WEBVTT - How Parkour Works 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.279 from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.840 the podcast on Josh Clark with me as always this 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.160 Charles w Chuck Bryant, and we are going to sit 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.840 still for this episode of Stuff you Should Know, not me, buddy, 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.880 Yes you are. I'm gonna do some cong vaulting. Hey, um, Chuck, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.839 you watch The Office right? Yeah? Okay? Love it? UM 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.920 in season six, which I guess was last year. Second 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:46.720 episode starts out very funny, UM with Michael, Andy and 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:52.200 Dwight all engaged in a little something called Parkour um 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.160 and they shout parkour like every couple of seconds and 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.920 then Um. What struck me as funny, especially after we 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.080 decided to do this UM episode, is that Jim explains 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.000 what Parker is for anybody who doesn't know, and he 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.520 he cites it as the Internet sensation of two thousand four. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.720 So it took you know, Michael six years to finally 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.120 catch onto it, taking us seven to finally start podcasting 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.720 on it. Yes, yeah, we've been had calls for this one, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.720 uh for since we started the show. People have written in, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.920 so what about Parker, dude, Yeah, I love it Parker, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.920 and we know it's old, but we we've not just 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.760 discovered this. It's and this article clearly has been on 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.640 the site since about two thou six or seven, because 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.200 there's actually a date sited in it um as like 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.240 two thousand and six. And from the extra research that 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.679 we did on this, it seems like this community has strengthened, expanded, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.640 and gotten more legitimate. Whereas you know, I'm sure with 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.120 a lot of the rest of the world it's like 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.040 the awe and an amazement of it, or the newness 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.280 is worn off. But I was I was hartened to 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.960 see that the people who do Parker are like, well, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.760 we don't really care if you like it or not. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.240 We're gonna keep doing this, and and they've grown and 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.600 gotten better. Yeah. I think most people that I know 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.120 have the same reaction though, when they see the Parker 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.440 videos for the first time, which is this is pretty cool. Oh, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.800 it's very cool. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm not saying like 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.839 anybody's like this sucks. It's like the newness is worn 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.120 off for the general public. Yeah, but people are generally 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:26.360 knocked out, uh, and then board right, so, Chuck, I 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.680 think we should begin to begin, right, great song? Uh. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.079 In nineteen two on the little island in the Caribbean 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:38.160 known as Martinique. Have you ever been there? No? Yah? 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.280 Do you think I would tell you every couple of 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.919 days like, oh I've been to Martinique, you probably would. Uh. Yeah. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.280 It's got a pretty interesting history in some trace the 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.320 birth of park. We're back to then French naval officer 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:53.800 name Lieutenant George Herbert. I don't think that's how you 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.400 say his name. What would you say Georgebert? Or Jabert? 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.799 H he? Uh? What happened was ofvolcano blew up in 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.280 nineteen o two there and heed Martinique, yea and Martinique. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:09.079 He coordinated the rescue of locals and Europeans there and 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.119 had a chance to watch people fleeing this and saw 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.760 a decided difference I take it between some of his 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.400 European comrades and the local Caribbeans. Well, people are like 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.679 trying to get around obstacles, like you know, chunks of 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.760 flying rock that had landed right in front of them, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.480 and running for their lives. Something about that scene struck 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.760 E Bear, like, Wow, this is really amazing. Well, he 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.839 saw a great deal of athleticism going on around him, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.440 and he said, you know what, you combine that with 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.360 some courage, and what you have is what we're gonna 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.040 call in America to be strong and useful. How would 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:52.360 you say that in French? Dog strong? And that's what 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.160 I'm saying. And that's the basis of the natural method, right, yeah, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.320 the natural method um, which in French would be what 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:05.880 method natural? And that inspired French military training. That became 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.320 the basis for French military terry training. Apparently they were 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:15.640 the first people to use obstacle courses or or what 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.040 the path of the warrior parkour dick combat town. So 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.200 you hear that word Parker with the C I heard it, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.520 that's where it came from. Yeah. So and this basically 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.640 this guy is like this French um physical fitness guru 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:34.520 that you've never heard of, but really has inspired a 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.920 lot of the probably cleaner cut quarters of France. Right yes, um, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.200 So that formed the part of the basis for the 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.320 philosophy of what came to be known as Parker because 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.920 it inspired this kid named David Bell right. Well, first 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.680 it was his father, Raymond Bell, was a soldier in 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.279 French Special Forces. He learned all this stuff, passed it 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.960 on to his son David and said, it's pretty cool. