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Sid Sinister
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Dude, These guys are nuts! I still can't get over them. These guys are cooler than stunt doubles (mainly because stunt doubles get payed to hurt themselves, but these guys are so that they don't need the money). I guess anyone can be one, but it takes alot of training. But it's so cool! If I wasn't so friggin lazy I'd want to be like them. Sounds kiddish I know, but just take a look! Sweeeeet!

This is one of the videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=pB2tdo0I7FQ

This is their website. You'll have to download the movies via some really crappy download site (just click on the movie to get to it) but it's so worth it!
http://www.emcmonkeys.com./videos.htm
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put it this way ninjas suck.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 03:40 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 03:45
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It's just acrobatics. No secrets behind it.

Still very impressive though.

I can manage the rolls, but the flips on the railings don't er... look very safe.

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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 03:41 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 03:42
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Well ladies and gentleman they're you have it:
Quote: "put it this way ninjas suck."
Thats one constructive comment.

I still think they're sweet, and I know I'm not the only one.

Megaton: Yea, alot of them are gymnists (sorry if I spelled it wrong). gymnists at that lol.
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Quote: "Well ladies and gentleman they're you have it:
Quote: "put it this way ninjas suck."
Thats one constructive comment.
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Sid Sinister
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lol . Thats cool, I'll drink to that
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It's called 'Tricking', and I've seen better. But the tree sliding, and the repeadative backflipping is new. I've seen people run up walls so much higher. The Roof jumping is normal though.

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It's actually called 'Parkour' or 'Free Running', it started in France.


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Benjamin
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Any kind of flips are not part of traditional parkour.

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pirates are much better than ninjas. but yeah a guy on one of the games store forums I go to does this stuff, he is really ripped and has videos of him and his group doing the stuff. I run and jump over thigns in teh city for the fun of it, but not like this.

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I think this guy was in Seattle in part of it (that I know). I know because that is a seattle mall that he jumps across and what not. I saw the same elevator and the same candy shop in the background.

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NOTHING STARTED IN FRANCE! Not even Benjamin.......


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I remember the Parkour advert they had for Channel 4 (UK) - bloke running up and down buildings, leaping between the tops, up and over fences and walls - and finally got into his rooftop apartment and sat down to watch telly

I think that was the first time it got any kind of big publicity in the UK.
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Wiggett
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that was an ad for nike or adidas or some sports brand. or was it sony?

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This is by far the best example I've seen. Breathtakingly good. Check out the rest of the site too. Excellent.

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/the-chase-p1.php

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Alas, did a bit of checking, and I had the wrong channel - it was BBC1 and it was the Rush Hour advert.

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/bbccontinuity/bbc1continuity2000s.html

About half way down, both the teaser and the proper advert.
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Ninjas own in Wizardry 7 and they own in urban areas

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As has been already said, thats basically just "Free Running" and Gymnastics with a few pretend fight moves at the end. VERY cool though, I wish I could do that I have troubel doing a forward roll nowadays!


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If you like this stuff, check out these movies:
"Yamakasi" - Luc Besson
"Les Fils Du Vent aka Yamakasi 2: The Great Challenge"

Not great acting but sweet action, they're actual Parkour/Yamakasi guys.

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Oh, I like those urban ninjas. That stuff is pretty insane, but of course nothing compared to me in real life.

I know these aren't "Parkour-ing", but they do some amazing acrobatics:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4190645635814544453

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Wow thats amazing stuff - inspiring me to practice stuff again!


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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 15:53 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 15:56
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Quote: " This is by far the best example I've seen. Breathtakingly good. Check out the rest of the site too. Excellent."


Oh right, and when I made the thread about the kick-ass movie from which that clip is from, you ignored it right?

The dude in the clip/movie btw is David Belle, the founder of Freerunning/Parkour.

edit: Well, co-founder I guess. But he still pwns all overs.

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Parkour kicks arse, I wish there was a club near me..


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There is: It's called the street!

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What I hate about all this stuff is that you want to be able to do it, but realise it'll take about 5-10 years to get that acrobatically sound. And being 24, I'm pretty much past it now anyway. If I trained like a troop, I'd be 30 before I could jump through that sausage shaped hoop in any way other than a pigeon having a coronary.

So I resolve to kill everyone who is skilled at parkour, free-running, ninja style, or whatever. It's the only way to make the world fair! Who's with me?

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Dude, 24 is a sad time to quit. Don't be such a baby.

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Man, you don't realise. You might think 24 is young, and it is! But, when you hit 24, it's no longer possible to drink without getting a hangover the next day. It's no longer possible to eat really spicey food without your gutt grumbling at you. It's no longer possible to play games for 3 hours straight without having a thumping headache and strained eyes.

Basically, you start to realise, it's all downhill from here on. Kangaroo will back me up on that one.

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Those are all normal signs of the human body. Or do you expect to drink 19 beers and NOT be hung-over?

Rather silly to demand so much of your body. I get headaches from too many loud video-games too, and I'm about half a decade younger than you.

