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Sebastijan of G-Force in mid-air. Screenshot from their videos.
As an aging paterfamilias, I generally don’t keep up with any of the latest trends. So, it was only recently that I learned a little bit about L’art du Deplacement (the art of displacement) known as Parkour.
To untrained eyes, it looks like guys (literally) bouncing off of walls
and anything else that gets in their way. Imagine pure hyperactivity
mixed with physical stamina, unleashed in various environments. It’s
fantastic.
Parkour Slovenia has a list of all the clans currently going apeshit around the country. They also have some videos that are definitely worth checking out.
(Thanks Rat!)
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You could see a lot of this stuff in the movie Yamakasi by Luc Besson (of Taxi trilogy, le Grand Bleu, Leon etc.)http://www.parkour.com/
Meh, kids. Gymnastics has been around for 100 years or so and people do
all that and more. But noo, gotta call it something else and act all
cool and shit.
Yawn. If it’s chicks they’re looking to impress, perhaps the boys should join a rock band instead.
This will NEVER make it big over here in the States.1) It’s French, and you know how popular those folks are here nowadays. People are laughing and displaying much of the glee at their current troubles. Televangelists are preaching that God’s Wrath (while it seemed to have taken an inordinate amount of time to come down) had smote the smelly cheese-eaters.2) It requires no special equipment. What is the Sports Equipment Manufacturers of the US of A to do with this activity? Provide, maybe, special Parkour shoes (perhaps to be promoted by that French basbetball player, Tony Parker). If no money can be made, no promotional monies will be paid out. Skateboarding had skateboards, shoes, clothes, and protective gear to pawn off on the public.3) The Health Insurance Underwriters will have clauses in their contracts prohibiting Parkour.4) Parkour seems to be pretty laissez-faire (damn, French again) about schedules. TV Broadcasters hate anythinig that doesn’t run off of careful to the second planning; they would have no interest.5) Like Poulette pointed out, if the girls wouldn’t be interested in the boys doing the dangerous and stupid tricks of Parkour, a lot of boys would not bother doing it here. Why injure yourself if it’s not a girl magnet activity?6) Did I mention, because it was a French idea?
In the last couple of years there’s been a fair amount of coverage of parkour on tele here. Small clubs were apparently being set up, with the Frenchmen coming over to ‘guide’ these new pupils - and in so doing show them how useless they were at performing this art. No doubt this would’ve received some level of publicity and encouragement in a sense from media and local authorities [albeit little with the latter, seeing as I’d doubt they’d want too many people sprinting and leaping from their landmarks] as they’d be eager to be seen to latch on to anything that could reverse obesity trends, possibly reduce youth crime, usw.{Of course, there are a multitude of obvious problems that any increase in the popularity of parkour would create.}
REPLY TO POULETTE….
dude parkour is not about making money… never was and never will (cept for the game the got out with urbanfreeflow) anyway for us here in montreal, parkour its a way to move and get over evreryday obstacles that get in our way …. we dont look back … parkour is all about seeing what in front of us and whats past is past..
one day youll maybe see x-games of parkour who knows…
About saying parkour cant impress girls.. your wrong… more than 80% of the girls in the world would be impressed… plus parkour iz all about using the environment around you to get from point A to point B in the fastest way