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Freerunning vs Parkour
« on: June 08, 2006, 04:59:13 PM »
Is there really a difference between the two names?  Or is Freerunning just the english term for Parkour. I'm just confused. ???
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2006, 05:10:00 PM »
Freerunning is not parkour. Freerunning includes flips and unesccsary movement.


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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2006, 05:10:32 PM »
Oh okay, thanks.
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2006, 05:13:18 PM »
Yea but if you wanna get noticed you have to take risks and or trick.
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2006, 05:13:52 PM »
I'll just stick to the movements of Parkour and be creative with it.  That works best for me.  I cant do flips.
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2006, 05:16:08 PM »
Yea i can barely do a frontflip. Handsprings arenice though.
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2006, 05:55:51 PM »
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Yea but if you wanna get noticed you have to take risks and or trick.

What do you mean "get noticed"??
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2006, 10:06:18 PM »
Jmandriver...please just step down out of this thread.  You might scew with someones concept of parkour.  If you want to get notice...please post that on another thread or something if you want to explain that.

"Notice" means that your doing parkour for someone or something thing other then yourself.  Parkour is not that.  End of story!
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2006, 04:26:17 AM »
Thanks Mathew...I would go so far as to say quit posting altogether, rather than take it to another thread.... ::)

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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2006, 05:29:56 AM »
Matthew's applaud meter just got a hit :)
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2008, 04:45:18 PM »
parkour moving through your environment as fast and as efficiently as possible while free running is finding your own way through life in general.
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2008, 05:11:41 PM »
Thread resurrection!!!!! [WTF]

This is from like 2 years ago. Just so you know.
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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2009, 12:30:24 PM »
Yea but if you wanna get noticed you have to take risks and or trick.

Taking risks is all about your comfort level in your vaults or wall passes. Many things that I or some others can do would seem risky to you, but may be well within our limits. Depends on what the circumstances are. If your striving to perfect your parkour, risk can be helpful, but only for mental strength. Never do anything for a camera or friends that you wouldent do training by yourself.

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Re: Freerunning vs Parkour
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2009, 01:25:28 PM »

Taking risks is all about your comfort level in your vaults or wall passes. Many things that I or some others can do would seem risky to you, but may be well within our limits. Depends on what the circumstances are. If your striving to perfect your parkour, risk can be helpful, but only for mental strength. Never do anything for a camera or friends that you wouldent do training by yourself.
Prime example of the bolded text.

I recently went on a trip to New York (by coach bus) with my school music department. While at a rest stop, I did some things, and without knowing it, I did a series of vaults over 2 railings (speed vault first, then kong the second). One of my school's band directors saw me vault it, and he yelled at me. Luckily it was on the way back to Wisconsin from New York, and he told me sternly to not do it because I was going to injure myself badly.   Very simple to me, dangerous to another.
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