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"when you hit 24, it's no longer possible to drink without getting a hangover the next day. It's no longer possible to eat really spicey food without your gutt grumbling at you. It's no longer possible to play games for 3 hours straight without having a thumping headache and strained eyes."
Hear hear! But still, don't give up you could be a leet ninja too! :p


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Pff. Wimps.
I'm older than 24 (just) and I can quite happily eat hot Jamaican, Indian or Mexican food and there's no 'gut grumbling'. I've never had a hangover. And I can play games for 8 hours straight without headaches, never mind 3.

Being 24+ is no excuse.
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I'm sorry, is there an echo in here?

I know guys at my Martial Arts dojo who are in their 30's 40's and are like 14 year olds.

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Yaeh its prolly more to do with how much you killed your body as a teenager


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This reminds me of that old add for Adidas(I think) called <<La Poule en Colère>>. Which was in French but had an english guy speaking over him. And was a comentary of a guy doing trying to get away from an angry Chicken.

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Everyone is different. I think me and Kanga are irreparably damaged. Maybe that's the problem of our 18 y/o drinking laws. We all start at about 16 or 17 and have racked up 6 years of abuse by the age of 24! These days it only take 4 pints and I'll at least feel it the next day, even if I wasn't even pissed the night before. I used to quarf down vindaloos and I think that's taken its toll. Now Madras is as hot as I go. Plus, I can only manage about 30mins playing Live For Speed before my eyes are totally knackered for the day. Ya know, externally I'm pretty fit, but the internal stuff is pickled to hell!

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"Ya know, externally I'm pretty fit, but the internal stuff is pickled to hell!" lol me too! I work out a lot, etc so outwardly I look healthy, but me insides plays up a treat! Although starting at 16-17 is a little optimistic, unfortunalte most kids I know start drinking whit cider from those big cheap bottles from corner shops at about 11


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Oh, you people are lucky. Most americans stay off of beer, because our beer is the worst ever. Seriously, water tastes better. Corona is ok, but I have yet to try *any* good north american beer.

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Well we get proper "beer" - what most american's call beer is "lager" - for lagers I quite like Budweiser though, and thats american so I assume it tastes the same over there?


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Quote: "Corona is ok, but I have yet to try *any* good north american beer."


You live close to Canada--- drive up sometime and try some great beer. I recommend some Rickards Red. Mmmmm....


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Yeah, we don't generally have people complaining about the beer here...(exept the people who complain about everything).

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Quote: "put it this way ninjas suck."

crack head.

Quote: "It's called 'Tricking', and I've seen better."

Xeno,you're an biopolar,idiot,by nature.


This guys got some wicked skill. Kudos.

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Ok, quiet. Here's the REAL urban ninja, Kenetsu Hayabusa:

http://www.break.com/index/urbanninja.html



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Whatever newbs, Urban Samurai all the way for me:
More cheesy, but cooler in the long run.
(Like when you have to kill a band of ninjas)

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That real urban ninja is awesome. Most of the time I couldnt even see him in the video, he was that good ....

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Quote: "Oh right, and when I made the thread about the kick-ass movie from which that clip is from, you ignored it right?"
Er, no, I just didn't see it at the time. Chill the f**k out. Grief. As it happens I originally got it in an email a few months ago. Prompted me to look up "bored" sites at work. Some clips are tops.

Typical though, I thought you were the original poster, so I took ages looking at the entire original "Urban Ninja" video, incase I had missed a clip of the one I posted. Slow as arse download too... Oh, and the "Urban Ninja" is rubbish in comparison! I mean most of it is not even as good as some of the gymnastics you see at the olympics, and most of the jumping around doesn't cover 10 foot off the ground. Oh no, I may sprain an ankle. Or perhaps break a nail. Sheesh.

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Quote: "Er, no, I just didn't see it at the time. Chill the f**k out. Grief."


Don't worry, you'll get better at picking up little jokes and sarcasm like that as you get older.

Or oops, is it too late?

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That urban Ninja looks like he's in Winnipeg. I recongized some of the places he was.

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Quote: "Well we get proper "beer" - what most american's call beer is "lager" - for lagers I quite like Budweiser though, and thats american so I assume it tastes the same over there?"


Lager is actually a type of beer, the other type is an ale. Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a while since I learned this on a school excursion to a brewery), but I believe it depends on the type of yeast used and the temperatures required for the fermenting process. Essentially lagers are better suited for colder temperatures whilst ales are drunk in a warmer climate. This caused quite a problem down here, because we all came from England (which is characteristically a cold place) so what we traditionally drunk was quite unsuited for such a hot climate.


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Quote: " NOTHING STARTED IN FRANCE! Not even Benjamin......."


You're wrong. Life on earth started in France.

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.... humans started in Ethiopia. Life on earth started in England. Cheese started in France.

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No the Cro-Mangon humans(cave men). Started in France(infact I'm pretty sure there's a mouintain that has their name).

Sorry, fallout but the only things that started in england were Pop Idol and beer.

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