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.479 I wanna learn this. Yeah, and we left out a 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.120 very important point. Um. The natural method is basically like 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.400 physical fitness is um. All you need is what you 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.360 find in nature. Do you want to do some chin ups? 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.640 Could find a tree branch jerk? You want to like 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.040 work out your upper body, push a huge rock up 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.160 a hill and isometric and push against the wall. Right, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.599 And then the point of that, this is the other 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.800 big point. The point of being physically fit is, like 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.960 you said, so you can be useful to society in 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.440 case of an emergency, in case an old lady needs help, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.760 like you can pick her up and carry her across 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.920 the street with one hand. That kind of thing. There's 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.760 something be said for that. Okay. So David Bell is 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.160 fifteen years old. It's he lives in Liza's, France, which 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.360 is a suburb of Paris Um and his dad's been like, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.479 check this dude out, and he is just inspired. But 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.640 not only e Bear but also again named Bruce Lee. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:01.600 That's right, Bruce Lee's fluid movements um not not as 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.200 rigid as a lot of martial artists were before him. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:09.040 It's about adaptability, adapting to the situation. Somewhere in that 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:15.760 um in in David Bell's brain, he'd put that together. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:21.360 He put Bruce Lee, Georgie Bear, and a mailbox in 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.400 front of him all together and decided to leap over 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.919 it with his hands rather than walk around it. Boom, Parker. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.560 That's the Parker he changed. He added a k instead 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.800 of a sea, got together with his best buddy, Sebastian 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:37.599 Foucam and they established a group um. They were called 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:42.599 themselves tresseurs, which means to leave a trail in French. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.960 Tray ser is slang in Paris for hurry. Well there 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.360 you have it. Yeah, hurry up and make a trail. Yeah, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.000 that's what you're doing. So they organized a group, the 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.040 first group of parkour enthusiast basically called the Yamakazi, not 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:02.159 to be confused with yamazaki, which is san tori time. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.680 It's Japanese single malt whiskey. Yeah, it's good stuff anyway. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.040 I had it in an Econo Miaki station. Chances are 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.480 if you type in Yamakaze on the Internet, it'll bring 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.760 up the other Yamasaki and you'll be buying liquor before 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.160 you know it, and then you can watch some cool 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.200 parkour videos while you and bud. That's right. Uh. Luke Bisson, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.920 famous French filmmaker, made a film called The Yamakazi Um 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.360 definitely kicked up the awareness about what park war was, right, 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.520 and prior to that, he included it in his UM 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.920 film Taxi Too. Oh yeah. Yeah. So that was the 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.880 first time parkour was introduced to the general public in 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.240 mass media. And because Luke Bisson apparently was a huge 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.440 uh DE vote very early on. So in two different 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.120 movies in two successive years, he made you know, Parker 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.920 part of the theme. Yeah, and if you recognize Bells 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.440 Buddy's name, Sebastian fu Kan, he was the dude who 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.600 was chased in Casino Royale, the opening awesome parkour chase 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.520 that Daniel Craig chases this dude. Yeah. So it starts 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:16.320 to kind of percolate into um to the public consciousness 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.600 in the early two thousands, the late nineties, we should say, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.560 by the late nineties, there's already uh rift in the 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.440 um in the Parker community. Yeah, the communities like this 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.240 always like the battle, like there's always purest it seem 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.360 like and then people who want to change it and 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.560 take it into what they feel like the next level, 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.040 like skateboarding. Same thing happened back in the seventies. So 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.640 with parkour. The the point is, if you're a purest 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.640 with parkour, you don't you never moved backwards. Everything is 