wishing for, like knowing several languages. My mind kept wandering on this subject for a little while. After the thought played out in my mind I started thinking about why I had those choices.

Something to try.

I was thinking doing a few posts about exercises that I personally like, and showing how they are done ect. ect. I'm no doctor so I don't know the specifics of what these work out, so I won't be able to say "This will do this specifically." I would say "I feel it here and here." So quite possibly that's where it is working. I'll probably also include parkour exercises, although that would be harder because I don't have a tripod currently.

What do you all think of this idea, something you would look forward to reading?

A quick mention - Ease of broswing

I don't know what most bloggers here use but I use the html editor. I've noticed though a lot of links on blogs open in self:

"<a href="link here" target="_self">Text here</a>"

is also

"<a href="link here">Text here</a>"

A bit more information

So yesterday night I posted something talking about making a new blog. One that would be parkour specific. I decided as I was writing it that I would do just that. A lot of you gave some quite awesome responses. You all have inspired me even more than before. I'm going to start the blog Monday, in the hopes someday I actaully make something out of it. I won't expect that though. I'll do it because it is something I love. If my dreams come true then everything turned out better than ever.

"Do what you love." Someone said, and if I can do that and possible make something out of it. I actaully don't have words for it. I'm sure a lot of you understand though. On this blog I am doing what I love and talking about what I love, of course. The parkour blog would be for the intention of making something out of it. A blog like this is fine, but a blog like that could gain and keep a viewer base.

So I will make it, but I don't know what to do. I'll ask again, what would you like to see out of a parkour blog. I need to be spending time on making a banner for it, a good, not too busy background, a good design... It will be work but work worth doing.

Late night thoughts

It's not really that late. 11:30pm. Well I guess depending on your perspective. So I've talked about how this blog is just full of too much and does so little. I'm seriously considering making a parkour blog on it's own, I'd still post some things here about parkour but that would be the main one. Everything else here would continue as normal.

I was reading a few things and everything kept saying "one topic" this and "singularity" that. I'll be honest I want to make a few extra dollars a day writing up little things like I love to do, but I'm not trying to make money here. All those things were talking about making money so it's not really prevalent to me. That being said it still gets me thinking should I really? I think it would be more work maintaining more blogs.

I wouldn't make a separate blog for reviews or thoughts or anything like that, just because those are only things I type about because I just kinda want to say it. I'm not thinking about those gaining any gain at all. Parkour though, that is something I love and can see actaully working for me in a monetary kind of way.

These things were talking about full time blogging. My only though on this is "Can that be true?" If I made a parkour exclusive blog could after a year or two it turn popular enough to sustain myself while sharing rent with a friend (next year a friend and I are renting an apartment.) Let us say 500$ for rent a month. My trust ol' calculator says... I would have to make an average of 17$ a day just to make rent. So to live (as I would be freeloading a bit off my friend) I probably would want a ballpark of 40$ a day from ads.

Well I get around 2$ a day right now. Maybe it is possible... I don't know if I can build a large enough of an audience. I would have to work at it no doubt and I don't know how to really monetize on things like this. What kind of content would I even put. Training logs? Weekly videos? Tutorials? Hm... Videos would be really hard, my computer is not made for video editing in the least.

I think starting Monday I will create a parkour specific blog, but I need help, what would y'all like to see out of a blog of that kine? Don't worry though! I will still post here. This will forever be my idea dumping ground, or my excitement vest of a cool controller I get, or peaks into my daily life. I won't leave you guys, you're too cool to leave ^.^

Peace, stay awesome until next time.

Onwards and Upwards

I made this a few days before this blog. I just thought I'd share it here. :)

Original post date: May 10th 2011

"So something happened to get me to say:
If you believe you have no value then you don't. If you believe you are great then you are. The only thing that matters is oneself and one's own opinions. Only if you believe in yourself can others believe in you. Sympathy is not deserved by those who seek it.

God I am such a hippy."


I then posted that on facebook and the responses got me to say:


"Ultimately how you feel about yourself dictates how you act. If he didn't have confidence in his swimming he wouldn't swim well. If you tell yourself you can't do something, then you can't.

If I told myself "That kong is impossible, I'll nev...er get it." then I won't, I wouldn't even try. but if I though "Shit this is hard but I will get it." I will, albeit through practice.

Attitude has a lot to do with our daily lives and it's why we can't go around feeling sorry for ourselves. It is why we must always look onward and upward to better ourselves, further our knowledge, and move forward."


"They can, but not to their max potential. If someone truly believes they can't do something, most of the time they won't even try.

"If you really didn't believe you'd succeed, then you wouldn't have tried at all." ~ Tonedeff - Optimist

But t...he problem is: If you think and say you can't but still try, you will never reach the max you can. Only those who believe they can and those who truly want to further themselves will continue strong in a world of weak. There is not only physical strength, there is mental strength. The strength to push through fear. The strength to look past obstacles. The strength to stay strong through hardships.

Only those who believe in themselves and their capabilities are truly strong. As Eli said, "Self fulfilling prophecy" Make your own path."


"There is an obvious line to draw where you must work yourself up to. Timing is not a factor. If you say you will never be David Belle level then you won't. If you say you can, some day through hard work and determination.

