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Parkour/russian climbing/free running/urban climbing!

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ride-rider
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parkour/russian climbing/free running/urban climbin, are all basicly the same sport, but their all awsome. My friends and i have been trying it recently. I scaled this cement wall that was about 15 feet tall with one 3 inch handhold/ledge thing. I had to run at it jump off the wall, grab the little hold do a chin up put my leg on it, than grab the roof and repete.

have you guys ever tried this sport or watched it? i no it sounds kinda dumm but try it a few times and it is crazy. i allso rock climb and boulder too.
May 9 2007 11:10PM
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LostCarKeys
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I think Parkour will gain its respect soon. Europe has a lot more of it, but soon enough it will be in America and kids will go out into there backyard and try to do flips off their swing sets and then post edits of it on NS.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929&q=rushttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929&q=russian+climbing&total=338&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WEeqHj3Nj2c
Jun 27 2007 2:56PM
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Worst.NS.Member
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Just be very careful... I see many kids just jumping off things with no training how to land...
Ninjutsu students have done this stuff for generations, would be wise to take some sort of Tai Chi or Yoga and learn to control your body before you go doing backflip landings and ruining your joints forever.
Jun 27 2007 2:58PM
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Grimace.
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the parkour headquarters for the us is like 20 minutes from me. one kid at my school does it and he jumped down a light well and got suspended for 2 days. he has a coach and everything
Jun 27 2007 3:07PM
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Worst.NS.Member
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Very cool. I have a few friends in poland who are really into le parkour, some who came to train in japan.. many have a background either in ballet or some form of martial arts.. serious ones anyway. They can do some amazing things!
Jun 27 2007 3:14PM
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Steezysmurf
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PM me for an invite into the parkour cult
Jun 27 2007 3:15PM
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Ceru
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idk about parkour, but i basically just like to climb and do flips off shit, would that be parkour? i dont like run up to it, jump up on it, do all crazy shit, i just like do backflips and mistys and shit off stuff. and to the kid above, how do u land the right way? is is just u land and do a front roll out of it or something?
Jun 27 2007 4:46PM
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Grimace.
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in the scene in casino royal where there running threw the construction site the black guy i believe is the founder of parkour. i may be wrong though. anyways thats a form of it.
Jun 27 2007 4:54PM
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skijunkiedtm
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yea sebasjin or how ever you spell it
Jun 27 2007 5:10PM
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PacificRimJob
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I heard that too...

That scene was nar.
Jun 27 2007 5:32PM
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TheMoostafian
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will is as tight as a fat kid in spandex
Jul 9 2007 2:11AM
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Jake...
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im more into the uncontrollable urge to spin off things while wearing shoes.. much more relaxed, jokes, and fun. me and my buddy do it some times when were board. we made an edit a few years back
Jul 9 2007 2:20AM
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dr_phil
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I know a lot of people practicing the sport of parkour, I even tried myself at it last summer. (lol)

Parkour is not really the same thing as free running and other acrobatics, my friends insist a lot on that. Unlike free-running, where the goal is to mainly do tricks, flips and aerials to express your creativity, the Parkour's goal is to get the "traceur"(person practicing Parkour- it's a sport with French roots) from point A to point B the fastest way possible in an urban environment. Parkour has a lot of philosophy in it and it can be compared to a martial art to some point.
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour
http://parkour.net/index.php

Jul 9 2007 2:21AM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
i would try but i dont think i have the balls to do some of the stuff
Jul 9 2007 2:22AM
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PeteP
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Man if parkour attracted a majority of the population everyone would be so built
Jul 9 2007 10:17AM
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PacificRimJob
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and everyone would be jumping over everything like spider monkeys. lol.
Jul 9 2007 4:20PM
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