Waching daily Aug 29 2017

Hi My name is Grace.

I started lifestyle blogging a few years back and yes being my passion and part of my life

ever since.

I have been to places, meeting different people, learning new lifestyle and makes me feel happy.

Recently, I discover the urban lifestyle of Parkour, Tattoo and MMA. and I hope you guys

can see what they see through their point of view.

uh yeah I can see myself now.

Is it bad?

It's pretty bad.

Look that this.

Doctor say I have to do plastic surgery for my head.

My name is Hatta.

I'm 23 years old this year and I have been doing Parkour for 6 years now. and I'm the

co-founder of AOXM which stands for Art of Extreme movement.

We're a parkour group in Malaysia specialized in doing stunts and that's where it all started

for me.

When I was starting doing Parkour it was a lot about my mental challenges.

I was scared of doing this, scared of doing that.

So I was training nearly everyday just to do a backflip.

Like I was just learning how to jump and stuff.

I was really inspired by the local Malaysia parkour team.

At that point in time, I never knew they exist.

I only know parkour exist on Youtube or some other country but I never knew exist in Malaysia

and at that point in time, I thought I was damn good because I could do a backflip at

that point in time.

And they were doing more than just a backflip and I just decided to train with them every

week once.

And thats where I met my partner Faiz who is my idol and also Abudi.

He is one of the pioneer in the Parkour Malaysia team and I hope that I also inspire other

people because just like how Abudi and Faiz inspire me to take up parkour.

Because it's a sports that I never regret picking up.

So I was a very arrogant guy but parkour has taught me to be patient in a lot of ways.

I was more confident with myself, it taught me a lot about believing in myself that I

can do this.

To a point, I felt as a dancer, I couldn't improve much so I started picking up other

movement sports, so parkour is one of them.

Okay so I see that parkour is like to me parkour it feels very dangerous.

Hmm okay.

Okay, I feel very dangerous, so I can see the injuries always come by all the time,

most of the time la.

I think its not really dangerous, it really depends on how people see things and you see

people do.

Cause a lot perceptive people see parkour is like they go high buildings.

Ya they go up and jump down like that, stuff like that.

But for me parkour is all about your self challenges.

So it really depends.

You can set up your own course and that will be your obstacle for it but once you overcome

that fear you'll be able to do it.

When you go outside, if you can overcome that fear of you falling, you willing to try something

else.

So that is where it taught me a lot about just overcoming your fears.

Parkour is not a competitive sport, its more on like sharing a living.

Getting together and all.

Yeah yeah.

And we do have parkour gathering every year.

So we invite people from Singapore, from Indonesia, from Thailand, from Australia.

From all different countries?

Yeah yeah.

So we have events that we gather just for the parkour community around the world.

I'm going to teach you little bit of basic of Parkour because we start doing all these

like challenges that your self say you can't do.

Hey what's up Grace?

So we're here at Trampoline Park Flip Out and what you do is very simple.

So it's your first time right?

I remember it's your first time.

We'll learn a little bit of how to jump?

so we going to learn how to bounce a little bit alright?

Now very simple trick, you can do a sit down to stand up just to feel the trampoline.

So it's your first time right?

So you can try doing this.

Like that.

You want to try?

Alright we go lower a little bit, just do this.

Like that.

Ya ya and you land on your butt alright?

So I'm gonna tell u put your hand here and just roll like this.

Come up.

Okay?

Ya come up.

Now, don't just...

When I think about pain, I think about fear but sometime during parkour, Pain is a motivation.

So you willing to do it again and again until you are able to do it.

I think from my mum perspective, she really support me a lot in whatever I do even she

knows that it's dangerous.

Hatta doing Parkour, I really don't like.

He has been coming back injured and then many times quite a bad injury.

Have to X-ray and take quite a long time to recover.

Although she can see when I was doing gymnastic maybe she was not, she knows that I'm not

very happy at it.

So she started getting me into dancing classes so that's where I learnt how to express myself

and that's where it all started.

It all came from Dancing so my body movement, coordination all taught by dancing.

When I opened up my company she was there to participate and really give support.

She try out the obstacle.

Oh your mom try out the obstacle?

ya she did.

She nearly 60 years old now but she very active.

It's something that he likes so I think okay and continue to love him as much as he love

the sport.

The worst enemy is yourself not people telling you that you cannot do that.

It's yourself.

When you say you cannot do it.

Willing to try something that I'm scared once but I'm willing to try even when I'm scare

and I now believe that things that I once cannot do.

I can do now.

Parkour to me is life la of course.

