American Parkour

you run into a pole looking at a building rather than a hot girl...

And your girlfriend is in the habit of slapping you for staring at buildings...

and...

You are always walking on curbs and other thin ledges just for the hell of it.

Walls and fences suddenly become opportunities, not barriers.

You enjoy looking for your cat when it gets lost around your neighborhood...

You do QM as a way to get around your house

No joke, I did that at my school. Not looking at a building, at a girl  ;D they were in their car and I was walking next to my friends. It was embarrassing as hell. It also hurt.

you can name the guy from russian climbing.

I literally did that!
Luckily I noticed the pole at the last second and only bumped it with my foot, but it was close. And I was scoping out the roof of a nearby building  ;D

..When your hands look like you jacked off a chainsaw. On a good day.

when you use the handicap ramp instead of the stairs ...

When you use the handicap ramp AND the stairs.

you break your toe trying to vault your dog...

Your pants get tighter when you see a railing. =X

haha, thats just wrong

It'd be even wronger for traceuses

Lol nice.

... one side of your bed has a depression from all the palm spins you have been doing on it.

haha that's pretty intense.
oh!
When you're watching a movie, and one of the characters does a vault or something like that, usually pretty basic, and you think it's the best part of the movie, your eyes get wide, you get a smile, and you look to see if anyone else noticed it as much as you do.

Not that....that's..ever happened to me before or anything...

Your friends have to constantly explain to new people you meet that "Thats just what he does all the time, don't worry about it" as you are trying out some movement or another, rather than socializing with other humans.

Your friends yell at you whenever you are at their house and have that 'look'.

You continually ostracize yourself from school by taking a moment to stretch out at the end of class.

If know you're a traceur if...

when you hear "kong" you think of this:

(http://cs.cementhorizon.com/archives/parkour.JPG)

...and not this:

(http://www.henshinonline.com/images/kong_cartoon_03.jpg)

You know you are a traceur when...

...you are the most upset person in the whole city when the old buildings downtown start getting condemned.

When you watch dawn of the dead and find yourself thinking: THERE!! RUN UP THAT WALL!!


Your friends have to constantly explain to new people you meet that "Thats just what he does all the time, don't worry about it" as you are trying out some movement or another, rather than socializing with other humans. <-- happens to me

when you use the rails on the handicap ramp to propel yourself over the stairs  ;D

You know you're a traceur when you've flattened your air mattress attempting to dash it.

Ozzi, your cat runs away?? But it's so cute and pudgy.

You know you're a traceur when...

Picnic tables are no longer for eating. They're Kong vault practice area's.

You randomly leave your house when you're not PKing no matter who is over there, to go jump a wall or something else just to do it and then walk back inside.

To whoever said the jacking off the chainsaw one, +20.


> A ride through the city, especially a new city, is the most exciting part of the road trip. (LOOK! Look at that rail set! Guys, stop here! Stop here!)
> You've ever wondered aloud the phrase, What Would David Belle Do? W.W.D.B.D.
> You get the evil eye from parents on the playground cause you just precisioned their kid.
> You read the last sentence and didn't find it odd, obscene, or stupid.
> Anything above head height with more than an inch wide lip is a pull up bar. No exceptions.

you know you are a traceur when...

you take an elevator instead of the emergency stairs...? (speed/efficiency) =p

Lol, your first one happens to me all the time cause I travel a lot.

Speaking of that.

You know you're a traceur when you go to the airport and go to the opposite side of the airport from where your flight is and wait until you only have about 10 minutes or you'll miss it to get over there as an excuse to tell the security guards when they try and slow you down for  vaulting over the trashcans, benches, etc.

You know you're a traceur when you can beat a dozen skateboarders down 7 garage levels using only the skills you've acquired from training parkour.

Running away, chasing or racing?
Hopefully you were chasing!  ;D

haha, these are great.

You know your a traceur when...

You're friends call you up to break into their houses when they forget their keys (no joke, i'm going on 4 times so far :))

and... when they lock their patio doors cause their paranoid you might show up...

