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You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« on: September 11, 2008, 12:45:34 PM »
Trying to start one like the topic "You know you're a traceur when..."

When you are recognized in school as either the freak, a ninja or an asian in training.
When you dislike older traceurs for their ability to jump farther
Everytime you give a high-five, people stay away, and I really don't know why...
You try to convert your fellow classmates to Parkour as if its a religion.

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2008, 03:23:29 PM »
i try to convert, i am know as spiderman at school now!!!!!!! ;D
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2008, 04:26:15 PM »
same, except I'm the elite ninja  ;D
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2008, 04:41:25 PM »
You know your a parkour kid when you do vaults over the park signs during gym when you have to run.
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2008, 11:53:10 AM »
you tell your friends you're better at running away tha fighting.
you randomly give other kids push-ups for being too skinny.
having an ipod or any kinds of cell phones really does not help.
you start wondering how those even smaller kids, trips, faceplants, and walks away without feeling anything. ;D

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2008, 01:11:05 PM »
Sorry, someone beat you to it by a year and a half. See here:

http://www.americanparkour.com/smf/index.php?topic=3657.0
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2008, 02:47:42 PM »
Rainy days. Sweet... ;)
You ask random people to look at their soles of their shoes
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2008, 07:11:56 PM »
You see some awesome rails and walls at school but you're too embrassed to attempt anything on them since you're not that great of a traceur yet  :P
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2008, 01:40:44 PM »
you're with your friends and you're the only one about to vault over the rail to get to the bottom floor and everyone else is taking the stairs...

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2008, 03:04:12 PM »
you feel the urge to scream obscenities at the security guard whenever he comes around.
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2008, 07:05:12 AM »
People start following you and are disapointed when you go I side
even though your running now it takes you twice as long to get anywhere you used to walk
You friends ask you to go for a bikeride and you ask them if you can just run along side
When you see the xgames you can only think that you can do the same thing without the wheels and snow
You now own more shoes then your mom, but none of them have soles

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2008, 07:46:11 AM »
I take offense to the "asian-in-training" remark.
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2008, 04:21:35 AM »
I take offense to the "asian-in-training" remark.
I'm asian. I mean, you're allowed to make fun of yourself sometimes, right?

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2008, 07:53:56 AM »
When you see people running and you are dissapointed when the don't jump somthing

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2008, 01:09:13 PM »
You know your a traceur when...

going around a vehicle to get in the other side seems odd to you

you use the term "bouncing off the walls" in a literal since.

every banister, rail, and wall in your house is damaged or covered with skid marks from vaults & tic tacs

Skate borders start calling you crazy, even those you could say the same about

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2008, 03:05:45 PM »
Yea, I'm called a freak 8)

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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2008, 04:33:31 PM »
You know you're a teenage traceur when...

You introduce the concept of 'the muscle up' to your strength training class, and the only other guy who can do one is the skinny super-muscled dude, who looks like he'd be great at parkour.

Someone tells you to grow up and you ask 'Why?'

Your mom yells at you for doing handstands in public, even though she's perfectly with all kinds of vaults. (This one seemed odd when it happened...)

You can show everybody in your school up at bodyweight exercises, but can barely clean 100 pounds.

Your dad threatens to send you to France when you don't stop vaulting over the rail at the Aldi's loading bay, and you're more than fine with the idea.

You do a palm spin in your Biology class, on the teachers spacious, unoccupied desk, but your glasses fly off counter balancing the awesome move. Your cool teacher simply says "Spencer, no!", and some random kid in the class comments "Were you trying to do Parkour, or whatever it's called?"

You get into argument with a guy in your ac. lab class, because he saw a YouTube video that said all Parkour is, is running and jumping, and that it's stupid.



You almost get in trouble for practising basic tic-tacs:

Teacher: "Do you jump off of walls like that at your house?"

Me: *No hesitation* "Yes."

Teacher: *look of shock*

Me: *Before teacher can say anything, and very nicely* "Do you want me stop?"

Teacher: "Yes."

Me: "Okay."

That was that.
« Last Edit: August 16, 2009, 03:16:59 AM by Spencer B. »
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2008, 05:50:26 PM »
You introduce the concept of 'the muscle up' to your strength training class, and the only other guy who can do one is the skinny super-muscled dude, who looks like he'd be great at parkour.

Haha, that one happened to me.

Hey, can we please just consolidate this to the thread that has already been established? It's way bigger and can be found here:
http://www.americanparkour.com/smf/index.php?topic=3657.0
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2008, 06:42:59 AM »
I find it a little offensive about the Asian in training
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Re: You know you're a Parkour KID when...
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2008, 07:06:27 AM »
when your with your gf and you walk by a building and tell her to wait so you can wall run up and see if your blood from last week is still there

if you walking into a pole because you where distracted by a nice rail
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