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i dont know, i was just asking for an actull definition of parkour

there is no true definition of parkour (none that isn't contradictory anyways), only interpretations. sorry boss.

I agree with drew tbh, but it may help if I give you if I give you my interpretation, im not saying its correct or anything but its what ive always believed. haha

parkour is getting from a to b in the most efficient way possible with no inefficient or unessesary tricks or spins to slow you down. you can train inefficient movements for the urpose of creativity and pure fun, however some people dont call that parkour. like you said tyler, training for parkour and pure movement. this is often where people get confused -- people think flips are parkour because they can accompany parkour in your training, i.e falling backwards, a movement to fall back on would be a back somersault, by training it you will know that if u ever fall backwards you can recover in a safe way before you reach the floor. Flips for me are just a way of moving differently, i would call it free running - or something that accompanies me in my training.

people will probably disagree with this but its my view atm

(the bold bit is my small interpretation)

hope this helps :S

thank you harley

Not a dig at Harley just PURELY to highlight that theres no set definition i will pick at holes in Harleys views (which i think we would all agree with as the standard view of what parkour is..)


"parkour is getting from a to b in the most efficient way possible with no inefficient or unessesary tricks or spins to slow you down. you can train inefficient movements for the urpose of creativity and pure fun"

a to b in the most "efficient" way ...
...efficiency in what? something that is TIME efficient means using effort to get to B fast, but in excerting this effort you are loosing ENERGY efficiency.

...by walking you will be energy efficient, but not time efficient.

to be honest getting the bus could probably be more time AND energy efficient...but then again it wouldn't be COST efficient. excetera excetera.


point highlighted i feel

just because i can

surely to be referred to as 'efficient' means you are efficient as a whole, so you are as energy efficient as you can be as well as being as speed efficient as you can, this will mean you cant be as close to 100% on either as if you were focussing purely on one, but overly you generally efficient?

no idea if that even makes sense


errr, so you may have to compromise the efficiency of both to be efficient.

ummmm

uhhhh

so to play a song loudly, you cant just play the instrument as loud as you can, because then the singing will be drowned out, you have to play and sing as loudly as a whole unit as you possibly can, even though if you were only worrying about one of the elements you could be louder....

i dunno

I think what Sims is trying to say is that he would like to start a hardcore band.

I'm in.

pretty much. sick

tyler most people get the same reaction from people but we live with their contradiction. we carnt explain what it is to others becuase every one has their own idea of what it is, eg people that dont do parkour they mearly think it is just about jumping from building to building or jumping off walls. so if some one asks just tell them a small bit of your interpretation, and if they dont like it or you then dont worry, you havent lost out on anything but a small amount of training time.

oh and i liked sims idea of the music thing, that was preety clever of you

I'll go with sims words, becuase they make sense to me.

The basic jist of things, for people not understanding Sims words, it goes like this. Hopefully he does not mind my re-wording of his idea.

By being efficient only in energy, you lose speed.
By being efficient only in speed, you use lots of energy.
By finding a balance between the two you can be equally efficient in both.

I.E.
Sprinting uses tons of energy and gets you a short distance fast, but if you jogged you'd conserve some energy and cover more ground while still travelling faster than walking, which uses barely any energy, but takes ages. My advice, jog.

Jogging is bad!

Lol Adrian it was an example, not a dictation xDD

haha I know. Skipping is more efficient than jogging though