Does anyone like it, or has anyone ever done it ?

Parkour? I've tried it for a laugh around where i live, but nothing serious. Being quite well built, it's not easy to throw meself round that much

I would love to get into this!

It is simply awesome

One of my asian friends used to do it when he was younger

What is it?

Posted By Reverse Blade on 4th Jan 08 at 1:51am

 

What is it?

Yeah, a U.K. thing?

its french actually I used to do it alot and I was quite into it but I had to stop for the same injury as basketball, caused doing parkour

put on 5 stone since I stopped

That didn't explain what it is D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjco3boDZ7A&feature=related

My favourite free running video.

I've fairly recently gotten seriously into this; I've got a team of two other people plus myself, and we're pretty good.

I still don't get it.What is the point? Run straight and do awsome tricks?

Posted By BizzD on 4th Jan 08 at 4:59am

 

I still don't get it.What is the point? Run straight and do awsome tricks?

http://www.rip-cord.co.uk/phpBB4/viewtopic.php?t=2575

I think its awesome. It would come hella handy if being chased.

Posted By tricky.cb on 4th Jan 08 at 5:36am

 

I think its awesome. It would come hella handy if being chased.

Why run? Fight whoever's chasing you.

But yeah, it does make it a lot easier to get around; we practice on the roof of a school by my house; it's really fun.

We climb up an awning that's over the front doors, held up by two I-beams. From there we run and make a 4-foot jump to get to the lower roof portion from there. Next, we run toward the middle roof, step on the wall for extra height, grab on, and pull ourselves up. Next, we run and jump up some water pipes [Cold ones, of course. ] to get to the highest section of the roof. From here, we hang off the side of the roof, slide halfway to the ground on a pipe, jump from the pipe to a fence, then drop from the fence.

It's an extremely fun thing to do; although it does take a lot of skill and effort.

Posted By Marc on 4th Jan 08 at 9:09am

 

Posted By tricky.cb on 4th Jan 08 at 5:36am

 

I think its awesome. It would come hella handy if being chased.

Why run? Fight whoever's chasing you.

But yeah, it does make it a lot easier to get around; we practice on the roof of a school by my house; it's really fun.

We climb up an awning that's over the front doors, held up by two I-beams. From there we run and make a 4-foot jump to get to the lower roof portion from there. Next, we run toward the middle roof, step on the wall for extra height, grab on, and pull ourselves up. Next, we run and jump up some water pipes [Cold ones, of course. ] to get to the highest section of the roof. From here, we hang off the side of the roof, slide halfway to the ground on a pipe, jump from the pipe to a fence, then drop from the fence.

It's an extremely fun thing to do; although it does take a lot of skill and effort.

That sounds like a fun little course, actually! Stay safe though, kids

Posted By Graham on 4th Jan 08 at 9:50am

 

Posted By Marc on 4th Jan 08 at 9:09am

 

Posted By tricky.cb on 4th Jan 08 at 5:36am

 

I think its awesome. It would come hella handy if being chased.

Why run? Fight whoever's chasing you.

But yeah, it does make it a lot easier to get around; we practice on the roof of a school by my house; it's really fun.

We climb up an awning that's over the front doors, held up by two I-beams. From there we run and make a 4-foot jump to get to the lower roof portion from there. Next, we run toward the middle roof, step on the wall for extra height, grab on, and pull ourselves up. Next, we run and jump up some water pipes [Cold ones, of course. ] to get to the highest section of the roof. From here, we hang off the side of the roof, slide halfway to the ground on a pipe, jump from the pipe to a fence, then drop from the fence.

It's an extremely fun thing to do; although it does take a lot of skill and effort.

That sounds like a fun little course, actually! Stay safe though, kids

The term "safety" means a different thing in free running than in general life. How safe something is in free running depends on how good you, how well you've trained yourself for the course, and if the conditions are correct. The school's roof is about 15 feet high on the lowest part of the roof, and about 50 feet high at the highest section of the roof [which is where we slide down the pole from]. I sounds very unsafe, but in free running, it's actually not very dangerous at all.

Oh, that's true - it all depends on the ability of the individual and most that attempt it will have had prior experience. It's all about (pardon the horrible joke) not running before you can walk

Kid in my class does this, he taped it and showed it in class last year and it was pretty awesome.

Never tried it, but I saw some cool stuff on a Top Gear Challenge. [they Free Ran while the hosts drove to a location in London for a race. The Free Runners won xD]

thats awesome. if anyone has heard of urban freeflow, my mate wayne was supposed to go on tour with them until they cancelled it