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Reactions des gens

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:23:31 +0200

Pour narrer les rencontres avec les passants, les gens qui habitent sous le toit ou vous vous entrainez ou bien parfois la police.
Un sujet qui etait présent dans l'ancienne version du forun mais non rouvert ici.
J'ai eu une expérience assez marrante a Champs sur marne hier donc ...

Je franchi un grillage pour rejoindre une espèce de terrain vague avec des morceaux de murs posés en équilibre sur le sol et je m'amuse a sauter de l'un a l'autre (heureusement je me suis filmé) ... De la, je monte sur un toit et je cherche un moyen "propre" de descendre quand j'entends hurler "EH OH ! DESCEND DE LA !!!".
Un couple, genre 60 ans qui me hèle depuis l'autre bout de la rue, sans aucune discrétion.
Ils s'approchent tout en m'invectivant "ALLEZ DESCEND, plus vite que ca, etc ..."
Moi je descend, je vais vers eux pour leur expliquer "Vous inquiétez pas, je vole rien, je dégrade pas, je fais juste du sport". Ils deviennent soupçonneux mais comme je ne m'enfuie pas, ca les trouble, ils se calment un peu et continuent sans hurler.

- Attention, la c'est chez moi, faut pas y aller
- Pas de souci, comme c'est un terrain vague je pensai que c'était a personne
- Oui mais ca appartient au chateau de Champs, donc c'est classé "historique" (tiens c'est plus chez lui) Nous on pourrait appeller le ministère de l'intérieur !
- (je me marre intérieurement) Ben je leur aurait dit la même chose qu'a vous ... je ne fais rien de mal
- Bon ! Vous avez eu de la chance, si le gardien était la, il vous aurait pris votre nom !
- (dur dur de pas éclater de rire) au final je leur montre les petites vidéos que j'ai prises et ils voient que je fait que sauter m'accrocher etc ...

Faut ajouter a ca sa bonne femme qui ponctuait chacune de ses phrases par "vous savez les jeunes de nos jours" ou bien "ah ! les jeunes d'aujourd'hui !"

Sur le coup j'ai pris sur moi pour rester zen et montrer une bonne image des jeunes que cette dame avait en horreur (trop de TF1 a mon avis) mais bon ca faisait longtemps que j'étais pas tombé sur des beaufs pareils !!!

Je préfère tomber sur les petits vieux qui trippent : "De mon temps, au service militaire on faisait pareil".

A vous les studios.

New Stuff. March '08 Movement!

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:00:14 +0200

So we have been training a bit over two years now.
In this vid there is some new movement that we came up with and also some old things.. I'm sorry to tell you that there are not many long runs or that kind of stuff. It's just basicly training cat leaps, foot placement, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24xPD9F4bGI

Hope you like it! And please leave comments ^^

Going to Paris !

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:34:56 +0200

Hi guys,

I'm originally a traceur from Singapore, but i've been living in The Netherlands for over a year. I had an account here on parkour.net but i've been inactive for a while, so for some reason i had to register again.

Thing is, i'm visiting Paris next month (from 19th to 25th June) and i wanted to visit places like Lisses, and at the same time i would appreciate meeting up with traceurs who could show me around. If there happens to be an organised jam at that time, i really would like to join too.

I havn't trained in a while and i could really use some tips too. Hopefully this trip to the roots of Le Parkour will reignite my passion and spur me to carry on and move up to greater heights.

Hope to hear from someone soon!

Gaffar

p.s. I don't speak French, and i doubt the precision of Babelfish, so if someone could translate this for me to post in the French forums, i would really appreciate that as well

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Salut les gars

Je suis un traceur originaire de Singapour, mais je vis aux Pays-Bas depuis plus d'un an. J'avais un compte ici sur parkour.net mais je n'ai pas été actif depuis un moment, donc pour certaines raisons j'ai du me réinscrire.

Voilà je vais visiter Paris le mois prochain (du 19 au 25 juin), j'aimerais visiter des lieux comme Lisses, et en même temps j'aimerai rencontrer des traceurs qui pourraient me faire voir les environs. Si jamais une rencontre était prévue à cette période j'aimerais en faire partie.

Je me suis pas entraîné depuis un moment j'aimerai avoir quelques conseils. Avec un peu de chance ce voyage aux racines du parkour ravivera ma passion et me poussera à atteindre des sommets.

J'espère avoir de vos nouvelles bientôt

Gaffar

Going To Paris!

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:14:09 +0200

Back in Cologne (May 2008)

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:51:24 +0200

Youtube link

I filmed some footage after my trip to the UK...
Give me your feedback, enjoy=)

Greatings from Cologne

Pascal

parkour in Regina, SK

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:37:27 +0200

Hey, just checking to see if there are any people practicing parkour in Regina. If so, msg me, I'd love to train with someone one of these days.

