Parkour

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Re: Parkour

I don't get why people suddenly decided to rename basic acrobatics. Give it a new name if it makes you feel good about yourself, but don't pretend it's this amazing new sport. It's not "finally getting popular", it's been popular for thousands of years.

parkour is not basic acrobatics. and with the kind of logic that you have there would be no use for a thesaurus because all words would mean one thing and no other word would mean that word. thanks you anti-thesaurus jerk.

[ShAiOnEi]

Re: Parkour

Parkour is for ******s.

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Re: Parkour

Parkour is for ******s.

what kind of ignorant comment is that?

[inflames07]

Re: Parkour

I've been doing Parkour for a while now. I'm part of the Chicago Parkour community (Aero) as well. The Chicago National Jam is coming up June 28th if anyone is from the area and would like to attend. The Midwest National Jam is held in Madison, Wisconsin this year in July as well. I'll be attending both if anyone needs more info.

But yeah, Parkour isn't about the individual tricks, but rather how you piece together techniques to move fluidly, practically, and efficiently through urban environments.

For the jams, people are coming from all over the country to attend national jams.

If anyone would like to do parkour and curious to see if there is a community or team in their area, make sure you check the APK sites (http://www.americanparkour.com/). More specifically: http://www.americanparkour.com/smf/index.php#3

Parkour is for ******s.

Thanks for your worthless opinion. I guess everyone who does gymnastics and martial arts is a ****** as well seeing how parkour/free running falls right in between both of them.

For videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xuVOdUuENYA - Jam/meet up at UIC campus. There's a ton of spots to practice there.

2007 midwest jam (Think there was like 70 people or something crazy like that)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y-OJKov8fgs

You haven't lived until you've played pk tag haha

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6qhgIdP3l3I&feature=related

One of the more popular videos (This dude is in American Gladiators now)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D2kJZOfq7zk

other stuff:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SZ7OhP8rpoQ

David Bell is one of the founders of the sport

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x98jCBnWO8w&feature=related

Edit: Parkour and freerunning are two different things. Parkour is how you piece together movements to travel through an urban environment proficiently. Freerunning is about the individual tricks and tricking. And Parkour was in the Zohan movie and a few others, as well as in a couple music videos.