And... you found out because you showed up...

And... they told you never to do that again...

...when you follow squirrels with your mouth gaping in awe of their tree running skills.

... you do full squats, pistols, and ankle exercises when brushing your teeth. :P

....during breaks at work you do pull ups, squats, push ups and climb whatever's around


....the reason you walk around is to find different ways to get around

You constantly annoy your friends, family members and anyone else around you by commenting how terrible the technique of characters on TV or movies is when they do something related to parkour.

You laugh when penguins try to do something parkour-ish, and fall, or just do it incredibly sloppy and uncontrolled.

When you see a kid do something at all similar to a Parkour movements, and spend the next three months hounding him to train with you.

Your friends girlfriend yells at you everytime you see her because you are the one that has made the boyfriend stop and stare at every gap he sees and say aloud "I wish _____ was here to see this."

...when you're at a shopping plaza and begin walking on the rails in a middle of a crowd.

...when you've blown through more shoes than your girlfriend in the last year.

...when you can point at a bloodstain on the concrete and say, "That was me!"

...when you and your pals are having a nice dinner at a restaurant all you can think is, "Bet I could wallrun over that old couple in the corner..."

Although you've cringed at people who aren't paying attention to what they're doing when they're driving, you find yourself swerving in and out of lanes cause you're in a new town and there are so many possibilities... LOOK, there's a nice rail, and look at that 8 foot high wall, I could tic-tac that... then you remember you're driving and LOOK in the rear view mirror, there's a dude with white knuckles and a purple face!

the houses around your neighborhood fit into 2 catigories: the ones whos let you vault their backyard fence. and the houses where the owners come out with a gun...

you mother's jeep has two huge dents from you trying to kong the hood twice... and you told her you just ran into it.

your younger sister become a 5'5" vaulting oppertunity

your parents wont even buy you a fire escape for the second story. they just say "he'll be fine"

hahaha, +1 shae. A coworker just ran into my office to see what on earth I was laughing at.


. . . when parking garage attendants know your face, though you don't have a car.

...when you never use the stairs at work and there is no elevator.

> Wet metal rails frighten you more than standing on a building's roof edge.
> You tell someone you're going to a jam session and you don't play an instrument of any kind.
> Learning French is looking like a better and better idea.
> You've ever missed a wallrun-climb up, hit the wall straight on and walked away pretending nothing happened...even though an entire crowd just saw you do it. 

Hillarious! I guess I know I'm a traceur. +1

You read through this thread and start doing these things, to make sure you're a traceur.

YES, so awesome. They have such mad skills.

...you play Prince of Persia obsessively, trying to figure out, "HOW!!!!???"

...you used to kind of like Winter, but now it's just a pain in the ass.

...you mark the first day of Spring by the day you can do a tic-tac, climb up, precision jump, etc, without slipping or sliding (at least here in CO, we don't have rain)

You know you're a traceur when

1) you're over 20 and still "play" on playgrounds at local middle schools
2) you run up to your 2nd story apartment to grab some tools, throw them out the window, run, vault, tuck and roll off the balcony to get back down instead of using the stairs again.
3) You watch you cat jump from the couch to the mantel and think "you're doing it wrong"
4) When you get lost driving in the city you remember your way back because of the sweet spots you saw on the way.

Haha, 100% with you on that one! :)

...sitting on your butt all day and doing nonstop physical activity isnt.
...the majority of essays your written for school relate to parkour a little bit and your teachers always ask you to explain them.
...when you play any video game you always try to do parkour within the game even if it wasnt meant to be.
...when you like summer more not only because its less cold outside but because there are more hours of daylight for training,

your friends recognize "that look on your face" when you're looking at an obstacle and go "oh, geez. not again."

you play leapfrog and roll when you land.

your friends always come to you when a ball gets thrown on the roof.

your parents tell you you're going on a road trip and you immediately check the apk forums to see if there are any traceurs in the area

You listen to a song and all you think about is how cool that song would be in a PK video.

