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parkour. for kids who can't ollie
by now everybody has surely discovered the raw, random, (and free!) source of entertainment that is video.google.com. personally, it has evolved into an unofficial daily metric: at least one search a day based on a keyword or phrase that comes up in casual conversation. today's root was "the angry french," which ultimately lead me to videos on parkour...
parkour, which is really just a fancy french name for freestyle walking, has gotten a lot of press lately for being the hip new thing. whatever. i remember covering my zips in duct tape, and doing this on military bases way back in 83. (usually whilst being chased by somebody official looking).
anyway, i ended up on this video. afterwards, i can't help but to think to myself....
"what the hell is with kids today?"
i mean, damnit. skateboards don't cost thaaat much! get a paper route. steal the skinny kid's lunch money. fence candy lifted from the 7-11... just show some freaking initiative! sheesh.
then again, maybe they can afford it. some of those guys are sporting some pretty bling kicks. maybe the answer is that they just don't have the discipline, the patience, to pass skater 101: the ollie. it's ok, really, not everybody can—back in my day, those kids were called rollerbladers.
we had a cool, french sounding name for them too. "poseur"
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BTW. Yes, I did rollerblade, or fruit-boot, for a few years... After i managed the forward thing, the backward thing, the spin thing, and the jump thing, I figured I'd pretty much exhausted the repetoire, and it was time to try something new.
Then I learned to skate. I bled in strange places, broke a lot of bones, still didn't get the chicks, and obviously became a sad, lonely, sarcastic jerk.
Solid!
and really.. rollerblades aren't so bad. i mean, playing hockey on skateboards is just dumb.
Posted by: jack boring at January 20, 2006 05:31 PM
alright. you know what. i take it back. i just found the following video, which has some crazy dude jumping out of buildings like he just got caught in bed with the first lady. some seriously high-commitment moves. props.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3594562762130893620&q=parkour
ff to the color scenes. the intro is weak.
Posted by: jack boring at January 20, 2006 06:04 PM
french rap is a far cry worse than russian metal. i'd always wondered what it'd be like to do the porch-to-porch vertically thing. won't have to bother now that i've seen some latvian kid do it.
Posted by: sjk at January 21, 2006 10:53 AM
um... i didn't know there was a fancy word for running around and jumping over stuff, other than "running around and jumping over stuff". seriously, it looks like they are a. running from getting caught being stupid, b. body doubles for low budget films, or c. being kids (ie running around and jumping over stuff).
if this parkour (park core?) is the new trend, i must've been waaayy ahead of my time in high school when i "parkoured" over a "park bench" in the quad as i ran from my 6th period english class to the ladies' room before i chucked band nerd fundraiser m&m's out my nose.
that said, i wish i had a video of it now. i really hurtled that thing. in flats.
Posted by: juju at January 23, 2006 01:59 PM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4245337360492479670&q=lazy+sunday
Posted by: ju at January 25, 2006 04:24 PM