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Home arrow Connect arrow News arrow David Belle says: Flips are now Parkour
David Belle says: Flips are now Parkour Print E-mail
Wednesday, 01 April 2009
 

David Belle held an international press conference today. Mark Toorock, the Tribe and the APK Alliance were joined by Parkour Generations, Urban Freeflow, Parkour North America, and the Yamakasi. We all met at the take-off of the Manpower gap, where David Belle announced that flips are now considered Parkour. He demonstrated that doing the Manpower gap with a gainer back full was actaually a lot easier than just jumping it normally.

Several scientists including physicists, aereonautical engineers, and several other specialists were there to record the event and run calculations. They determined that any rotation (front/back flips) actually increased the height gained during the flip, while twisting motions increased the forward momentum.  

 Flips are Parkour

Read more to see the video of the event, including super slow motion footage of the attempts. APRIL FOOLS!


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1. 04-01-2009 04:24

dammit i forgot the date.. and its too early in the morning.i dont know all that scientific b.s

2. 04-01-2009 04:43

So, are flips really part of parkour? Or is this a joke?

3. 04-01-2009 05:08

:grin :( i fell for that lol :grin are they not though? :?

4. 04-01-2009 05:22

Dang it! That got me good. It's too early in the morning to thinks straight.

5. 04-01-2009 05:38

I figured as much. I was thinking that that photo look like it was shop'd

6. 04-01-2009 05:40

i was thinking like, OMG FU#K A GAINER FULL FROM THE MAN POWER GAP !!  
and like OMG all the gods met !! :p

7. 04-01-2009 06:27

>.
Sky

8. 04-01-2009 06:41

Nooooooooo, I actually fell for it. 
The scientific stuff actually made sense and I was about to go on youtube and say that all the freerunning vids were actually parkour.

9. 04-01-2009 06:42

Man, I knew this was an April Fools joke before I clicked, I was expecting some hilarious videos, oh well. 
 
Nice one.

10. 04-01-2009 06:46

I was sitting in class reading this like "wtf!" 
 
 
Got me >_

11. 04-01-2009 07:03

hah, you had me until i got to the part about aereonautical engineers being there :grin

12. 04-01-2009 07:05

Damn you got me too, Although a gainer over manpower would be amazing to see.

13. 04-01-2009 07:24

i fell for it sooo bad, like hey man come here quick, omg omg omg. 
 
then..sike. i felt so...dumb lol!

14. 04-01-2009 07:42

Conway i am so with you. I was like man what have i been doing training long jumps and getting height when what i really should have been doing is flips all along. You got me Nice :roll

15. 04-01-2009 07:45

I was believing it until all that stuff about scientists coming out. Way too over the top, should've kept it realistic man. Man, and I was looking forward to seeing some kind of hilarious spoof video too, why didn't you make one?!

16. 04-01-2009 07:52

I believed it until the scientists part. XD 
 
And tsever02 and Schweitzer, flips are NOT Parkour, this is a joke if you didn't see the huge APRIL FOOL'S thing at the bottom. :p

17. 04-01-2009 08:27

I was hoping ot was true! :(  
I wanted all the childish arguing to go away... *tear*

18. 04-01-2009 08:39

That was good APK, yall got me. If it was true, my perspective would have changed, as well as the philosophy. :x

19. 04-01-2009 08:40

good one

20. 04-01-2009 08:46

haa wooooooow grrrr. got me too. i told one of my friends and he sprinted into my class to yell wtf then saw the april fools part and ran back out screamin. that was good ill admit it. wouldve been cool though... :sigh

21. 04-01-2009 09:21

Oh, wow. I just fell for that... At first, I couldn't believe. I mean, seriously, David Belle saying flips are Parkour?! I'm glad I chose to read the comments, because if I didn't, I would've started practicing flips :grin

22. 04-01-2009 09:44

:) damnit I totally fell for this, I even went on and told a bunch of friends of mine that flips are now parkour lol

23. 04-01-2009 09:46

Nice, 
I was about to write a whole paragraph about how that the whole explanation given was pure bull. My fingers were about to blaze this keyboard.

