Aberdeen Parkour and Freerunning jam 17.08.09 - "It's Called Base Jumping Now"

Aberdeen jam with tricking, parkour, freerunning, Sportacus, drunks, bails, fails and much much more

Aberdeen was fun, met some new guys and tried some new tricks.
Shame more people couldn't make it.
The day started off with me getting an 8:25 am train, whilst on the train I watched American Wedding (American Pie 3 - amazing movie) until 8:40 when Cam, Ross, Ross's Friend Ruaridh who I hadn't met before and Jack got on the train at Dundee. We arrived at 9:52 and trained in this car park area with a small precision, small cat leap, climbs and a few other things. We were meant to train here until David met us there at 11:00, numerous phone calls that went to answer-phone and texts later we accepted that he was probably asleep, or busy. So we headed to E.A.R.L a baguette place that provided us with some "top-notch" food. It was at this point, whilst we were waiting for our food, that David got through to us, he had been in a driving lesson all that day, which is needless to say a fair excuse for not answering your phone. We arranged to meet him at an area Cam called the "Blue Blocks". Our food was finally ready and I got my Chicken Tikka Baguette with Lettuce and mayo, it was orgasmic. After stopping at a few jumps to look at stuff that the Aberdonians had achieved we reached the blue blocks. As soon as we arrived I could see numerous opportunities for jumps, precisions, flips and vaults. At that point cam showed me an incredibly large gap between two blocks that David had allegedly Tic-Tac'd, we met two guys there who had been training for around a year we trained there for roughly an hour, and then David showed up, he's a cool, talented guy with mad jumping abilities. We then headed to some grass to do some finger lickin' trickin' where we saw a cork, on the way David showed us a Tic Tac over a small gap up a huge wall which we had been wall-running. David was also very impressed at my fish eye lens. On the other side was a nice precision which we trained for a bit and a drain type thing which Cam turned into a bongo before moving to another side of the building where we trained at a tree for a bit, which Steven (one of the locals) promptly broke. After that we went to a small spot with a kong/speed to cat that we trained. Then we met up with Danno (sp?) who I had heard a lot about at a grassy area and went to another small spot with a kong/speed to precision, we were then told by a guy to move on, even though he had no right to do that because we weren't infringing on his rights. He later said to "do a shifty" or he would get someone to make us. After that we headed to another bit with a precision and some other stuff to do for a short while where a crazy drunk guy asked us to do a backflip, which Cam did while I filmed, another guy asked us if we were "on the computer" by which he meant "what's your WWW URL". I then did a front tuck for them and a retarded cartwheel as a joke which Cam hadn't the ability to film. We then headed to a spot in town where there were some 180 cats/dynos/climbs/cats where a guy who said he used to do what we were doing and his friend had a conversation with us, and shortly before leaving, said in a very Northern English accent "It's called base jumping now!" which I could on film and will feature in the video. After that we went to a spot with lots of closely spaced, thin, low walls which were fun. Ross then threw a moldy shit about. Shortly after we were at Asda, where we met Sportacus and I bought 27p Asda-made Chocolate and 34p Cranberry Blue Charge cheap Asda-made energy drink. After that we headed to a Lion Statue where we precisioned/cat-leaped a bit. Then got the 1.5 hour train back at 18:30.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• parkour
• freerunning
• Sportacus
• drunks
• bails

[StreetDevilz]

nice edit james

was a good day

cam

[StreetDevilz]

omg i wish i came lol 5 star

[fuzzy831]

nice one, didnt really like the repeating bits though, decent tricking as well

x

[StreetDevilz]

Cheers the repeating bits were to go with the beat, to make the song and video fuse together, rather than a few clips randomly put in no specific order and a song added in post-edit with no concern to link them at all.

[TomekHujek151]

another good vid, when is the next one up?

[Theadrianos80]

look at him shaging the wall at 1:37

[DavidAndersoonTV]

is that beside marchall collage ?

[ParkourQuick]

lol mini bike rack and 5 ft tall tree.. very resourceful

[flamer41]

i want a group like that but my friends cant really learn

[ichblibli]

Awesome! Love your "video jokes"!

Watch my freerun vids!

[winchPK]

Awesome write up + vid

[caitch87]

anyone know when the next aberdeen jam's gonna be? :D looking forward to it :)

[towler18]

Sweet video guys. I ride my bike at a couple of those spots. Have you ever been to the top of the carpark at Denburn round by woolmanhill? prob some alright stuff there. keep it up!