Parkour (Freerunning) Anyone?

Don’t know if any of you know this urban sport, but I personally love it.

For those that don’t know (or want to see cool vids of it) click below, i have embeded the one, which i think symbolizes the skill required to do such a thing.

Compilation of clips

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WEeqHj3Nj2c

I have heard many people complain about the “sport”, but after having done it for around 4 months now, it really is a skill that could be well used (say your getting chased by greg and his crew because you stole his cookie)

I find it a great way to keep fit, and it makes you more able/daring, because you have to focus your mind on doing it.

This activity also ties in well with martial arts.

(for those wishing to get into this urban sport/activity then always start on some small structures, such as the sides of stairs, and train hopping back and forth, if you go big straight away, you can injure yourself)

There are a few good videos by the French (i believe) parkour master, who did the BBC advert. He talks a bit about the sport on youtube, if your are interested, they are great to watch/learn from.

Please post what you feel of the activity, and if you do it already what it gives you :)

Dude this looks really cool! How did you get started, I am very interested!

How much does this cost again?

$5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5 octillion)?

Plus, I don’t think they allow 242 pound 13-year olds.

how much does it cost….? thats a stupid question. If you’re good at it, it’s (wait for it….) FREE! duh.

I was asking how much it costs to like, get lessons

oh. its kindof a self taught thing, but it helps if you learn some form of martial arts, which isn’t really that expensive. maybe $50?

I’d love to do it, i’ve been trying to get into parkour for years. My friend does it, but he says i need to improve my balance before he even considers teaching me. Someone else i know also says that it’s good to get a trampoline, but i’m not sure why.

bouncing on trampolines improves strength, coordination, and if you try to stay up and land flips and all that, balance.

That’ll be why then. I just thought “well, it’s safe but not realistic, where is the ground bouncy?”

I might if I had somewhere to do it. The playground at my elementary school is the best thing near by

My partner and I do parkour, but recently she tried to do a dive roll over a row of folding chairs and wasted her wrist.

We don’t do major stuff, but it’s still fun

Never start out jumping from more than one story, I learned that the hard way.

Sometimes I go to a parkour gym with my friends. W roll and vault and stuff like that but there aren’t any walss so we can’t do tic tacs or pop vaults =(

Originally posted by Glip:

How much does this cost again?

$5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5 octillion)?

Plus, I don’t think they allow 242 pound 13-year olds.

I do parkour.
At night