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Re: Parkour "The New Fitness Craze"
« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2008, 11:58:51 AM »
ya, like i get the being careful part and i am...  so ya, i think the most dangerous thing about being on a roof is getting caught, cuz most ppl are careful when they know they're doing something risky...

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Re: Parkour "The New Fitness Craze"
« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2008, 12:39:46 PM »
i just dont want to see Parkour Classes like you see cardio kickboxing classes...

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Re: Parkour "The New Fitness Craze"
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2008, 06:31:26 AM »
I agree that training roofs should be done sparringly at best. There isn't much a roof has to offer that the ground doesn't.

With that in mind, I also believe in having fun, and roofs are great fun, (even from just a urban exploration mindset) Building is also alot of fun...So, while I don't believe you should use them to train...I completely support the idea of playing on roofs for fun, assuming you know what your doing. Just don't tell the cops you where training for parkour.

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Re: Parkour "The New Fitness Craze"
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2008, 10:43:02 AM »
If parkour becomes a"Training program" like Cardio Kickboxing, that's when it truly is going to go downhill. PLease prove me wrong, I wanna be wrong soooo badly on this one.
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Re: Parkour "The New Fitness Craze"
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2008, 11:26:29 AM »
No it won't, not for the Traceur who truely cares about his progress...Just because of bunch of fashionable people are doing a new parkour-esque fitness program doesn't mean their training will be personally effected...The only real difference I can think is more people will be able to do the basic moves, making it seem less amazing to the common on-looker...but why should we care about that anyways?

Does this make as much sense to you all as it does to me?

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Re: Parkour "The New Fitness Craze"
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2008, 08:38:51 AM »
I can't really see this catching on with the general public.  Many of the momentum-driven movements in parkour require a complete commitment to the move that I don't think average people are brave enough to have.  I'm not talking about big drops or anything, just that if you ever want to kong a table, you really have to run at it.  You can't walk up to it, bail out, or give it only 50% and ever expect to get the technique down.  Seems to me that most will do all the little drills real traceurs have designed to make learning it easier, but when to time comes to run full-out at something and try to vault it, they'll all chicken out and take up tae bo at the YMCA.