They can do things, but they will never reach the heights of someone who believed in themselves, and it will take them longer."


I felt the need to share with you all. Remember, life is awesome, you are awesome, and you can do what you want if you believe you can. I may not always agree with thing you guys say but I love you.

I love love. I hate hate. I wish we could all hug and be friends.

Wow not only do I have long hair, but I think like a hippy. I must agree with everyone on that one.

More ideas

Normally I'd just update this maybe three times a week, but this is the grand opening day. This blog is almost to act as my diary. That's kind of how I see it. Sure I could make multiple blogs for parkour, music, reviews, thoughts, but why not condense it into one melting pot that is my life as a whole. I'll probably use labels so those who are here from something more specific can find that exactly. Like photography perhaps? Maybe later this week I'll throw a photo dump onto Flikr or PhotoBucket and link it here., then anytime I add picture update such here. I'll do the same with my youtube.

Strange I claim to want to keep everything together here even though having a selective audience would probably gain me more viewers when on youtube I have three accounts. My personal account, and two others, one for gameplay commentary, the other for parkour videos.

I suppose one day each this week I will post sometime like my Flickr, then my parkour youtube, my gameplay commentary youtube. That way I can ad labels to each for those to find the specifics and space it out.

Some stragling thoughts

I'm waiting for money to transfer from my paypal to my bank then I'm going to buy an ukulele. I love that instrument. To be honest I like string instruments the most. I'm going to pick up my flute again and play it a little bit. Then plug in my headphones to my keyboard and play that if I'm up late at night, though that isn't high on the list.

I'm never satisfied where I'm at, I always thirst for more knowledge. I want to do everything ad there is so little time for any of it. I need to stop being so ADD and get it done on at a time. I have to prioritize what I want to learn, do, and accomplish. I think my first track should be finishing my GED, although I've already passed both practice tests and I'm just being overly cautious. While I'm getting that done I'll do little things like learn the uke's cords and play fun songs on my flute. Continue to work out and train a little bit too.

If you would have talked to me two years ago my life revolved around parkour. Every day I would be training. I don't have that anymore, I always push myself to be in top shape sure, but that's different. That's me trying to stay to my claim of begin strong both physically and mentally. Parkour has been put more on the back burner, I still do it, and I plan to for the rest of my life, but I'm not pushing to make everything better every day and bigger stronger moves. Not to say I'm satisfied where I am now, I never could be. There are just other things in life now.

Parkour opened my mind to the world. It allowed me to see everything in a new light. It taught me to progress, to push myself, to make myself better than before. It introduced me to people I would have never met. These people have been a great influence on me. I have learned so much from them, you could even say I learned to love from them. They are truly my ʻohana. Through these people and my training I learned of so many other things I would have shut my mind off from. So many cultures and people working together as a community I learned a lot about people.

Parkour was a door to an entire new world. Now I train because it's fun and it is who I am. I train to better myself, but now I must better myself further. I may be great at parkour (though others would disagree) but that's only one thing. There is more to life than parkour, and parkour has taught me that. The people I met through parkour have taught me that.

Music is one major thing. Music is awesome. I don't know what the fuck these labels called "genres" are. Some people are so close minded. Yes I do understand you might not like a certain kind of music and be legitimate about it, but some people hate some music or artists because it's cool to hate them. The hate some music just because they like another and there for that is the only "good" music. Music is the blood of life. It flows through everyone of us. It is one of the many thing that make life, just plain awesome.

I want to pick music back up, never as a career. Only want to pick it up as a hobby. Thus why I plan on getting an ukulele. The uke is popular here anyways. I also have a few friends that can teach me how to play. So out of the guitar style instruments it's my top choice. I'm picking the flute back up to play fun songs and learn a a bit more because I already know how to play decently. I might as well, but it's also going to be a back burner style hobby. The keyboard will also be back burner as I won't be actively learning it, but I'll still try on my downtime.

What else in life do I want to do? Well this far I want to learn to code in HTML, CSS, PhP, MySQL, C++, AS2. That's a lot. I also want to start tricking. There is also my dancing to get down. So much to do and only more will come along. If I tried all these and the music at once it wouldn't work. That is why I need to pick one thing at a time. So what do I do?

I'm thinking about learning the Ukulele first. I'm here in Hawai'i with great friends who can teach me. Next year I plan on leaving the island and renting an apartment with a friend, so no better time than now. On that not what will probably come next is AS2. My friend and I have a game idea that sprung from the tabletop game I'm developing. We want to create this game in flash, where he'll do the art I'll be the coder. What better time to learn that when I'll be in the same room as him.

Perhaps mix break dancing in after I get proficient at the uke. Tricking I'll probably work on slower or later. It's not something I want to do soon, never has. Oh god I just remembered, martial arts. Well that will wait until I can pay for classes. Just one more thing to add to my list.

What I need to do is sit down and set a schedule. I must spend these days or these times on this, I can dick and ADD around any other time but these times I must focus. That's one thing that would help majorly.

The strangest thing to say here is: art isn't one of my focus, and by art I mean drawing. I love looking at pretty art sure, but unlike music, or parkour, or coding, or learning, drawing isn't there. Strange.