I was reading somewhere
that parkour is a hoax. Just like crop circles.
It's no co-incidence that parkour started appearing at the same time that cheap digital video editing technology became available.
It's all fake.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 3:55,
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I reckon alot of it is edited to make it look more fluid and dangerous than it really is. However, I have no doubt that there is a great deal of athletic skill involved in most cases.
I saw a really good programme a few years back about a bunch of guys who set up a school to teach disaffected kids, to give them some focus instead of just bumming around, and they were teaching them some really cool stunts.
The thing that gets me about parkour is that at it's basic level, it makes you look like a tit. I mean... imagine walking back from work one day and you see some guy just jumping around on and off a wall or across a railing... what's going through your mind at that moment?
But... at an advanced level, I reckon it's spectacular.
EDIT: looking at a few vids at the moment and I think it's just gymnastics on the street. Put them all in leotards and make them raise their hands at the end of each trick. Oh yes.
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emergency_pants Today I smell of... tea tree, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 10:04,
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Erm
That's exactly what it is. Freestyle street gymnastics. What did you think it was? :)
And what do you mean just? Gymnastics requires almost superhuman strength and agility. I know this to my cost having recently gone back to it and starting a bit of freestyle and discovering that, despite being the fittest I've ever been I'm now old enough that it makes me hurt almost to immobility for two weeks.
But yeah, like skateboarding vids etc, free running vids are edited together to make it look more fluid. There's no other trickery involved though.
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Throat And Ice Pie I see dem tatties dere., Fri 26 Nov 2010, 11:06,
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