You edit PK videos in your head to songs you're listening to.

Nice.. so true

HAHA Plus 3! That made me laugh hysterically.

You know you're a traceur if you've ever successfully vaulted an obstacle and had to go back and explain to it's owner why.

..you have been told to leave a place because you're scaring the children.

...your favorite video game is Assassins Creed and you call yourself Altier when your climbing up a building

lame

LOL! +1 I got kicked out of McDonalds because I climbed and was cat walking on the top of tubes of the playplace and the tubes were see through and the kids were looking up and me screaming and crying because they thought I was gonna kill them.

lmao I can just picture that in my head.

Can you also picture a shift manager and three disgruntles employees yelling at me? Yeah. I fucked up. Lol.

Anyways, you know you're a traceur when you take the long way to get to your class just so you climb up the walls of your school and end up getting to your classroom quicker then if you had taken the short way.

You know when you are a traceur when randomly during the day on your way anywhere you just go using the long ass the handicap ramp and all of a sudden you say to your self out of shock "why in the hell am using the ramp and not cutting across by just vaulting over the rails" to which sometimes you go back and do it.

Haha that's how mine is dude.

You don't mind going to the mall with your girlfriend lol

You pass the time in class by inconspicuously doing those ankle exercises.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1XvEbJUKE

Well I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow during class... Thanks for that Veloce. 8)

Ha np. I do the one where you put one foot on top of the other and do lifts. I lift until my leg is about to spasm out (burning from the lactic acid build up) and then push for 10 more. I try to get at least 2 sets of those on each leg in. I need to work on the form/technique of the different lateral exercises where you push the balls of your feet together, rotating at the ankles. I think Chadmanx's exercises might be better, but these work well for in-class. ;D

When you host a jam in a town you don't even live in thats over an hour away............. and you work the next day.

When you have a dream about tons of different railings side by side extending for miles... :o ;D

When you kong over random desks at work.

I'm busted.

And my friends do frequently do this:  ::)


You know you're a traceur/traceuse when...

...you meet people (or are walking around at work, or waiting for the shuttle, etc.)and you look to see what sort of shoes they're wearing, to try and spot if they might be into Parkour (or if the shoes themselves might have merit).

...you suspect someone's shoes might be good shoes for Parkour, and you ask them if you could see the sole...

..."trying on shoes" at the shoe store includes putting your foot up on the wall to see how much it'll slide and/or streak.

...your roommates leave it up to you to change all the light bulbs in the house.

...you play "lava" on your way to the laundry room.

...you intentionally wait until the last minute to leave for work so that you can use Parkour to get there on time.

...you feel a connection and friendship with people you've never met, or only met a handful of times.

...you still love playing tag, but your friends don't like playing with you.

Wow I've found my way of keeping from being bored in class =D I'm going to be doing this everyday now haha I just don't really know any ankle exercises =\ I'll do the one you described here tho = ]

Haha omg everything except the lightbulb one I'm completely dead on with =D Only I do that for school and each class = ]

...you write all of your essay's on the Highschool qualifying exams on the writing part about Parkour or relating to it somehow.

Your reaction to a shoulder, ankle or wrist injury is... Here we go again! or... "Great, no kongs for a month"

When you can't wait to meet that girl who can flow better then you can

Personally, I don't know any guys who flow, and that''s kind of a personal and disgusting thing to be posting.

Just kidding. =]
I agree, with a 123895713608/1 traceur/traceuse ratio, it can be rought out there...

Not in my dorm... Takes like 10 mins for the elevator to get to you...

yeah, I had a jeep... There were dents on the hood from konging over it.

By the way, NEVER attempt a dukes of hazards slide across a Jeep hood.. Those little metal things that hold the windshield down will catch your thigh and you'll be sore for days!!

My turn now:

... you demand that you visit every campus for you pick where you go to college simply so you can look for parkour spots.

... you post in forum topics titled "You know you are a traceur when...".

... you wear mountain-climbing shoes to class, to the store, and to work just so you can break them in for PK.

... You know who David Belle is.

