Small Business + Parkour

The apparel in parkour is similar to break/hip hop dancers: all over the place. You'll find incredibly baggy sweatpants, colorful spandex, and everything in between. Whatever is comfortable and allows you to get the most movement is basically the rule because tight jeans can sometimes be constricting when doing the splits. 

I recently got some sweet spandex from this awesome company called Society6. This company gets artworks form thousands of artists and prints/sells them on various products such as clothes, pillows, phone cases, and blankets.

I am obsessed with geometrics, so I received the Mynt leggings by Spires as a gift not too long ago and I am loving them. Human flagpoles are what I am currently working on to hold longer.

Companies like Society6 are wonderful finds for different styles of clothing that you won't have a "who wore it better" with others. I am still working on GX Pockets with the help of Spoonflower to get all my drawn designs on fabric. This company allows to to design your own custom fabrics, wallpapers, and gift wrap with a wide variety of qualities. They have wonderful customer service and their response time is incredibly fast. The shipping arrived in about a week with my 1 sq. yd. of fabric.

I'm excited to start making some designer pockets with this awesome fabric and hope to sell them sometime this year. Look out for GX_Pockets on Instagram that should have some photos up in March. 

If you're looking for workout clothes that are different and creative, check out society6 or create your own on Spoonflower! Send some love to the small time artists or become one yourself because art is an incredible outlet for stress and it shows off your personality to the world!

Pockets and Pain

After recently spraining my ankle doing a vortex (basically a side-flip while going forward) off a ledge, it made me hold back from flipping and really walking for the past couple weeks. In that recovery process, I have been focusing a lot of my energy towards my therapeutic pocket art. 

In the last 4 years or so, I have battled with anxiety attacks, but have found a method of calming my mind: geometric drawings. These intricate designs have filled my little sketchbook and I have converted them into shirt pockets that I then sew on to various plain color tees. Here is an example of the first shirt I had ever created when at the airport in Austin TX on my way to the 2014 Summer XGames for GoodPeople.com. 

I understand its a little difficult to see, but I am excited to start putting more effort into these designs because this one shirt turned into dozens more designs and shirts. Graceflix is expanding with GX Pockets to which I hope to promote these tees and eventually sell them to the masses! I'll be showing them off while snowboarding in the Rocky Mountains.

This weekend is the Winter XGames in Aspen and I am so stoked to be a part of once again. I plan to take as many photos and video possible while hitting the slopes! Here's a photo from 2015:

This is one of my favorite events and I can't wait to do it again. Get ready for some great photos of the mountains, the events, the pros, and all the fun. Keep an eye out for GX Pockets in the near future!