yea
if they are laughin then they cant even do parkour
so i would just bust out some awesome move and walk awsay

Of coarse I am sort of new at posting on this forum but my experience with it so far is that most everybody here is nice and supportive. So far I am loving this forum, you guys have helped me alot. I have had similar problems as some of the people posting but your tips seem great...never give up and give it your all!

The only thing I don't like about parkour getting big is that the "wrong" sort of people will be getting in...if that makes sense. From my understanding most of the tracuers seem to be supportive, understanding people. They encorage the right things. They are not going around down grading other people that want to be a tracuer because they don't "look the part" or some other stupid conception of the thing. I don't want Parkour to be changed into something it is not: a competative sport (I mean a bad competative sport...not the friendly kind). I am sorry if I am ranting this is just a fear I have had. I want a good community of informed people who practice parkour. Even if it, by some strange chance, becomes what I have been saying I am glad to know there are still people, like in this forum, out there that will help support eachother....

.....wow. It does sound like I am just rambling. I hope this community stays good (I am sure it will). Time to go outside and practice.  PS: I moved to Hernando, MS. I live alittle south of it now.

Oh yes I agree.  Part of Parkour is helping eachother to become better.  I have some of the same fears for Parkour.  Already I see stupid videos and people that do parkour just for the glory or to get people to think they are cool.  They are not tracuers in any sense of the word.  Parkour is about learing about your body, and perfecting it, not about getting glory.  It's about overcoming your weaknesses and making them strengths, both physical and otherwise.

I'm at the point where I see most objects as training obstacles. I don't get to train a lot, but I am hyped up to do it all the time.

Do it with a friend. Or at least have him/her watch you and talk about something to keep your mind off it.
I also do it at night but in parks. Well lit ones considering I live in NYC. I even jump over desks (from place) in school when I can. Though trying to jump over the higher once I busted my face on a locker. Though 2 out of 3 jumps I made it. And it didn't even hurt.

Its easier for me to look like an idiot in class than it is in public. Luckily I have weight training Mon-Thurs. But I'm sick right now and its killing me to miss it.

Now I'm just talking about myself. xD

YAh, I know what you meen about training in public, but you just got to push past it. I was at school during OP, kinda like an extra period if you want help, and I speed vaulted off a rail by the trailors and then kept running, I herd the guy behind behind me say to his friend "Man look at that  freeking monkey his such an idiot, I just want to see him fall on his face." So I ran to the next rail, did a reverse vault and spun back over the rail, I looked at him and told him that wasnt going to happen and then lazyed over the rail agian and konged over a garbage can and kept running.

Yeahhhhhh hahahahahaha. The things we do seem semi-easy and anyone could do it. A lot of the time we make it look 10248912048 times easier than it really is. And, even if the person does end up doing it, you can tell they're awkward and uncontrolled about it, unlike us. =D

Yah, I got it down now so I can speed over a rail, land on the siding percison across and then monkey to the other side. I was with my sisters friend and shee relised how hard it was when she couldent even get over the hand rail

agreed. but yet, people have property and such things like that.