Freerunning/Parkour, any one here do it?/know what it is?? Options

[Valo666]

I just started gettin into freerunnin/parkour last year, and went out on friday and remembered how much fun it is. If you have no idea of what im talkin about go to Le Parkour.ca, Parkour.Net, or Parkour Toronto. Its sooo rediculusly fun, and pretty cool to watch too. Any one else on here do it??

[celicaST]

been doing it for a while, i LOVE running and this was just a natural growth from that. i mean running around a track is only so fun . must have missed this post a while ago le parkour. check out the vid i posted of david belle. we have a club getting started here going on campus. not that well known, but i think once people try it, theyll love it.

This post has been edited by celicaST: Mar 11, 2006 - 7:46 PM

[Valo666]

yea..david belle is nuts. Im joinin PKTO's crew this year. There are..somethin like 150 ppl in the crew from all side of the city. Its nuts. Im actually going out and doing some trainging tomorrow and monday and wensday and then on saturday im hittin the gym with the guys to try some new stuff. I actually got 2 of my friends into it..and my gf, the least sports oriented person in the world is gonna get into it. She used to run track and feild, and she wants to get into somethin kind cool so she decided to join me on friday. It was..umm..interesting.

[celicaST]

yea..david belle is nuts. Im joinin PKTO's crew this year. There are..somethin like 150 ppl in the crew from all side of the city. Its nuts. Im actually going out and doing some trainging tomorrow and monday and wensday and then on saturday im hittin the gym with the guys to try some new stuff. I actually got 2 of my friends into it..and my gf, the least sports oriented person in the world is gonna get into it. She used to run track and feild, and she wants to get into somethin kind cool so she decided to join me on friday. It was..umm..interesting.

sounds like a cool girl you got there. i bet that was interesting lol. ive found out that even as hard as it looks, its still much harder to do and make it fluid. its definitly very fun and challenging, but trying to convince people its fun is another story id imagine it might have a better following in canada? because here it the states its hardly known at all.

[Valo666]

yea..it is a little easier to get the word out about it here..its been in the news, on tv, in the papers, magazines a few times over the last 2 or 3 years. We actually have a comercial for a cell phone provider advertising MP3 phones and it has members of PKTO.ca and Leparkour.ca in it. It was filmed over in London. But yea, its a growing sport here. I went to a training session today with one of the best guys in Toronto. There were about 10 ppl who came in total and a film crew from Ryerson University doing a documentory on the sport. But yea. Fun day. Only got 1 nice cut on my forarm from clippin a fence. But its not as hard as you would think if you have some upper body strength, you have the proper type of shoes, confidence and the right way of training. Like today for instance, i learned the proper way to do side vaults, lazy vaults, monkey vaults, 360 vaules, revert vaults. It was pretty easy, hard on the body, but easy enough to do.

[97lestyousay]

repost:
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...3053&hl=parkour
fun stuff though.

[LuDaChRiS]

wait- is this the thing where the guys just run and flip over everything and jump high walls and jump off high ledges and break their fall by doing somersaults?

cause if it is that stuff is awesome and if i were more agile (re: physically fit) id give it a try

[Valo666]

^ exactly it. Im not the most fit guy in the world. I BMX, but missed last season due to whiplash so im a bit out of shape and i had no problem doing it. Its a rediculusly good workout though. I was out for maybe 4 or 5 hours yesterday, and today i can barely walk.

[LuDaChRiS]

^ exactly it. Im not the most fit guy in the world. I BMX, but missed last season due to whiplash so im a bit out of shape and i had no problem doing it. Its a rediculusly good workout though. I was out for maybe 4 or 5 hours yesterday, and today i can barely walk.

i dunno i think if i went out to the park in the middle in the afternoon and started jumping over playground equipment id get crazy looks and a few laughs

[Valo666]

see..you dont understand the sport untill you understand the concept of it. Its just like probably 30 years ago, if you saw a grown man, riding a littel kids bike and going off jumps you would give them crazy looks and a few laughs, but now a days, its BMX and its common. The whole idea of the sport is to create a way of gettin away from some one, using every thing and any thing to help you. Like most people, if they saw say, a waiste high ledge to a 10 foot drop, and a set of stairs beside it. 95% of the people would take the stairs..the other people would jump or vault over the wall. Go to parkour.net if you wanna get a better understanding of the sport.

[TheStreetzKing]

i bmx, been riding like 6 years strong, this free running stuff is cool, they used it in a scion commercial

[97lestyousay]

I jumped off of the peak of a barn when I was a kid. <maybe
thats whats wrong with me>. My kids where in amazed with the
David Bell vid. Good stuff.

[TheStreetzKing]

i bet this sport starting by a bunch trying to outrun the cops

[celicaST]

Its a rediculusly good workout though.

thats for sure. im a distance runner and have raced 10k and half-marathons (doing my first marathon finally this may ) but freerunning is intense. it uses your whole body and you will find that out the day afterwards when youre aching everywhere . it reminds me of martial arts, only youre running too.

I jumped off of the peak of a barn when I was a kid. <maybe
thats whats wrong with me>. My kids where in amazed with the
David Bell vid. Good stuff.

im sensing some future traceurs sebastian foucan also has some great videos.

i bet this sport starting by a bunch trying to outrun the cops

no doubt lol.