Just wondering who here does parkour? I did for a year till i broke my wrist which kept me out for 4months. I've told 2mate who are traucers that i want to get back into it so today we all went out for a 8hours training session =) My first in a good damn year n a bit now. What happens though? Practising kongs and i catch my foot on a fall i've now done in the same wrist i broke 2years ago! Pretty badly sprained it but meh, i just spent the rest of the day working on precisions. So yeah, who here does it? Who here is intrested in taking it up in the near future? Who has done it? EDIT: Don't know what parkour is? Search "David Belle" on youtube of google, he's the creator of the disicpline. EDIT 2: This video pretty much sums it up http://www.parkour-videos.com/jump-westminster Video done by the traucers here in my town: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoID=2031901846
I would love to get into it, but at the moment, I'm fat. Plus no one around here really does it, so I wouldn't have anyone to do it with unless I got a couple of my friends into it, and none of them know much about it either, so we'd probably suck until we got some real instruction or something. I'm hoping to cut a lot over the summer, so maybe I'll give it a try this fall. And that sucks about your wrist.
I'd love to do it, but there's no one in my area that does it. I instead run maybe 3-5 miles a day on weekends to stay in shape for when I do go somewhere I can learn.
Yeah, see I can't even really run a full mile. I don't think it's because I'm fat, but I usually pass out when I try much long distance running cause I have asthma. I think if I lose some weight, I won't have as much of a problem with it though. Haha, if you ever move to San Antonio, look me up and I'll do it with you. Merged Post: I think I've heard that parkour is supposed to focus more on grace and making it aesthetically nice or something, and free running is just to make it look cool or something like that. I might be wrong though. I've been corrected several times today.
I just read a whole article about parkour in TIME. Pretty cool man. But atm I can't do it even if I wanted to. There's no facilities like ramps and walls in my school and this is virtually unheard of in Singapore.
I do it...Well, used to. My mates seem to have drifted away from it, and as a result, so have I. We used to jump and kong our way through school, but not anymore. The stupidest thing I did was to kong this bin at the top of a flight of stairs. My foot caught on it, I went tumbling down...Ouch. Didn't break anything, just got a few lumps and bruises.
Haha, I guess it's pretty dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. All the videos show guys jumping from building to building like 30 feet in the air. I guess if they screwed up at all, they could get hurt pretty bad. I guess you're lucky all you got was lumps and bruises
Different things. Parkours = Getting over/around obstecals as efficenty and fluent and possible. Free running = just running from point a to point b any way you want.
i used to be pretty good, but my knees and ankles are genetically weak, and I kept on spraining my ankle, so I had to stop
Try doing some stuff to strengthen them. I sprained my ankle about three times in two weeks, but my doctor gave me a bunch of exercises to do and its pretty strong again now.
hmm, you sure you were landing on the balls of your feet not your heels? You should know landing on your heels is the worst thing you can do for your body as it will ------ it up as much as it can. Landing on the balls of your feet + bending your knees slightly reduces the shockwave greatly.
