learning parkour

[veganmav]

here is a youtube of parkour if you are not familiar. parkour on youtube.

i want to learn.

Does anyone know how I can get started?
I mean, I want to like take classes, or have someone competent train me in the basics at least....

I would love to practice at a gym or whatever.

[Thremp]

Its usually called free running or tricking.

Take gymnastics or goto a tricking gym.

[cbloom]

LOL Mav I like you more and more [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

99% of it is just gymnastics tumbling moves, so you just want to find a cool gymnastics class.

[AZK]

let me know what you find, i'm kinda curious just from the casino royale scene

[Thremp]

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let me know what you find, i'm kinda curious just from the casino royale scene

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There are some training videos on youtube. Its basically martial arts + gymnastics. Unless theres a dedicated gym, pick up gymnastics. Sadly my city has no gyms for anything, and I can't bring myself to goto the regular gymnastics stuff.

[Alobar]

do some google searching, depending on where you live chances are there are a group of people who do this in your city, and have formed a club or group. I wanted to get into this too and searched around and found a group in my city and they were all about new people and showing them stuff. I would imagine thats the case with most clubs anywhere.

[SmileyEH]

1) Start jumping off buildings.
2)....
3) Profit

Seriously though, all these guys started in a gym on a mat with some padded platforms or whatever. You can also just make really simple stuff like: precision jump platform - just nail a 2x4 to a couple shorter boards to make a raised platform 3.5inches wide. Jump onto it without falling off, repeat. Poke some sticks into the ground and tie some string between them - jump over it. Jump off things onto grass and roll. Add running etc. etc.

[Efourdee]

Yeah I doubt this needs a gym.. All a gym will provide is a defendant for your impending lawsuit.

[Blarg]

I think guys doing this could also get some benefit from going to a judo class, where you learn falling by getting thrown constantly. You get really, really good at minimizing the cost of slamming into the ground.

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I think guys doing this could also get some benefit from going to a judo class, where you learn falling by getting thrown constantly. You get really, really good at minimizing the cost of slamming into the ground.

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Meh, someone who is actually skilled at parkour is completely comfortable falling/jumping from 20feet up and rolling out. But yeah, some guys might just be in it to do flips and stuff and not much emphasis on safety and traversing urban terrain at speed.