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Posted by drgoodvibe on Mar-02-2006 13:58:

Parkour

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Toronto Parkour
http://www.pkto.ca/

This infomercial has been inspired by dEsidEL, two pints of Stella, and the letter B.

Posted by Pasta on Mar-02-2006 14:13:

Wow, I never knew there was a Toronto site. I've always been on the offical site.
This stuff is so crazy, hopefully this summer I can practice.

Posted by newr on Mar-02-2006 14:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Pasta
Wow, I never knew there was a Toronto site. I've always been on the offical site.
This stuff is so crazy, hopefully this summer I can practice.

count me in... i love this sport... run around completely free... walls? those arent walls... those are magical fun ladders without rungs

Posted by drgoodvibe on Mar-02-2006 15:26:

quote:
Originally posted by newr
count me in... i love this sport... run around completely free... walls? those arent walls... those are magical fun ladders without rungs

I can only imagine how many badges of honour (broken bones) I would accumulate doing this.

Posted by cono_sur on Mar-02-2006 16:38:

wow!! I am impressed.

I wanna do that!!!

Posted by c2lancas on Mar-02-2006 16:56:

I've never seen anything like this lol

Makes me wanna jump on peoples desks than over their cubicle in my office.

Posted by Jem_hadar on Mar-02-2006 17:24:

quote:
Originally posted by newr
walls? those arent walls... those are magical fun ladders without rungs

HAHAHA

Posted by newr on Mar-02-2006 18:09:

Anywho if anyone wants to start training with me in the spring lemme know... cause this is something im definately doing again this year...

Posted by Abercrombie on Mar-02-2006 18:43:

There's another TA who does this almost religeously, but forget who.

Parcours also has reached the cinema industry. Parcouristes are now used for stunts and chase scenes in several movies.

Posted by dittoalex on Mar-03-2006 01:32:

My buddies and I do this when drunkenly stumbling around campus. It's fun . Though we obviously have no idea what we're doing skill-wise

Posted by ninjahola on Mar-03-2006 01:58:

Didn't know this shit had a name..

Very weird, but very cool.

Posted by awishabear on Mar-03-2006 02:02:

a friend of mine got into this last semester, but (completely unrelatedly) he has to have knee surgery soon so he stopped.

I've always wanted to get into it, it would be friggin amazing, but I have absolutely no skill like that whatsoever. I mean, running around is cool, and jumping off stuff is cool, but holy hell, I dunno if I could climb a wall.

Posted by Pasta on Mar-03-2006 03:35:

I started this last summer, but still am no pro by any means!

Last summer I pretty much worked on climbing and since theres a school in me backyard it's a good place go out and jump around for a bit. I really want to learn the roll to take impact when falling from long distances, still nervous about it, though.

Posted by dEsidEL on Mar-03-2006 05:58:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie

Parcours also has reached the cinema industry. Parcouristes are now used for stunts and chase scenes in several movies.

the latest James Bond movie ..

millions of online videos, Nike and Rogers commercials, etc.. Parkour is officially mainstream now ..

Posted by skillton on Mar-03-2006 06:09:

Someone I know has been doing it for a few years... he fucked up his knee big time last summer

Posted by awishabear on Mar-03-2006 13:10:

quote:
Originally posted by skillton
Someone I know has been doing it for a few years... he fucked up his knee big time last summer

Somehow, I don't find it hard to believe that you can get seriously injured if you don't know what you're doing.

Posted by newr on Mar-03-2006 13:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Pasta
I started this last summer, but still am no pro by any means!

Last summer I pretty much worked on climbing and since theres a school in me backyard it's a good place go out and jump around for a bit. I really want to learn the roll to take impact when falling from long distances, still nervous about it, though.

If you really wanted to learn the exact proper technique take jiu jitsu... its beaten into from pretty much your first day... now when i fall from nearly any distance its second nature for me to break roll... they will teach you to use your body to dissapate the force from nearly any height...

quote:
Originally posted by awishabear
I've always wanted to get into it, it would be friggin amazing, but I have absolutely no skill like that whatsoever. I mean, running around is cool, and jumping off stuff is cool, but holy hell, I dunno if I could climb a wall.

Take it easy at first... and slow... dont take risks... and it will all come with time... next thing you know you'll be jumping up a 3 story parking garage then jumping off of it

Posted by AwakenedAddict on Mar-03-2006 19:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie
There's another TA who does this almost religeously, but forget who.

Parcours also has reached the cinema industry. Parcouristes are now used for stunts and chase scenes in several movies.

They are called "traceurs", most people who incorporate parkour into stunts and chase scenes for TV aren't true "traceurs".