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#61 ·
WTSHTF you will not be able to maintain any semblance of peak fitness!

Parkour guys are fit, they are game, are skilled!
Fine if you want to use it in a survival setting, go ahead don't mind me
Just make sure you carry ID something to put on your grave!

To me they are gust great big pidgeons complete with birdbrains and a 12g will bring them down easy
 
#62 ·
You people aren't thinking correctly.
Backflips and the like aren't what you're supposed to be paying attention to.

Being able to negotiate obstacles, quickly haul yourself up over walls and ledges, and leap from one abutment to another is absolutely essential to survivalists.

The problem with free running/parkour is that youth turn it into a youthful pursuit, but there are plenty of valid free running techniques that people here should know and practise, as well as basic obstacle negotiation. Again, as with all physical effort that is brought up here, I suspect a lot of people poo-poo it because it will force them to confront themselves in the mirror.

You people make senseless rants about shotguns from your sofas. While you're doing that I, in my 40's will continue to stay as active and agile as possible.
 
#63 ·
Jash said:
Just google parkour fail and you'll know it is not a survival skill, unless by survival you mean entertaining people on utube with your dumb ass antics.

It's a great sport to watch, so is football, but growing a perfect pass isn't going to do much for me if TSHTF.

If you really are a prepper, you'll know your limitations and your environment. Taking ANY unnecessary risks during a SHTF event is inviting Murphy to do his best on you.
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Not a valid argument.


 
#64 ·
Davidow said:
Well, I see the good thing about learnign how to properly break a fall and over all get a good cardio, but in most cases I doubt that this is a really useful since it assumes that you are inside a city with things possible to climb, hasn't got anyone else with you that doesn't know how to climb and that you are not carrying any gear.

Don't get me wrong - there are many good uses for parkour, but when it comes to focusing on survival, there are better things to spend your time learning. Proper Self defence for example!

I'd recommend Krav Maga. I've practiced both Jujutsu and Karate and Tae-Kwon do but the only martial art that actually taught me anything useful was Krav Maga.
kravmaga israel - 3 (IKMF) - YouTube
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A knowledge of self defence is indespensible, but so is the ability to bug out quick if you have to.
 
#65 ·
Nightwind said:
WTSHTF you will not be able to maintain any semblance of peak fitness!

Parkour guys are fit, they are game, are skilled!
Fine if you want to use it in a survival setting, go ahead don't mind me
Just make sure you carry ID something to put on your grave!
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Speak for yourself! hahahaha Maybe you can't maintain your fitness, but there's always easy and fast ways to work out.
 
#66 ·
2 cents.

as long as the idea is to move smoothly and not waste energy doing so, i am good with it. show boating just for the heck of it, not so much. i see the logic in forward rolling to bleed off energy instead of taking it, and using forwards momentum to vault over things that look too tall to climb over any other way. study was is of use and take the good. start out slow and build up. don't be uber ninja right a way or you're going to get hurt. :cool: be safe.

PS. old fart here. i don't want to get hurt, but i see the value of some of this. they told me i would not walk again. they were wrong. :taped: don't let people tell you what you can't do. :thumb:
 
#67 ·
You people make senseless rants about shotguns from your sofas. While you're doing that I, in my 40's will continue to stay as active and agile as possible.

Read more at http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=256301&page=4#7ogC5rOUuGRkpQVK.99

Well I have made it past 50 !

I survived a hurricane in a little boat, got swept out to sea three times, got bitten by a shark, been shot twice, alighted from my motorbike at 170kmph, fell from a three story building, stabbed twice, poisoned, married/divorced and survived cancer !

I am lucky to be still sucking air but my fitness has slipped a bit, you will need to forgive my inability to embrace Parkour as anything but a contest to win the DARWIN Award!!!
 
#69 · (Edited)
looking back.

ingraining some forms carefully chosen could benefit you later if practiced to the point of not being a thought, but just done. example: judo/jujitsu break fall/forwards roll. i should have just ate it, more than once, but something kicked in and i didn't get hurt. knowing how to spread the load/damage out helps. my instructor was in his 70's when i was a kid. i should have paid more attention. :) be safe.
 
