Plant Parkour Eric Wolff (Airic) 2023-03-01 | Movement forms, especially animal forms have long been an occurrence in the world of kung fu, dance and parkour. Maybe unsurprisingly I’ve never come across anyone training a plant style before. When the question of how would plants do parkour popped into my head over ten years ago, I first envisioned it as a handstand form. Images of someone in a one arm handstand, strong and steady slowing moving their legs as if caught in a breeze. I still think this is somewhat applicable as a “tree” style of movement but it didn’t feel like it was the plant parkour style I was envisioning. Years later while watching an Attenborough documentary a timelapse segment was shown, vines were slowly overtaking the land, working their way up and through the enviroment. It finally clicked, this is how I had imagined plant pk. What you’re about to watch are my first attempts to explore the style, each piece was filmed using timelapse at 30fps with a frame taken every second real world time. Through these experiments I found a few things, firstly strength and flexibility were key components when you’re moving this slowly and secondly this is a great way to practice mindfulness. I’m excited to see how my understanding of the style evolves, thanks for joining me on this journey.
To post Eric Wolff (Airic) 2022-05-29 | Hey, it’s been awhile. I broke my phone 3 months ago, lost my contacts and took it as an opportunity to step away from social media and messengers. I took a semester of school and now I’m back to training daily. I’ll find my way back to social media eventually, the disconnect from the community has been interesting but it’s been peaceful to just move.
Instagram parkour compilation Jan. 20th- Apr. 30th Eric Wolff (Airic) 2021-04-30 | The rise of the vertical video formatI’ve been training a lot more the last month so the later half of the vid has more of my favorites in it
World Chase Tag training tips-WCT-American parkour, Part.1 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2021-02-01 | Like many that competed at the recent World Chase Tag in the USA it was my first time on the quad. Leading up to the event I increased my training load outside of PK massively. Lots of running, jumping and conditioning. Sprints, long distance runs and bike rides. It made me more fit for the event but wasn't very focused specifically to WCT. This video is my take away of somethings to focus on and train for future events
Attempt at back flip 1/4 pre slo-mo Eric Wolff (Airic) 2020-07-21 | I posted this clip so others could analyze the flip, watch the video before to see all of the attempts and sticks I made from start to finish
I did a thing (Back flip 1/4 twist pre 🧼) Eric Wolff (Airic) 2020-07-21 | I’d been looking for a spot to try this flip pre out and finally found one last night. Something about this flip just clicks for me. Here’s every attempt that I made at it
Instagram parkour/movement compilation June 11th-July 4th Eric Wolff (Airic) 2020-07-05 | Lots of training over the last month, getting back to the basics and really starting to feel like my style is starting to grow and evolve
Instagram parkour/movement compilation, Apr. 16th-Jun.10th Eric Wolff (Airic) 2020-06-12 | I dedicated a lot of the last three months to traveling and jumping around. This is just a collection of everything that ended up on insta during that time.Find me on insta instagram.com/airic_wolff?igshid=b4fswb813g2j
While the worlds on hold Eric Wolff (Airic) 2020-05-24 | With quarantine taking place and me being fortunate enough to have all the free time in the world I've found the majority of my focus has drifted back to movement. It's been nice to just go out jump and try and push some limits some days and just play others. Once this is over I'll get back to making progress in other areas of life... probably
The sun is lava Eric Wolff (Airic) 2019-06-11 | Many things happening lately, I moved to San Antonio, John came to visit me, we went to saws and filmed a few lines in the 100 degree weather. I deleted my Facebook and Instagram apps so more footage should be showing up here over the coming months
The simplest of spots Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-10-08 | Rainy day vibes, trying to be creative with a parking space
Almost dailys Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-10-07 | I always get in a weird manic-depressive funk when I return home after a long holiday. It always feels like I’ve taken a step back when in actuality it tends to be quite a bit more of productive period in my life than the one I just had. More discipline and growth for the future, less carefree fun in the present. Forever longing for the nomad lifeMusic: golden hour by attom
Journey Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-09-29 | (Skip to :48 if you don’t want to see the cut of me running to the spot)This feels like some of the purest parkour training I’ve ever done, a lot of it thanks to the inspiration from endurance parkour and the constant questioning wether any of us ever actually do parkour or are just training to do parkour (We do but I feel it’s just those moments where you save yourself from falling/slipping or when you move without thought to save someone or even jumping around, etc...) At least 90-95% of these runs were unplanned and what I filmed was the first and only try.Running has become one of my go to forms of training and conditioning outside of parkour. I didn’t understand it when I was younger, there was no joy to be had. But after my time spent living in the jungles of Hawaii I came to see running as this beautiful form of movement, as a way to get from A to B. In the right environments, like those jungles it almost feels like you can fly.Music- The road of trials, Journey soundtrack- Austin Wintory
One month in Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-09-22 | This feels like the most productive training I’ve had in awhile, it started up in Amsterdam meeting up with Philip van Ees and Sepp. Then the motivation stuck with me as I made my way down to Switzerland
Germany to Germany Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-08-30 | The last 2 weeks have been incredible, started in Aachen Germany went to Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and finally back to Germany to visit Ruhrjam and some of my favorite movers in Düsseldorf.