Hamstrings

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:52:29 +0200

I've been training at home for almost 7 months now with homemade weights (school bag with books) and i wanted to add more exercises for the gluts and hamstrings. mainly for hamstring. anybody knows of good exercises you can do at home with a bag? (except squats\lunges i already do those..)
thanks for any comments

Gib es eine Gruppe in Offenbach

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:34:21 +0200

Hallo,

hab schin einige berichte gesehn und finde das ganz interresant gibt es eine GRuppein Offenbach??

Bin absoluter neuling und habe noch nicht eine minute Parkour erfahrung

Shoulder Pain...Lower back pain

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:50:35 +0200

Hey guys,

For 5 months now, I have been feeling lower back pain and shoulder pain.

Lower back pain: Generally, it feels like great stiffness and sometimes some pinching points add to it. When I do my stretching before my training, at some point I feel my back cracking (like when you crack your fingers) and from then, my pain is releived until the end of my training. but then, the next day, it hurts again. Am I experiencing normal back pain? And does anyone know how to get rid of it? (I know it is the most controversial injury, but has anyone ever experienced it and healed from it? How?)

Shoulder Pain: I have been feeling it for about 4 months now. I started feeling it just a little bit at the end of every training 4 months ago, but in the last month, it kept getting worse and worse. Now, when I lift up my shoulder more than 100 degrees (straight up would be 180 degrees) I just cannot go any higher because it hurts too much. The pain is not the same kind of pain as stretching a muscle too far. It is just a very acute pain that keeps me from going any higher, no matter how much will I put into going higher. If you look at the picture I attached to my post, the pain feels right between the Clavicle and the Acromion. Does anyone have any idea what it could be? and how to fix it? If the only way to fix it is to stop training and to wait for it to heal by itself, can you please give me some advice on how to keep training the rest of my body (because I do not wanna lose the strenght and endurance I built up so carefully)?

People alway say to go to the doctor if the pain continues or worsens, but I do not want to go to the doctor, because all the doctor in my area are incompetent (There is a lack of workers so the standards are lowered a lot). What are my options?

If you guys don't get what my answers are, please say so

Thanks for your help
Max

Novus Demonstro

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:50:40 +0200

Euhm, not much to say i think (my climb ups are slow )

Youtube link

Les Yamakasi dans "T'empêches tout le monde de dormir"

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:03:18 +0200

Mardi à 22h30 sur M6, Marc-Olivier Fogiel recevra sur le plateau de T’empêches tout le monde de dormir ~~Garou, Louisy Joseph, Valérie Damidot, Ladji Doucouré, Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Manuel Valls, Isabelle Caro, Soukaïna Oufkir~~ et les Yamakasi (il semblerait que ce soit les membres de la majestic force)

Avis à ceux qui pourraient enregistrer / up...

Russia

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:59:00 +0200

Why I can't see Russian Subforums ? )

ЗЫ : Всем русским ползователям паркур.нет ПреввеД

U20 - Deutschland deine Teenies

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:04:06 +0200

http://www.prosieben.de/lifestyle_magazine...shplayer/51932/

Wollte mal ein paar Meinungen dazu hören, habs mir gerade eben angeschaut. Ich bin nicht so ganz einverstanden mit der allgemeinen Einstellung der Jungs. Thoughts?

Apontamentos

Sun, 11 May 2008 22:54:20 +0200

Hello!

http://percurso-parkour.blogspot.com/2008/...ontamentos.html

Here is our new video "apontamentos" ("short notes").

Take care!

Bruno e Pedro

Six months training vid :D

Sun, 11 May 2008 22:09:00 +0200

Youtube link

It's been a great six months and I feel like I've progressed quite alot for the time I've trained.

Please comment on youtube or here.

Thanks,

Craig.

traceurs vosgiens

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:01:46 +0200

salut, j'ai 17 ans et je m'interesse depuis peu au parkour, alors je recherche des traceurs sur les vosges, prés de Epinal si possible qui pourraient un peu m'apprendre. voila merci

Aide pour le commencement

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:45 +0200

Bonjour a vous.

Je me presente, Jacek, j'ai 15ans et j'habite liege [belgique], je fais du rugby ou mon niveau n'est pas mauvais.
Pour le moment ma condition physique n'est pas mauvaise du tout, mes bras sont resistant [et muscle] et mes jambes sont tres bonnes aussi.

J'ai trouve un Spot a 50Metre de chez moi, c'est un parking en plein air. Il y a un endroit ou je peut faire des Tics-Tacs [sauter en prenant appui sur un mur pour arriver a s'acrocher a un endroit plus haut sur l'autre mur] et il y a aussi une barriere de 80-85CM au maximum [d'un cote de celle ci. c'est plat et de l autre c'est en pente, donc a un point entre la barriere et le sol, il y a 7-8].
Donc pour le moment je ne peut faire que du saut de voleur et des tics tacs.

