Topic: Tips to Give New Traceurs In School Clubs

[Jim "Monkey" Parker]

Brotha, that letter is absolute farce. It's ridiculous to say that anyone can jump off something high or do a flip then go on and on about how you limit yourself to jumping off obstacles under 4 feet tall. Parkour and freerunning are not "100%" different, at all. They're practically the same thing, one just focuses more on aesthetics.

I hate to think people would associate themselves with a club that advocates ridiculously pointless limitations like a 4 foot rule and condescend to freerunning which takes FAR more conditioning and discipline to master. Keep in mind, freerunning involves all techniques in parkour, martial arts, gymnastics, ect.

Yeah..but try selling that to an already concerned school bureaucracy who has turned you down once for safety concerns.

I believe his goal was to placate those concerns and get the club off the ground. Besides, the "no drops higher than your head" is common practice to make sure the connective tissue in your knees has time to catch up to the technical progress you are making as a Traceur/Freerunner.

[Muhammad]

right on the money, Monkey

[Dr. Unoriginal]

Brotha, that letter is absolute farce. It's ridiculous to say that anyone can jump off something high or do a flip then go on and on about how you limit yourself to jumping off obstacles under 4 feet tall. Parkour and freerunning are not "100%" different, at all. They're practically the same thing, one just focuses more on aesthetics.

I hate to think people would associate themselves with a club that advocates ridiculously pointless limitations like a 4 foot rule and condescend to freerunning which takes FAR more conditioning and discipline to master. Keep in mind, freerunning involves all techniques in parkour, martial arts, gymnastics, ect.

Yeah..but try selling that to an already concerned school bureaucracy who has turned you down once for safety concerns.

I believe his goal was to placate those concerns and get the club off the ground. Besides, the "no drops higher than your head" is common practice to make sure the connective tissue in your knees has time to catch up to the technical progress you are making as a Traceur/Freerunner.

Lying to get your way is not only unethical, but in this situation it creates a negative image of an entire community. the no drops over your head rule is ridiculous and excessive regardless of it's justification.  It's absurd that he would blatantly lie to the administration of his school, it shows total lack of respect for the "discipline" he is a part of and he makes the entirety of those he represents look bad.

[Andrei Semenov]

Hey pat, I was wondering what plans you had in mind for the club?

What like meet at lunch condition and jam at school?

Because I was interested in the same thing but I would think that jamming on school grounds causes a lot more problems but thats just me.

Post me your ideas and how you would run this club. What would you do

[Jus7in]

So were there any guidelines for the club? DO they make you have like a lesson plan, or is it pretty much you do whatever you want?

[Jus7in]

Why would you think it's a lie to say that there would be no drops higher than the head? If I started a club I would have exactly that rule or principle for the starters. He's not saying he is going to immediately implant high flips and roof jumps into his club, he is just saying that is a possible route of Parkour. You jump to conclusions a little too fast, and if you want him to change his proposal then I suggest you come around a lot more polite.

[Poet (Jesse) Clark]

Hey Dr. Unorginal. I would just like to say, that the Yamakasi, possibly the best Free Running groups in the world, won't let their students jump off anything over their height for the first year!
Keep that in mind before you start saying things like that.

[Ryan Ford]

Hey Dr. Unorginal. I would just like to say, that the Yamakasi, possibly the best Free Running groups in the world, won't let their students jump off anything over their height for the first year!
Keep that in mind before you start saying things like that.

Good point. The Yamakasi also won't let their students go on any roofs for the first year. It's the responsible and safe thing to do when you are the most experienced one leading and teaching new people.

[Patrick Holten (Denver Family) Flux Freerunning]

Wait, Hilltop who the heck are you?

[Patrick Holten (Denver Family) Flux Freerunning]

Brotha, that letter is absolute farce. It's ridiculous to say that anyone can jump off something high or do a flip then go on and on about how you limit yourself to jumping off obstacles under 4 feet tall. Parkour and freerunning are not "100%" different, at all. They're practically the same thing, one just focuses more on aesthetics.

I hate to think people would associate themselves with a club that advocates ridiculously pointless limitations like a 4 foot rule and condescend to freerunning which takes FAR more conditioning and discipline to master. Keep in mind, freerunning involves all techniques in parkour, martial arts, gymnastics, ect.

Christ, you really are frickin un-origional dude maybe you should study all of the practices, methods and precautions that truly dedicated traceurs study, and know about. Really I'm sure most experienced and somewhat knowledgeable traceurs wouldn't think that my letter was "farce" at all.  Thanks for the "constructive" criticism, really helps me a lot, umm NOT! And I just said that freerunning was almost 100% different because my teachers definition of it was totally strayed, so I meant 100% diff. from her idea. And that wasn't even in my final copy anyway, noob.

[Patrick Holten (Denver Family) Flux Freerunning]

Hey pat, I was wondering what plans you had in mind for the club?

What like meet at lunch condition and jam at school?

Because I was interested in the same thing but I would think that jamming on school grounds causes a lot more problems but thats just me.

Post me your ideas and how you would run this club. What would you do

Yo, I still have to talk to everyone who is actually going to take the club seriously, like doing conditioning, exploring Parkour individually, and technique practice, in and out of school. Which are the most important things for the club members to do, to advance themselves.