Posted back in ‘04 about “parkour,” the art of using the urban environment as an acrobatic playground, an empty canvas for physical experimentation as graceful as it is death-defying. Since then, parkour’s popularity has increased alongside extreme sports and perhaps as an off-shoot of skateboarding’s outer limits (“Dude, you’re good. Lose the board.”) Check out this young Russian:
My post-40 body would never stand up to this kind of abuse (though I guess the idea is to get so good that it’s not abuse), but if this had been a “thing” 20 years ago, would have been bouncing off walls.
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Here’s another one for you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=pB2tdo0I7FQ
Scary. Lot’s of envy – wish I were as healthy, and as creative! Very scary indeed…
Jeez, those kids are awesome. And those empty apartment buildings they were jumping around–what a contrast between the exuberance of those guys and the deadness they were flying thru.
I can do most of that stuff, but I am afraid of blowing out my knees, or having knee trouble in 50 years…