J'ai quelques questions
-Mon Spot est il bon?
-Que me conseillez vous de faire pour m'ameliorer?
-Comment s'entrainer a faire de belles choses?
-Que me conseillez vous comme entrainement?
-J'ai parfois peur de faire des choses meme si je sais que j'y arrive. comment contrer cette peur?

Bien a vous.

May Parkour

Sat, 10 May 2008 20:38:27 +0200

Mon "traçage" est nul...

Sat, 10 May 2008 19:33:06 +0200

Bonjour ! *MON* (dsl pour l'erreur)

Sa fait super longtemps que je n'étais pas venu ici et encore moi pour poster !

Fin bref, si je suis la, c'est parce que j'ai l'impression de mal tracer...
Alors voilà, je me dis :

<<- Ouah ! Une S.U.P.E.R.B.E journée ! Je vais pouvoir tracer ! (Ce qui n'était pas le cas en hiver...)

- Bon Maman, je sors... Je vais me ballader...

Arrivé dehors... Je me promène en marchant... Comme un con, je vois un ptit obstacle, ben je le prend.

- Allez hop, un passement....

Fin

Pi voilà, je me promene en marchant plutôt qu'autre chose...

Donc je voulais vous demandez : Comment tracez vous ? Car tracer tout en courant en sprintant, faut de l'endurance...
Et marcher, trouver un spot de parkour, faire quelques sauts là-bas, c'est plutot bizarre...

Parkour: Rehabilitating Human Movemet

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:35:42 +0200

Parkour: Rehabilitating human movement
By Max Calder

Over the last few days I visited the zoo to observe the different primates moving, hoping to learn something from them I could apply to my training. I particularly found the Siamang apes and the Chinese monkeys (I cant remember the name of the species) the most interesting because I saw them playing. They moved and explored their environment, they play fought, they chased each other this was their training. I watched a young monkey stare down a jump to a piece of rope, this was challenging obstacle for it because it took a few seconds to concentrate before jumping. It jumped landed overshot and almost flipped over but was able to save itself from injury by twisting in mid air and landing on its feet. This was him learning.
The more mature monkeys had a sense or an aura of comfort in their movements, they seem 100% confident in their movements, and they too played. Although not as much as the young monkeys, but they still played and moved. And in nature they apply the knowledge learned by playing in order to survive and live.

Now we as humans have a social stigma about playing, we believe it to be immature or not proper for adults to do. So around the preteen age most humans stop playing and thus stop moving, with the exception of basic bi pedal movement (walking, running). Take the average human and ask them to do any movement other than walking and it will seem rather awkward if not impossible for them to do, even their walking is sometimes questionable. They do not have the Aura of comfort I talked about earlier.

I have only trained with only one person who had over 10 years training in parkour and that was David Belle at the New Yorker event. When I watched his movements he had the same aura of comfort about him, he seemed to float over the smallest things with 100% confidence. This was far more impressive to me than the big jump he did at the top of two 20 foot towers. The fact that he possessed something I had only seen animals in nature have was very amazing to me, and this inspired me greatly.

David has been training for about 20 years; this is the age when humans reach maturity. So by this standard he is mature in his movements, most of us reading this are still only children in terms of movement. So this brings us to my next point.

Rehabilitate: Verb)
A: To restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
B: To restore to good condition, operation, or management, as a bankrupt business.

Now whenever someone is unable to move for a period of time, usually due to injury, they must go through a rehabilitation process to relearn how to perform basic motor functions.
Say an athlete was unable to walk for several months due to an injury. Upon recovery he attempted to go full pace back into action the next day the likely outcome would be an injury. The athlete must slowly build back their strength before coming back to their previous state by doing various
exercises to bring them where they need to be to move safely and normally.

This is exactly why we as traceurs condition and drill movements, because it is in a sense rehabilitation. We were dormant from playing and natural human growth so we must ease back into it slowly and safely to restrengthen ourselves physically and mentally for advanced movement. If we didn't there would be serious injury. That is why we all preach no big drops, condition, progress slowly. We are artificially training something that should come natural to us. We mimic the repetition and conditioning that comes with many years of play.

Animals who don't behave like the others and do not move are looked at by us as sick or mentally impaired. Why do we not look at our lack of movement as unhealthy?

Well, recently we have been in an age where PE classes are being cut and playgrounds are being torn down, we as a people are starting to notice how unhealthy and ridiculous this is. A friend of mine who is a major in microbiology told me that there was a study that children who play at a young age and get dirty, build better immune systems and live healthier and happier lives than those who don't. This is common sense but is something we have sadly forgotten.

In the end David Belle and the other OT's (original traceurs) are nothing special, they are just normal. But they are special in a way because they ignored the system, they continued to move and keep moving despite what others told them. We all need to live with movement in our lives just as all animals do. We are no different than animals and we too have the desire to move and keep healthy but it has been forgotten by us as a species.

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Max Calder
BNP
Georgia Parkour