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Geek Culture / Freerunning, anyone tried it yet?

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Zombie 20
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Posted: 13th May 2007 08:30
I have to say its only been a few weeks but i've really enjoyed doing freerunning. I can't ride a skateboard but this i can get into since most people have control over they're feet and hands .

So has anybody else tried it?

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Posted: 13th May 2007 08:34
Umm... you'll have to explain. Is freerunning like running down the street with no clothes, freely and without inhibition? That is certainly easier than skateboarding. I only do that if I'm under the influence of intoxicants, but it is quite fun...


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Posted: 13th May 2007 08:37
haha okay

freerunning= nothing stands in your way, you find your way around it by jumping, rolling, flipping. If there is a rail and a gap after it, jump over the rail and launch off of the edge to the other side. No matter what, just keep moving.

There are some loonies who scale walls just to flip off of them, i'm nowhere near that yet.

Hope that has cleared it up a little.

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Quote: "Hope that has cleared it up a little."


Yeah. Wow. That's scary without clothes. Good luck with that, hope nothing gets snagged when you're running, that could be ugly...


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Posted: 13th May 2007 08:44
haha, of course i'm wearing clothes, i'd be arrested if i wasn't. I was running today and got caught in a t-storm for 2 hours, that sucked, i was sooo cold.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 08:52
that wuld be fun. I've done that but not for a big course or anyting.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 09:00
Sorry, what's a T-Storm exactly?


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Posted: 13th May 2007 09:01 Edited at: 13th May 2007 09:02
its a good workout, and you begin to see potential to vault over just about everthing, i had a dream that i was surrounded by railings and i just kept jupmping to each one, over and under, through and out. .

I'd suggest it to anyone who can keep running for a while or at least a stretch of 7000 ft. or me or keep moving for a lot of time.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 09:38 Edited at: 13th May 2007 09:39
Free-running is awesome. I see a lot of free-runners in the town every day.

The police are trained to jump over obstacles and things like that, and in most cases, car jumps (Legal for the police if they have a reason.).

Free-running is one of the best outside exercises you can get. But it is not exactly a safe one, you could get seriously injured if you fall or trip.
Usually, you don't trip if you are paying attention. It is something in any average human. You don't trip unless there is a reason, For example" Shoelaces are untied, something goes wrong with your step pattern because of a shoe, you try to do something you can't, etc.

It is legal in the U.K, and I think legal in the U.S, as long as you only use public obstacles (Car jumping is illegal), and don't damage any property. (A reason to wear soft sneakers.)
Well, except if you are insane and decide to go naked. In that case, you get approximately 2 minutes, before you have about 10 police officers chasing after you.


I always use some semi-old sneakers. New ones don't have your foot shape indented in them , and old ones are usually beat up too much.

I usually have to jump obstacles at my university campus to get to classes on time. I am not the only one, you have to time it right to get a space to jump over the side of the fence to get to the science hall, because most of the spaces are being taken .


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Posted: 13th May 2007 10:46
Parkour,

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Posted: 13th May 2007 11:09
i would like to give it a go, i probably have the physique for it, but i dont know about my internal organs (particularly the heart)

we didnt get a chance to do it for PE at school cause by the time i thought of suggesting it (we get to vote on our sport) it was half way through the term and we dont have PE next term
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Posted: 13th May 2007 11:28 Edited at: 13th May 2007 11:30
Quote: "Parkour
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Yes i believe that was the original name, didn't it start in france?

Quote: "Sorry, what's a T-Storm exactly? "
A thunderstorm, the very thing you don't want to be caught in next to a bunch of trees .

Person99-I've quite enjoyed freerunning, i tore open my ankle today though. We were out of socks and i wanted to go anyway and my shoes chafed me a nice blister which still hurts. I'm going back today after i bandage my ankle, i'm completely hooked to freerunning.

And to anyone else, give it a shot, its a lot of fun and sometimes people will join you in the middle of a run.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 11:46
Sounds cool I saw some free-runners on the TV once, I think they were racing Jeremy Clarkson. They won, even though Clarkson was in a car.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 12:16 Edited at: 13th May 2007 12:17
Yeah Parcour and French

Still a high risk of injury, just like skateboarding, concrete and gravity take no prisioners.

I think the BBC got in trouble for showing a series of adverts where they jumped between buildings as it encouraged kids to try the same.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 12:22
I've tried a little, but I have a friend who is fairly good at it, he tries to imitate the old Prince of Persia running walls thing, he got a kid to sit on a chair against the wall and ran over him on the wall.

Quote: "They won, even though Clarkson was in a car."


That's because he can't drive

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Posted: 13th May 2007 14:13
My sons into that stuff, just waiting on him breaking something, but from what I've seen it's no more dangerous than other extreme sports.


