Dude, guys, guess what
#1
Posted 14 December 2009 - 09:51 PM
I'm so freaking tired though.
I can barely lift my arms.
But it was great.
Might actually build some stamina.
#2
Posted 14 December 2009 - 10:11 PM
Oh and I'm a yellow belt. I mean it's nothing to proud of really, but just saying.
#3
Posted 14 December 2009 - 10:38 PM
The only good thing about December =D
And how do you LEARN to parkour? You either do it or you don't.
#4
Posted 14 December 2009 - 10:53 PM
#5
Posted 15 December 2009 - 12:06 AM
The whole point of parkour is to flow through your environment with your body, getting from point A to point B as fast as you can.
There are some basic moves that you can learn, which help you accomplish things you couldn't do so before without having it laid out in front of you, but really, you're supposed to do it the way that it works for you.
I kinda just started doing parkour by running through really crowded hallways in middle school. You have to constantly weave through the crowd to get where you're going.
Then I started jumping over stuff.
then I started running and jumping over stuff.
Then I started trying to kinda vault over stuff without losing too much inertia while I was running.
But I had to go look at a tutorial, and later have a friend show me how to roll properly (which I still can't do). I kept landing flat on my lower back (which I still do about half the time).
I still can't dive-roll.
Though it's not like you can't go take a class to learn it or something. It's just not like learning a specific martial art which has specific kicks, jabs, punches, and grapples.
Parkour is more like something that you kinda just learn to do naturally. Though that's just my view on it.
#6
Posted 15 December 2009 - 12:51 AM
Azo's videos make a good reference too.
http://www.youtube.com/user/azoazotube
#7
Posted 15 December 2009 - 01:47 AM
I'm trying to do it more head-on without going entirely head-on.
#9
Posted 15 December 2009 - 01:54 AM
http://www.goldensun-syndicate.net/forum/public/style_images/gssv3/snapback.png' alt='View Post' />Nosferatu, on Dec 14 2009, 11:52 PM, said:
http://www.tinamarie.com/images/high-five-0808-lg-76258126.jpg
#10
Posted 15 December 2009 - 02:23 AM
Oh, and yes, I might start going to a gym for parkour specifically. Or not, might save it for summer, but I have over a month of winter break starting so I think I'll try out some basic moves like a tic-tac and other such things.
#13
Posted 15 December 2009 - 11:42 PM
Parkour is getting from one point to another as quickly and efficiently as possible, with an emphasis on being safe.
Free running is just getting from one point to another with as much style and finesse as possible.
Two completely different ways of running.
And WD, I really do a sideways roll. It's more like rolling from shoulder to shoulder than shoulder to hip.
#14
Posted 16 December 2009 - 12:06 AM
Toasty, on Dec 15 2009, 09:42 PM, said:
Parkour is getting from one point to another as quickly and efficiently as possible, with an emphasis on being safe.
Free running is just getting from one point to another with as much style and finesse as possible.
What he said. Freerunning is better known because of movies and shet
#16
Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:39 AM
#17
Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:48 AM
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Though as it turns out...
http://en.wikipedia....ur#Free_running
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I dunno. ¯\(°_o)/¯
#18
Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:50 AM
Favourite video of that stuff is on Top Gear when James May raced two freerunners through town in some traffic, there's a bit where the two blokes vault over something and you get a view of some old blokes face just greasing them off.
#20
Posted 16 December 2009 - 03:40 AM
#21
Posted 16 December 2009 - 03:54 AM
Toasty, on Dec 16 2009, 04:42 PM, said:
Parkour is getting from one point to another as quickly and efficiently as possible, with an emphasis on being safe.
Free running is just getting from one point to another with as much style and finesse as possible.
Two completely different ways of running.
I'm well aware, boyo - what I'm saying is the skill set is virtually identical. If you've learnt one you've learnt both, it's really all just a matter of execution.
Unless you plan on flipping out into some hardcore acrobatics or something.
#22
Posted 16 December 2009 - 07:52 AM
I applaud this choice of yours Toasty. Keep it up.
#23
Posted 16 December 2009 - 03:46 PM
It's Filipino-based martial arts though. Which means it's Yuki approved.