Is anyone on these forums into parkour?

sorry I don't know what's parkour. What is it?

As far as I know it should be some kind of extreme walking throught city-like jumping on the roofs
I live in very small town where is impossible to do something like parkour.

Oh yeah, I love that! It looks so impressive and difficult.

Le Parkour (also called Parkour, PK, l'art du déplacement, free-running) is a physical discipline of French origin. It is an art form of human movement, focusing on uninterrupted, efficient forward motion over, under, around and through obstacles (both man-made and natural) in one's environment.

This is the defination from Wikipedia.

Ah, yes. Parkour. My friend Carlton is into it. He has horrendous knees, and constantly needs surgery, but does he stop? of course not. Lets see what higher things he can jump off of. Its intriguing sport, yes, but people should recognize their limits. People with absolutely no athletic ability think they can start jumping off of staircases and then start hurting themselves.

Normally, sports have a lesson or skill to be learn that can be applied in regular situations. Whether teamwork, discipline, patience, analyzation, etc. However, I fail to see what you gain from participating except, an extreme amount of pain, a high medical bill and a deep comprehension of gravity and its effects...

Anyone see any postives?

Not everyone that trys moves that are in parkour are into parkour. Anyway my and my friends do train, so far no one I know has been hurt. Noel you are saying that all we do is hurt ourselves. Some of us get hurt, doesn't happen in all sports. There's always a degree of risk.

I've heard of it, I would try it.

Dawn Warrior, I was not implying that all you do is get hurt, and it is true, that most sports have a degree of risk. But when dealing with sports, even contact sports, the likelihood of injury isn't nearly as high as it is in Parkour. and trying out the moves, is cool, though. As long as you recognize your limits.

I'm intrigued, however, how you could "try out the moves" and "train" but not be into Parkour. and someone has yet to mention any positive effects...

Something postive about parkour, you have fun!

i just jumped down the stairs and rly rly hurt my leg, is that parkour?

Can be, one of the best things about parkour is at the moment they are really no actual moves. That means about anything you do is parkour, not some failed move.

one i did a side kick and i decided to jump in the air to do something like a jump kick, but side ways. didn't work, i flew across halfed the room and fell on my knee. I almost blackout

The adrenalin rush, the excitement. Plus you get to show off.

every thing still hurts, from thi sparkour ...

Show off? Maybe some people, I'm just want to have fun, girls don't really like me.

Hey, if I could do parkour well, I would show off! I don't normally show off, but when you can do something impressive, why keep it to yourself?

True, I'm new to parkour though, one week. My friends have been parkouring for several months now.

i still dont get wat u do.

I'll try to look for some video...

ok thanx.

Have any of you guys seen the ad on tv for the mp3 phone. It shows this guy and all his friends parkouring around.

http://www.parkour.net
http://www.streetstunts.co.uk/3run/freerunnning.htm

UHm ok less work more free time

go to yahoo videos and type in parkour. My friend's video is down so you can't see them practice.

Cool I will do that when I come back home

ill check it out.

My friends and my group called Freeflow has some videos on googlevideo now. Nothing super cool but still a video. Type in free flow team to find our videos.

That's pretty cool.