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11/07/05 -- parkour
« Reply #30 on: November 09, 2005, 03:22:52 am »
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I'd heard of parkour before.  I think it sounds cool.

I think what you meant to say is it sounds assinine.  I'm ashamed of Teodor a little bit actually.

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11/07/05 -- parkour
« Reply #31 on: November 09, 2005, 05:00:44 am »
My cousin used to (when he was like 16 or younger) do this thing called--and I don't know if it was actually called this, it just makes sense to--freestyle walking.  I think his shoes had little plastic thingies on the soles, and he would slide down rails and do all sorts of crazy shit.  The kind of things kids do with skateboards, you know.  I thought it was the dumbest thing ever, but he loved it.  This seems a lot like that...?  Also something you'd expect from teenagers.  So yes, shame on you, Teodor.

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11/07/05 -- parkour
« Reply #32 on: November 09, 2005, 05:17:16 am »
I can see Teodor getting into something trendy, just not something like Parkour.
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11/07/05 -- parkour
« Reply #33 on: November 09, 2005, 05:31:52 am »
Yeah, well, back in the day my friends and I used to dose and then we'd walk around and find stuff and climb on it and jump around and do weird crap.   But we didn't have a special name for it.

Wait, we did.  We called it tripping.

But you didn't have to wear special shoes.  Although you could if you wanted to.
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« Reply #34 on: November 09, 2005, 06:47:21 am »
i once ran to an object, climbed over it, and then ran away.

i also once fell into a bush, screaming, in order to disconcert high school students touring a college campus.

apparently i should start a cult, i could make millions.
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11/07/05 -- parkour
« Reply #35 on: November 09, 2005, 07:20:06 pm »
Dudes!
Parkour is asinine but so what!?
Rather than walking around trying to avoid people's gazes, a parkour dude is looking at shit that he can do flips on!
It is more than your dad's jogging. It is EXTREME jogging. Jogging where at any moment you could make a mistake that breaks you femur! That is so fuck*ng cool. Plus have you seen the picture where parkour man is jumping over a stadium? A STADIUM?!

http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/urban_graffiti/jumpbritain/images/h4_mm_gap.jpg

I think Téodor is onto something here. I back that dude up.
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« Reply #36 on: November 09, 2005, 07:53:36 pm »
A lot of those things are impressive athletic achievments. However, to pawn a style of running off as a philosophy is ridiculous. Did you read the philosophy section? "Parkour is similar to the yin and the yang in that it contains two basic selections (fluid vs. hard movements)" or whatever it says...that's an ultra-pretentious way of saying that Parkour requires strength, agility, and finesse. The reason it's stated the first way and not the latter is that virtually all sports require strength, agility, and finesse.
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« Reply #37 on: November 09, 2005, 10:27:17 pm »
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Good lord people will latch on to anything, won't they? Remember "flash mobs" and "culture jamming"? No? That's because they were dumb as hell.


Hey now!  I met my wife at a flash mob!  We put up wedding invitations around town, which read: "Our wedding has a posse."
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« Reply #38 on: November 09, 2005, 10:39:31 pm »
I think parkour/free running/whatever you call it sounds like a pretty awesome hobby to have even if the philosophy is bull. It will be especially useful in case of zombie apocalypse.
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« Reply #39 on: November 10, 2005, 12:42:09 am »
I think I would have had a lot of fun doing the flash mob thing... but by the time I'd heard of them, they'd already stopped doing them.

Plus, I live in southeast Virginia, which as has been noted, isn't the epicenter of the nation's social activity.
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« Reply #40 on: November 10, 2005, 12:44:27 am »
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The reason it's stated the first way and not the latter is that virtually all sports require strength, agility, and finesse.


also because it's probably not a sport, since it would be basically impossible to compete at running around like a god-damn fool.
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« Reply #41 on: November 10, 2005, 07:25:09 am »
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also because it's probably not a sport, since it would be basically impossible to compete at running around like a god-damn fool.


Have you never heard of Calvinball?
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« Reply #42 on: November 10, 2005, 10:32:00 am »


OH NO YOU DI'INT
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« Reply #43 on: November 10, 2005, 11:04:23 am »
Damnit I'm sure we've talked about this.
Just wish I could find where.
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