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Fart · #1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 04:11 PM

Hey people, i was just wondering wether any of you do or have even heard of parkour. Basically it origonated in france origonated in france (le parkour) when 2 teenagers decided to play a game of dare to do stunts etc and it evolved into their own discipline/ sport, and this is called free running to to most other people, u find the most fluent and show off type way of moving from A to B. It really good fun, keeps u very fit and u meet alot of friendly people to train with in the proccess... i think many of u wud enjoy doing it...
o btw, people who have only jsut found out about this and if u watch n e other videos, flips are not part of parkour, they are an extra thing people do with it...

One of the two founders David Belle in Action
and
the other is Sebastien Foucan - strongly reccomend downloading a video, this guy is awesome

(please remember these 2 have had 16 years of training, it took that long to get to those dangerous levels, please start with the very basics and work up, i've been doing it a year and its so good)

hackmeanew1 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 04:21 PM

Yeh i have heard of something like this, where people backflip of buildings and basically jump around and off anything, I think its realy cool

Ihateusing2.5 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 04:21 PM

Didnt they do something for the nike comercials? If so I think I remember this.

TOM · #4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 04:31 PM

Ye ive heard of it ive got some videos of it to its pretty cool

Fart · #5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 04:37 PM

yeh they do adverts for alot of companys, that will most likely have been to pro team called Urban Freeflow, they've been all over the world doing it... (non of em are better than david and sebastien though, but UF do alot more publicity related things), if u wanna start go ahead its great! Go on urbanfreeflow, check the forums on local action (further down the page) and see if ur area/ city is there, arrange a date to meet up to train, and get going! O btw the universal day for main training seems to be saturdays lol dunno why, it just is lol

if u want, wen i get some more recent footage ill put up a video of me doing some with my group, a little teaser as to what i can do is in my sig

Fart · #6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 04:56 PM

i will once i get some new footage, cus it too wet atm to et n e thing good cus of slipping etc. that y i hate winters lol

Ajs · #7 (**permalink**) 01-19-2006, 09:34 PM

OMG i found a game i want, no NEED! ;D
i´ll host the file 4 a while

http://skillad.se/pspstuff/PSP_WallF...3_10_qtlow.mov

And btw, tried sum parkour today, but when i realised i can't jump more than knee high it wasn't any phun anymore

I really need to learn some of that stuff, makes the graffiti writing waa-ha-ha-haaaaay more fun

TOM · #8 (**permalink**) 01-20-2006, 09:16 AM

My cuisin was doing it and recording it i wonder if hes fished if he has ill upload it to show you

Ihateusing2.5 · #9 (**permalink**) 01-20-2006, 09:23 AM

I found a local group in my home town that does this. However you have to be 18 to join, so I have to wait until may. Doesnt hurt to do somethings at home however. Ive seen some more videos and think its really awesome. Most people in the group are college students.

Fart · #10 (**permalink**) 01-31-2006, 11:40 AM

Hey people its me again, ur free running friend and the city i'm from Nottingham in the UK there is about 40 of us here or so, and the website has been under construction for about a week and has been totally done up, plz check it out its awesome, the tutorials more profiles and more hotspots are still to come, but the site is good so far!

www.parkournottingham.co.uk