AlmostAsCoolAs said:

I'm getting into it, nothing crazy yet but I've been learning some of the basic techniques and how you're supposed to land so you don't fuck your ankles up.

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Chubba said:

Got back into it WAY too soon and quickly tore my ATL in my ankle during a saut de bras.

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Chubba said:

Got back into it WAY too soon and quickly tore my ATL in my ankle during a saut de bras.

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Yeah, I would stress conditioning before going out into the world and applying what you've learned. Too many people get hurt by thinking they are already at a level to safely handle the hurdles and falls.

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I didn't have any of the required strength/conditioning to do parkour safely, how I managed to get nearly 3 years out of the sport with 2 relatively minor injuries completely baffles me.

I didn't even start doing squats till ~2 years after I quit parkour

Not because I was stupid just because I didn't know.

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back then though it wasnt
called a saut de bras

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Back when I first started there was a massive war (probably still is) about freerunning vs parkour.

I ended up siding with the frenchies/traceurs and trained parkour exclusively so I grew to use the proper terms despite sounding like a pretentious dick

The OP isn't parkour, it's freerunning.

Chubba said:

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back then though it wasnt
called a saut de bras

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Back when I first started there was a massive war (probably still is) about freerunning vs parkour.

I ended up siding with the frenchies/traceurs and trained parkour exclusively so I grew to use the proper terms despite sounding like a pretentious dick

The OP isn't parkour, it's freerunning.

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You Agree said:

Parkour is about efficiency not flipping around, that's called freerunning A.K.A  showing off and wasting energy.

An example of parkour would be vaulting the back railing on a ten foot stair set to get down rather than walking down the stairs, done for efficiency.

An example of freerunning would be setting up a camera on that same obstacle, then walking up the stairs to get to where you want to jump off so all your bros think you're a pretty cool guy that jumps over railings and doesn't afraid of anything.

Someone who is skilled in parkour is running, they see a bench with a four foot drop behind it and right next to it is just a normal walkway. He keeps running down the normal walkway without even getting the urge to risk his health doing something stupid over the bench.

The freerunner is running in the same area and he sees the bench and tries to do a backflip over it. Instead he cracks his skull on the pavement and has to move in with his auntie and his uncle in Bel Air.

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And the war rages on