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#1   Toasty 

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    Posted 14 December 2009 - 09:51 PM

    I'm taking a mixed martial arts class now

    I'm so freaking tired though.

    I can barely lift my arms.

    But it was great.

    Might actually build some stamina.

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      Posted 14 December 2009 - 10:11 PM

      I may start to learn parkour pretty soon.

      Oh and I'm a yellow belt. I mean it's nothing to proud of really, but just saying.

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        Posted 14 December 2009 - 10:38 PM

        It's snowing =D
        The only good thing about December =D

        And how do you LEARN to parkour? You either do it or you don't.

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          Posted 14 December 2009 - 10:53 PM

          The same you learn martial arts, there's moves to learn...............

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            Posted 15 December 2009 - 12:06 AM

            Well, sorta

            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.

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              Posted 15 December 2009 - 12:51 AM

              This one is pretty simple to follow. The technique is bracing with your arms and using your shoulder to direct the roll; try to avoid taking it head-on like a somersault.

              Azo's videos make a good reference too.

              http://www.youtube.com/user/azoazotube

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                Posted 15 December 2009 - 01:47 AM

                I mean, I can do a roll, but the only way I can do it without landing practically on my ass, is to do a sideways roll. Sort of.

                I'm trying to do it more head-on without going entirely head-on.

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                  Posted 15 December 2009 - 01:52 AM

                  View PostToasty, on Dec 14 2009, 11:47 PM, said:

                  I mean, I can do a roll, but the only way I can do it without landing practically on my ass, is to do a sideways roll. Sort of.

                  I'm trying to do it more head-on without going entirely head-on.

                  http://everygame.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/headon.jpg

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                    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

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                      Posted 15 December 2009 - 02:23 AM

                      You're supposed to do a sideways roll... kind of. Start the roll on one shoulder and then move it into the opposite hip. This keeps all the impact of a fall off of your head and spine, It MIGHT make you end up going off to the side a bit more than you'd like, but the point of it is that you don't get hurt. If you do it head on, you'll get hurt.

                      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.

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                        Posted 15 December 2009 - 03:06 AM

                        WD do you mean freerunning????

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                          Posted 15 December 2009 - 10:13 PM

                          Does it make a difference?

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                            Posted 15 December 2009 - 11:42 PM

                            Yes

                            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.

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                              Posted 16 December 2009 - 12:06 AM

                              View PostToasty, on Dec 15 2009, 09:42 PM, said:

                              Yes

                              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

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                                Posted 16 December 2009 - 12:27 AM

                                Sounds pretty neat, Toasty.

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                                  Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:39 AM

                                  I thought it was the other way around, with parkour being the stylish one, as there's its french and the french are always anal about being stylish

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                                    Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:48 AM

                                    http://en.wikipedia....nning#Movements

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                                    Free running focuses on freedom and beauty of movements, so many parkour techniques, such as vaults, may be carried out in a more aesthetically pleasing way, despite the fact that it may decrease the efficiency of the move.


                                    Though as it turns out...

                                    http://en.wikipedia....ur#Free_running

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                                    The term freerunning was coined during the filming of Jump London, as a way to present parkour to the English-speaking world. Often misunderstood as separate arts, the founders and principal practitioners in Europe do not consider any distinction, and use all names interchangeably for the discipline.


                                    I dunno. ¯\(°_o)/¯

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                                      Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:50 AM

                                      So same thing.
                                      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.

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                                        Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:52 AM

                                        Nonono, this is the best parkour video

                                        http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RUlyqnmU0N0

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                                          Posted 16 December 2009 - 03:40 AM

                                          View PostSomeone Else, on Dec 16 2009, 06:52 PM, said:

                                          Nonono, this is the best parkour video

                                          http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RUlyqnmU0N0

                                          EXTREME

                                          End bit was funny. Not saying the whole thing wasn't but I liked that bit the most.

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                                            View PostToasty, on Dec 16 2009, 04:42 PM, said:

                                            Yes

                                            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.

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                                              Posted 16 December 2009 - 07:52 AM

                                              Having trained martial arts when I was younger, and now having all kinds of physical classes at my academy(Acrobatics, Martial Arts, Dancing...) I'm pretty good at all of this shit. I can do multiple types of rolls on any terrain without getting the least bit hurt, I can do somersaults, short handstands and so on...

                                              I applaud this choice of yours Toasty. Keep it up.

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                                                Posted 16 December 2009 - 03:46 PM

                                                Thanks.

                                                It's Filipino-based martial arts though. Which means it's Yuki approved.


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