Freerunning

[Patricoo]

Re: Freerunning

Having a "mock neighborhood" is a fantastic idea and you should be slapped for not thinking so. Padded/spring floors aren't exactly something you can take with you to the streets, and it's always best to practice in an environment like this.

An awesome idea? yes. An awesome business idea? I'm skeptical and rightfully so. :P

[Superfreak04]

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Right. Rolls are just a lot less common in parkour. xD

It's actually common in both. You pretty much have to roll if you're jumping off a high platform. It just depends on the circumstance. Pretyt much 99% of the time when you see someone jumping off a high platform, they will roll. Otherwise they are stupid and will most likely break their legs. Rolling is just to save yourself, so it's used everytime in Parkour and Freerunning.

[MarukuAntoni]

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I only do those things in my dream.

[revolutionomega]

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Also have you noticed the great fudging music in all of the freerunning and parkour videos? I mean seriously

[AsphyxZero]

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I'm actually going to pick this up when I get back to Vegas. I imagine that freerunning or parkour on the Strip would be awesome.

Hit me up the next time you're in LA, I'd definitely drive the 4 or so hours to get there.

[Thatskier]

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I do parkour, but not free running. Yes there is a difference.

This. Parkour is the shit.

Freerunning is american bullshit.

[Spenner]

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@Spenner: Walking up stairs is incredibly hard, holy crap. How long have you been doing this?

'bout a year and a half on and off now. Took a very long time to get in that balance zone >_> doing lots of handstand pushups and going up one step, down one step repeatedly is good practice.

[midnghtraver]

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I did and still do a little parkour. Colorado's not the best place for it. We have a gym here called APEX and its a lot like that, just less artsy.

I got good I guess, but have since been focused way to much on music to go out and do it anymore.

And I didn't read the responses just the OP but the difference between free running and parkour really is parkour is from getting from point A to point B in the quickest manner possible, that does not include flips. Free running DOES include flips.

EDIT:

This. Parkour is the shit.

Freerunning is american bullshit.

I taught you better than this...

[darkshark]

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Freerunning obviously takes more skill to be able to do. So that's what I'm sticking with, you guys can go do whatever floats your boat, but I like to challenge myself. Freerunners are capable of doing everything in parkour + more. Jus' sayin'.

An awesome idea? yes. An awesome business idea? I'm skeptical and rightfully so. :P

It's pretty much a gymnastics academy, are you saying those are a bad business idea too?

[midnghtraver]

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Freerunning obviously takes more skill to be able to do. So that's what I'm sticking with, you guys can go do whatever floats your boat, but I like to challenge myself. Freerunners are capable of doing everything in parkour + more. Jus' sayin'.

It's pretty much a gymnastics academy, are you saying those are a bad business idea too?

Thats kind of true.

Thats like comparing breast stroke and butterfly. They end up doing the same thing, and they are close enough to the same thing it doesn't matter. I free run. I call it parkour just cause I've always called it parkour. I do incorporate flips because they are fun.

[Reincarnate]

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I know nothing about this stuff but it seems like a lot of it is trusting yourself. If you're hesitant, you lose momentum and fail. You really have to build up enough speed to make everything happen.

[PrawnSkunk]

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I find it fitting how the french developed a sport where they run away from things

[Reincarnate]

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I find it fitting how the french developed a sport where they run away from things

Hahahahahahah

[jinxybat]

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umm customstuff does freerunning, and has videos on youtube...

[igotrhythm]

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If it makes you French people out there feel any better, parkour is probably as much about running towards a specific objective as it might have applications when eluding pursuit.

I've never been one for the whole gross-motor bit...DDR is tiring and complex enough, and that's mainly the lower body. I've just been un-athletic for most, if not all, of my life, though I have this inexplicably high vertical leap. Then again, I have athletes from both sides of my family, with one aunt actually holding the 110-yard dash school record when it was changed to 100 meters and thus scrapped.

Getting back on topic, however, this is going under the category of "not picking up due to high chance of grievous bodily harm." I've never broken a bone, and as much as I hear it's worth it when you get hot chicks to sign your cast, I intend to keep it that way.