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Offline parkourkid

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how you got into parkour
« on: April 04, 2007, 03:46:27 PM »
hey i was just wondering how people got into parkour heres how i did.
 i was bored one day after school and i remember seeing a movie were people ran up walls and stuff so i googled it and found how to on 43things.com and one of the other links it said was americanparkour.com and i just got into it.
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2007, 08:01:40 PM »
A spanish article in my sophmore high school spanish class. It was about David Belle and parkour. I saw him do a wall flip and I told myself I always wanted to do it - so I googled parkour ;)
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2007, 05:21:46 AM »
When Prince of Persia 2 was coming out, I read an article a/b it in an IGN magazine or something, and there was a tiny blurb that read "Real Life Prince of Persia?" in the corner. It was like a 1-paragraph thing on Parkour, which I googled, and have been changed since. :)
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2007, 03:28:02 PM »
notice how we all googled and found it ;D
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2007, 03:35:16 PM »
My mother told me about some guy she saw in reston town center jumping over a fountain and yelling with a mask on then doing a wall run.

My bros friends from school were doing it, but he never tried cuz he was embarressed.

Then I was in Hilton Head, all the other guys were gone and I started to get bored

so I googled parkour and thats how it started
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2007, 03:39:34 PM »
i friend/exchange student from germany introduced us to it
then i got more it to and googled parkour and found this site
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2007, 07:34:43 PM »
The Russian Climbing video. I showed two of my friends, and we instantly started devouring every video and article we could find for a few weeks, and then we went out after work and...

the rest is history.
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2007, 04:53:20 AM »
google came to me in my dreams and told me to do parkour, it changed me man. 8)
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2007, 05:13:44 AM »
I was checking out http://www.buildering.net and I saw the link for Urban Freeflow. Two things caught my eye, the first was the fact that the community there was "attitude free" which is a revolutionary thought when you're coming from climbing forums...the second was the fact that I already did this kind of stuff, especially after giving up skateboarding. I dove into studying about it and the history and philosophy just seemed to mesh so well with everything I wanted to do. Started training that week and the rest is history :D
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2007, 12:47:33 PM »
i saw that scion commercial then googled freerunners and by some act of god i found this site, i admit at first i thought parkour was just like stunts and video cameras but i honestly feel lucky now to have found apk, it has helped my body as well as my mind so much so thank you guys
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2007, 12:58:17 PM »
I saw the Ripley's episode on the Yamakasi in 2001.  It stuck in my head.  All through high school, I had always remembered the "street gymnasts" (yes, that's what Ripley's called it) and their amazing ability.  I continued with martial arts and rock climbing.  Sometime in university, I saw a David Belle video online and went, "Oh my god, that's one of the street gymnasts!"  I did my research, find out what it truly was, realized that I could do this, and began my training.
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2007, 01:06:07 PM »
I saw xin's video "street ninja" then watched everyparkour/freerunning video I could, one was timeless and thats it. No google involved suckas
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2007, 03:00:21 PM »
google rocks!! :o
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2007, 11:36:18 AM »
A buff ass jesus came to me in a vision. Raaawwllll
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2007, 04:06:43 PM »
I was at a friend of mine from kindergarten-like brothers now-(billy) but i was at his house, and we were screwing around jumping over stuff and his friend (alex) came out and started playing tag with us. then alex got his brother and he did a front flip off of the porch and i was like i wanna do that. so i added him on my myspace, watched his video on freerunning (10 min. video by josh lament) and googled freerunning, then saw parkour, and then the other names like buildering, street jumping, urban climbing, yamisaki etc... and googled parkour, found apk and watched the tutorials,and here i am.
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2007, 04:23:16 PM »
I've always had it in head and heart. Now it's become a calling...

I remember seeing some commercial on TV @ least 7-8 years ago with a black guy with dreads (I still don't know who it was), climbing up walls, vaulting, jumping, running, and doing drops from rail to rail down the side of a parking garage and I knew it was something I must do. Then it kinda slid to the back of my mind until about 4 months ago when I was hanging with some friends and one of them showed me a video (of David Belle) saying "this reminded me of you" and all my friends agreed. I thought it was awesome and I couldn't get it off of my mind.

I started researching Parkour then I started doing Parkour then the Blizzards hit Colorado and all I could do for a while was Condition and research. Now here I am - a full blown junkie  ;D
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2007, 06:49:47 PM »
I was watching TV about five years ago and noticed the Nike commercial that everyone googled.  It was brand new back then and what peaked my interest was that my friends and I had been doing stuff just like that since we where little kids.  We just didn't have a name for it.  Once it had a name, It was much easier to find it on the internet.  The rest is history.  I've only recently been getting into the history, philosophy, and advancement of Parkour.  This site is like a Traucer lightning rod.
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2007, 05:23:04 PM »
Quote from: happydud on April 05, 2007, 07:34:43 PM
The Russian Climbing video. I showed two of my friends, and we instantly started devouring every video and article we could find for a few weeks, and then we went out after work and...

the rest is history.

Only difference for me is a friend showed me the video, than I found apk later that day.. And than I met a really cool person in new york Pat, and the rest is history after that...
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2007, 09:57:16 PM »
david belle cam over. we be chillin and hes lik lets go for a jog. little did i kno we would be jumping and vaulting stuff. then david was lik DO PARKOUR CUZ U ROCK. so i did. we chill every year and parkour its pretty sweet. we are homies
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Re: how you got into parkour
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2007, 02:24:16 AM »
A topic about David Belle on Manwithoutfear.com and how the regulars of the forums were refering him to as the real life Daredevil.
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