#71 ·
Basic Human Unit said:
I've taken a few parkour classes(I have a very athletic and acrobatic friend who dragged me along) and I have to say that this is potentially a very valuable skill in a survival situation. Potentially, to a real expert it represents an ability to ignore obstacles and to move quickly in environments not conducive to it.

For those who don't know, the Sport of Parkour(also known as Free Running) was founded(not invented) by David Belle and Sebastien Foucan. It represents the ability to move efficiently(or artistically) from point A to point B regardless of intervening obstacles. People who train diligently and become experts in Parkour can jump impressive distances, climb tall structures quickly and drop insane distances without injuring themselves.

Here are some videos:

Best of David Belle´s videos - YouTube

Retour A La Racine - Sébastien Foucan Freerunning - YouTube

Levi Meeuwenberg - Professional Parkour and Freerunning Showreel [Extended] - YouTube

Damien Walters Showreel 2009 - YouTube
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My Son does this. His Mom hates it.
 
#72 ·
junglecrawler said:
You people aren't thinking correctly.
Backflips and the like aren't what you're supposed to be paying attention to.

Being able to negotiate obstacles, quickly haul yourself up over walls and ledges, and leap from one abutment to another is absolutely essential to survivalists.

The problem with free running/parkour is that youth turn it into a youthful pursuit, but there are plenty of valid free running techniques that people here should know and practise, as well as basic obstacle negotiation. Again, as with all physical effort that is brought up here, I suspect a lot of people poo-poo it because it will force them to confront themselves in the mirror.

You people make senseless rants about shotguns from your sofas. While you're doing that I, in my 40's will continue to stay as active and agile as possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFJjqQrfDc
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Stupid mirrors.
 
#73 ·
Nightwind said:
I survived a hurricane in a little boat, got swept out to sea three times, got bitten by a shark, been shot twice, alighted from my motorbike at 170kmph, fell from a three story building, stabbed twice, poisoned, married/divorced and survived cancer !

I am lucky to be still sucking air but my fitness has slipped a bit, you will need to forgive my inability to embrace Parkour as anything but a contest to win the DARWIN Award!!!
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None of the above has anything to do with training to quickly pass through an urban environment smoothly and efficiently.
In regard the Darwin Awards, it seems putting your self in a situation whereby you were swept out to sea -thrice-, and road rashing yourself for going 170 on a motorcycle is a valid contender for such accolades.
 
#74 ·
Yes I was once young and stupid
but I have grown up!

Little boat and the hurricane I was 9yo
Thrice swept to sea 10yo
beyond my control!

motorbike! 17yo no excuse except young and silly!

But from each I learnt
Don't take risks you don't need to!!!!

And I see Parkeur as a risk you don't need to take! unless of course you are not an adult yet and still invincible!
 
#75 ·
Nightwind said:
Yes I was once young and stupid
but I have grown up!

Little boat and the hurricane I was 9yo
Thrice swept to sea 10yo
beyond my control!

motorbike! 17yo no excuse except young and silly!

But from each I learnt
Don't take risks you don't need to!!!!

And I see Parkeur as a risk you don't need to take! unless of course you are not an adult yet and still invincible!
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What people have been trying to patiently explain, Nightwind, is that naysayers are not looking at the right things here. Even the founder of parkour was strongly opposed to turning the practise into yet another teen's Tony Hawk game. He was adamant that it was for the swiftest, most efficient means to negotiate through urban obstacles. Backflips off of a roof are irrelevant, and shouldn't even be within our sphere of concern. Quickly getting off of a roof, and landing and rolling safely, however, should.
 
#77 ·
Nightwind said:
junglecrawler

All well and good if you can and all with you can also!
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Illogical. Why are you only assuming that you and yours are stuck on a roof, and it's simply not you trying to get home after a quake, there's no help and you need to clamber over a wall to escape some hazard?

For getting of roofs etc I pack a rope! and some disposable attachments/fittings!
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Really? Always? What happens if you don't have this gear, or time to prep it?

Why are you using exclamation points? Everything okay?
 
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