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freeride_sweet
06-10-2005, 12:32 PM
i ve been home today studying, and as usual i got bored and started looking up crap on the net, and i remember someone telling me to dl some "free running" stuff, and dam its the crazies shit ever,
it guys jumping from buildings to buildings ( with live 5+metres drop), doing that with front flips running up wall etc.. its like the jackie chang movies just better and from what i can tell real,
has anyone else heard of this or scene it b4, or am i just finding out something old
there was a thread on here about it ages ago. had a search but couldn't find it. from memory its real name was in french. It was started by them frogs but has become real popular all over the world. Plenty of websites (like farkin) dedicated to it. I remember some TV ad that featured it a few years ago, some dude jumping down a staircase from some flats. Nike maybe.
macca_mountain_dude
06-10-2005, 01:34 PM
yeah i'v heard of it. it looks like a sh*t load of fun. But haven't found any good web sites on it
monkeymagic
06-10-2005, 01:39 PM
le parkour
freeride_sweet
06-10-2005, 01:49 PM
yer thats the site i got a hole lot of links to other sites, but some of them have this really kool french rap in the backround, im not a bike fan of rap, but this stuff is mad,
its kool stuff but i want to walk when im 40,
bushy
06-10-2005, 01:56 PM
I saw a doco on Foxtel called 'Jump London' that was all about freerunning (parkour). Got me so inspired that I started trying it at a basic level. Went to a playpark and found heaps, ended up running flat-out along a skinny handrail with a 10" drop beside me and nearly fell off.
Revised
One of the guys who was interviewed said he began when he was skating and he saw other people doing parkour. He liked it and it cost him less than skating so he kept it up.
All good but running is too hard. Rather ride.
The guys who started it began by wanting to skate but not being able to afford decks so they started jumping and running on things and it just grew until one day Nike found them and started sponsoring them.
sorry but thats the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. Ever thought of joining the bush administration?
bushy
06-10-2005, 06:05 PM
sorry but thats the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. Ever thought of joining the bush administration?
Then watch the doco and see for yourself!!!!!!!
They had a 3 hour special on; first two hours was full of interviews with the ACTUAL people that started it. Last hour was the show "Jump London".
cheese
06-10-2005, 07:06 PM
sorry but thats the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. Ever thought of joining the bush administration?
I agree with you there. Complete bullshit.
Its called parkour as monkey magic said and it was started by a guy named David Belle, a crazy french stuntman.
http://www.le-parkour.com/
early this year (january) me and soem friends were in japan and we decided to try our hand at free running. this was one of the most fun things you can do in you spare time around cities. we tried lots of different stuff, some big drops, rails, and then vaulting and jumping from rail to rail.
cornflake was there with us, as was dylma, and one highlight of our short free running career involved cornfalke walking across a hand rail on and voer head walkway above a highway, and the me and another mate jumping off that! another little free runnign incident was when i tried to do a 360 spin between two hand rails........... lets just say my groin hurt.
free running is awesome fun, and i advise everyone to give it a go sometime, awesome fun!
beefrocket
07-10-2005, 09:14 PM
http://poststuff.entensity.net/100305/media.php?media=weee.wmv
This guy thought he'd give free running a go too.
freeride_sweet
07-10-2005, 09:56 PM
dam, crazy people
cornflake
07-10-2005, 09:59 PM
early this year (january) me and soem friends were in japan and we decided to try our hand at free running. this was one of the most fun things you can do in you spare time around cities. we tried lots of different stuff, some big drops, rails, and then vaulting and jumping from rail to rail.
cornflake was there with us, as was dylma, and one highlight of our short free running career involved cornfalke walking across a hand rail on and voer head walkway above a highway, and the me and another mate jumping off that! another little free runnign incident was when i tried to do a 360 spin between two hand rails........... lets just say my groin hurt.
free running is awesome fun, and i advise everyone to give it a go sometime, awesome fun!
yeah those were the days....
Japan's awesome for "free running", it's full of overhangs, subways, stairs and railings. Basically, free running is whatever you can make of it. I garauntee that everyone will have something that they're good at, and (as zids mentioned) one day in Kyoto I actually found myself walking a 50m rail two metres above a 12 lane highway. And Zids and Dylma then decided to jump of a subway overhang 8m onto flat. It's good fun.....
johnny
07-10-2005, 11:38 PM
When my Chase was on holidays in Estonia earlier on this year, he hooked up with a few local lads for a spot of parkour.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/Johnnylovegod/Parkour1.bmp
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/Johnnylovegod/Parkour2.bmp
skivi
08-10-2005, 03:03 PM
I saw a doco on Foxtel called 'Jump London' that was all about freerunning (parkour).
I saw that too, it was amazing at the skill of the guys sometimes jumping huge gaps on top of massive london's inner city buildings.
The sport is like trials/freeride but without the bike and at speed.
About 4 weeks ago i saw some freerunners at southbank (inner city Melbourne) and they were running/climbing up a 2 1/2 story wall, i was just staring with my jaw on the ground sitting on my bike, thinking get thoes guys on a MTB and let 'em rip!
sites and pics:
http://www.screwgravity.com/ (what a sweet site name:) )
http://www.film2.co.kr/images/outbreak/outbreak_L/2005/outbreak_6_L.jpg
http://www.screwgravity.com/photographs/albums/userpics/beno.JPG
http://www.japandesign.ne.jp/HTM/REPORT/london_smoke/13/img/38.jpg
haha, i cant even touch my toe's
yeah those were the days....
Japan's awesome for "free running", it's full of overhangs, subways, stairs and railings. Basically, free running is whatever you can make of it. I garauntee that everyone will have something that they're good at, and (as zids mentioned) one day in Kyoto I actually found myself walking a 50m rail two metres above a 12 lane highway. And Zids and Dylma then decided to jump of a subway overhang 8m onto flat. It's good fun.....
yeh best time ever, but i wil lcorrect you, it was me and jamie that jumped, not dylma, we "ran out of time"
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