Disciple Parkour: Absolute basics of walking and running

Not fancily-edited but that stuff doesn't bother me.

I'll be providing further details about running in more specific, future tutorials.

Read-along:

"Hey guys, I'm back with another tutorial, this is going to be the most important tutorial I do, (probably) I'm going to cover some basics on learning how to run. I'll probably have some more specific tutorials for points that I raise in this video but I just want to deal with some very basic things to get you started in this one. It'll be longer than most of my tutorials and some of the information will be quite general but I'll be specific where I feel it's necessary and be more specific in future tutorials as well."

"This is learning how to run"

"Something I'm very keen to fix is that a lot of people run in a really bad way. This isn't your fault, it's because shoes teach you to go from the heel through to the toe whereas really you should be running with the ball of the foot making contact with the ground first and this is why you're not going to be wearing shoes when you first try and do this because it's a lot easier to I find to learn in bare feet."

"Most people walk something like this."

"If you walk like this you'll find that your kness lock-it's not something that you think about because, like breathing, you just kind of do it because you've been doing it for years, but basically shoes have trained you to walk like this and you'll probably find that you run like that as well because running is essentially a faster version of walking and if your knees are locking all the time, especially when running on concrete then eventually you're going to have knee problems and we don't want that, so I'm going to show you how to walk properly."

"With knee-locking in mind, you should walk something like this."

*FINISH THIS SECTION*

"So that's us for today, good luck on learning how to walk and run properly."

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• disciple
• parkour
• tutorial
• walking
• running
• belfast
• ireland

[Foxified789]

please make more tuts soon!!

[meanspirit]

This is great. I've always thought parkour was interesting, but have only just thought of actually trying it out for myself. What I've noticed and admire about the pk community is that everyone seems to be very focused on safety and correctness as opposed to just 'showing off' in a competitive way.

Your video is a great example of teaching people like me the fundamentals in a non-showy way. Thanks mate!

[MKimble515]

Very true. I changed the way I run. You will be surprised how easy it is to start running this way. Read Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. It gives a lot of detail on why this running style is so important (and it's a great read).

[kishimoto199]

This helps thank you.

[AnnanFay]

Nice video! Very important subject which I don't think people think about enough

[irishlostboy]

here, i really hope you make some more tutorials. i like the way you are covering the real basics, cleaning up foundation technique. sign of a good coach that is. :) take care!

[SinisterWalrus]

"beyasics". Irish accents are awesome.

[fenixthehedgehog]

yeah in track we were always taught to run like that it speeds you up and plus with the spikes it sped you up even more

[Endy77Endy]

hes not british hes from ireland, like me! xD

[ShrawPk]

hes from northern ireland