[QUOTE=hypno-toad;21363044][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_o07JSf1z8[/media]
Carefully study every aspect of this video, and then don't do it.[/QUOTE]
That was an awful backflip. I'm surprised he even attempted it seeing how bad his form was.
[QUOTE=cmanatlan;21363033]You can compensate with leg strength, but that doesn't pay off in the end since you want to be balanced. 10 is pushing it, but 30 is more than enough for parkour. How long have you been doing it?[/QUOTE]
I'm just saying that people shouldn't hold off doing parkour just because they don't have a tonne of muscle in their arms. Your momentum will do most of the work and your arms should build up in strength from your training. You'll be able to learn to utilise momentum well and also end up with stronger arms.
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[QUOTE=cmanatlan;21363052]I agree with this on principle, but it really seems to me like the OP is just going through a phase. If not, good for him, but I have a feeling this won't last.[/QUOTE]
That tends to happen with a lot of people... I hope it doesn't with the OP although it very well may considering that he is a teenager and he doesn't know anyone else who does it.
OP, convince a friend to do parkour with you if you can. It's good for training in case you get hurt and it also keeps you motivated so you can set times to go and train with each other.
I quit parkour because I got shin splints from doing it. Either from the way I landed, or from the way I ran, I don't know which one but they became unbearable. I was good at it before I quit though. Now I got to a gymnastics gym for open gym and do tricking. I enjoy myself so much more than I did with parkour, because it's a much better workout, and the feeling of flipping and shit is amazing.
[QUOTE=cmanatlan;21363058]That was an awful backflip. I'm surprised he even attempted it seeing how bad his form was.[/QUOTE]
I'm not the foremost backflip expert, but generally in my experience when you try something like that, the center of your body sohuld look almost as if it's motionless (on the z axis) that guy just sort of went down. Plop.
tuck the legs, too =D
[QUOTE=Faren;21363066]I'm just saying that people shouldn't hold off doing parkour just because they don't have a tonne of muscle in their arms. Your momentum will do most of the work and your arms should build up in strength from your training. You'll be able to learn to utilise momentum well and also end up with stronger arms.
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Oh of course, I think anyone should try to get into it, but training on the side never hurt. There will come a point where you need to do cat grabs or shimmy a wall, and that takes a lot of strength.
Oh, cmanatlan, I was doing parkour on and off from July 2008 to December 2009, only training occasionally and not really dedicating myself(unfortunately... I always think about how much better I would be if I had been training often during that whole time). From January 2010 until now I've been going to a class every week to train(Love the Australian Parkour Association!) and sometimes training outside of that. Hopefully I'll start training more.
Anyway, I've got hockey training now. Continue this later.
[QUOTE=Faren;21363034]Just because he's doing something he enjoys doing? How is parkour different from any other physical exercise?[/QUOTE]
No, because he is following every other 14 year old these days. They are all told they are "awesome" if they do parkour etc. Just because you can vault over a pole doesn't mean you're cooler than anyone else.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;21363087]I'm not the foremost backflip expert, but generally in my experience when you try something like that, the center of your body sohuld look almost as if it's motionless (on the z axis) that guy just sort of went down. Plop.
tuck the legs, too =D[/QUOTE]
Tucking the legs is key. But it's the action of tucking them in midair that propels you. He was already tucked before the jump, which is why his rotation was so slow.
[QUOTE=wildturkey50;21363097]No, because he is following every other 14 year old these days. They are all told they are "awesome" if they do parkour etc. Just because you can vault over a pole doesn't mean you're cooler than anyone else.[/QUOTE]
Uhm, how about no.
I want to do it to get outside more and get exercise, which I lack.
Which everyone lacks on FP :v:
[QUOTE=wildturkey50;21363097]No, because he is following every other 14 year old these days. They are all told they are "awesome" if they do parkour etc. Just because you can vault over a pole doesn't mean you're cooler than anyone else.[/QUOTE]
Just because a lot of 14 year olds jump a pole and go "PAAAAAAAAHHHHKUUUUUUUUURRRRRR" doesn't mean that all of us are like that. I genuinely love doing parkour and I'd hope that the OP does/will as well.
[QUOTE=The iEzerith;21352480]There's a subforum for that?[/QUOTE]
Yeah but i doubt anyone visit's it. i found it and all the posts were like 6 months old.
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[QUOTE=Joshyy;21362685]Love how people have started doing parkour all because of Mirror's Edge. Nobody knew what it was before.[/QUOTE]
I did. way before that.
It sounds amazing and I'm sure I'd love to do it, but I'm a little too absent minded and I'm about 6ft 2 so I have a really loping run :(.
But if you live in the EU, I thought they had to have some kind of safety foamy gravelly mulchy stuff for the floor on playgrounds and thats designed to stop children from hurting themselves, maybe practice on some of the climbing frames?
[QUOTE=Swim;21355102]Rule #1 of parkour:
buy a fucking bike[/QUOTE]
Echo this.
Why run about like a twit when you can travel at speed legally instead?
Hey, everyone! My name is Raiskauskone! And I'm here on the internet, right here right now, making a post on a internet website forum called "Facepunch" in a thread.
I wrote this on the posted post:
[quote=Raiskauskone]I really can't understand how people here can take a simple hobby starter as a bloody insult that in their mind deserves the hobbyist to be brutally murdered with a steamroller that has chainsaws welded to it.[/quote]
Aren't I totally rad and radical?
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OP is awesome for having the balls to stay behind his words and do this shit.
Go for it
[QUOTE=Dr.Billington;21362822]Hey guys I wanna know how to parkour without using Google, help please? I can already jump over medium sized objects so that means I'm good, also I can bench my cat. Is there an easy way todo this?[/QUOTE]
if you can bench your cat your practically ready for anything
[QUOTE=The iEzerith;21362561]
Fuck no. I never will be. I have this thing in my body that has gone down generations on my dads side that sucks up all the fat from food, so I can never actually be FAT until I become around my 60s-70s when the effect "wears off", sort of. It is something everyone has, but me and my relatives have a super-version of it.[/QUOTE]
Watch out guys, OP is superman and his family has learned to adapt to having to excrete unwanted intake.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYvmJzpVkFw[/url]
dont try this
Tape your sleeves and put your hood up and wait for infection.
Easy parkour
You should definitely work on safe landing and rolls. Above all else, you need to be safe.
As for shoes, K-Swiss makes a line of sneakers designed for Parkour. You should go to their website and check them out.
[QUOTE=The iEzerith;21352415]
Anything else I should know?[/QUOTE]
Okay the floor is lava.
Get good health insurance, that way if you fall a few feet on your face you won't have to pay for the full medical bill.
I hope you will fall and die.
:P You know the difference between Parkour and free-running right?
I already do parkour and me and my friend are going to get more serious this summer, so my tip for you would be to learn to roll and be prepared to go "parkouring" often if you wanna get "good" at it.
and dont be an ass just cause your online its not going to get you more tips.
:sweden:
oh god, another teen doing parkour videos.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;21370458]I hope you will fall and die.[/QUOTE]
I hope you choke on the very air you breath...
... and die.
Remember that you only have one neck.
Never mind. Message got fucked up.
First of all good luck! It will hurt alot, a tip is to not watch parkour fails on YouTube it might slow you down.
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