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(Trevor Gilbert)
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Parkur (free running)
Anyone interested in parkur ? The 18 year old grandson of a neighbour of mine was visiting late last year from New Zealand. We had met him several times when he was a little boy, but he surprised me by saying he was a professional parkur exponent and was receiving sponsorship to travel to the UK and around Europe and do some filming along the way. Quite a change from the little lad I once new.
Here is a Russian parkur exponent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMmf_Ibp-94
Osu
Trevor
Trevor Gilbert
("If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying "Here goes number seventy-one" - Richard M. DeVos)
(Zachariah Zinn)
Senior Member
I find it incredible myself, I can't imagine ever actually trying it, but it is really amazing to watch some of that stuff.Originally Posted by trevorg
Hoping we se more and more action flicks with parkour, I think that Casino Royale was done with some Parkour if I am remembering right.
Zachariah Zinn
(John Nguyen)
Senior Member
Wouldn't the accident and injury rate in Parkour be extremely high? One false move and you'll fall to your doom...
-John Nguyen
(Joe Stitz)
Senior Member
You mean like this guy?
When ever I see these guys it always serves as a reminder of what the
human body is realy capable of, and how few of us reach that potential.
Joe Stitz
"Black belt and white belt are the same, white belt is the beginning of technique. Black belt is the beginning of understanding. Both are beginner belts."
- Doug Perry -Hanshi, KuDan -Shorin Ryu ShorinKan
(Ben Sharples)
Senior Member
No higher than in any other art I would guess...You'd start at a pace you can handle, and move up to more difficult things and locations when you were confident enough in what you can handle..Wouldn't the accident and injury rate in Parkour be extremely high? One false move and you'll fall to your doom...
It all starts small, low level, and with smaller, basic movements before expanding upon those ideas and working up to higher locations or more interesting ones..
In my humble, highly untrained opinion, it's one of the best arts created in the 20th century, although admitedly it has no real competition..
Regards..
(Having said all that, it appears that there are a large amount of wannabee Free runners trying and failing to do what the professionals do..Missing the vital part where they learned how to do it in relative safety...Gotta love Darwin eh?).
Last edited by fifthchamber; 10th March 2008 at 03:59. Reason: Checked Youtube...Found many morons..
Ben Sharples.
智は知恵、仁は思いやり、勇は勇気と説いています。
(John Nguyen)
Senior Member
Righto. It's just that compared to other arts the risk is so much higher. Even when you are more experienced and tackling harder locations the risk is still there... At higher levels you can not risk screwing up even a tiny bit.
-John Nguyen
(Ben Sharples)
Senior Member
Yeah, I guess my point was more that that should be the case with most martial arts..The better you get, the more ability you possess, the harder the challenge that you should face..I think..
Iai for instance becomes something special once you have to train with a shinken, with all the inherent danger one of those possesses..It makes you work a lot harder on at least concentration to keep your wits (And limbs) about you...
I reckon..But yeah..Perhaps not quite as open to the possibility of failure as jumping from a building to land on a twig..
For most of us anyway!
Ben Sharples.
智は知恵、仁は思いやり、勇は勇気と説いています。
(Zachariah Zinn)
Senior Member
Ow.....should've started with something smaller I suppose.
Zachariah Zinn
Senior Member
For a Parkour training video, ie how they develop some of their skills, check out:
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html#Parkour
and
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html#Misc (go to Parkour Quadrupedal Movement Drills)
with respect
(Trevor Gilbert)
Senior Member
Yes, you are correct. That was David Belle who founded Parkour and here is a clip of him in another movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjC11RKtPco
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Trevor
Trevor Gilbert
("If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying "Here goes number seventy-one" - Richard M. DeVos)
(Trevor Gilbert)
Senior Member
And here is some more of David. Have you ever seen anything like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfvlA...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98jCBnWO8w
and even he cocks up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kh8NeG9wf8
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Trevor
Trevor Gilbert
("If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying "Here goes number seventy-one" - Richard M. DeVos)
(Mike Williams)
Senior Member
Parkour contains more "Reality Based Self Defence" techniques than most RBSD martial arts.
Cool stuff, wish I was young again.
Cheers,
Mike
No-Kan-Do
(Dirk Bruere)
Senior Member
Definitely the most elegant way to run away from a fight!
Dirk
(John Timmons)
Member
i Like their philosophy of being able to over come obstacles while keep moving forward and the economy of motion stuff reminds me of tai jutsu.
How do they actually train?
John Timmons
(Trevor Gilbert)
Senior Member
Check out Dean's post above.
Trevor
Trevor Gilbert
("If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying "Here goes number seventy-one" - Richard M. DeVos)
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