 

if your locked out of your house and your neighbor has a key you try to see if there are any out of reach windows to get into before borrowing the key

shoot, i trained rail precisions the other day wearing dress shoes and a blazer jacket ;p

HAHA I have to try that Muhammad.

I DID do some precisions and kongs in cowboy boots and blue jeans once though. Which brings me to ..

You know you're a traceur when you finish a game of laser tag and your friends ask if that was you they saw fall from the gap in the floor during the game.

And your response is, "Did I stick the landing?"

Wow, this thread really took off huh?  haha, I'm glad people are having fun.  My fiance kept saying these things until i decided to start a thread.  we're all nerds... with guts


You know your a traceur when...

You insist that jumping between two buildings 200 feet up is safe and that it truly is "just a mental barrier" despite your friends telling you about the barrier at the bottom of the 200 foot drop... ie, death

The funny thing is how much more people stare at you when you are training in business/dress clothes. It just doesn't look right.

... you test your shoes grip on every wall you stand near, then look to see if theres anhing to grab onto above jumping heigt.

.... all the other dads look at you like you are making them look bad because you are the only one of them actually running around with your kids on the playground.

.... when the ball gets stuck on the top set of closed bleachers and you are always the one that has to get it.

.... when the top and the hood of your car has more dents than the sides.

.... when Channing Tatum pisses you off more now than when your girlfriend made you watch Step Up.

 :D

... when you reach the "WARNING: French Vanilla!" status based on your number of APK forum posts.

...when you get pissed at your schools computer for not having Windows Media Player so you can watch that new Parkour Video

... You've been sent to the principals office for asking your physics teacher to many questions related to flips

...when you hear hunters shooting in your woods, and you run straight for them, act crazy, then use your parkour skillz to run away evading their fire. :o  (yes, I did do this, but I don't think they were shooting directly at me.)

That's not even freerunning; that's just insane.

ey man, they were stompin in my parkour training grounds. Plus I was in a ninja suit.....and so far I haven't heard them hunting back there again lol

Hahaha omg ok you know your a traceur if you own a ninja suit XP

you know your a traceur when everyone in school only knows you becaus ethey see you doing wallflips inbetween class

(harrison)

You know your a traceur if you just went out and bought a ninja suit because that's the only thing that you didn't have on this thread = P

... people call you spiderman during gym class because you're the hardest person to hit with a dodgeball.

Yeah, I had one time when they were trying to corner me, so I walked toward them wall... As soon as they all were about to shoot I ran somewhat towards them, and as soon as they threw I tic tac'd to get a bit of height as went completely over all their shots, then came back and won. (2 left on my team at the time, and 7 on theirs). That's using random PK training for a purpose...

...when your 2 feet shorter than a NBA player and can still dunk the ball. (wallrun to tic-tac to dunk)

. . .when emergency vehicle drivers know your face from all the times they insist on yelling, "Don't hurt yourself, I don't wanna have to come back here."

. . . when you test your shoes grip on everything during the rain, juuuust to make sure it's too slippery to practice on. (stupid rain ruining my precisions...)

..... when you think muse's april fool's joke about a pullup is the most cruel thing imaginable.

You see a fence with barbed wire on the top and think "Pffft!"

and grab a thick rug

You use "Have you seen Casino Royale?" as your first attempt to explain parkour to someone.

YES. I have done thi so many times. A lot of people haven't though...

> You sit in your computer chair attempting L-sits and dips on the arm rests while reading or watching stuff onscreen.
> You have nearly broken said chair while attempting a handstand.

You know you are a tracuer when you see this hot college girl being dumped, seeing this perfect opportunity you walk up to her. Then you see this hot spot and run over there.

hehe! I was doing that today

I've probably done that about a hundred times...

seconded

You know you are a traceur when you watch animal planet for several other reasons than anyone else EVER
would.

...when you keep finding small, random bruises with no recollection of where they came from.

...when you watch old cartoons and wish you could give pointers to Coyote.