24. 04-01-2009 10:21

dang i wish it was true then we could have united parkour and freerunning

25. 04-01-2009 10:26

I was like, nooo...! Now I have to learn flips to get better at parkour. Got me good.

26. 04-01-2009 10:27

Oh you so got me really bad. I thought it was weird that Mark and the tribe were there and noone told us you were going and ahhhhhh.

27. 04-01-2009 10:29

I came to the site today looking for April Fools' jokes, and this is perfect. I love how no one else but a parkour nut would understand it.

28. 04-01-2009 10:40

Wow, I never realized there were so many people out there that still argue about this! If David really did come out and say that and it caused you to completely change your philosophy and the way you view parkour, I think you're doing something wrong!!

29. 04-01-2009 10:45

I agree. I thought the fighting would be over with this topic. It gets annoying. But yeah, leonn said, it would change the philosophy, and thats not something i'm up for. Good joke though. :grin

30. 04-01-2009 10:51

haha I totally forgot today was april fools. It had me going until they mentioned the scientist.

31. 04-01-2009 11:10

dang i totally fell for dat. David belle saying flips are parkour?!?! not likely to happen yet!!! HA HA good one APK!

32. 04-01-2009 11:21

OMG! no way! that so got me!

33. 04-01-2009 11:55

LOL I meant that if you change your philosophy over this small thing than your current one has a few kinks :)

34. 04-01-2009 12:14

What I think leon meant, and what I wanted to say, is that you need to go on your own personal journey and find your own way. You shouldn't be doing what you do just because David Belle says it is parkour. It is like Blane's blog entry a while ago. If David Belle said kongs and dashes are no longer parkour and that traceurs have to play soccer every other day, I would not change the way I train one bit. I respect him imensely of course, but the important thing really is to find your own way through movements no matter what those movements be. There are too many people arguing over...

35. 04-01-2009 12:18

this type of thing. Maybe what you do is not strictly "parkour". So what? Is that the end of the world? I can't believe some of you would say "oh, ok, yes! now we can do flips", or "sigh, now we have to do flips." That's bs! If you want to flip, flip and be a freerunner or a rage froobler or whatever you wanna call it!

36. 04-01-2009 13:16

lol had me good but i still thought it was bull

37. 04-01-2009 13:16

AW CRAP! you guys had me for a second. I was like "really???"

38. 04-01-2009 13:22

Wow... I almost wizzed in my pants when I herd that...

39. 04-01-2009 14:22

I thought they were serious, I though that I was going to have to learn to flip. :grin

40. 04-01-2009 14:23

Lol, the only freakin' April Fools joke to have gotten me so far. I thought I was going to go unscathed this year! 
 
:sigh

41. 04-01-2009 15:34

ARRRGGGGG!!!

42. 04-01-2009 15:38

Wow that was a good one It seemed so official :p :grin :)

43. 04-01-2009 15:40

Hahahahahah, second time I've been taken today!! 
 
Really had me going there for a minute!

44. 04-01-2009 15:47

lol! ok I admit it - you got me. 
 
I actually sat there while the page was loading considering the physics involved in a flip vs the physics in a cat leap to see how it could be more effective...then I started asking myself why David Belle was suddenly the determining voice of parkour...

45. 04-01-2009 15:59

:grin  
 
Great work! Definitely got me that time.

46. 04-01-2009 16:25

I knew it was a prank when I heard David Belle said it, i don't think that dude will ever cave on his definition of parkour

47. 04-01-2009 17:50

:grin man that got me good! i was completely convinced!

48. 04-01-2009 18:24

I laughed my ass off!

49. 04-01-2009 18:30

I was totally believing... I mean apk could never lie to me :roll but really I ran to my mother and told all my friend that flips were parkour. Then I came back to my laptop to read the reactions in the comments and on the way scrolling down I saw APRIL FOOLS! I though it sounded off, but I totaly forgot it was april first lol. Good one apk.

50. 04-01-2009 19:41

Wow. It was so far over the top. I thought it should have been more subtle, but reading the comments... more subtle probably would have meant people coming to blows. 
 
Really though, how would it change your training if David made this announcement? Something you should consider.

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