Does anyone else here get people who walk by say stuff like "psh, that looks easy!" or "I could do that!" until you tell them to go ahead and then they just walk away? I have a story some of you might appreciate where the kid actually did try [to] parkour.

So I was walking to dinner with two of my friends, one of which {does} parkour[s ]. As we were walking my friend [who parkours] vaulted a railing on a handicap ramp, then at the end up the ramp (where the ramp was a foot or two off the ground) he did a turn vault, landed on the edge of the ramp then went on his way. A friend of my other friend who was with us turned to me and said, "That wasn't that cool, I could do that," to which I just told him to give it a shot. He ran up, barely didn't wipe out on the first vault, but then jumped over the railing at the end of the ramp and basically fell 5-6 feet out of the air and landed almost completely on his side on the concrete. Amazingly he didn't break anything (although he was limping the rest of the night). I don't know about you all, but I loved finally seeing one of those smart asses actually try [to] {a} parkour {movement} after getting called out on saying how easy parkour is, then fall on his face.

Yeah, I don't understand the problem with using parkour as a verb, but everybody says, oh man, look out, that's bad... whatever.

That's great though. Nobody I know has ever actually tried. The excuses they come up with are great though. "Oh, all my strength is in my legs." (from a guy who obviously had no strangth) "ahh, I just got a bad grip on it." (said person couldn't even get part of the way over the rail) "It's too wet/slippery, I don't wanna chance it." (I just did it, it's obviously not THAT wet...)

I don't see the problem with just admiting that you can't do something. Why won't people just say, oh, yeah, you can do something I can't. I mean, if I'm sitting my some really smart overachiever kid in math, and he does some algebra problem in his head really fast while I've writtin down maybe half, I'm not going to say, oh, I coulda done that, I'm just too tired to think straight or something.....

haha yeah i get that alot

we were at the gym doing mat training and we were doing our double and triple kong vaults and one of the girls trainers there starting flirting with me and was like oh yeah i could do that, its not that hard.

so i pulled out some extra mats and had her try a few vaults......long story short, she face planted into the mats like 5 times before she gave up and admitted to the fact that what we were doing was alot harder than it looks

I want to hear more about the trainer hahaha

playing hard to get eh? hahahaha well you got it in the bag next time it seems.

Although I used to find it annoying when someone said "That's easy/ what the heck is that / I could so do that" I don't care anymore. I invite them to try it but give them a quick lesson beforehand. I never want anyone to fall and hurt themselves no matter how arrogant they are. I've had a few cases where the person was arrogant, attempted the move, failed, I taught him how to do it, then he became interested in parkour and does it to this very day (3 cases so far!)

Too true, Nik. I never thought of it in terms of that perspective before. Thanks for that. I only wish it *felt* as effortless as some people seem to think it looks!

btw, I *love* the Faulkner quote in your sig. Outstanding.

ya i doubt that. when your in a situation and your friends are doing something and they say u cant, your going to want to prove them wrong. its only natural. i know i get that way all the time. if i know i cant do something but someone did im going to do it any way. its in human nature to try to prove people wrong. people dont like to be proven wrong. we also dont like to seem lesser than someone one.
so if someone is showing you off, your going to try to prove them wrong. theres nothing bad about that