free running on C4

[Mrs H.]

Oh that's a shame - i switched on and they were looking around the same French housing estate featured last time so I thought it was a repeat and was forced to watch a documentary about a woman who lost 22 stone in weight and was left with so much spare skin she was able to make a set of matching suitcases (or something similar - I had to look away at that point)

[rosalind]

set of matching suitcases

To match her...self.
Interesting new accessory...don't feel many will jump on the bandwagon!

About the Free Running, a few mates came across the guys when the were jumping the Derry walls, they didn't have a clue what was happening 'til they caught the programme last night.

[Lilybet]

If anyone is interrested this is the link to a set of free-running videos performed by a local (Birmingham) crew;

http://www.rip-cord.co.uk/32R/

These guys are pretty new and formed last summer sometime but they have improved greatly

[Kitch]

I thought this was a much better programme than the first one, without the boring - talking to /negotiating the venues stuff but with more on moves and techniques.

I thought - hey you could use this stuff in orienteering, if it were a sprint race, in a city, or a park........
Parcourienteering !

I was eying up some benchs on the Meadows yesterday for a bit of vaulting.

[brooner]

I was eying up some benchs on the Meadows yesterday for a bit of vaulting.

does that mean it'll be included in future intervals sessions then?

[Wattok]

Word from the inside is that there is going to be one of those gym sessions in Edinburgh soon...and i know the venue

[mharky]

meadowbank has got a nice gymnastics hall, bouncy floor, padded things, thats where i would have it.

and kitch, your definetly right about using those techs in park-o, come to a cliff, nae bother, jump off it with a flip

[Kitch]

It could be a whole new discipline. Kind of like show jumping.
Control points are jump features and you have a marshal at each one. Time penalty if you don't make the jump cleanly.

oh dear !

[brooner]

found some quality photography here with an article about the parkour scene in vancouver.

[loo]

hehehe i tried free running last summer and i have to say its an awesome sport/art

All i can say is ensure you are fully aware of the heatlth hazards... i think i still have a fractured sternum. (Avoid the big pole outside the Waterfront in Belfast,you can identify it by the human bodied shape of the pole) Dangerous indeed.