Derik DaSilva
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« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2008, 09:55:43 PM » |
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THE RING! The ring at CU boulder. It looks hard, and it's pretty mediocre-ly difficult (too tired, making up words as I go). But ever since I saw it I wanted to try it. Now I have. I failed the first time because I jumped out of it and didn't land in cat position like I was supposed to... but it was awesome.. I felt accomplished...  Edit: Shouldn't the title of the thread be "The Coolest Thing You've Ever Done So Far"? |
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Parkour - causing clinical depression, one rainy day at a time.
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« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2008, 10:36:45 PM » |
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the coolest thing to me was the first day i started to parkour was when i did my first dash vault over a rail.
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Rockwell
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"There's alot that I don't know...."
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« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2008, 10:53:38 PM » |
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My first muscle up.
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What if you fail? I won't.  "Dude how did you rip your pants?!?!?" "Well when you travel at the speed of awesome...." "Fast. Run Fast.Run so God damned fast. Why? Dreams don’t catch themselves." |
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« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2008, 07:45:09 AM » |
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Craig, what about the children? Has everyone forgotten about the children?!
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Hmmmm.... Bunnies-Children, Bunnies-Children. Tough call. What about baby bunnnies?
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Cars break down, your feet keep going
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« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2008, 09:39:20 AM » |
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This walkway that is like 15 feet high with about 6 inches of foot room with a rail, it has a right angle and at that angle one of my friends was taking forever to walk across and all my friends were scared so i jumped about 5 feet landed on the other edge and spinned. It was really easy and i do it often but they thought it was the shit and completely scary
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David Glass
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« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2008, 10:22:07 AM » |
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This weekend I actually saved my kid... sort of (but I'll get into that)
I was chilling with my 1 y/o at a restaurant. I had to take him outside cause he's very active and wouldn't stay put (climbing on the tables and what not). I left my wife with her friends and sat outside with him, keeping an eye on him, but sitting down under an umbrella cause it was friggin 100 degrees! (at least it felt like it)
I kind of thought I had a grip on things cause it was an area somewhat englosed by a gate (you know the areas outside restaurants where people sit outside). I kind of let him get a little bit of a distance.
Sure as the sun rises in the east, my kid found a way to get out of the gate and took off on his fastes 1 y/o run, and you guessed it, right towards the street
During my dash, I saw just about the only spot I could make it over. Opening the gate would mean I wouldn't make it on time, so I had to vault it, but I had to choose which vault to use because I had to make it over about a 3' wide area, under an umbrella which was at an angle cause there was a table right in front of it.
Dash vault... no... lazy... no... Go figure, I went for a turn vault and caught him just as a car slammed on its breaks. Of course I got the "Parents these days cant' take care of their kids" look... All I can think of was "Thank God for my PK training" and "Why on earth did I go for a turn vault"
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Life can be divided in two phases:
Phase 1: Before the first time
Phase 2: After the first time
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Sam "Notsolittleninja"
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« Reply #21 on: July 21, 2008, 11:10:45 AM » |
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So....I was a cub scout (last year till boy scouts) and we were invited to a camping trip with a troop that built these platforms up in trees that they slept in. So in the morning the boy scouts finally let us up onto their big one. We all got up and then one of the cross beams snapped. No one got hurt though. I was in a spot where I had a vertical fall, so I fell.....and I grabbed onto a cross beam below me and swung through it. It was about 4 feet from the ground. It was there because they built a cooking platform on half the framing they made. And my friend fell onto the cooking platform. While I was in the air it was slow mo.....it took me like 5 seconds to grab the cross beam and 5 more seconds to hit the ground. I had like 5 feet of air time after I swung. Its really cool having slow mo. |
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The only thing that limits you is yourself.
There is only one way...your own way.
Don't settle.
Fear is just my body telling me I have to be careful.
Go with the flow,
but give the current a fight.
