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Offline Kendy

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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #80 on: November 17, 2010, 06:20:59 PM »
I think it's cool that a lot of kids are starting young, so long as they're starting for the right reasons (not to look cool or show off or anything).
However, those kids tend to be "weeded out" quickly so as long as they dont hurt themselves or give parkour a bad name (by tresspassing and sparkle like that), meh, age dont matter.  Wisdom and Maturity... those things are key in my book =P
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #81 on: November 17, 2010, 06:34:54 PM »
I am 12 i saterted parkour 2 months ago. But have done this kind of stuff since i was 8. So i dont think age matters much.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #82 on: November 23, 2010, 03:19:56 PM »
i started at 13 and im 14 now so i think i started lil early and a lil late but i have experience jumping and vaulting off of everything i see haha
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #83 on: December 04, 2010, 04:06:07 PM »
Alright,Techniquely,i did parkour at the age of 5... Of course i didnt know it was pk at first. it was a teenage girl who taught me a tac. I really did parkour at 11               8) I'm 13
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #84 on: December 08, 2010, 10:03:37 AM »
I started focusing on parkour on my 16th birthday, and wish I had started earlier.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #85 on: December 08, 2010, 04:26:15 PM »
I'm 33. just starting. But I've always been the kid to jump off just about anything. My daughter is 5 and she really likes running and jumping with me.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #86 on: December 10, 2010, 05:38:49 AM »
Quote from: Jeepbum on December 08, 2010, 04:26:15 PM
I'm 33. just starting. But I've always been the kid to jump off just about anything. My daughter is 5 and she really likes running and jumping with me.

that's cute
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #87 on: December 14, 2010, 04:29:04 PM »
In my opinion, a good age to start is probably around fourteen.

Even though I started at nineteen.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #88 on: December 14, 2010, 07:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Micah. on December 14, 2010, 04:29:04 PM
In my opinion, a good age to start is probably around fourteen.

Even though I started at nineteen.

Micah, You and I both know your 14. But yes 14 is a good age. But it doesn't really matter. It does seem that kids have an easier time starting. They haven't been in this world long enough to submit themselves to the stupid stereotypes of this messed up world. There bodies still feel that free movement is natural and not a act of immaturity.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #89 on: January 20, 2011, 04:31:49 PM »
I'm also thirty-three, with a background in track and field and cross-country. Still thin, moderately active and in decent shape.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #90 on: January 21, 2011, 04:10:41 PM »
Quote from: Saki Krys on August 03, 2009, 06:34:17 PM
like everyone else is sayin, there is no normal starting age. i didn't start up parkour until about 4 months ago, and i'm 21. :P i wish i started earlier, but better late than never! ;) i've been really active before parkour though, so it's not like i jumped into parkour from no physical activities.

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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #91 on: February 27, 2011, 05:31:48 PM »
I tried it a bit when I was 15, had surgery that kept me off my feet for a while, and now I'm really dedicating myself to it. I'll be 17 in a few months. And like a lot of people are saying, I wish I had started earlier.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #92 on: March 25, 2011, 06:24:47 PM »
it seems like 12-16 is the average age
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #93 on: April 08, 2011, 07:26:07 AM »
Seems like a lot of the really skilled practitioners started in their young teenage years.

I started at 13 and right now I'm about to turn 15 in 2 weeks.

20 months went by really fast  :o
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #94 on: April 09, 2011, 12:38:00 PM »
i started like 5-6 months ago and im 15 so yea any age is good to start and so u just have to dedicate yourself to it.
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #95 on: April 09, 2011, 03:16:18 PM »
age doesnt really matter, dedication, maturity and muscle development matter.  i have seen kids that are 10 practice parkour and they are decent but their muscles are underdeveloped so they cant do to much, but when they do get older they will have trained enough to do practically anything.  Age doesnt matter and if you really want to just go out now no matter what
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Re: usual age to start?
« Reply #96 on: May 04, 2011, 08:21:01 AM »
i started wen i was 14 and a half and im about to turn 15 on the ninth of this month *hooray*
but thanks to my broken collar bone, i haven't been able to do much, but i have been working out to my limits even with the break
im extremely dedicated
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