I love freerunning. I've actually started training. Started like a week ago. Can't do as much with school now, so I'm gonna do alot this summer. Compared to people I've seen on http://www.americanparkour.com/ I'm very very weak.
Meh. I always thought parkour was the one with the tricks. Oh well.
A bunch of my friends at school are pretty into freerunning. They know various tricks
from king kong to underbar. King kong is a move where you're running, and then you
need to jump over something, and it's a quicker way. Say you're on top of a building and
there's a ledge. The wall before the roof ends is let's say 3 feet taller. You're running,
and then you jump up onto the ledge. Mid-air, before landing on the ledge, you bring
your knees into your chest and your arms down on the side of you. Once you hit the
ledge, you push off of it with your feet by extending (toribash reference) your knees
and then pushing off with your hands. The hands part is optional. It launches you
forward into the air much faster than if you were to just jump onto the ledge, then jump
off. Dangerous though if you lean back before landing on the edge. My friend hit his
head on the ground once by doing that; luckily he was okay and his neck was just sore
for around 10 minutes. The second move that I mentioned is the underbar. It's more
easily explained with this gif.
My friends know a handful of 'moves' similar to these, and I'm starting to learn a bunch
from them and we do them around school to make the other kids jealous of our skeelz.
Edit: Here's another version of the King Kong, which I also know. But it's not as fun.
A bunch of my friends at school are pretty into freerunning. They know various tricks
from king kong to underbar. King kong is a move where you're running, and then you
need to jump over something, and it's a quicker way. Say you're on top of a building and
there's a ledge. The wall before the roof ends is let's say 3 feet taller. You're running,
and then you jump up onto the ledge. Mid-air, before landing on the ledge, you bring
your knees into your chest and your arms down on the side of you. Once you hit the
ledge, you push off of it with your feet by extending (toribash reference) your knees
and then pushing off with your hands. The hands part is optional. It launches you
forward into the air much faster than if you were to just jump onto the ledge, then jump
off. Dangerous though if you lean back before landing on the edge. My friend hit his
head on the ground once by doing that; luckily he was okay and his neck was just sore
for around 10 minutes. The second move that I mentioned is the underbar. It's more
easily explained with this gif.
My friends know a handful of 'moves' similar to these, and I'm starting to learn a bunch
from them and we do them around school to make the other kids jealous of our skeelz.
Edit: Here's another version of the King Kong, which I also know. But it's not as fun.
<~oyster> i want you to fart near my mouth
As my brother said previously^^^
People at our school tend to do these moves frequently. (Some not being successful which results in a bloody nose or such.) But some people are really good at this.
Those are two of the easy moves to do because it doesnt require multiple jumps at high speeds.
Although they do require your arms which you must have nice upper body strength in order to perform these stunts.
Freerunning is more for speed but it still looks cool and stuff. People think they are the same thing but they are certainly not.
Parkour is more fancy and focuses more on style than speed.
I personally can those two tricks and some more but not many more. They are hard!
People at our school tend to do these moves frequently. (Some not being successful which results in a bloody nose or such.) But some people are really good at this.
Those are two of the easy moves to do because it doesnt require multiple jumps at high speeds.
Although they do require your arms which you must have nice upper body strength in order to perform these stunts.
Freerunning is more for speed but it still looks cool and stuff. People think they are the same thing but they are certainly not.
Parkour is more fancy and focuses more on style than speed.
I personally can those two tricks and some more but not many more. They are hard!
Actually, you're wrong. You said parkour is more fancy and focuses more on style than
speed. That's freerunning. Youtube it. Parkour is when you want to get to somewhere
fast like someone mentioned earlier, trying to get to a bus. And no, no one at our school
has ever tried to do either of these moves and then get a bloody nose. If that did
happen, then my whole group of friends would be on probation, because a teacher
would've seen the bloody nose and/or toilet paper up his/her nose. And they are hard,
and most of them really do require upper body strength, but a good deal of them are
thigh-based too.
speed. That's freerunning. Youtube it. Parkour is when you want to get to somewhere
fast like someone mentioned earlier, trying to get to a bus. And no, no one at our school
has ever tried to do either of these moves and then get a bloody nose. If that did
happen, then my whole group of friends would be on probation, because a teacher
would've seen the bloody nose and/or toilet paper up his/her nose. And they are hard,
and most of them really do require upper body strength, but a good deal of them are
thigh-based too.
<~oyster> i want you to fart near my mouth
