AlbinoMonk said:

How do people train for parkour? unless your good like all the youtube videos, your going to look like a dumbass moron if you try to run around a city doing flips and akwardly jumping over fences and stuff

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dr_gonz said:

These guys don't appear to give a fuck what anyone thinks. Why should you?

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You Agree said:

For training with actual parkour when you are new to it there is real simple skill building exercise.

You simply walk around and look for a location that is hard to get to. It's training so you don't need to be efficient if you're focusing on building skills. You could walk into a park and decide to vault two fences, scale the large fence and then make your way to the top of a dugout or small building. Try different methods to get there and condition yourself. No one can teach you how to get on that structure, you need to find out for yourself how you're going to get on there.

Use creativity when training. Try vaulting the fences different ways each time and find out which is the fastest and which is the safest.
Improvise to learn your skills. Climb trees in your woods. Jump over the lawn furniture. Climb onto your porch. Climb onto you shed.

Teach yourself how to jump off of larger objects. Here's a tip, if the structure you're jumping off of is taller than your body height you should land it in a roll to avoid foot injury. The better you get at controlling falls, landing in rolls and recovering from rolls the more comfortable jumping off of higher and higher objects becomes.

Start applying the mindset you use during training to your every day life and don't worry about what other people think of you.

Once you take parkour and its thought process off of your training area and begin to incorporate it into actually getting from point A to point B efficiency will come naturally.

Once you become in tune with your body take it to the streets. When you're walking look around for shortcuts to where you need to be. Cut through the alley and scale two fences rather than walking around the whole block. Why walk down that medium flight of stairs when you could just vault the railing on the side of it?

That's what parkour is about, you don't seek obstacles, you seek to eliminate obstacles.

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eritas said:

The real question is why do you give a fuck whether you look like a fool or not?

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Getting laughed at while you fall over a fence in public might b an appropriate fuck giving.

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Chubba said:

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Getting laughed at while you fall over a fence in public might b an appropriate fuck giving.

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Why? Who cares if someone laughs at you?

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