...when you drive past someone jogging and all you can think is how bad their form is and how they're killing their knees.

...when you enjoy getting somewhere as much (if not more) than being there.

...when you can lose a dog in a chase.

...when you choose your clothing each day based at least partly on how it would aid/constrain your ability to do Parkour.

...when you have a piggy bank by your bed that has "PARKOUR SHOES" written on the side.

...when you watch your friends rock climbing/buildering and think about how much energy and time they're wasting ("Don't you see the faster, easier way up?  Here, just run up here and grab that...")

...when you stop carrying your cellphone in your back pocket, because it hurts to roll on it.

lol, I account to some of those...

I have that same problem, except its the case for my glasses not a cellphone xD

...when your handprints are staining the floor becaues of you qming on the dirty floor

...when you use common adjectives and nouns in contexts that normal people wouldn't (like "Tic-Tac," "Monkey," "Lazy," or "Pistol").

...when you want to volunteer to fix that rickety, old handrail/fence for no other reason than the fact that its potential as a trainin ground is being wasted...

...when you keep a bucket filled with rice in your house, and it's not for cooking.

...when one of your life goals is to travel to a remote, small town in France that most people have never heard of.

...when your desktop background is something Parkour-related.

...when you plan your vacations around jams.

Haha my parents are starting to get mad about that = P.

...cat's have become your best friend far more than dogs.

...play Oblivion and enjoy getting your athletics skill up, and get it from doing parkour jumps =D

...wish that Call of Duty 4 would have more parkour stuff than just lazy vaulting over small things.

...kid's ask why you actually do the stretches in gym class before doing anything.

...wonder how the hell your pull up count is so high for gym.

...all of the cross country/track & field coaches beg you to join the team.

...you get lost in class thinking about incredible parkour places.

...you have the layout of your Parkour course in your back yard.

...see a kid at an open gym do something remotely similar to a parkour vault and beg him to join your team and train with you.

Sometimes my mind wanders something fierce at work because I'm thinking about Parkour...

Haha nice. I always draw new ideas for my parkour course that I'm going to build and I have to make two copy's because one of them get's taken away from teachers lol

...when people see you training or you tell them what you do and they respond "and you don't do this just to get girls?" and your answer is no, although i'm sure it helps

...when you start training in the rain because you never know if you may need your skills on a rainy day

... when your falls become a sign of progress.

... when you intentionally leave your phone in another room after someone says they're calling right back.

... if you've ever done a kong to dash using the arms on your dive-in sofa.

... when you find a sweet spot to train and you can't use it because you might lose your job.

... when you find yourself comparing Sun Tzu to David Belle.

... when you have the feeling that some day David Belle will precision Chuck Norris.

... when you're in a serious conversation and start thinking about the pros and cons of the other person's shoes for the purpose of parkour.

... if you've posted in this thread and done 99 percent of the things in it.  :P

Play star wars battlefront and do a high drop so u can roll out  :-\

Have at least one pk video on your psp!

Turn down doing a move for a friend who ask u to show off because your a modest traceur

...the bottom of your shower turns black after a good day

...you watch what you eat about as much as a super model = P

...you do QM to your phone when it rings.

...you start punching stuff when you see that it snowed.

...you have watched both District B13 and Casino Royale over 30 times ;D

...you have tried tic tac's in rock climbing shoes and wrestling shoes to test grip  ;D

When running down to your neighbors house to pick up some eggs turns into a freerunning session for 15 minutes at a construction site :P

...You've had to explain what parkour is to security

You practice the roll everywhere, especially down department store and library aisles

You've broken 2 Nintendo DS's in parkour related accidents

You've watched the yamakasi movie(s) so many times that you have learned what they are saying based on context rather than actually knowing french.

...When you are doing Algebra HW while posting on APK

yeah, my zune has about 4 or 5 vids that I've downloaded from Youtube or that people have posted links to. In fact, I have a separate folder on my zune for PK related vids and such.

when the front and main wallpapers of your phone are parkour related.