Its a way for me to express myself through body movement and that's the way for us to

express ourselves through parkour.

So my name is Hatta Yang Hebat and I

do parkour.

I'm Kong Meng.

I started since 96 now 2017 about 15 years already.

At the beginning, it's very tough because we don't have the source then our skill and

knowledge also limited.

During that time, I should have just go to art school.

Why I wasted a lot of my time during I was young and I was not in the right path during

that time.

During like when I was young, I try tattooing and there is no source and my time is not

right for me to find a machine or place to get.

And I have to work in all sorts of job.

Whenever I go to work in any other job, I don't feel like going, I don't feel satisfaction.

I just work for the sake of money.

You need to live.

Only until when I get tattoo machine, I feel like I walk, I can step on the ground.

I feel like something, this is what I want and I don't think any other job can make me

feel this way anymore.

I

see that you have a lot of tattoos on your body, since when you start to have tattoo?

During when I'm 15, I self tattooed on myself, my fingers and my legs.

you self tattoo yourself?

Because I saw a tattoo of my friend, I ask him how did he did it?

He say you just use chinese ink and needle and tie it to a chopstick and just poke it.

Ouch.

Does it hurt?

Of course it hurts, because you want it, you need to bear with it.

You need to accept the pain.

What really got you into tattooing, just because you saw your friend have tattoo.

I saw if someone they have a tattoo, I will look at it and even though on newspaper, I

will cut it put it in a album just to get idea.

So usually people will favour in small one or big one?

Usually they start by small and then they get addicted to it and add on.

So tattoo is very addictive.

Very very addictive.

You'll regret that you start.

Do you regret that you start?

I regret I started late.

All the work I used to work, I got no passion at all.

Only in this line only.

I see, what other works that you have actually venture to?

Oil and steel factory, work at ship yard, construction, advertising.

Only in art, I feel I'm happy in it.

You feel connected.

Ya.

Your hair very black ah.

You're 46 right?

Yeah.

Cause I saw a lot of people out there, they are all very stressful.

Everyday they will complaint about their job and you know they would say things like they

hate their boss and stuff like that but I guess you enjoy your.

They get to work what they don't like, I'm lucky in a way.

I got a question for your tattoo at the neck.

Ya cause a lot of people put on hand, on the back and you know usually they put dragon

and things like that.

Why do you have a tattoo on your neck?

I ran out of space already.

Ran out of space.

Ya and I just want a full body suit that time.

I just take my time, few months, every week I will go get tattoo.

Do they usually share you like story?

Some do, some don't.

Some because of memory of parents.

late brother.

A girl I know she did a tiger with blue eyes.

Because brother had blue eyes and put tears on it.

And recently her mother pass away, brother pass away, he did a four love and one broken

love means she left behind, she's heartbroken.

Process for tattoo right, what's the process?

Starting first what do you do?

Starting when first discuss about the design about the placement then I draw it first then

we transfer it to the body.

Like when you see your sketch goes to the end product.

What's the feeling towards the end product?

In art, there is a dilemma.

Very dilemma.

Wherever you draw, you will feel no satisfaction one, you feel that it's not good enough probably

that's the part you want to do better.

There is no satisfaction that "Oh I'm good enough.

This design is already great."

Even though it looks very great, we still want it to be better, got another drawing,

another design.

I learnt to deal with all sort of type of people.

I can deal with their personality, their character.

You will feel a lot of satisfaction like kind of the best job in the world you get to do

and you got to make your customer happy and yourself happy and years back even though

they look back for you, you still feel good, you can look back your old work.

He's a friendly person.

He is actually a cheerful person but many people don't get it.

Many people when first time meeting him, they feel that he is a scary person but no no.

For me, all my tattoo actually should only be done by him.

Looking at the art that Kong Meng does is, as an artist, he wants to make sure that whatever

he draws on me is his artwork.

So he has to reach his satisfaction not just for the sake of doing it just because it is

his job but more towards his passionate towards him.

The amount of tattoos, the amount of lines you see on me, that is that much we actually

known each and other.

Because each time we have a session of tattoo, we actually talk a lot of things that, maybe

will say throughout the years, we don't call each and other every time but we still talk

during our session and there's a lot to catch up.

I would say we are quite close in terms of relationship.

Maybe about 10 years ago, we first met as a client but today I say that the client has

turn to friendship.

Friend? can ah?

ah can la. can't be girlfriend.

I gain a lot of good friends, I gain a lot of satisfaction that's the most important.

And I'm very lucky to do and get to do work what I like and get paid over it.

Tattoo also me change because be more calm and probably like age also, my son all this.

