Posts : 419 Join date : 2009-11-21 Age : 28 Location : Texas
Subject: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:26 pm
Cheesy title? Probably. Now onto my post. I'd like to know if we have any traceurs or freerunners in the clan. I'm just starting out with parkour and wanted to know if anyone else was already doing this or if they're just starting too. Incase anyone doesn't know, a traceur is a practitioner of parkour, and parkour is the art of moving efficiently in any environment. Infact, here's some videos showing what parkour is.
<- this guy starts out doing freerunning but gets into some really epic parkour after all the flippy stuff.
<- and this guy is just the king of freerunning and making people say "OMG, I just hit that drunk with my car!"
A bipolar tree First Sergeant
Posts : 1084 Join date : 2010-04-05 Age : 29 Location : Norton, Ohio
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:03 pm
I actually started looking into parkour recently, but I haven't tried practicing it yet
GhostOps21 Sergeant Major
Posts : 1101 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 31 Location : Colorado
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:20 pm
I've done rather light parkour, just kinda fun stuff to do in the city, but since I've moved up into the mountains, the opportunity is hard to do city parkour, now mountaineering is badass.
Liam Savrii Discharged
Posts : 544 Join date : 2010-08-19 Age : 33 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:23 pm
I was really into parkour when I was younger. It by far looks good and its fun to show off...
As far as practical applications go..
I learned how to break into my 11th grade english class on the 2nd floor.
Sekwaf Staff Sergeant
Posts : 419 Join date : 2009-11-21 Age : 28 Location : Texas
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:42 pm
Well I'm just practicing rolls now and I'll start doing some vaults. This will probably be turned into a little parkour blog for anyone that wants to tell about what they did/ are doing with the sport. Oh I'm also doing some more muscle building since I need a bit more strength to do some of the climbing. If I can get a good place I'm going to do the handstand push ups since they're really good at giving balance and upper body strength and mabye a bit of core strength.
A bipolar tree First Sergeant
Posts : 1084 Join date : 2010-04-05 Age : 29 Location : Norton, Ohio
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:45 pm
That sounds like a good place to start, maybe I'll try the handstand push ups, and I'm gonna try running some to raise my endurance.
tehepicness Staff Sergeant
Posts : 972 Join date : 2010-06-11 Age : 29 Location : Louisiana, United States
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:55 pm
so basicly if you can do this good, the police will never catch you? cuz uh....damn! that was bad ***.
A bipolar tree First Sergeant
Posts : 1084 Join date : 2010-04-05 Age : 29 Location : Norton, Ohio
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:14 am
thats exactly what I was thinking XD plus I think it would be good to show off
Liam Savrii Discharged
Posts : 544 Join date : 2010-08-19 Age : 33 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Mon Oct 04, 2010 4:04 am
But one thing that I've learned from parkour is that it is almost a complete sport. You basically need all components of strength, endurance, flexibility, mental stamina, and know-how to become good at parkour.
Me and my buds back in the day would all work out together back in high school. I'd like to think that we worked harder than most of the sports on campus. We'd literally run the entire workout of the cross country team (a daily 5 miles, with alternating 2-3 mile tempo runs (fast runs)), we'd do stadiums and pushups with the wrestling team, and we'd work weights with the football team.
What that guy does in his videos makes it seem easy to do parkour, but trust me, it takes a LOT of preparation, practice, (and proper guidance) to pull it off.
Also note that parkour WILL F*CK UP YOUR JOINTS. Its one of the reasons I stopped.
No matter how many rolls I did to offset the pressure of jumping from height, it caught up to me.
Anyway, enjoy yourselves guys. And if you want a workout routine just pm me and I'll give u our work out routine... If I still have it..
Antonio Discharged
Posts : 416 Join date : 2010-07-14 Age : 34 Location : Fort Myers, Florida
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:23 pm
I can imagine myself breaking several bones trying to do this.
Sekwaf Staff Sergeant
Posts : 419 Join date : 2009-11-21 Age : 28 Location : Texas
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:55 pm
Lol it's probably the only sport that helps you get into and out of mischief. I can just imagine mall security trying to get a shoplifting traceur... Anyways, I'm about to work on rolls since they're probably the most important thing you can learn and I need some work on those
Liam Savrii Discharged
Posts : 544 Join date : 2010-08-19 Age : 33 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:43 pm
You know how I'm obsessed with french people? Well we have french parkour as well.
Taylorsux Staff Sergeant
Posts : 985 Join date : 2010-08-22 Age : 27 Location : On a horse.
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:20 pm
Awsome :O! they should enlist and the terriost be like WTF
Purplevine4 Lance Corporal
Posts : 657 Join date : 2010-08-09 Age : 30 Location : M.I.A
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:37 am
I managed to do what that guy did at 2:52 in the first vid but lets just say....nearmiss a twisted ankle running up to do it? Its not something to take lightly so dont get cocky.
Jagermeister_09 Staff Sergeant
Posts : 760 Join date : 2010-05-05
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:19 am
where does one even start to learn how to do this? do they just go on youtube or something?really cool stuff
SuperShocky 1st Lieutenant
Posts : 2640 Join date : 2010-04-21 Age : 29 Location : Perth, Australia
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:06 pm
09_jagermeister wrote:
where does one even start to learn how to do this? do they just go on youtube or something?really cool stuff
You're running away from cops, jumping through roofs and builing tops climbing over fences etc.
You get away from the police and go
Damn, that was useful, I gotta learn how to do this
Theres your answer, You're welcome
duckondrugs Private 1st Class
Posts : 1418 Join date : 2010-03-23 Age : 27 Location : north-east england
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:02 pm
the most badass free running ive seen. the guy in the clip is david belle, one of the inventors of free running, so dont say he's a fraud. search him on youtube
Sekwaf Staff Sergeant
Posts : 419 Join date : 2009-11-21 Age : 28 Location : Texas
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:49 pm
I wanna know where the hell he is at 0:40. And as for learnign stuff, I started by lookign at youtube videos and learned the roll and a few basic stuff but my tow nhas the only Parkour training facility in the southwest so...I'm gonna head over there soon.
Jagermeister_09 Staff Sergeant
Posts : 760 Join date : 2010-05-05
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:08 am
cool. im gonna see if we have one here
WorldWarWinner Private
Posts : 16 Join date : 2010-08-31 Age : 28 Location : Antwerpen
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:46 pm
This is way better than assasins creed xD
Sekwaf Staff Sergeant
Posts : 419 Join date : 2009-11-21 Age : 28 Location : Texas
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:12 pm
Lol Assassin's Creed II is what got me interested in this first that and the movie Prince of Persia. And in Assassin's Creed II it's totally parkour because it's all about getting from point A to point B as quickly/efficiently as possible, no idea why they called it freeruning, because it's not .
Purplevine4 Lance Corporal
Posts : 657 Join date : 2010-08-09 Age : 30 Location : M.I.A
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:15 pm
Sekwaf wrote:
Lol Assassin's Creed II is what got me interested in this first that and the movie Prince of Persia. And in Assassin's Creed II it's totally parkour because it's all about getting from point A to point B as quickly/efficiently as possible, no idea why they called it freeruning, because it's not .
Also where the F**K does Ezio get all that running stamina? Beats me lol.
Sekwaf Staff Sergeant
Posts : 419 Join date : 2009-11-21 Age : 28 Location : Texas
Subject: Re: Where be all my hot, sexy traceurs? Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:23 pm
Lol idk but I wish I could run like Ezio. And sadly it will be a few months atleast before I can train since the training facility is shut down for awhile due to the head trainer breaking his ankle, so gotta wait for the fool to get surgery D: