Parkour/Free Running
 

who all does free running/parkour, i do every now and then with my friend above, he's working on a few sponsorships and has been at it for a couple years, check him out!

that's awesome! looks like a fun way to stay in shape haha, but looks like a lot of work too

Its not too bad, a lot of fun definitely but it's a great way to build stamina. Since you're not running the whole time its not bad.

i used to do this a few years ago
its really easy to break things

id rather hang out in a gym and do damian walters shit all day!

vids pretty dope

looks like an easy way to rack up some hospital bills

or end up on Rob Dyrdek's show Ridiculousness

No disrespect intended, but the video had no flow, in my opinion. A few years back, when I first caught wind of the whole Parkour thing, and saw that french dude spidermanning it up the cement playground wall thing and then jumping off of it, I was like "damn..." However, what made that guy great in my eyes is that when he was running around, jumping over stairs and shit, he wasn't doing the showboaty, flamboyant crap that I see on TV and in the video you posted. The guy I saw had an almost fluid motion from one end of where he was to where he was going, and wasn't double-, tripple- or quadruple-backing just to do another spin flip.

I was always under the impression that Parkour was becoming aware of the space you're in, and becoming the quickest and most efficient at moving through that space.

And apparently good Parkour is accompanied by terrible music... But This is what I'm getting at.. fluid motion from one point to another, no need for showoff maneuvers.

i think its cool use to be able to do it alright back when i just got out of highschool, but thousands of beers later haha, on an other note

I hate dub step, its annoying

This is more free running. He has parkour videos if you'd like to see.

here is our "group" i'm first in line with the white cutoff. and on the wall i'm on the left. my friend from the first video is the one who talks into the camera.

Wish i could watch videos:facepalm:
Was into this shit as a teenager, wish i could get back in the game. Dubstep is the shit, but it's quickly becoming mainstream which sucks.

shiit is sick..wished i could free run..lol..id get away from more cops lol

I've really wanted to try this but have never taken any steps towards starting out. I'm fairly athletic, 140lbs, can lift my own weight and all that stuff I feel like physically I'd be good at something like this. I just need to meet some local peeps that do it to show me the ropes I guess...

pretty sick mane

I like this! Pretty legit videos!
Goes really well to some dirty Electro house!

Watch some youtube videos of how to do stuff. Start out small just handstands, jumping, precisions, etc. Go from there. Honestly you'll learn really fast if you have access to a gymnastics place. Foam pits ftw

Shit!! I act like this after drinking 3 redbulls lol

haha, i hope not! redbull wouldn't go well with moving around that much.

I see parkour/freerun is the same to me, it's all movement. So where you take it and what you do with it is up to you. Yes it's all about fight or flight and just simple parkour enough is fun , but it's a lot more fun and develops the mind a lot more to challenge yourself with harder movements. Flips can (SOMETIMES) make getting from point a to b a lot more efficient. If I'm running from someone/catching someone, I wont flip , because I need to be smoother and quicker , but sometimes , depending on the situation , a flip can be more efficient. The french guy your talking about was probably David Bell , Sabastien Foucan , Laury or one of those main guys.
And it's not that people are showboating and boasting their skills, because a lot of people who train parkour/freerun are really kind generous people who are very open minded. It's all about fun and finding yourself. So that you can be a better person.

if you can do these....then you are a badass

sponsorship? how, by wearing a walmart outfit while in public?

^^^are you serious?

pretty fucking cool

Haha some of those are pretty sick.

Now to get him to combine with those dudes doing trick shots.

this is a great place to practice/learn new things without dieing!

It's about movement and fun, not specific clothes.

I wish I could get into that.....my body isn't what it used to be 10yrs ago.

Definitely fun to do. Takes a lot to get to a "good" level of parkour.

Parkour is the tricks. Free running is incoroporating that into movement (basically freestyle tricks while running or going somewhere). To the OP, you and your crew are pretty good. Your friend is sick. I used to do about 10 years ago or so. I was in the army then so I was in great shape. Plus I used to break dance. It just seemed like a natural progression. lol. My cousin and I got into it. Most I ever did was sprain an ankle. Unless you're doing tricks off of high stuff (and in durham, nc, at the time, wasn't a lot of high stuff to jump off of..most was on NCCU campus), you typically don't get hurt too bad. But, there's risk.

To Wagdato, that was a choreographed scene. It's a lot different than regular free running (freestyling with parkour). If you ever watch Parkour competitions, you'll see it's very much like the first video posted.

Props man. I still love watching it even though I can only do 1/3 (if that) of what I used to be able to. wife and kids put some lbs on ya. lol

Inconceivable is my friend who is in the first video.