Topic: You know you're a Parkour KID when...

[Alex B]

Rainy days. Sweet...
You ask random people to look at their soles of their shoes
Only three things make you say jackpot nowadays. Hot girls, good shoes, and running cats

sweet? rainy days suck! everything is all slippery! snow-days, however, are awesome...

[Shane Warren]

When you have to pay to remove a dent from the principals car that you just konged 

[Blackhand]

i try to convert, i am know as spiderman at school now!!!!!!!

omg i just lost that nick name lol

[NathanO]

When everyone is excited about the rain, you curse under your breath.
When your facebook default is of you on top of a building.
When your first date was on top of a building.
When you do 90 degree tic tacs and spider climb the walls at the movie theater in front of your friends.

[Dan Frank]

When everyone is excited about the rain, you curse under your breath.
When your facebook default is of you on top of a building.
When your first date was on top of a building.
When you do 90 degree tic tacs and spider climb the walls at the movie theater in front of your friends.

Wow, all of those are true for me except the third one. Except right now it's snow, not rain, and my facebook picture is me doing a vault, not on top of a building. 

[redtraceur]

When your asked to "parkour that pole"

When you hop the rail even when no one else does

When you aren't ashamed to hop a wall in front of a large crowd

When your nickname is "Flippy"

When everyone assumes you can jump off buildings

When someone sarcastically tells you to flip off a car... and you do it

Whenever you trip you parkour out of it

When you have the balls to jump off a roof, but not to get in a fight

[David Jones]

You know your a traceur When your excited to run back to get your phone that you left at the store.

[meamaslimjim]

You jump the stairs while everyone else takes each step.
When people talk about you, they say "s/he does parker, parkeur, parking---uh, that ninja stuff."
When others assume you can do anything.
When you get a miniature ninja toy for Christmas.

[Vault]

When you your class mates look at you wierdly as you imagine yourself really tiny and vaulting books and binders during class.

[Meshach]

Hmm.....


You know you're Parkour KID when you think that you can take a 10-15 foot drop after 1 week of training.

You know you're a SMART Parkour KID when you think that taking 10-15 drops is absolutely idiotic.

[Smitty093]

Guilty^ but not again...

[Brandon "Shark" Dean]

"When you dislike older traceurs for their ability to jump farther."
"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." 
Both of these are true for me

When...

you would rather practice your parkour than hang out with friends.
you want to go places JUST to find new places to train.
americanparkour.com has become a replacement for myspace.
the only way you can stay quiet during class is to think about parkour.
you have the erge to just tic tac your way down 30 foot stairs, but know it would be stupid.
you you put away all of your jeans and nice shirts to start wearing parkour-appropriate clothing.
you go around the neighborhood looking for stuff people have thrown out that you can take to practice on.
you only stay in football to learn better ways to move and to get stronger.

[Matthew Wang]

Hmm.....


You know you're Parkour KID when you think that you can take a 10-15 foot drop after 1 week of training.

You know you're a SMART Parkour KID when you think that taking 10-15 drops is absolutely idiotic.

I was about to berate you for the first one.

Well said.

[Meshach]

Hmm.....


You know you're Parkour KID when you think that you can take a 10-15 foot drop after 1 week of training.

You know you're a SMART Parkour KID when you think that taking 10-15 drops is absolutely idiotic.

I was about to berate you for the first one.

Well said.

Good thing you read whole posts! 

[A-SkyfiOriginal]

When you finaly get a perfect roll down in the grass and want to try it on something harder, you cant find cemment so you use gravel...

[David M.]

you you put away all of your jeans and nice shirts to start wearing parkour-appropriate clothing.

I did that.

[Newkid]

When you go through the school using anything but stairs.
When you establish a wallrun into indoor track contest.
When you start seeing paths in everything.

[sinshi]

you know youre a parkour kid when you monkey vault over you girlfriend when she bends over instead of slapping her butt

[sinshi]

you know youre a parkour kid when your schools on fire and you climb back upstairs just to do a gainer out of the window again

[Shawn Meilicke]

you know youre a parkour kid when you monkey vault over you girlfriend when she bends over instead of slapping her butt

i did this today, she fell over though cuz she wasnt expecting it and it made me feel bad.....lol

it was a speed vault though, i cant do monkeys yet


and as for the drop thing, just because youre a "parkour kid" doesnt mean you dont have the ability to take the jump. i realize youre saying this for the health/joint issues but ive been jumping off things since i was too young to remember doing it (my mom has vids of me jumping off of rocks and out of cars when i was about 2' tall, lol)

my body is definitely ready for and used to large drops, though i still dont take them too often because i now know that ive been landing wrong and im trying to perfect my rolls before doing it more....

i used to never roll, but i never hurt myself landing either...