Tattoo is my life, words can't describe how much I like it.

how much I want it and I won't stop doing it until my hands can't function anymore.

Last one, which is your name.

I'm Kong Meng.

I'm a tattoo artist.

My name is Daniel and I'm 26 years old this year, I do MMA.

Sometimes when people ask me, why do you do MMA?

Is it to inspire people?

Yes, I think there is always a desire for me to inspire people to be better.

I was born with a rare condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, is it another word for brittle

bones and that meant that every time I fell as a child, I would break a bone.

There are times that people are not sure whether I can do certain things.

I have had people who come to me and when I explain I have brittle bones, they say "oh

don't move" I say "uh but I'm trying to take my things" and the person say "no no no, let

me take it for you." and in a sense I was thinking, I do this every day without having

you around so to assume that I can't do it, its not just in a sense insulting but I think

its not empowering anyone to be the best that they can be.

He don't take life as in like "I'm on wheelchair, its hard for me, so you better help me."

its more like "This is who I am, I am on wheelchair but everything is going to be hard for me.

That's a new normal for me."

My name is Chris and I'm a fitness and martial art coach.

Daniel Lee long time ago, I actually meet him in TAR College, I studied there as well.

So, No one can miss Daniel Lee cause he's probably the only one with a wheelchair back

then at least I think still is.

I think he is very prideful but yet humble at the same time.

I don't think people really look at me as "Oh i can't do this" in fact, when they see

me doing MMA, they will be quite impressed, it inspires them because they feel like if

I can do it, they can do it too.

In the beginning, I wasn't sure I wanted to join at all because it involves boxing and

punching each other and I have brittle bones.

So I told Chris let's start a little bit softer and slower and see where it goes.

I'm not sure whether I start with you whether I would continue until the end because I'm

not sure how to join MMA if I have brittle bones.

It's not trying to throw many punches, its not about hitting, its about not getting hit.

One of the things that impacted me the most was he said something very simple that was

quite profound to me and that is he said Don't focus on trying to land a hit but focus on

guarding.

Because it's not really about strength most of the time, it's about being calm, knowing

what to do, it is a like a decision making exercise.

What do I now, What do I do next, Should I do this now, Should I do this next.

I think MMA is very much an art form for me but at the same time I realize that what I

really like about MMA is the ability to strategize and to think.

I've played Chess when I was younger so now when I do MMA I feel like its very much like

playing chess.

I feel that whenever I spar i will try to lookout for opportunities.

I try to problem solve.

I do different things every time.

So I really feel that it's more like an art form that allows me to express myself.

So Hi Daniel.

Hi.

How did you get involved in MMA though?

It started with Chris, my coach, he is also my friend all this while, he was my housemate

so I knew he was a personal trainer and he also been in Martial Arts for a long time,

he grew up with taekwondo and he was a coach.

And when he told me that he wanted to start a MMA club in TARUC.

I said "Hey can I join for free?"

Then he said "sure you just need to publicize for me" Then that's how I started.

He said the only thing you need to do is to buy your own gloves.

So like for MMA right?

Do you get injured all the time? because to me, I feel like MMA is very violent.

It could be painful at times, because knowing that I have brittle bones the risk is way

higher than a normal person right?

So I can understand coming from a girl point of view.

They will say oh no it's not for girls but if you know what you're doing, you can do

it safely.

I think it's very important to start small and test your abilities.

So it's good that the coach is my friend, Chris.

So he knows my condition, he started off light and really giving me the confidence to know

what I want to do and from there we push it a little bit more every time.

Knowing my limits, so i found out later on that my limit is higher than what I initially

thought it was.

So it's like that for anyone.

Whether you're a girl, or you're a guy, you're disable or not.

It's really about knowing or discovering your limit at the beginning and pushing it every

time.

So what you wanna do is, you don't want to be focusing on trying to hit me but you wanna

focus on not try to be hit.

Ok.

Alright.

So you wanna focus on not being hit.

So when I for this, this is where you block.

So anyone who thinks that this my way of challenging myself.

I think it's beyond that I think it is a lifestyle, its my way to express myself to live my life.

To be able to appreciate the little things like being able to move and ya this is me.

I'm Daniel and I do MMA.

No matter how underappreciated these activities are or how urban it may seems but through

people like Hatta, Kong Meng and Daniel.

They thrive for it simple because it is their platform to express what they do and trust

me it is not easy do what they do.

I definitely seen the beauty of art through them and I did not regret taking these adventures

with them in their urban lifestyle.

My name is Grace and join me next time on Mode De Vie