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General Discussion xXRed13Xx - Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 01:39

I have recently started Parkour classes, and I freaking love it.

For any of you who don't know what Parkour (also known as Russian Climbing or Free Running) is, check this wiki description out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

I have only had one class, but it is amazing. The half hour warmups are incredibly intense. By the time we get to the hour long session of Kongs, Side Monkeys, Vault Flips, TicTacs etc etc you are already aching all over. And the half hour warmdowns are even more intense, and ontop of you being completely wiped out from an hour and a half of hardcore excercise, you can really feel it building all of your muscles up.

It is the best workout I have ever had especially for the abdominal area.

My abs were fading alot because to be honest I'm a lazy pr*ck. But after only 1 2 hour session I can see and feel them coming back stronger than ever. I feel myself becoming fitter and stronger than ever too.

For anyone who is interested in becoming fitter aswell as having a good time, I definitely suggest Parkour.

It is also an amazing skill to have and could help you alot throughout life.

I doubt if anyone here has any experience with Parkour first hand or otherwise, but if you do I would love to hear about it.

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Caramel's picture

Wow. Sound very cool!!! I'd

Caramel; Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 01:58

Wow. Sound very cool!!! I'd love to take Parkour...one day...>_>

Gets your adrenaline going. Fun! That's why I like running.

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I'm a stereotypical nerd. So

rabbitpiss; Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 09:35

I'm a stereotypical nerd. So bad at sports. Or anything that requires a lot of physical effort.

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Well

xXRed13Xx; Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 13:59

Well you could get into it, and train yourself to be better :)

Surely there must be people on this forum who are into sports or fitness?

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I'm horrid at all things

Look Its Nichole; Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 14:16

I'm horrid at all things sport related.

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Hehe, me too, but I can run.

Caramel; Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 22:48

Hehe, me too, but I can run. In water sports, I can swim a little, but mostly I dive (I mean dive down to the floor. I can't find a better word. Sor far, I can dive 14 ft...until I can find a deeper pool. :3).

I have bad aim, which basically makes me bad at all kinds of sports.

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:)

ikonowi; Friday, March 16, 2007 - 22:04

Wow, never hear of it! Sound cool! Although, I don't think my parents would be too into it... :(

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Woah rad...johnny says hold

johnny_punk; Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 02:03

Woah rad...johnny says hold on tight

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fun...

simran mahmud; Friday, January 4, 2008 - 22:19

Sounds like fun. I've heard of it but never actually tried it myself.


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Woah

StephanieNicole; Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 04:29

Sound like a lot of fun. Probably something I would do if I was with my buddies and we were really hyper...
But I'd probably wouldn't be able to do it, so Id give up. "/
But, I like sports like Tennis. Very fun!

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I heard about this a while

Vikingr; Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 14:28

I heard about this a while ago, and was very interested despite sucking seriously at all team sports. Couldn't find the time to take it up tho. Or a place to get lessons, for that matter.

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Wow, I was told that parkour

Kurenai Ichi; Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 21:02

Wow, I was told that parkour was a french thing, and also a sort or "free running" but mostly I was told that it was just a fun way of getting around, like you see a giant object that is climbable so you climb it and jump off onto some other near object or something, so I tried it, I think it would be realy fun in a huge city.

So im gonna go read what parkour realy is on wikipedia I gues, I have been way to lazy lately and im starting to get pissed at myself for losing all of my hard work in gaining a strong body through lazyness, thank you for posting, i'll get into it X)

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XD Oh, Red. The return of

killijoy; Monday, January 7, 2008 - 15:17

XD Oh, Red. The return of the abs that make all women worship you? That's good and, at the same time, scary. But this is why we love you. XD

As for Parkour, it sounds amazing, but I'm afraid I must join the rest of those who were like, "Yeah...no." I am not at all strong, and though I enjoy lots of intense work-outs, I really could not do overf thirty minutes. Just can't do it. I'm simply too lazy.

But if you're enjoying, that's really good. It's good to find a sport you're really into. =)

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PS

killijoy; Monday, January 7, 2008 - 15:20

Though, as I reread the wiki definition, it probably is something I would enjoy, as long as it wasn't too intense to begin.

Hmmm. =| Thinkage. Maybe I will check it out here in America, because it does sound like something I'd enjoy. ... =| Hmm...

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Hehe

xXRed13Xx; Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 14:01

This thread is almost a year old :) I don't know why people are just coming back to it now. I don't actually do parkour anymore mainly due to laziness, I really enjoyed it but the guys I was studying with moved their practises and I never found out where they moved to. :S

I might get back into it at some point because not only is it good excersise it's sooooooo fun :)

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I've heard about this but I

Reiko Kitsune; Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 22:08

I've heard about this but I didn't know what it was called, I have to find out if there are any classes happening near me!

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Poor xXRed13Xx!!! Did your

Vikingr; Friday, January 18, 2008 - 17:14

Poor xXRed13Xx!!! Did your teacher run away too? Or were you even getting "lessons", as such?

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That sounds

xXRed13Xx; Friday, January 18, 2008 - 21:30

Lol that sounds very sarcastic... but I will choose to believe you are being sincere :D

yeah they did, there were 4 teachers (2 seniors and 2 trainees) and the trainees screwed the seniors over by doing a side deal with the gym we practised at so the seniors got kicked out and the trainees took their time slot.
But the seniors didn't tell all of us where they were moving to, so I lost my teachers... although I hold out hope that someday we will be reunited!!!

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Sounds awesome!Despite this

furubafan3; Friday, January 18, 2008 - 22:52

Sounds awesome!Despite this post being old it's been bumped to the active forum posts so I had to reply. XD Anyways this sounds really cool since although I'm a healthy weight I have no upper body strenght whatsover. My 7 year old brother beats me at arm wrestling..=____= Then again he's crazy on the monkey bars. Ah well I'm more of a marching band geek myself. And I INSIST that it's a real sport. Parts of it are so militaresque that it just has to be.

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