Lesson 4: Freestyle Walking to financial independence

This is a photo of a prominent businessman in Nerja, Spain, pulling a foot-side seamless vault over a sign. Freestyle Walking in high society.

Lesson 3: Urban Freestyle Walking (Portland, OR)

Brent, here, is a master at grace and finesse. His moves aren't large, like many of my old girlfriends, nor do they involve a lot of air, but they are fine-tuned and carefully crafted. Enjoy this gallery of his work.

Photography by Garrett Wesley Gibbons. Canon 400D, 18mm f/3.5 lens.
October 2008, Portland, Oregon. USA




I call this move (depicted in the "Safeway" shot) the "Toyota," since it involves jumping like the people used to do in those nerdy 1980s Toyota commercials. Nerdy commercial, sweet move.

The Koala stall is a type of Treehugger stall (very appropriate, given the proximity of the large SUV behind Brent). A Treehugger stall involves just jumping at a tree and grabbing it so the Walker sticks and doesn't move. I recommend long sleeves. The Koala stall is when the hands go to branches instead of hugging the trunk of the tree, as seen here. Very nice form.

Lesson 2: Nature Running is also Freestyle Walking

Instead of fire hydants to jump over and rails to grind, try running down a trail and hitting a fakie off of a stump off of some trail somewhere.

Lesson 1: Freestyle Walking is a way of life

Freestyle walking is a way of life.











It is a way to interact with history and your present surroundings, and shape your future.









Your future is freestyle walking.