what is the point

of parkour if you're setting up mats?

isn't the idea to traverse an urban landscape with speed and fluidity?

I wasn't aware that it suddenly became about showboating and pointless stunts.

Posted by Guest on Thu Nov 3 17:38:43 2011

Say what will about his brains, but that guy has some balls.

Posted by Guest on Thu Nov 3 19:20:22 2011

My legs to turn to jello every time he reaches the edge of the building.

Posted by Guest on Fri Nov 4 03:19:59 2011

I wasn't aware that it suddenly became about showboating and pointless stunts.

sorry to break it to you, but that's pretty much what it's always been about.

Posted by Guest on Fri Nov 4 18:25:26 2011

>sorry to break it to you, but that's pretty much what it's always been about.

'look, it's a guy with an opinion. time to be condescending by presenting a baseless argument like everyone already agrees with it and hope that nobody contradicts me with useless shit like facts.'

guess what, it's your lucky day.

Parkour is about going from A to B in the fastest and safest way possible.

It has never been about stunts. If you're doing backflips off walls and jumping off of high structures, that's acrobatics. You belong in a circus.

Stunts are involved, but only as a means to an end. There should be no unnecessary movements.

Posted by Guest on Tue Nov 8 08:33:00 2011

There should be no unnecessary movements.
I agree, but do you there was in this guys jump? looking it over it kind of reminds of flying squirrels when they leap through the air (how he has his arms and legs out wide as if he's almost gliding).

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Posted by Guest on Mon Nov 14 11:18:07 2011

Parkour is about going from A to B in the fastest and safest way possible.

It has never been about stunts. If you're doing backflips off walls and jumping off of high structures, that's acrobatics. You belong in a circus.

Stunts are involved, but only as a means to an end. There should be no unnecessary movements.

bullshit. that's all just a contrived explanation to justify showboating. what's the utility of expending tons of energy to climb a wall when using the stairs would have just taken a few more seconds? there is none, unless you're running from the cops. parkour itself may have as a rule to not do unnecessary movements, but the whole art is unnecessary, therefore showboating.

if the people that did this shit didn't want people to see it and be impressed, then why do I even know about it? why do they post videos of themselves on the internet?

and don't give me any of that "no true scottsman" bullshit.

Posted by Guest on Wed Nov 16 08:47:40 2011

Looks like some people here don't know the difference between parkour and freerunning.

Posted by Doug (guest) on Fri Nov 25 12:11:49 2011

What Doug said. Freerunning has all the extra "look at me" flair.

Posted by Guest on Sat Nov 3 20:52:50 2012

'look, it's a guy with an opinion. time to be condescending by presenting a baseless argument like everyone already agrees with it and hope that nobody contradicts me with useless shit like facts.'

guess what, it's your lucky day.

Guess what? No one cares, you're just yet another guy on 4gifs claiming he's the penultimate connoisseur of karate/kungfu/automatic weapons/UFC with yet another opinion gleaned off wikipedia.

Parkour may have intended on being some efficient art form but it evolved into a platform for flamboyant showmanship. Accept it for what it is and quit pretending that you're ignorant enough to believe that the enormous majority of people doing parkour aren't doing it for the attention.

Posted by Guest on Sun Nov 4 15:20:38 2012