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Posted: 13th May 2007 16:17
Sounds like what we used to do as kids. We used to make up 'Ninja Training Courses' and just about break our legs jumping out of windows and off garages. The worst injury I incurred was trying to leapfrog a bollard with no hands. Oh how I wept.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 16:35 Edited at: 13th May 2007 16:36
Quote: "freerunning= nothing stands in your way, you find your way around it by jumping, rolling, flipping"

If there's nothing standing in your way, what are you trying to find your way around? I dunno, I personally think this is a somewhat silly way to waste an afternoon. When I was a teenager in the 1990's, with our Discmans and our Beastie Boys and our Playstation 1's, you know, old-timer gear, we had these crazy little toys called skateboards. Four wheels strapped to a bit of wood, usually with some nifty little logo painted on it. And we'd go around the city throwing ourselves off of high places and making that little board go nuts beneath our feet. To me, freerunning seems like skateboarding for people who are too lazy to learn how to ollie. Or maybe people who are too poor to afford a skateboard. Or maybe I'm just a grumpy old man screaming "damn you kids!" from his porch. You know, when I was your age we had to WALK to school, up hill both ways! In the snow! With no shoes! And we didn't have luxuries, like clothes...

okay, I'm done with the old man bit.

Anyway, my first real exposure to this was on Lead Balloon (a show on BBC4... yes, I live in the United States, don't ask how I've seen it!), when Jack Dee's daughter's boyfriend Ben was saying he did it. If he can do it, I'm left with the impression that literally anyone can do it, hehe. But I guess I shouldn't pass judgement until I actually see some footage of it .


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Posted: 13th May 2007 16:57
Quote: "I dunno, I personally think this is a somewhat silly way to waste an afternoon."

No more than skateboarding.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 17:05
Parkour is a lot more aerobic than skateboarding, I mean when you see the experienced dudes doing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIw3cv8Zls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUksaD-JJgI&mode=related&search=

I'd say there was more guts involved in jumping through a 1 foot high gap than doing an ollie .


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Posted: 13th May 2007 17:08 Edited at: 13th May 2007 17:12
Matt Rock, free-running has much less chances of injury. Skateboarding has more restrictions, even if you can do it right. But a skateboard requires things like pads, helmets, etc. by law.

Skateboarding takes time to prepare for, and has a much higher chance of injury.

You can go run any time.

In any university, if you have 2 classes on the opposite sides campus right after each other, you aren't going to get room to move on the road. Usually people are jumping over rails and tables just to get to class on time.

In America, however, you don't have to wear any skateboarding gear, but it is recommended.
Something like a high school isn't a problem when it gets to getting to class on time, considering it only consists of 1 building.

But universities are a different story, considering they consist of usually 10-30 buildings.

Quote: "You know, when I was your age we had to WALK to school, up hill both ways! In the snow! With no shoes! And we didn't have luxuries, like clothes..."


Clothes aren't a luxury, they are a requirement by law.
You get a REALLY big fine if you don't wear them.
I don't think ANYBODY would ever wear clothes again if it became legal to be naked.
Except in the cold...
I was a kid in those days too. Dang normal people won't accept people who anything over 100 years old, because they are too scared.
Because of that I have to get a new degree every year.
I had to get my G.E.D again, because the universities would not accept something with a date of May 4 1284, even if it is signed by Arthur himself, they say "Very funny." and decline access. But when I went to school in Greek times (400 BC), I learned just about everything about science and math I needed to know.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 17:59
Here is a film about free running:

http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_155681_Par_coll.htm

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Posted: 13th May 2007 18:16
Quote: "Here is a film about free running:

http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_155681_Par_coll.htm"


You cant get any more retarded than that. Even if they where trying to be funny, they just made them selves look really stupid.
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Posted: 14th May 2007 01:27
Quote: "Matt Rock, free-running has much less chances of injury."

See, if there's no serious risk of injury, it isn't a sport . Golf? Not a sport. Tennis? Debatable. But then sweating is also mandatory to being a sport. So you sweat while free-running, but no constant threat of injury = not a sport. Auto-racing, serious risk of injury/ death, but you don't sweat from physical stress, just from helmet padding, so it's not a sport. Bowling? Darts? I won't even go there!

Quote: "I was a kid in those days too. Dang normal people won't accept people who anything over 100 years old, because they are too scared."

Yeah, stupid regime changes! Drove me crazy. Seems like only yesterday Nero was burning Rome down, dunnit?


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Posted: 14th May 2007 01:33
Quote: "Darts? I won't even go there!"


But it could be argued that some darts players are so plump that just standing up is enough to make them sweat.

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Posted: 14th May 2007 01:58
Quote: "See, if there's no serious risk of injury, it isn't a sport"

That rule doesn't apply in all situations. For instance, there is always a serious risk of injury in boxing, is it a sport? Of course not!



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And let's not forget competitive eating.

