Video Essay: Jumping, Rolling, Vaulting Over It

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SelectPlusVideo Essay: Jumping, Rolling, Vaulting Over ItVideo Essay: Jumping, Rolling, Vaulting Over ItThe Associated PressIt's called parkour, a kind of athletic movement where practitioners navigate urban landscapes through jumping, leaping, rolling around obstacles like railings and walls. Followers say it's humans moving the way humans were meant to move. (July 12)This video contains ONLY natural sound. No script is available.

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  • i like that shirt :D

  • @thatparkourdude And do a double back-flip while spinning, and after I roll do 5 front flips, and then break down and boogie! :D

  • @Delmers First of all it's not a sport. Sports are competitive and Parkour was NEVER made to be a competitive thing. Parkour is a discipline. Like a Martial art. You do it for yourself....

    Parkour is getting to a place quickly and efficiently and free running is getting to a place whilst expressing yourself at the same time. Parkour says RUN!!!!! While freerunning says RUN after I do a corkscrew off of this picnic table.

  • it can also be a rural sport to dude, thats what i do i use trees

  • No offence to Irish architects but here in Ireland we have hardly anything where say theres a ladder onto like a shed so you can jump off and our playgrounds are like really safe... so no parkour for me unless I search really hard!

  • then maybe you should move? lol

  • Hmm. Kinda hard running around the neighborhood. Unless I can do really advance tricks I won't be doing much other than running. I know a big tree near the frontier of the neighborhood but I'm afraid that is someone else property and probably shouldn't be bouncing off of it. lol :P

  • maybe you have a playground or something near your house or maybe your house has different things that you could use. you dont need buildings like this. Parkour just means you get from one place to another... with style

  • What if you have no way of finding buildings like this in a walking distance? I don't live in the urban area and probably most people who want to do parkour don't either. So what do I do?

  • whats the difference between parkour and free running? Or urban ninja..what's the exact term for this "sport"...or activity whichever.

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