Le Parkour is a great Extreme Sport. It is all about freeing your mind and having a free run through the city. On the way ofcourse you avoid obstacles such as bars, walls etc. You find your own ways, that a normal person would never take.
It all looks effective as you see a guy running through the city jumping high walls. Some call us hooligans, but we do not devastate anything and it's surely a better thing to do rather then sit with a beer on a bench whole day...
It is my true passion. Anyone else here does this sport?
This is how it looks like:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JEbYtOEftc0 No, I don't think I never would find it amusing jumping around like that but it looks reeeely cool when you guys do it!! 
I was looking into that stuff a while ago. I believe parkour is mostly just getting from one place to another as efficiently as another, whereas "freerunning" is moving from one place to another with acrobatics. I thought it would be fun to learn some flips, but then I decided I like my spinal cord intact.
| Xcelerate wrote: |
| I was looking into that stuff a while ago. I believe parkour is mostly just getting from one place to another as efficiently as another, whereas "freerunning" is moving from one place to another with acrobatics. I thought it would be fun to learn some flips, but then I decided I like my spinal cord intact. |
Parkour = Freerunning and it's all about moving from one place to another, but that doesnt end there, you just keep running, doing effective stunts over various obstacles.
And btw Acrobatics and Parkour are 2 different things, though they look good togetherI have a friend that does this kind of things, and I'm telling you - it's seems so scary. It's a great extreme and bravelly sport (if you can call this sport ) .
It's great to see, but if you don't treain enough - don't try it at home (or outside.. never mind).
Cool, But I would rather not try that at home.
Although I cannot partake in the sport I do like it.
If they can keep it a sport and not try to push a worldview with it I will like it more.
I am thinking of adding it as a skill set for martial artists on my site. Because the more options you have to get away from an attacker the better off you are in a fight.
When I first started martial arts in my 20's we practiced something like parkour in RBWI training. It was all about climbing and jumping off high obsticles safely. So that's kinda like Parkour.
Do you know of any websites with illustrated tutorials?
I have a ton of videos of people doing parkour. The really good ones are like spiderman on sterroids.
| odinstag wrote: |
Although I cannot partake in the sport I do like it.
If they can keep it a sport and not try to push a worldview with it I will like it more.
I am thinking of adding it as a skill set for martial artists on my site. Because the more options you have to get away from an attacker the better off you are in a fight.
When I first started martial arts in my 20's we practiced something like parkour in RBWI training. It was all about climbing and jumping off high obsticles safely. So that's kinda like Parkour.
Do you know of any websites with illustrated tutorials?
I have a ton of videos of people doing parkour. The really good ones are like spiderman on sterroids. |
I find the biggest concession esport. I saw a movie, B13, french, a road-movie, between policemen and bandits, in which the struggles were all based on this sport.
If you are able to send me links of these archives on Le Parkour I would be very grateful. So the end only I can see the sport, since I am halve fat and do not practice any type of sport.Search for Parkour on Google Video or Youtube and you should come up with a lot of videos.
That's all I did.
Some are good some are just kids learning and making videos of it.
There are lots of video tutorials on youtube, some of them show real Traceurs run through towns, it's inspiring and motivating 
Here are some basic tricks on video:
Precision Jump: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZwOJRq-a0XI
Monkey Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ORIHaCQxpMA
Lazy Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=u7IHRdPWFsY
Dash Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sp5tXZQ1RXE
Two Handed Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OH0oNw8bo-I
King Kong Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=v4c7mFdpMPI
Vert Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=f3hnqgHOev0
Split Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_yTOhcM6ho0
Palm Spin: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r9f_q_FP8ZM
Turn Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=EBw6MndNv7I
Speed Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZOhPOecJljM
Pop Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=M3HyK0jkT6U
Gate Vault: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HoBSRmEUobs
And other...
Took me some time to master those tricks and those movies were usefull.
FreeRun movies:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9HlcXEtzDbM - David Belle running
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VBP_ny7ZvDU - Good movie of Dvinsk clan running.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jRRUzFEANks - Dvinsk Clan again.
Good tutorial websites:
Acrobatics: http://www.trickstutorials.com/
Parkour tricks tutorials: http://www.americanparkour.com/content/category/4/60/273/
Few parkour Tutorials:
http://www.zanshinstudios.com/learn/parkourtutorials.html
I wouldn't have start doing Parkour if not for my friends that decided to help me and train with me, so i guess it's the best advice for begginer Traceurs - Train with your friends, they can help you, motivate you, sometimes even inspire. I still think they are messed up in the head to have a philosophy of Parkour. It's excersize. It helps you evade and move over obsticles.
The philosophy part is just to get kids to think it is something really deep so they will get into it. BS to me.
The moves are sound and they work. That is where the philosophy ends for me.
I guess I would bea free runner then if I started doing this. LOL!
| Keran wrote: |
| Xcelerate wrote: | | I believe parkour is mostly just getting from one place to another as efficiently as another, whereas "freerunning" is moving from one place to another with acrobatics. |
Parkour = Freerunning and it's all about moving from one place to another, but that doesnt end there, you just keep running, doing effective stunts over various obstacles.
And btw Acrobatics and Parkour are 2 different things, though they look good together |
Xcelerate is right, Keran you should read more articles about thos sport, parkour isn`t equal to freerunning, Read again ... "just getting from one place to another as efficiently as another," if u want to get the fastest way form one point to another you can`t use flips because they are weakening you, so you won`t be that fast and efficiently in that point with flips...
Parkour = efficiently
Freeruning = strikingly | InsanePL wrote: |
| Keran wrote: | | Xcelerate wrote: | | I believe parkour is mostly just getting from one place to another as efficiently as another, whereas "freerunning" is moving from one place to another with acrobatics. |
Parkour = Freerunning and it's all about moving from one place to another, but that doesnt end there, you just keep running, doing effective stunts over various obstacles.
And btw Acrobatics and Parkour are 2 different things, though they look good together |
Xcelerate is right, Keran you should read more articles about thos sport, parkour isn`t equal to freerunning, Read again ... "just getting from one place to another as efficiently as another," if u want to get the fastest way form one point to another you can`t use flips because they are weakening you, so you won`t be that fast and efficiently in that point with flips...
Parkour = efficiently
Freeruning = strikingly |
From what i've seen, parkour seems to be more flashy with more flips. It also is more smooth and fluid in its movements.Yeah, Parkour is great! 
One of my favourite way of spending free time. I have trained for about two years(with some breaks). I train with my friend. We focus on vaults and jumping from high points. I think everybody should try Parkour. 
Le Parkour is indeed fascinating. The folks that are expert in it can take on spiderman anyday.
I had blogged about it sometime earlier (Awesome (Le) Parkour Videos )