I just found out that I can make the wallpapers be videos, so I recorded scenes from the Russian Climbing vids on Youtube to put them on my phone. ;D

 .....instead of writing notes to buddies in class you draw pictures of your ideas for parkour courses or your teams clothes

(Have at least one pk video on your psp!)

(When you see a kid do something at all similar to a Parkour movements, and spend the next three months hounding him to train with you.)

(You listen to a song and all you think about is how cool that song would be in a PK video. You edit PK videos in your head to songs you're listening to)

(You see a fence with barbed wire on the top and think "Pffft!")

(You use "Have you seen Casino Royale?" as your first attempt to explain parkour to someone)

(when your desktop background is something Parkour-related.) (cat's have become your best friend far more than dogs)


lmao!! i can realte to all of these!  ;D   umm u know you are a traceur when you can think of more than 7 ways to vault over a simple rail, and when you think about how cool it would be 2 pratice in space lol ;)  

...When you have to explain to your parents wwhy you are buying 100$ Ariakes and what the heck Parkour is

... when your parents have to ask the guy at the local mountain climbing store if he knows what parkour is and if he knows what shoes are good for it. (did that for me for christmas, except that bought crappy Nikes.. lol

ariake's are 100$? wow.


you get lost in a shoe store because you cant find the right shoes.

When you know your local shoe store far better then the local WallMart.

when you pick up a book or other text media and every other word turns into parkour related words

...you know the stairs of your house much better than the inside.

When you watch I Am Legend with your girlfriend and find yourself saying, "I could totally outrun those things...."

Haha dude the entire movie I was thinking the same thing and thinking "omg I would be in heaven during the days!..the nights I'd be scared shitless tho lol"

...you act as if getting Warning: French Vanilla is a big accomplishment  ;D

you check your apk as much as your email

When you check apk more then your email.

> You see a video of men walking on the moon and wonder how high you could wall climb there...
> Referring to someone in real life by their internet name is not strange and sometimes encouraged.
> A sunny warm day makes you happier than a kid at Chrsitmas.

... you keep thinking on what else you can add on this thread...

...You saw the big green monster at Fenway park and said " If only"

(34 ft wall up lol)

Haha that'd be amazing..this is one of those moments where you'd ask "What would David Belle do?" ;D

Concidering you just asked me what it is lol.
Yea it would be awesome to do that, but its probably impossible

...you use the term "What would David Belle do?"

...when you wishe dyou were the I Am Legend Main character for a day so you could go to anyspot you want, Like the Dame Du Lac

How would you get there?

When you actually find yourself comparing yourself not to other traceurs but to animals like lemurs and squirrels posted on videos here and say, "how can I get that good!?" lol

...you're able to run and keep up with squirrels sprinting away from you in rugged woods for long periods of time.

....when you are often asked why are you late for class and you say " what I'm late....gotta figure out a new route to class"
When asked what you mean, you say " Have you seen Casino Royale?".

...you spend the entire geometry class drawing out the best routes for each class from the opposite side of the school.

...Your bed post is wobbly and cracked from precisions

i did that  but i walked into a metal post between a set of double doors that skools hav in there hallways

...lol When trying to freerun at school you hit metal posts :P

When you're chasing squirrels for speed drills and you hit a friggen root and you explode into a pile of wood, dirt, leaves, plants, and whatever you were wearing that day.

...When summer isnt for Parties, its for Parkour

Nicely put, man.

Thanks. Seeing as in Alaska, There is a long winter and a long break from Parkour. Thats way more important.

... when you go to shake someone's hand and notice that they happen to have some good callouses. Then you get that look in your eye...


Just happened today, lol!

QFT. You should definitely put that in your sig.

Yeah Jason that's totally sig worthy  ;)

...when everything you do furthers your parkour to some end. I.E. getting a new job to make enough cash to buy those new shoes, or joining cross country and track to build up your endurance.

