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January 27, 2017

My 10 year YouTube Anniversary!

HEY GUYS!

January 22nd was my 10 YEAR youtube anniversary! That is amazing…

Granted, I haven’t been working on the same channel the whole time, I skipped around quite a bit before I decided to focus on “Rustic B” 2 years ago.. but this means I’ve been making videos for 10 years! Wow…

Rustic B celebrates his 10 year youtube anniversary

What follows is a summary of my Youtube Journey.. 🙂

It all started with “kellock71” (my current channel). One of my first videos, before I had a video camera, was a stop motion project called Origami Rave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkoS2V-aNag

After playing around for a while, I started teaching myself Parkour (in order to make what I thought were “cooler” youtube videos), and I made friends! I got some people together from an online Martial Arts Tricking forum and we started a “tricking team” (which didn’t get too far..) but we had a showreel! https://www.youtube.com/user/TeamKouro

Then I moved to Scotland for college, and started a Parkour team over there, where I taught classes twice a week for 3 years. We had Parkour meetups from all over the country, and were featured in some newspapers..I made a TON of friends and learned a lot about filmmaking. Here’s a channel I ran to document everyone’s progress, and our Parkour Jams: http://youtube.com/dundeepk

As I progressed in my filmmaking, I started wanting to play around with Action and Comedy skits.. so my friends Andrew Keiller, Sam Lewis and I created Kouro Media! (note the name similarity from “Team Kouro” above.. Kouro means “the way” in japanese). This channel got subscribed by Ubisoft when we made a parody webseries about “assassins creed”, and it was a pleasant creatively experimental space for all of us: http://youtube.com/kouromedia

Pokemon Go vs Street Fighter fight scene with Rustic B and Darren Holmquist

Kouro Media got me to start doing action and fight scenes, and I soon stumbled onto Eric Jacobus’ stunt people forums.. where I got inspired to move to Los Angeles to pursue stunts as a career. I made the move in May 2011, and quickly met a group of guys who were in a small stunt team. We started hanging out and training, and I quickly created a YouTube channel for us, where I was putting showreels, training days, and fight scenes. Urban Fist TV: http://youtube.com/urbanfisttv

Over the next couple of years, my focus shifted away from youtube and onto my stunt career. I learned a lot, and collected footage from training and working. During this time I was putting up showreels on what is now “Rustic B”, and I also made a second channel with my full name, to show my parkour/martial arts progress.. that’s right here: https://www.youtube.com/user/darustic

I then worked for a while as an editor for my friend Brady Romberg, and I started the channel “Action Academy” for him. I filmed/edited a couple featurettes with Johnny Nitro (of WWE fame), which helped raise money for a feature film we produced 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQyMGGRNAc
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At the end of 2014 I worked for my friend Shawn Crowder on SMOSH: The Movie, and got inspired to get back into youtube. Youtube has been my passion, and i realized it was the driving force behind what I was doing for the 7 years prior.. so I went back to my smallest channel, kellock71, and I renamed it with my abbreviated name “Rustic B”. I am still contemplating changing the name to something more easily remembered (open to ideas).. but I am very happy to say that this channel is here to stay 🙂

Rustic B (note the URL): http://youtube.com/kellock71

In 2017 I am aiming to create one video per week, and I want to grow both as a skilled creator, and as an influencer. I am SO grateful for all of the wonderful people I got to collaborate with last year, and to everyone who has been helping me on my journey.

THANK YOU for watching and sharing my content. Thank you for your motivation and helping me learn. THANK YOU and LET’S CONTINUE TO GROW!

Here’s to another 10 years!

– Rustic

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Have a wonderful day everyone!

July 11, 2013July 11, 2013

Pittsburgh’s budding Parkour scene

One visit to almost any district in the city of Pittsburgh, and you will be as convinced as I am; Pittsburgh is an amazing place to learn Parkour & Freerunning.

Steel City is known around the world for the steel industry that was bustling here in the 20th century. It is also known as the “City of Bridges”, with almost 500 different bridges throughout the area..and some that haven’t even been counted. This industrial background set a precedent for the elaborate, Neo-Gothic influenced architecture we see around the city. Luckily for us traceurs, these spots lend them selves extremely well as training spots for Parkour!

Also, the city provides great backdrops for parkour videos.. (you can find some video examples here)

So what is parkour?

Parkour – The art of getting from point A to point B as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

Let’s imagine you’re getting chased, and you are running in a straight line away from your attacker (a logical assumption).. all of a sudden your escape is blocked by rails, walls, drops, etc. What do you do? Do you waste time by going around the obstacle and risk being caught? HECK NO! You gotta use your awesome parkour skills to get over, under, through the obstacles (eg, you gotta parkour that sh*t).

Back to Pittsburgh.. A couple of weeks ago I re-visited my home and got a chance to re-connect with the amazing parkour environments of this city! I grew up in Pittsburgh and started learning Parkour at 16. FIrst, I started learning by just jumping over trash cans and the like, until my eyes opened to the possibilities of the unique training spots in this city. I was able to find a spot to train just about anywhere.. from the University of Pittsburgh’s campus in Oakland, to Allegheny Square, Mt Lebanon, any of the CCAC Campuses, and even the Mckees Rocks bottoms.

When my interest was first sparked in the direction of this discipline, I met up with the Pittsburgh-based parkour group, Team Sanjuu (formerly PKFR International). I trained PK with them for about a year, and then left for college in 2008. Back when I left there was only a handful of people trying to learn the fledgling art of parkour.

Today there are many more practitioners in Pittsburgh, and the community is growing every day. Between the University of Pittsburgh’s own Panther Parkour club, Team Sanjuu, and other groups that spring up every day, parkour & freerunning jams and events are being hosted every couple of weeks. These are usually open to all levels of Traceurs (parkour practitioners), and the “real” global parkour community is one of the most welcoming to beginners. Since learning parkour is a lot about self-realization, fellow traceurs share tips and insights openly with each other.

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If you are in or near Pittsburgh and want to learn parkour and freerunning, I encourage you to just get outside and explore! If you would like some guidance from experienced practitioners, get in touch with one of the groups I linked to above. Or if you prefer to learn on your own, YouTube (and the internet at large) has a lot of good tutorials!

Below are some more pics I snapped of parkour spots in Oakland, near the University of Pittsburgh campus.

I will write an in-depth article on Parkour/Freerunning sometime in the future, so stay tuned! For now, perhaps consider liking my facebook page or subscribing to my mailing list in the sidebar?

– Rustic B

ps
Pittsburgh is also a great place to learn Martial Arts Tricking! (Click on the picture to learn how)

June 6, 2013July 22, 2013

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Travel Blog 6/6/13

For the next couple of weeks I will be visiting my amazing home town, Pittsburgh, PA.

I have been to many places around the world, and I love travel..but it feels so amazing to take a break for the first time in five years and relax at home with my family for a couple of weeks.

It feels so good to be out of Hollywood and Los Angeles in general.. and even the rainy Pittsburgh summer decided to throw a thunderstorm my way in order to welcome me! (The dry heat of Los Angeles tends to drive me crazy. It’s a harsh contrast to my former home, the beautifully rainy Scotland.)

In the future I’m planning on writing several travel articles about the places I have been to in the past, and will soon visit, for you to enjoy.

Click on the image below to read about Pittsburgh’s budding parkour scene..
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Have an awesome day everyone,

–Rustic

Ps
Here is an older parkour video of mine, from when I still lived back at home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnNeboGLia4