Parkour and Free Running
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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I'm surprised no one has made a topic on this yet. Anyways.
Parkour (sometimes also abbreviated to PK) or l'art du déplacement [1] (English: the art of moving) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment.[2] It is a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, as if moving in an emergency situation. Skills such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves are employed. The object of parkour is to get from one place to another using only the human body and the objects in the environment. The obstacles can be anything in one's environment, but parkour is often seen practiced in urban areas because of the many suitable public structures available such as buildings and rails.
- From Wikipedia -
I've been doing Parkour seriously for about six months now and toying with it for over two years. I'm not as extreme as most of the people you'll see on youtube or on other places on the internet, but I'm decent. I'm into stuff like wallflips and jumping off buildings and vaulting over obstacles. I do Parkour with my friend around where we live and attend college [actually if security catches us doing it again we'll expelled](we also go to other campuses to do it. Example: RPI). I do it for the adrenaline and it's the closest thing you can do to being a ninja. Here's a video showing what can be done in Parkour and what it is all about.
Latest bit of parkour we did was at Generacon: a small con held in RPI.
Parkour (sometimes also abbreviated to PK) or l'art du déplacement [1] (English: the art of moving) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment.[2] It is a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, as if moving in an emergency situation. Skills such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves are employed. The object of parkour is to get from one place to another using only the human body and the objects in the environment. The obstacles can be anything in one's environment, but parkour is often seen practiced in urban areas because of the many suitable public structures available such as buildings and rails.
- From Wikipedia -
I've been doing Parkour seriously for about six months now and toying with it for over two years. I'm not as extreme as most of the people you'll see on youtube or on other places on the internet, but I'm decent. I'm into stuff like wallflips and jumping off buildings and vaulting over obstacles. I do Parkour with my friend around where we live and attend college [actually if security catches us doing it again we'll expelled](we also go to other campuses to do it. Example: RPI). I do it for the adrenaline and it's the closest thing you can do to being a ninja. Here's a video showing what can be done in Parkour and what it is all about.
Latest bit of parkour we did was at Generacon: a small con held in RPI.
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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We have to go hunting. Colleges are really the only places we can find.
Edit: Which sucks because security hates us. We usually escape, though.
Edit: Which sucks because security hates us. We usually escape, though.
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Ironically, my college is terrible for it. There's only one, very small spot, where it's possible without high risk of killing yourself.
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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Klorofolun wrote...
high risk of killing yourself.You have to sign a waiver with yourself. It comes with the territory.
Have you ever tried?
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I do something like that with a friend, but he's getting bitchy about it being "too mainstream".
I don't know how running can become "mainstream", but whatever.
I don't know how running can become "mainstream", but whatever.
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TheDarkStarAlchemist wrote...
Klorofolun wrote...
high risk of killing yourself.You have to sign a waiver with yourself. It comes with the territory.
Have you ever tried?
Yep. Great fun apart from the "killing yourself" bit. HvZ is always a great time to learn new things.
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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Klorofolun wrote...
Yep. Great fun apart from the "killing yourself" bit.You kidding me? Half the fun is the obvious danger.
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TheDarkStarAlchemist wrote...
We have to go hunting. Colleges are really the only places we can find.Edit: Which sucks because security hates us. We usually escape, though.
The only with that is me... Im the type that doesnt run away and we have gotten cought twice and almost a third but we left before they sent security that time so only twice...
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I really would like to learn parkour. I really do.
Sadly, our town's as tight as the tightest things you can think of. There's no leverage good enough to practice on and nothing high enough to jump on and off... unless 40 storey buildings to the ground is enough and you're suicidal, then that counts.
Sadly, our town's as tight as the tightest things you can think of. There's no leverage good enough to practice on and nothing high enough to jump on and off... unless 40 storey buildings to the ground is enough and you're suicidal, then that counts.
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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Uzumaki101 wrote...
I really would like to learn parkour. I really do.Sadly, our town's as tight as the tightest things you can think of. There's no leverage good enough to practice on and nothing high enough to jump on and off... unless 40 storey buildings to the ground is enough and you're suicidal, then that counts.
Nah that ain't nothing. Imma PK roll the Empire State Building.
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GreenZero
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Cool that you do parkour. I would probably try it if there were some good spots nearby.
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Helseth
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I do quite a bit of PK around campus by myself, although security would usually be chasing after me almost instantly as if I just mugged someone. No one here in NZ seems to know that PK/free-running exists.
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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My friend and I recently saw some parkour newbies yesterday and it as they were about to get yelled at my security we warned them to go elsewhere. I guess I feel an unwarranted amount of kinship for free runners.
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I've never tried parkour, but I've seen people do it on my campus at least a few times in the last couple of months, and it didn't seem like security was too bugged about it. Then again, UT Austin is a fairly relaxed school. Where do you guys go?
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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New york, bro. Everyone is high strung already without having to worry about security.