...People think you're lazy because you're always taking shortcuts through fences and rails
...You love a playground just as much, if not more, than an elementary school kid
...You're in the middle of a 400 meter race and you're scoping out the other team's home field for jammin' spots
...You helped this thread get to 11 pages
...You feel like you've escaped Plato's cave and are preaching nonsense to everyone else when you try to explain the things parkour does for you

Hahahaha, good one. :D

...you think that the entire parkour community going to DC sounds like an easily mistakable terrorist attack. ;D

hahahahaahahaha precisioned their kid? thats great

...when you get so annoyed when you play a video game and your character doesn't have basic Parkour abilities...

...when you tell your friends your out of shape and they look at you like your crazy. "But I can't even do 50 pullups straight..."

lol, sounds like me... I keep saying I should be doing more than 20 pullups and then my friends look at me like "are you crazy?"

anyway, you know your a traceur when:

...you think parkour should be renamed to B.T.S.W.I.M... that is: Better Than Sex, While In Motion.
...you pause at the sight of a female tracuse and imidiatly fall in love and ask her to marry you.
...your sex positions have names like kong-vault, monkey vault, speed vault, etc.

You notice that nice looking railing behind a cute girl bending over before you even realize she's there.

Heh, thats even better! I swear most tracuers are more nerds then the guys who play WoW all day.. not that theres anything wrong with that...

Yeah, we tend to be called PK geeks from time to time because we let it envelope us so much...

Tis not such a bad thing 8)

Haha yeah I have no problem with that.

...you cry for an hour when it snow's or rain's. lol

...you talk to people using parkour terms as if they know what your talking about.

...you have explained the definition of parkour and the difference between parkour and freerunning over 30 times.

...whenever you see something parkour related in a movie you immediately say, "Wait wait, go back! Go back!" 

emo pk??  ::)



haha.....guilty

you know you're a traceur when you go on a car ride from Florida to Pennsylvania and at every stop you try your hardest to find something to session.(i just got back from doin this lol)

Guilty on all 3 accounts... except that one friend knows most of the terms, so it's ok.

wow this thread just refuses to end.

- when you've fallen inside your dryer in a failed palmspin

LMAO

you have dreams of training with many great traceurs.


(If i practiced parkour when we moved from TX to PA, I would have annoyed my mom so much.)

.....during auto class all the other oily people are asking WTF is that video of (Skynative's vid) when you use the class computer.

.....you watch your bosses cat jump from cement block to cement block and you join him.

.....so does the older guy that works with you.

when you draw stick figures in class doing parkour to pass time till the bell rings when you can go outside and do parkour

Yep. That's my life story!

your class mates see you do a wall flip (you thought no one was watching), ans all of a sudden he has the whole class....teacher included, over there with their phones out saying "do that again!"

...when you took the gymnastics course offered at your school just so you could jump off things

You try to play it cool when using your feet to measure a distance for a jump when people are walking by.

hahaha^^^ guilty

Guilty as charged! It's even worse when you're trying to do it as you're casually walking and talking with someone.

Haha happened to me twice today!! First was with a wallflip then again before lunch when I was doing wallspins the whole way down the hall. ;D

OMG, YES!!!!


-You know youre a traceur if your girlfriend starts wearing athletic clothes to the mall with you.

When David Belle jokes are more common for you and you friends have know idea who you are talking about.

"David Belle can gate vault that barbed wire fence!" 
*friend* "Who and what?"

... You use the phrase, "It's Belle-able" when someone points out something beyond your skill level.

^^haha YES!  I've had to explain that "belle-able" and "do-able" are two COMPLETELY different aspects of parkour lol. 

You are overjoyed when your hands get torn up because you know they'll heal tougher than before.

... You're an expert in knowing all the different kinds of paint, concrete, and types/styles of railing commonly used on buildings

When you turn down dates with girls because you already have plans . . . parkour!

(sadly, has happened to me more then once)

Rails, fences, and small-medium walls turn you on more than women do.

Oh em GEE!! I saw the sexiest wall earlier!! I swear it was all I could do to keep from staring. I totally broke the three second rule!