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Quote: "That rule doesn't apply in all situations. For instance, there is always a serious risk of injury in boxing, is it a sport? Of course not!"

ooh, you're lucky I sensed that sarcasm, lol

Quote: "But it could be argued that some darts players are so plump that just standing up is enough to make them sweat."

I guess I can grant you that... serious risk of physical damage (you know, being impaled by beer-stained darts, getting sat upon, etc.). So I suppose that might be applicable to bowling as well. But golf still isn't a sport!

I've been a long-time supporter of "extreme golf." It's too bad no one plays it yet . My idea for extreme golf: the golfers play 3 holes (saves us time and land mass). They have to hit the ball as fast as possible, then get in the golf cart and race to the next hole, and they have to beat each other with their clubs (you know, put up defense and whatnot). Oh, and each hole has a goalkeeper! Like, a hockey-style goalie with the facemask and all that . THEN I would call golf a sport. I've thought about pitching that idea to Spike TV for a while now, but I doubt they'd be interested... because, you know, golf is such a widely-beloved sport and it's so intriguing that it doesn't need repairing .


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Quote: "ooh, you're lucky I sensed that sarcasm, lol"

Why, what are you gonna do about it, write a 3 page essay about how boxing is a sport and how everyone should worship it?

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Person99, your posts sound somewhat contradicting:

Quote: "But it is not exactly a safe one, you could get seriously injured if you fall or trip."

Quote: "free-running has much less chances of injury"


So you can get seriously injured, but not as serious as skateboarding?

Watch this and tell me its less dangerous than skateboarding.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vjco3boDZ7A


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Posted: 14th May 2007 04:36
Parkour and Freerunning are different btw.

Parkour means getting from Point A to Point B as fast and effectivelly as possible. No flips or anything.

Freerunning is just finding cool spots to do tricks and.. doing them. Heh.

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zotoaster- i did not know that, thank you, i feel smarter now . I think i prefer parkour over free-running , but both are fun.


Matt-As far as skateboarding goes, i'm terrible on those things, i can ollie and kickflip but that's it. I enjoy running and vaulting and doing underbars and scaling more. Besides, its really fun to have people running with you.

And wow, i didn't think so many people would talk about this.

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heres a vid made by some students at unley high school
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovACvgOQng
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Golf is certainly a sport, I've played Baseball tons of times and never been hurt, played Golf once as a kid and almost lost an ear.

Just because there's no OTT padding and helmets does not mean that it's disqualified as a sport - if your guidelines are right, then there's very little sport in the Olympics.

Frankly, the addition of padding and safety gear just makes the players look stupid. Take American football, now put it beside Aussie rules football or Rugby, where there's very little or no protective gear at all, and well American footballers are all just wussies!. You average rugby players idea of protection is a cup if they are lucky, and some tape to stop their ears being ripped off in a scrum.

IMO a sport is a competitive activity that you train to do, risk of injury is a factor in absolutely everything and can't really be considered a key ingredient. I wouldn't say skateboarding was a sport, or free running or parkour, not for most people anyway. It's not like you go skateboarding against your mates, it's an activity that happens to be competitive for some.


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I happen to love watching rugby, i've always thought the crowd got into it more becasue it was way more interesting. And you're right, they barely wear any protection, it reminds me of gym class .

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Quote: "Rugby, where there's very little or no protective gear at all, and well American footballers are all just wussies!. "


Nah, just means we're smarter to protect ourselves! Besides, compare your average sized rugby player to an american football player. We're talking a major difference in stature.

Rugby or NFL - Who's the better athlete?

That webpage, when talking about coordination and speed, fails to mention all the padding NFL wears. It can't be as easy to bend over and grab a bouncing ball off the ground with all that gear.


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Quote: "Why, what are you gonna do about it, write a 3 page essay about how boxing is a sport and how everyone should worship it?"

You know me oh-so-well, lol

I guess you're right Van, I never really looked at it that way. But still, I can't call golfers athletes. I don't see why it's so impossible for them to at least carry their clubs and walk around the area. Maybe I'm more staminous from playing football ("soccer") for so long, but I just don't see the point in caddy's and golf carts.


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Quote: "but I just don't see the point in caddy's and golf carts."

It's for the old people


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Posted: 15th May 2007 22:19
hah! Thank you Phaelax, you've reminded me of another crucial requirement for something being a sport...

If old people can do it, it ISN'T a sport . And no, this isn't a time for any Jens Lehmann jokes


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Posted: 18th May 2007 02:18 Edited at: 18th May 2007 05:17
Quote: "hah! Thank you Phaelax, you've reminded me of another crucial requirement for something being a sport...

If old people can do it, it ISN'T a sport . And no, this isn't a time for any Jens Lehmann jokes "


Can you just give this thread a rest please?

Back on topic.

I have done similar stuff...

I'll make a video of me doing simple similar things, and see what you guys think of it. Once I get a returned camera.

This stuff is pretty crazy, once you're good at it.

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