Mugato: How do you practice for that shiat without breaking your neck?

Trampolines, big pits full of foam blocks, giant soft building blocks to simulate landscape...

As for the video, not bad. I liked some of the time-stretching they used. However, I noticed a lot of his drops included shoulder rolls...which I've heard is what you do when you don't finish your landing well (so you don't kill yourself).

Using "cool" in this headline just doesn't seem right.

I bet cops hate trying to chase people that can do that.

Why do all these videos start this way?
[close-up subject]
[pan city-scape]
[timelapse sunrise]
[close-up subject]

Cool stuff, but I wish somebody would break the mold.

Those guys should fight crime. Or commit crime. Whichever, just make it look cool.

It's sick how easy he makes that look.

I'm sure somebody's gonna ask this...

Music: 65daysofstatic - Retreat! Retreat!

Mugato: How do you practice for that shiat without breaking your neck?

Step 1: Don't be taller than 5'6".

ju66l3r: Mugato: How do you practice for that shiat without breaking your neck?

Trampolines, big pits full of foam blocks, giant soft building blocks to simulate landscape...

As for the video, not bad. I liked some of the time-stretching they used. However, I noticed a lot of his drops included shoulder rolls...which I've heard is what you do when you don't finish your landing well (so you don't kill yourself).

It's the other way around. You do the shoulder rolls because a "real landing" would likely break your legs. The fact that he finished with shoulder rolls means he values the ability to walk.

timujin: Good stuff, but a significant amount of it wasn't Parkour, but rather freerunning and gymnastics.

Parkour *is* freerunning and gymnastics.

/did amateur parkour in college

So who's Olympic Gymnastics Team is this guy on?

NittLion78: Mugato: How do you practice for that shiat without breaking your neck?

Step 1: Don't be taller than 5'6".

Wait, a 'sport' where being short is an advantage? Where do I sign up?

Impressive skill and admirable discipline, but compression after compression ...

you think you're short now ...

Someone has been playing too much Tomb Raider.

WTF! At the 2:20 mark, how did he do that??? I want to do that.

/ must be useful when running from the police

I don't know how you could acquire skills like this and NOT go into bank robbery as a career.

MUST...FIND...PARKOUR...CLASS!

much better version (new window)

Mugato: ptelg: Wait, a 'sport' where being short is an advantage? Where do I sign up?

I think jockeys have to be short and there's less of a chance of breaking your neck riding a...whoops, sorry Christopher.

/awkward

Now that I caught my breath, LOL
Funniest thing I've read all day.

Am I the only one who is getting fed up with Parkour? It was cool the first 100 times, but now... not so much.

You can jump. Woo hoo.

inb4 yousoundfat

That is some awesome footskating.

It's called Free Running, ya Eurofag.

Mugato: How do you practice for that shiat without breaking your neck?

I didn't double check, but it looked like he had more than one scar on his face when they started with the close-ups

Man_Without_A_Hat: Am I the only one who is getting fed up with Parkour? It was cool the first 100 times, but now... not so much.

You can jump. Woo hoo.

inb4 yousoundfat

I agree that once Hollywood got involved it became as overused as the "bullet-time" effect from The Matrix, but I think that fad has passed for the most part.

I wish I could afford health insurance.

jaylectricity: That one was pretty good...the first video I ever saw of this stuff was this guy. (new window) What I liked about it was how you sort of follow him through the neighborhood.

Freerunning is Parkour. Just the English name for it.

Parkour or as we've been calling it for years, gymnastics.

Just because you take off the uniform and put on a hoodie doesn't change the fact that it's just gymastics.

Think girls can do it? I want to dance with the world.

Tripp Johnston Private Eye: MUST...FIND...PARKOUR...CLASS!

If you want class, pally, you gotta go to New York!

My eldest daughter has been taking gymnastic for a few years and is pretty good at it. It is really amazing to watch someone who really has excellent gross motor control.
We were at my sisters house a few weeks ago, and she tripped at the head of the stairs from the deck. I watched her fall face first, and everything moved in slow motion for me, I immediately thought of how I would explain this to her mother, how much pain and disfigurement there would be, and how would I afford all the needed reconstructive surgery. Kind of like an impending car crash, I was a long half second for me.
But the kid didn't flinch a bit. She instinctively turned her fall into a perfect cartwheel, hands hitting about halfway down, with a Nadia Cominici landing at the base. Didn't flinch or miss a step and she continued on as if nothing unusual happened. All us grown-ups were stunned.
So I guess gymnastics training helps alot if you want to do stuff like this. That, and being a 4 foot tall, 70 pound ball of muscle.

Meh. Sequence of flip shots. The best parkour videos aren't a series of interesting 3 second clips of flips, but a continuous video of someone negotiating some rather difficult obstacles.

Very cool.

iaazathot: ju66l3r: Mugato: How do you practice for that shiat without breaking your neck?

Trampolines, big pits full of foam blocks, giant soft building blocks to simulate landscape...

As for the video, not bad. I liked some of the time-stretching they used. However, I noticed a lot of his drops included shoulder rolls...which I've heard is what you do when you don't finish your landing well (so you don't kill yourself).

Not true, some landings are simply too much for the ankles and knees to take, and you will be doing damage if you don't spread the energy out over the roll. It's simply good survival.

If you are falling more than about 6' you are going to eventually do damage to your joints.


Yeah, it's hard to fault someone for rolling out of a two-story drop.

iaazathot: FuzzyLynx: ju66l3r: Mugato: How do you practice for that shiat without breaking your neck?

Trampolines, big pits full of foam blocks, giant soft building blocks to simulate landscape...

As for the video, not bad. I liked some of the time-stretching they used. However, I noticed a lot of his drops included shoulder rolls...which I've heard is what you do when you don't finish your landing well (so you don't kill yourself).

It's the other way around. You do the shoulder rolls because a "real landing" would likely break your legs. The fact that he finished with shoulder rolls means he values the ability to walk.

timujin: Good stuff, but a significant amount of it wasn't Parkour, but rather freerunning and gymnastics.

Parkour *is* freerunning and gymnastics.

/did amateur parkour in college

Not exactly. Parkour is distinct from free-running and precedes it. Outside of France, Parkour is considered synonymous many times, but Parkour is about efficiency and not necessarily aesthetic.

Hairs. You're splitting them.

You know what? YouTube can suck my farking balls. Why the hell do all of your farking videos take so farking long to load? And why the fark do my settings re-farking-set? I have to sign in with a password to turn off annotations, and they're farking back on a week later? Jesus farking Christ.