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« Reply #22 on: July 21, 2008, 09:28:22 PM » |
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Awesome story, David!  I love reading about people who used their training instinctively to respond to situations (saving their kids, responding to a fall, etc.) That's what it's all about.  The coolest thing I've done (so far), parkour-wise, was starting. |
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“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire...” --Martha Graham “There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling." --John Gardner "Fall down 7 times, get up 8." --Japanese proverb www.madparkour.com |
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« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2008, 12:48:37 AM » |
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Coolest feeling thing i've done, definitely an instinctive cat grab. Its amazing! my most bamf accomplishments that im proud of are flagpoles and handstand pushups, though  |
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« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2008, 02:58:59 AM » |
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The coolest thing i've done.......................ummm well there is so many things i do that are cool
umm round off 4 flik flaks too full twist is fun
oh well
peace
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David Glass
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« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2008, 08:23:15 AM » |
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Awesome story, David! I love reading about people who used their training instinctively to respond to situations (saving their kids, responding to a fall, etc.) That's what it's all about. The coolest thing I've done (so far), parkour-wise, was starting. Thanks, MoF My son is a handful.... Looks like I'm going to have to keep training He gets in trouble so often. This is the second time I used PK to save him. THe first, he picked a steak knife off the table and was getting ready to put it in his mouth... I was on the other side of the house and dash-vaulted the sofa to make it just as it was enterring his mouth! tsc tsc |
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Life can be divided in two phases:
Phase 1: Before the first time
Phase 2: After the first time
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Shae "shae" Perkins
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« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2008, 11:11:08 AM » |
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I racked myself whilest doing a precision...oh wait that's not cool, that sucked!
I was wrestling with a few of my friends on a dock and the object was to throw the others in the water. At one point I was literally in air falling towards the water and some sort of hardcore Parkour instinct wooshed over me and I somehow grabbed one of the pylon holding the dock up, swung back to the dock and got my friend in. Yeah...
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5 s's of Parkour: Silent. Soft. Safe. Smart. Socks?
Stop hugging ans start planting.
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« Reply #27 on: July 23, 2008, 12:54:47 PM » |
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It wasn't really all that "cool," but I impressed myself the other day when I was doing precision jumps back and forth between these two parking space curbs when I slipped on one of them and fell at a really weird angle. The next thing I knew I was on my feet again and realized that I'd somehow caught myself and rolled out, purely on instinct. The people I was with were like "Wow, I thought you were gonna eat it, but you somehow made fucking up look sweet"
Direct result of training.
*Goggles* I wanna train with you! =D Awesome story, David Glass. I think the thing that really wowed me the most was, after a month of strength training, I actually managed to do a half-assed muscle-up on a pullup bar. I was like "Geez, I can't believe I finally did it!" Still can't muscle-up onto a wall / roof / anything useful, but I'm getting there. =P Another thing that was pretty cool was when I took my a couple friends rock climbing (the natural kind of rocks - we were basically scaling mountains entirely made out of massive rock formations). My friends were kind of hopping from rock to rock, working their way up, but I just hit the ground in q-movement and smoothly flowed up across the rough terrain, moving like I had 4 legs instead of 2 legs and 2 arms. It didn't involve any kind of vaulting or jumping, but parkour teaches you how to move in quite a few different ways.  |
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« Reply #28 on: July 23, 2008, 09:53:30 PM » |
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He gets in trouble so often. This is the second time I used PK to save him. THe first, he picked a steak knife off the table and was getting ready to put it in his mouth... I was on the other side of the house and dash-vaulted the sofa to make it just as it was enterring his mouth! tsc tsc
Sounds like the Joker from The Dark Knight  coolest thing ive done changes every day im happy to say, but the best so far was a kong over a 6 foot long picnic table. generic but exciting for a newbie |
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Corey Cedeno
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« Reply #29 on: July 29, 2008, 07:25:20 AM » |
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First superman front flip outside.
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"**** coleslaw. Beer is a vegetable. It's like a V8 that makes you a better fighter."
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