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Offline Paul2

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« on: February 03, 2005, 10:30:27 PM »
I was watching Fox news a Moment ago, and they showing people, mostly teens doing parkour.

anyone here do parkour or heard of it?

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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2005, 10:38:39 PM »
I always just thought those people were on crack or something

now I know they are just weird

(I thought it was called freerunning?)
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2005, 10:49:00 PM »
What the hell is "parkour"?

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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2005, 10:54:42 PM »
human form within an enviroment, there is a small movement here at my college.  It\'s just one of those things that fits in with a design school.  I\'ve also heard of it called freerunning.  Le Parkour is the frenchie version.
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2005, 08:29:48 AM »
"Parkour" must be French for "resisting arrest"
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2005, 08:46:26 AM »
yeh, there has been a few dicumentaries on it in the UK, it looks like a hell of a lot if fun but pretty damn 2 dangerous obv
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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2005, 08:48:23 AM »
Yup Jump London and then Jump Britian

Go to the UK Channel 4 website for more info on it

They should have a Archive of old shows and info.
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2005, 06:44:12 PM »
The most fitting name for this... err... "sport" in my opinion is "urban freerunning".

I\'ve been doing it for ages and finally it got a name. I was an active traceur (= a person who does parkour) last summer before I moved away from my home town because of uni studies. Now just a couple of days ago I found out that our university actually sponsors a local parkour club, and they\'re allowed to train in the gymnastics section of the local sports multiplex during winter seasons. Which is just DREAMY. I just went out and did some vaults to freshen up before showing up there later today. And it\'s 4am. Sick. And this is the only time of day (night?) I dare go out to practice with my nunchuks out in the open... some people have a problem with swingy things.

Weird thing is, I\'ve never hurt myself or seen anyone else get badly injured while PKing (some scrapes here\'n\'there of course). Quite nothing like monkey vaulting a fence, grapping a post, swinging around it and dropping 9 feet to a perfect roll on some soft grass... ahh, summer can\'t come fast enough...

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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2005, 07:15:32 PM »
what the holy hell, Hawke has returned.

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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2005, 07:58:44 PM »
I have no clue what you girls are talking about.
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2005, 08:34:08 PM »
Which is beneficial for both parties, since you apparently have a clue about what we aren\'t talking about! Maybe we\'ll learn something from each other, us sisters and brothers.

We\'s talking about havin\' some fun in the sun. Rollin\' in the hay like, enjoyin\' it to the max, drinking Sprunk while waiting for things to come... our way, or just venturing out into the great unknown to find inspiration for pointless bullsh*t posts like this one while perspirating like a horny japanese businessman digging deep into the dank depths of his pockets in a desperate attempt to cough up enough spare to buy a pair of used knickers from the vending machine in their company lobby!

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« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2005, 10:04:50 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2005, 12:06:14 AM »
Tell us wtf it means so when someone at the office mentions it we can act all smart and knowledgeable, thus continuing our super status of been there, read that ultra net-nerd.

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« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2005, 12:39:08 AM »
Freely translated "parkour" means something like "the art of movement", fancy, eh. The term was coined by some french youngsters rather recently, but the idea is timeless. The basic idea is to just move, from point A to point B if you like, without minding the obstacles but overcoming them in any way you see fit. Climb over or run on walls, vault over obstacles, sideflip down stairs, anything you want while trying to maintain your "flow", eg. keeping yourself advancing from one move to another with as much fluidity as your body and mind allow. Of course every traceur has their own style and perhaps ideology concerning parkour, it\'s not an exact science how you go about it.

It\'s a nice free pick-up-and-play pastime if you\'re up for it. And very good excercise to boot. Albeit risky once you feel the need to pull off more exotic stunts...

Even Finland has its own Parkour Association now. Sadly, I moved just in time to not feature in their 2004 trailer.

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« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2005, 01:27:53 AM »
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