Slovenian Parkour video

[Sythe]

This is so vicious. How much practice did it take to get your friends this good.

P.S. The one when one dude slipped through the goal made me drop my jaw! This is sooooo awesome!

[Xen]

Somewhere around 4 months.

[bjorn]

I want to be able to do that...

Any tips on how to train?

[Xen]

Originally posted by bjorn: I want to be able to do that... Any tips on how to train?

Yeah. Go out and do it. It's that simple. Almost. Watch as many videos as you can and find some tutorials. I'll give you a few links: Screwgravity and UrbanFreeFlow. UFFlow is the largest freerunning community out there. Go to UFFlow and click on Parkour fundamentals. That's about it. Good luck! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 03-05-2005, 10:04 AM: Message edited by: Xen ]

[Vaskez]

Yeah that stuffs pretty cool, but I think what makes it more amazing to some people is that they missed out on this stuff as a kid. When I was that age, looks like 14-16, I did a lot of this kinds of stuff: climbing onto/jumping from school and neighbour's roofs, balancing along high walls, jumping across large gaps. Although it wasn't called Parkour then, just messing around. There were a few accidents, heh, one of my friends broke his ankle, a younger kid from the block tried to copy us climbing on a roof, fell and broke both his arms.

Everyone else thought we were crazy, but nah, I think it's what all kids, esp. boys should be doing at that age: builds confidence, balance, general motor skills. Today's kids are mostly soft that's why they don't do that sort of stuff and that's why people are amazed by this.

What IS really cool and I could never do, were the somersaults/backflips! [img]smile.gif[/img] I wish I could do that: as for the other stuff: I think I could get back into it pretty quickly [img]smile.gif[/img] and maybe I will, who says over 20's can't do parkour, right?

Heh, some of those tricks brought back memories: like climbing up between two walls by pusing against the opposite wall, or clearing a wall/fence by flipping yourself over: I used to do that all the time just for the hell of it, just when climbing into our local field to play football [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 03-05-2005, 10:47 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

[johnny]

What Vaskez says is true, i basically did the same thing when i was a teen. I spent more time jumping from one roof to the other than i spent time just sitting at home. I spent more time sitting in a tree than reading a book. We didn't have PC's back then, not even a mere console, so we were forced to improvise, and i must say i had lots of fun doing it. It sure beats the hell out of staring at a monitor half of the day. We were quite the little monkey back then.

[Vaskez]

Hehe yeah. This reminds me, when we were like 12 we used to pretend to be monkeys and we had to complete challenges like travel between my house and the local post office without your feet touching the pavement (only allowed to use trees and walk along walls and fences) If you completed it, you went up a rank and could set challenges for those of lower rank. Naturally, since I thought of it, I always made sure I was the highest rank

Although we HAVE had a PC since I was 6, between the ages of around 11-16 I almost completely lost interest in it (I think I was 16 or 17 when I first sent an email and first used the internet), so spent a lot of time outside as described above, and as johnny. Then got back into it and did a Computer Engineering degree

[ 03-05-2005, 12:24 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

[johnny]

So what was your nick back then...Silverback ?

[Vaskez]

[img]tongue.gif[/img] Actually we had ranks like bronze, silver and gold, platinum etc. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Larry_OHF]

I used to think I was cool because I could jump off the roof of my house and land easily which would make my mom crap her pants whenever I'd do it...

but these guys have me beat good. I guess I spent too much time with stuff like school to get any better.

Real life sucks.



[ 03-06-2005, 12:16 AM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]