American Parkour

Quote from: Spencer B. on July 27, 2009, 10:55:02 AM

From everything it sounds like, he took great pains to ensure his safety. In the beginning stages of a discipline a person health and well-being is paramount, but as you progress further and further, that mindfulness of everything, that allowance of fear becomes a detriment on the road to truly mastering that discipline. At a certain point in a persons training, taking risks is the only way to proceed further down that path.

Parkour is no different, and like I said before he is getting into advanced stuff that goes against the accepted philosoph(y/ies) of parkour, but is still done by the more advanced practitioners.

Know that you will not have the backing of the entire PK community and just accept that. You're flying solo now, so trust yourself and trust your body. Good luck and stay safe.

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I'll also add that when I read the initial post I had a similar reaction to a lot of other people, that it was dangerous and a bad idea.  Perhaps Christopher could have saved himself some (I'm sure not all) razzing if he had included not only the information on what he accomplished but of his experience level and why he considered this a reasonable next step in his training.  A 13 year old kid just getting into parkour could have read that initial post and thought, "wow, that's so cool!  I'm going to try that!" because there was nothing in the post to differentiate Christopher from a noob.

Just like with videos of more advanced moves you should probably include prominent disclaimers and warnings so that those seeing it have some context and understand that you didn't just wake up one day and decide to do a roof jump.  They have to also know about all the work and training you put in before ever even considering something like this. 

I probley should'nt of did it at my skill level

I Learned To Constantly Train

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