Parkour is just awesome. There's a russian video floating around on Youtube of guy doing that stuff in buildings and on the street (where Parkour is supposed to be practiced) which includes him running up a goddamn brick wall on his toes and fingertips faster than most people would walk the same distance.
I'm with Pope_guilty here: that's a video Gymnastics, breakdancing, and perhaps a bit of martial arts. Pakour is "Doing Gymnastics, breakdancing, and perhaps a bit of martial arts, while bouncing around urban scenery, jumping from building to building, swinging from balconies, and generally turning an overdeveloped concrete wasteland into a giant playground, at a dead run".
These guys are using springboards, the cheaters :D
To do this stuff, you need to know gymnastics also. The stuff they're doing combines martial arts, floor exercise, and vault horse moves. I have an 8 year old grandkid that's doing gymnastics. Yes, they start that early. He tried karate last year, but dropped it for gymnastics.
Yes, I know. I did gymnastics and ballet as a kid for about half a decade or so (although the reasons were basically so I'd learn coordination and balance and quit walking in to doorframes after I lost the use of one eye). Neither was anywhere near as cool as what I do now, but both could easily be integrated if I still had that kind of flexibility today.
I suspect that their joints are in better shape than mine. And while it may be useless in the extreme long term, i could not land a punch on a guy who could do that.
Useless as a martial art - and yeah, blown knees if they keep it up for sure. It's a case where it doesn't matter how well you land. Your body can only absorb so much of the shock when you land on a perfectly flat surface.
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Date: 2006-10-09 07:33 pm (UTC)These guys are using springboards, the cheaters :D
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Date: 2006-10-09 06:19 pm (UTC)I can do a full split, but not coming from a forward flip like that...I'd be unable to walk for a few weeks after trying something like that.
I wish I had found MA when I was a teenager.
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Date: 2006-10-09 10:23 pm (UTC)Cool, though.
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Date: 2006-10-10 04:13 pm (UTC)Fun to watch, though.
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Date: 2006-10-10 02:39 am (UTC)Who the hell left gravity off!?