Is this considered a suvivalist hobby?

[Hope+Change]

[Juristic Person]

It's called Parkour. It's a useful skill but not a necessary one for a survivalist. Being physically fit is all you really need.

[Treasure Searcher]

Keeping yourself physically and healthy is essential to survival.

WSHTF, you may need to do alot of physical labor, so you will need to be in shape. Also, you will need to be healthy, as medical facilities may be nonexistent.

[Book]

Keeping yourself physically and healthy is essential to survival.

I thought we were buying gold now so the servants would be doing the heavy lifting after the dollar crash.

[Jimfrancisco]

I'd rather be able to do this, if I could -


I'd bet he's in good shape, can ride pretty quick, and I couldn't CLIMB down from half the places he jumps off!

[Unclad Lad]

Jim, I'm not convinced all of that was real.

As for Parkour, someone who is good at it would be in the kind of shape I'd consider ideal, as it balances strength with agility and endurance.

[Juristic Person]

Jim, I'm not convinced all of that was real.

As for Parkour, someone who is good at it would be in the kind of shape I'd consider ideal, as it balances strength with agility and endurance.

Yeah, something about that video seemed kind of fake to me as well.

[cd120]

Yeah, something about that video seemed kind of fake to me as well.

He's a gymnast... And one of a kind...

I'd love to do a fraction of what he can...

[funk]

What is happening here is one physically fit person, performing a routine. This dude does not just run down the street doing these choregraphed moves. He is showing you his best "courses".

This guy and an equally fit person, running from zombies, will have an equal chance of survival. Unless of course they run past one of the office parks he has scoped out.

[Fiat Metaler]

looks like unnecessary risks.

as a backpacker, i learned

- don't stop on something that you can walk over.
- don't step over something that you can walk around

[Mantokir]

What is happening here is one physically fit person, performing a routine. This dude does not just run down the street doing these choregraphed moves. He is showing you his best "courses".

This guy and an equally fit person, running from zombies, will have an equal chance of survival. Unless of course they run past one of the office parks he has scoped out.

I wouldn't be too sure, sure what he's doing is flashy and on a scoped out course, but take away the flash and he clears a 6 foot gap and climbs a wall @1:10, jumps a pretty good size gap from roof to roof at 1:14 or something as simple as getting down a flight of stairs in a matter of seconds or jump from a 20 foot ledge and keep running would give someone like him a distinct advantage. Plus the added benefit of being in awesome shape....

[Canadian-guerilla]

i like the term " free running "

[TylerDurden]

I wouldn't be too sure, sure what he's doing is flashy and on a scoped out course, but take away the flash and he clears a 6 foot gap and climbs a wall @1:10, jumps a pretty good size gap from roof to roof at 1:14 or something as simple as getting down a flight of stairs in a matter of seconds or jump from a 20 foot ledge and keep running would give someone like him a distinct advantage. Plus the added benefit of being in awesome shape....

Yeah, if this guy was being chased in an urban setting, I'd say he'd have a much better chance of escaping than someone in equally good shape.

[Mantokir]

Yeah, if this guy was being chased in an urban setting, I'd say he'd have a much better chance of escaping than someone in equally good shape.

I could even see benefits in rural areas... jumping across deep creeks and scrambling up cliffs, kong jumping over fallin trees... etc... anything to put distance between you and you're pursuers.

[Alric]

You see it more in the biking video, that the guy was testing some area's before he did stuff. The same thing applies to parkour. If you know the area well enough to go all out, then the advantage of knowing the area is enough to escape running normally. If you don't know the area, you are far more limited unless you want to do very risky moves.

[Unclad Lad]

If you know the area well enough to go all out, then the advantage of knowing the area is enough to escape running normally. If you don't know the area, you are far more limited unless you want to do very risky moves.

All moves involving gravity and inertia are risky. Parkour teaches you how to jump, roll, fall, etc, within a certain framework.

i like the term " free running "

From Wikipedia: Parkour is often confused with "Freerunning". They are often used interchangeably even though these terms refer to distinct disciplines. Comparatively, the aim of parkour is to enable the practitioner to move quickly and efficiently past obstacles, while freerunning employs creativity through the use of tricking moves such as aerial rotations and spins (see below)...

...The term "freerunning" was coined during the filming of Jump London, as a way to present parkour to the English-speaking world.

The man who coined the phrase Sébastien Foucan defines freerunning as a discipline for self development, of following your own way[citation needed]. His dissatisfaction with the limited creativity and self-expression in Parkour was the motivation for Sebastian Foucan to develop a similar but also very different art of movement that became known as freerunning.[25] He notes "Understand that this form of art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit we'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed a long time ago before parkour."...

...While Freerunning and parkour share many common techniques, they have a fundamental difference in philosophy and intention. The main aim of parkour is the ability to quickly access areas that would otherwise be inaccessible and the ability to escape pursuers, which means the main intention is to clear their objects as efficiently as they can,* while Freerunning emphasizes self development by "following your way".



*Insert your favorite "French running away" joke here.

[funk]

It's all still BS gymnastics in a controlled environment. Sure this guy might get away faster than the average, but without basic survival skills, his life expectancy is equal to that of most people. Should he devote an equal amount of time per week to real survival skills, then yes, he will be better off than most. Jumping far and high have little use in a SHTF scenerio, especially if you don't get 1800 calories a day.

[bluesky99]

Impressive now, but I would hate to see what shape this guy's knees are in at age 40 if he keeps this up until then.

[Alric]

Well yea, all such things are risky because you could fall and stuff, but if you don't know whats on the other side of a wall your jumping over, you are asking for trouble. That is the real issue, is that a lot of the moves are impossible if you don't know what is there ahead of time. If you think something is there and it isn't, or if you don't think something is there, and it is, that is big trouble.

[Mantokir]

Well yea, all such things are risky because you could fall and stuff, but if you don't know whats on the other side of a wall your jumping over, you are asking for trouble. That is the real issue, is that a lot of the moves are impossible if you don't know what is there ahead of time. If you think something is there and it isn't, or if you don't think something is there, and it is, that is big trouble.

You got a guy with a gun chasing you down, you come up to a wall. You gonna stand there and see what happens or try and get over it?

[spathatos]

stronger people are harder to kill

[Unclad Lad]

It's all still BS gymnastics in a controlled environment. Sure this guy might get away faster than the average, but without basic survival skills, his life expectancy is equal to that of most people. Should he devote an equal amount of time per week to real survival skills, then yes, he will be better off than most. Jumping far and high have little use in a SHTF scenerio, especially if you don't get 1800 calories a day.

I don't think anyone is claiming that Parkour all by itself is a guarantee of survival, funk. As a method of physical conditioning, however, it would have a few advantages over weightlifting, or just jogging.

[SPQR]

He needs a Spiderman suit...

[SNICKLE 1980]

not at all fake. all of those moves are pretty commonplace within the "sport" of parkour. the more impressive and hard to believe moves were done in a gym setting. take special note of the springboards and trampoline devices throughout the course. the manuevers in the video performed outdoors without the trampolines and props are standard issue can be seen in hundreds of other Parkour videos on youtube.

as far as survival use, consider this. Parkour is one of two recent fads among the yoots. the other is called planking. i'd say this guy and those like him will have an advantage over their planking peers when TSHTF.

[Jimfrancisco]

Jim, I'm not convinced all of that was real.

As for Parkour, someone who is good at it would be in the kind of shape I'd consider ideal, as it balances strength with agility and endurance.

It was all real - my friend shot the video, and though they obviously only used the best bits, Danny is as sound as a man can be - I know him. No cut shots, everything you see on there is real. He even has a vid of him touring in a camper, looking for good spots to film. Not hard to believe.

[NewGoldMoney]

gun fu > run (jump fly skip tumble whatever) fu

[DodgebyDave]

Here is where us older and wiser (age X treachery) overcome (>) the younger and dumber (youth/enthusiasm).

Leupold Rifle Scopes. If you run, you will only die tired.

Not a hater! These are important skills. Now there is no excuse for you to BE ON MY LAWN!



In all seriousness, mad skillz. In an urban setting, you aren't going to catch them very easily. All of you young folk should learn this.

Just hope that nobody loosens anything on you

[Canadian-guerilla]

Parkour Plus! Free-Running Contest Comes to Detroit
August 24, 2011

Have you ever heard of Parkour?

You will this weekend.

The Red Bull Free Running Global Championship is being held in Detroit Friday and Saturday. Contestants do things like jumps, twists and flips while they hurl themselves from urban walls and roofs.

The first competition will take place at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit on Friday. Doors will open at 4 PM. Twenty competitors will each be given 90 seconds to perform.

Saturday the final event will begin at 5 PM at Hart Plaza. Both events are free and open to the public.

One athlete will be crowned the 2011 Red Bull Art of Motion Global Champion.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/08/...es-to-detroit/

[MoMoney]

Impressive now, but I would hate to see what shape this guy's knees are in at age 40 if he keeps this up until then.

Very true, bluesky. I did a bit of competitive gymnastics in high school and twenty years later my hips and knees feel it. My schoolmate had to have her hips replaced at age 30 from it as well.

[cpthnsolo]

Meh, figured I would bump an old parkour thread over starting a new one :

TreT, The Parkour Dog From Ukraine, Amazes With His Free-Running Talent (VIDEO)

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's…Parkour Dog!

In this incredible YouTube video, watch as TreT, a 5-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier from the Ukraine, tears up the neighborhood with his amazing moves.

Leaping off walls, climbing trees and jumping over railings with pizazz, this dog is clearly skilled in the art of Parkour.


According to OddityCentral, TreT is one of only two known Parkour dogs around the world. The other is Roxy, who has been dubbed the "Hawaii Parkour Mascot."

TreT's owner, Evgeny Elchaninov, said he's been training TreT to Parkour for years.

Called one of the "most famous canine athletes" by Life With Dogs, TreT has become an Internet celebrity in recent years, racking up hundreds of thousands of views for his incredible feats.

[newmisty]

Captain, I haven't watched your vid yet but I'm laughing just looking at the pictures.

[Unclad Lad]

It's the perfect sport for a Staffie, a dog with 10 times the energy and enthusiasm as the average dog.

[Zilver]

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I think you need the gift of a built in gyroscope to do that stuff

for me,
doing things like that usually go like this: