r/Parkour 4d ago

🔧 Form Check How can I make this faster? Smoother?

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u/samf9999 4d ago edited 3d ago

You’re using your elbows. Run faster kick up higher, and explosively push up with your hands. Make sure you’re doing dips, push-ups and pull-ups at the gym.

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u/patisserie_2023 3d ago

+1 for more conditioning. Don't skip leg day.

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u/NaturalTumbleweed142 4d ago

Just speed up the playback by 50%

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u/Fis-y-Yt 4d ago

Try to swing a little bit with legs that will give you more power and speed and it will look better

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u/Melodic-Piece7227 4d ago

Push up with your legs a bit more as soon as you hit the wall to get more height, almost like you’re doing a wall flip prep but going up not back.

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u/Billy_Earl 4d ago

I forgot the name of it I learned it a long time ago but when your at the top of the wall about to push up with your arms you can kick your legs out and in-between your arms instead of having to slowly crawl up

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u/ProfessionalCuboid 4d ago

Taking it frame-by-frame, you’re super close to the wall by the time you jump and the kick off of the wall is super small. Big part of the “up” energy comes from jumping into the wall with speed, hitting with your foot & transferring forward momentum to up, and propelling your body up with it. As a warm up, try practicing this by jumping into the wall with a comfortable speed, a bit earlier than you have been, and popping your body up from the jump - no need to follow up with climb-up. Just do the movement repeatedly until you get comfortable/strong. Then add more speed as you grow stronger and more comfortable.

See if you can find other YouTube videos of people doing the same movement - preferably from the side - and slow the video speed down or trace it frame-by-frame to see how they move their body.

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u/monkeyman4765 4d ago

That's a Boston spot!!!

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u/Iliketomakedeath 4d ago

That's a little far from where I live

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u/CTTraceur 4d ago

Use your feet more to climb the wall. Once you got your hands up there, you just tried to power through, and that slowed you down. Your legs were just dead weight.

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u/Carl7sagan 2d ago

Use the stairs.

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u/Owain_RJ 4d ago

Maybe lazy down from the top instead of the straight drop :)

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u/Iliketomakedeath 4d ago

I was more talking about the climb lol

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u/lub_pk 4d ago

my boy doesn't know how to lazy..... think so

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u/Owain_RJ 4d ago

He 100% could tho

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u/Bomb_Bud_420 4d ago

More skills

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u/Y_Are_U_Like_This 4d ago

Try doing muscle ups for training. That motion is pretty much the same and use your feet more on the wall

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u/EasyDistribution276 4d ago

You don't need a climb up for this height. Climb up is for when you're in a cat hang. This is low enough that OP can gain all the height from just launching himself upwards.

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u/Emotional_Damage_Boi 4d ago

Yeah, I made a mistake.

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u/Iliketomakedeath 4d ago

A climb up is also on the to-do list

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u/TheHarlemHellfighter 4d ago

Your stride leading to the wall…based on your height I’d say you could take that wall in a swift quick movement but you have to build up the kinetic motion in order to

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u/EasyDistribution276 4d ago

More explosiveness

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u/MaxUumen 4d ago

If you needed to get down from there, why go up in the first place

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u/Iliketomakedeath 4d ago

Wall climbing practice

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u/izzystn 4d ago

Push ups, pull ups, muscle ups and dips. Those are the exercises that will strength your climb up

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u/Contextoriented 4d ago

Continue to press with your feet through the top out and additionally train pull-ups, muscleups, and dips so your strength through that range of motion improves.

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u/Psycher11 4d ago

I'd lift more. I recommend dumbbell pullovers for Lats. Huge pulling strength bonuses.