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Parkour/Freerunning
Creed of Heresy Offline
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Parkour/Freerunning
June 9, 2014 at 12:48 pm
Because god damn it feels good making the entire city your own personal jungle-gym/workout-center.

Anybody else do it?
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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 9, 2014 at 12:55 pm
I wanted to take some classes, but my sister convinced me I'm too klutzy.

I would be Stan:


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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 9, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Free running looks like a good way to get seriously hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8fSXGP9wvQ



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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 9, 2014 at 1:02 pm
This you, OP??

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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 9, 2014 at 1:04 pm
Immediately reminded me of this:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=UwxvbIY0LIQ
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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 9, 2014 at 1:05 pm
(June 9, 2014 at 12:48 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Anybody else do it?

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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 9, 2014 at 3:59 pm
I don't do it, but I love watching it.

Especially in World's Dumbest compilations. Big Grin
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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 10, 2014 at 11:58 am (This post was last modified: June 10, 2014 at 11:59 am by Creed of Heresy.)
Usually the people who end up getting hurt are the ones who play Assassin's Creed and watch a few tutorial videos, practice a few rolls, and think they can try the advanced stuff.

Except the advanced stuff takes well over a year to learn. You get too ballsy, and you end up on World's Dumbest Nutbusters 1 through 15.

Takes a lot of mental focus, physical fitness, and awareness of your environment to master it. I've only been practicing it for a few months, myself. Still working on forward-movement efficiency.

It's only a good way to get hurt if you think it will be. Half of the entire exercise is not seeing obstacles as obstacles, but instead seeing them as a destination that is a means to your next destination.

Sure, it's risky even for masters of the sport. But it's exhilarating. You feel like the world is simply a playground designed entirely for you to fuck around in. It might as well be.
(June 9, 2014 at 1:02 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: This you, OP??

The video isn't showing up. You'll wanna just take the raw link and use the youtube tag provided by the forum, it's a lot easier to deal with.
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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 11, 2014 at 9:17 pm
I don't really, although sometimes I do extremely fast downhill trail running that involves some similar elements, huge drops, jumps and banking off of stuff to maintain speed. It's tons of fun, makes me want to try parkour.
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RE: Parkour/Freerunning
June 11, 2014 at 11:03 pm


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