The original spots Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-08-15 | After 17 years I finally completed the pilgrimage to Lisses, to the spots that inspired so many of us to take up movement. It was surreal to move in the places where so many others had come before. Training more so for the soul instead of the body
From Paris with love Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-08-09 | Traveling though Europe, stopped in Paris for a week. It’s been amazing training on spots I’ve seen for years. Now on to Lisses for the real fun
From Paris with love (just the movement) Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-08-09 | No b roll, no music, just movement
Jumping with John, part three million nine hundred seventy one thousand and thirty two Eric Wolff (Airic) 2018-07-22 | Sometimes John and I live 20 ft away from each other, others times we’re 3000 miles apart but we’ve still found joy and a way to train consistently together for the last 8 or so years. I’m about to head to Europe for 3 months and Johns moving to New York for the same. This was is day 1 of the last 2 days we were able to train together. I question myself a lot searching for a worthwhile existence but when I have days like this the searching takes a step back and all I have is contentment in the moment Btw the music is from Marble Pawns, song of storms, zeldawave mix youtu.be/bHUvykXL8Og
September stuff Eric Wolff (Airic) 2017-09-25 | I was going through a picnic table phase but I’ve recently found some rails and other complex spots on the islands. It’s been great being able to work on technical rail movements again
Meanwhile... Eric Wolff (Airic) 2017-08-18 | Life lately, games of add on 4,000 miles apart, droning, descents, cali duels and adventures
Drone test Eric Wolff (Airic) 2017-06-02 | Quick edit on my iPhone, playing with some old drone footage in prep for the motus film festivalWhen the final piece is finished it'll be mostly movement clips Filmed on a mavic pro. Missouri, Washington and HawaiiMusic: pink medicine by bearson
#treeclimb30 Days 21-30 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2017-05-31 | I made it! Thanks to everyone in the tree climb 30 group for the inspiration and motivation to get out and explore the thing that makes up over %75 of the obstacles I can train on. It was quite the adventure
#treeclimb30 Days 11-20 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2017-05-22 | The last ten days have been awesome. I explored some trees I found before the challenge started, took a short trip to Maui to hang out with a friend, randomly found a horse and was able to visit the spirt tree before I left!
#treeclimb30 Days 1-10 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2017-05-14 | I was invited to participate in the Treeclimb 30 challenge by Rafe Kelly on Arbor Day. You can find more info about it here facebook.com/groups/treeclimb30Lucky for me I'm on Hawaii while this is going on. Trees happen to be the major obstacle/subject matter I come across and this is helping me open my mind to explore them all in unique ways
Movements of the day 420-430 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2016-06-01 | Last few weeks on Maui to the first week in D.C.
Movements of the day 411-419 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2016-04-22 | It feels like it's been forever since I've put out a daily compilation. Matt Jang and Mich Todorovic stopped by the island. I started training more repetition of movements and longer runs to get ready for beast coast, I lived in a volcano for awhile and continued to try and see everything here before I leave.
Simple Spots Ep.11 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2016-04-16 | Yesterday, Indee and I took Horus to the dog park and I found this gate near by. The little bit of movement the gate had added an extra challenge to it. While I was editing this I had some many ideas for things to try when I go back. A lot more top rail and middle rail movements that aren't just circular flow movements.Music: Forest Interlude - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong-Quest composed by David Wise
Movements of the day 401-410 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2016-03-23 | I've been going out and training a lot more since I've been on Maui. Drilling a little of everything and pushing boundaries again. It's been great having new spots and Richard from Hawaii parkour to train with.
Simple Spots Ep.10 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2016-03-22 | After a year and a half I've reached episode 10 of simple spots. It started as kind of a joke to those who would always use the excuse that they have no good spots to train at and I would always say I could train for days in just a parking space. For the past couple of weeks I've been crashing at Richard's and using this table for fairly standard purposes. But last night as I was moving it out of the way to stretch I felt the urge to play with it and the empty spaces instead. It gets harder the more I train this style to keep it unique to the object. Eventually a vocabulary of movement develops to interact with simple spots. Basics arise just as the basics arose for more complex spots(vaults,tacs, cat leaps, laches, under bars, etc...) It always comes back to connecting with the object and seeing the possibilities that are only available with it and the nothingness that surrounds it.
Movements of the day 391-400 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2016-03-06 | Movements of the day 391-400 it's been a crazy couple of weeks. Traveled to Maui for a photo shoot for parkourproject.com, ended a house sitting gig in Hilo, lived homeless in kona for a week, found a yurt to live in and eventually moved to Maui. This is all of the movement that went on during that period
Simple spots Ep.9 Eric Wolff (Airic) 2015-12-14 | I've been living in Hawaii for almost 3 months now, I've taken a long hiatus from training to explore other endeavors and just enjoy the journey. Over the last week I've been stuck in one place house sitting and the need to go out and train started to come over me again. So back to the basics Music-"warrior people" nahko and medicine for the people