I would cat-balance that rail all night long

Tracuer1: Dude check out this picture of me and this wall.
Traceur2: Nice!
Traceur1: I was walking by and I had to take a picture.
Traceur2: Dude, tell me you konged that!
Traceur1: OH YEAHH!! Twice!!
Traceur2: Wait, who took that picture?
Traceur1: I think it was my girlfriend.. I'm not sure.

True story. This conversation sooo happened.

Lmfao completely understandable.
Love it.

...when walking by the TV, which your Dad is watching golf on, you notice the nice distance between the sides of a sand trap and think, "I bet I can precision that..."


^That's to weird to make up ;D

When you climb in and on your house and get sore from that.

I'm doing that. ;D

...when your parkour clothes become everyday clothes.

When you desperately hope that someone will hit a ball ontop of the collapsible bleachers in your gym class so you can wall run up to get it. then jump down,getting some real exercise in the pathetic excuse for a class they call "physical education".

I get spider man comments all the time from this.

Duuuuuude you don't understand how much I 200% relate with this. Lmao. Sometimes I'll hit it especially hard just to accidentally knock the ball up there. =D

That, but the other way around.

... when you have 3 hours to kill before work starts so you decide to go see a movie but instead end up doing precisions on the parking stumps and the lamp post outside the theater.

When you get a heating pad and your as excited as you are on christmas to use it.  best 20 dollars ive ever invested... No more sore muscles the next morning.

Dude, sounds like a miracle worker lol =D I think it's time for me to invest.

.... when it hurts to clap.
.... Wjen your jealous ofr squirls

>.< The squirell thing has been stated like 20 times now...

...you do push up's and leg exercises when your just waiting around lacking anywhere to do anything.

When your practicing wall runs, and the entire neighborhood comes to see what your doing. And you start by saying, "Have you seen Casino Royale?"
I've said this so many times.. True story, lol

when you get more pissed off than usual when the weather man predicts it to be sunny and it rains......not cool

You know you are a traceur when...

You spend 6 hours wandering around town with a few of your friends looking for a good parkour spot.

...seriously did that on Friday, the place we found was an abandoned lot were a hotel was going to be put up, but the plan was ditched and stone walls and other areas were left up. Sure it needs a little cleaning up but it's great.  8) 

... if you've ever told your significant other that if they really loved you, they'd watch Jump London.

...when you install a chin up bar on the door to your room and then hurt your foot by accidentally kicking the doorknob trying to complete that 10th pull up.

> When you have become a self taught field medic. Especially when it comes to the hands. You know what I mean.

when you use pull up bars for cat leap practice.

when this thread goes on for fifteen pages and is still hilarious

... no matter how many times they tell you no. You still pester your friends that dont practice  "come on. just one kong"

When your parents think you're just a big show off even though you train alone

your non parkour friends are annoyed because you talk about parkour so much

You'd rather walk/run/parkour across town than drive

hahahah! I've definitely done that myself.

...When walking on all fours is acceptable, and sometimes even preferred

-when you sit in class and instead of listening to the professor, you imagine yourself doing parkour around the classroom
-you hit doorknobs, cabinets, desks, beds, or pretty much anything in your house with you heel when kicking up for a handstand
-you sit a work and imagine a mini-you parkouring around your desk ,vaulting over staplers and tape dispencers
-you tell yourself you are going to bed at 11, but you stay up for another 3 hours watching parkour vids on youtube
-you get sad after watching a new 3run video, cause now you have 145.6756 more things to work on
-You think of surroundings in terms of precisions
-You ride in a car and imagine yourself outside running with the same speed jumping and vaulting whatever is on the side of the road
-You get superexcited when a girl expresses interest in learning parkour
-You randomly get up on elevated things and sit in a crouched spiderman position
-You use 1/4 of the steps, if any, on any given staircase
-You jump down stairs
-You do lazy vaults, when you are in fact, too lazy to kong or dash
-You wear sport clothing everyday just cause you may have to do parkour at some point and time
-You plan you route to class so that you have to vault something a long the way
-PDQ replaces Rock Paper Scissors
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