Parkour

Uku · Fri 16/06/2006 21:54:05

A long time ago someone i talked to someone("Nerezza Terra" Akumayo to be precice) about this sport...
and its been a while and i belive more peapole have started "doing"it and traind themselves, so heres place to discuss about it...
btw one of my videos:
http://www.zone.ee/r72210/Vidiod/T%f5mmelus.WMV
(klick on "edasi kodulehele"picture or text to get the file)

Akumayo · Fri 16/06/2006 22:32:04

Good to see you back again, it's been a while. I'll check out the video when I have some more time. For anyone who doesn't know what Parkour is, a quick google search will lead to some great learning sites.

-Cheers

vict0r · Fri 16/06/2006 22:33:47

Yay! Parkour! I've been doing some of that myself actually

Haddas · Fri 16/06/2006 22:40:40

Parkour is also known as Free Running. It's awesome, but I wouldn't call it a sport myself, as it has no real scoring system as such. Don't get me wrong, I love watching it but I just wouldn't call it a sport.

vict0r · Fri 16/06/2006 22:43:41

Erm... Jogging is a sport

You really don't need a scoring system to have a sport.
And the doers of this sport, actually call it a lifestyle. For some reason...^^

Snarky · Fri 16/06/2006 23:26:23

SPHINX, the open-collaboration game project I'm working on, has a plot that involves Parkour, or at least a sport inspired by Parkour. If you're interested, there might be ways you could help out, which would be great!

Akumayo · Sat 17/06/2006 01:36:39

It is rather fun and exhilerating(sp) I should say. I love it. Around where I live though, it's hard to find a nice place to do it. There aren't a lot of suburbian rails and walkways to practice on, so I mainly use stairs. There's a grand staircase coming off West Mountain that's great to run on

. Fond memories...

SmootH · Sat 17/06/2006 18:56:28

Parkour and Free Running are different, though the names are now used interchangably. The description of which will follow.

Now the debate of what is a sport and what isn't - Keen.

Parkour does have a quantifiable scale: Time. Think of it like slalom skiing, the quickest time to the end of the course while passing through the gates. Parkour is about efficiency - overcoming obstacles in the least amount of time with the least amount of wasted energy.

Free Running, on the other hand, has both time and an artistic component, involving and not exclusive to, flips, vaults, and rolls. This is more like the mogul event in skiiing, there is the time component and a jump component.

Both are sports, parkour is a traditional style sport and free running is more artistic.

Uku · Mon 19/06/2006 21:23:10

oh, well i dont make so big deal out of minor differences on pk and free running. so if i dont give a "poop"of it, i can call it how i want and you cant say.hey thats not it, its that besides... smth. well, here where i pracise are 2 peapole me+friend and friend(2 friends are firsr 40%interested, secon60%interested so they make 1)and tey a)are to fatigued b)arent home... so i need to um.. make slow progress, and this al by miself, its so eaven slower...