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.560 for utility and you get from point A to point 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.120 B most as efficiently as possible, which often includes jumping 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.360 over a mailbox. Yeah. The main rule, and this is 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.040 what's cool in parkour is that obstacles are used to 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.559 increase your efficiency. It's not like this is something I 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.720 gotta go around. It's let me use this to vault 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.000 forward faster and possibly gain some momentum, maybe twade a 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.800 little little kinetic energy for a little potential energy, yeah, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.800 and then turn that into more kinetic energy. And the 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.920 the Red Bulls, well, Red Bull actually sponsored one of 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.880 the what was it called the the Red Bull Art 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:27.480 of Motion Tournament competition. Yeah, and we'll get into that 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.880 in a minute, because the purest don't like the competition aspect. 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.000 But the motto of the w fpf UM, which is 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.839 the World Free Running in Parker Federation, I think that 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.400 was established an oh seven, it is no obstacle, no 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.280 freedom K and O W for both get it? I 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.080 do now, I didn't until you have told me about 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.280 the K. You know your freedom. Um, so that's so 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.319 part court A to b using obstacles, never going backwards. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.840 Free running huge huge difference. You can go backwards. Now 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.840 going backwards? Does that mean like you, I get the 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.080 idea from park Ers that you you're running toward the 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.360 wall and you don't stop and go all right, let 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.800 me see, I should probably go like here here, you 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.280 just attack the wall, don't you. I think that's the 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.839 case with both of them. But really, honestly, one of 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.920 the main differences is like free running allows for movement 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.439 backward to continue going forward, where park cour is like, no, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.240 you have to keep going forward all the time. And 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.080 free running also allows for movements that are purely aesthetic 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.480 and nature right and not necessarily just the efficiency of 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.600 moving forward. Those are the two differences between free running 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.680 and um park court. And if you think that's stupid, well, um. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.959 The the reason behind it is that there was a 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:44.880 rift or separation and ideals between David Bell and his 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:51.000 as the UM uh the f P Wait what is it? W? 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.400 F p W w f PF. Yeah, yeah, as the 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.160 w f PF puts it, um his then best friend. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.640 So that seeing fou Kong, yeah, they know they fell out. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.400 I guess I think they're still buddies. But basically foukan 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.960 is like, no, you can move backwards, and Bells like, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.640 no you can't. And they were like, well, it looks 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.200 like we have a problem here. And that's where free 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.240 Running came from. It split off from Parker. I bet 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.000 you there was a little bit of well I founded 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.600 it in you are in Casino Royale. Well that came 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.760 after So that split within the late nineties, so that 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.960 really cemented. And then yeah, and then a lot of 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.760 people are like, you know, food con is a big sellout. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.320 He's an ads he uh, he's all flash and everything. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.839 Um and that that Apparently that um argument doesn't hold 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.240 much water because David Bell has been has done quite 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:47.280 a bit to bring um parkour into the public consciousness. Specifically, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.640 he introduced it to Britain in two thousand two, I 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.400 believe right with a BBC short Yeah, rush hour, Um 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.240 that did you see it? Huh? It's pretty awesome. Yeah, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.520 it's on you know, he's sitting at it's much like 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.800 an ad. He's sitting in his apartment and his clothes 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.079 and then he gets up you know it, takes his 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.160 shirt off of course, and strips down to the like 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.600 the running pants, and then just climbs out his window 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.240 and takes off and there's you know, traffic going below, 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.120 and he's zipping all over the place like a you know, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.840 Parker expert that he is. And then he eventually gets 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:22.640 back in his apartment and sits back down the couch. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.719 It's like, yeah, I'm done. And so they showed that 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:29.560 on BBC one and everybody was like, what was that? 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.840 That was awesome? And then they found out, well, wait 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.520 a minute, the people actually do this. This guy is 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.040 real and that was the birth of Parker I think 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.480 a year later UM Urban Free Flow, which is like 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:45.720 the the fact though British wing of UM Parker and 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:50.559 free free running, free running. Yeah. And for some reason, 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.800 my brain just glitched and I was like, that's not right. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.560 Well and almost immediately kids started getting hurt because they 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.720 didn't uh, I don't know if they didn't realize, but 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.319 Bell had a decade of training of learning this craft. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.720 We're creating it, creating it and then UM, teenager saw 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.040 a rush hour and like let me go out and 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.600 like let me try to scale a wall. And there 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.200 were a couple of deaths. Um. Yeah, that was one 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.160 recently actually in California, right in Sacramento in two thousand nine. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.560 The kid was into park Corps and he died from 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.240 falling off of an eighth story UM parking deck. Yeah, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.200 and this is we should have frontloaded this. But this 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.560 is where we say park course very can be very 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.280 dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, can be 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.000 very dangerous even if you do know it. Yeah. It 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.000 requires a high degree of skill with like gymnastics, possibly 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.000 martial arts. Yeah. Yeah. If you look at Sebastian food con, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.120 the dude is ripped like he's he's probably going to 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.560 be able to hang on to allege with one hand 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.800 if he really needs to. I can't. The average twelve 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.920 year old doesn't have that kind of upper body strength exactly. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.960 But I average twelve year old the one who's like 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.599 really fascinated with this. Yeah, and if you are fascinated 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.280 in UM, there are a lot more It's been legitimized 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.160 to the extent that there are a lot more training 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.719 facilities indoor, padded things where you can practice this kind 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.080 of thing, so you don't just go out and hit 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.679 the streets and start jumping off of buildings. That's right, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.280 we would not advise that. No, all right, so Chuck, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.560 there's a I think in UM the public imagination, there's 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.600 a lot of comparisons with skateboarding, right, Others kids like 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.160 they're they're right there in front of the courthouse, so 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.160 and they're they're they're skateboarding and they're not using a skateboard, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.239 but they like to be doing the same thing. Apparently, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:36.239 especially parkour purists, find this very very offensive. That's not offensive. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.280 That's a lot of offensive either using buildings, you know, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.320 the same deal. They're basically like, no, skateboarders are bad kids. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.480 We're good kids if we're doing this so we can 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.560 be useful to society when the time comes. Skateboarders are 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:53.120 great kids, agreed and Josh like skateboarding in the seventies, Um, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:58.000 once the popularity increase, it started to be thrown or prostituted, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.680 if you will, onto like ads and TV shows and 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.200 corporate events. They listed that I did not know corporate 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.960 events hired parker people. Corporate event if you've got enough 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.680 money to do everything. Okay, there's this great show of 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:16.760 Bruce Hornsby playing for the food JITs corporations like Christmas Party, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.560 and it's awesome. It's like an hour and a half 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.600 long Bruce Hornsby show and he gets increasingly drunk er 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.400 to where like he does a little ditty and improv 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.840 diddy about his scotch. Yeah, it's really great. It's really great. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.440 If you can never get your hands on the bootleg, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.120 it's it's worth it. Well. And then up in the Air, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.280 which I know you didn't care for, but when they 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.440 had hired young MC, you know that one corporate event 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.400 to perform those pretty funny us to move alright, Yes, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:46.960 like skateboard, um also like skateboarding. Once competition started to 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:52.520 be mentioned, UM Purist said, no, no, no, no, it's 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.880 not about competition. We compete all the time against each 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.000 other on the streets. Man. But we don't need no metal, 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.800 we don't need no judge word. But you know, like anything. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.120 Red Bull was like, oh you know what about this 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.040 stack of money? Red Bull in Barclay World Free Running Championships. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.360 MTV has a show now, of course, called Ultimate Park 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.160 or Challenge um. The purists still aren't too happy about 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.640 most of that. To be honest, there's a lot of 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.720 complaining going on on parker boards. And here we are 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:26.000 representing both coasts, east and west. Let's talk about the moves. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.080 Let's do it. You want to talk about the cat 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.440 leap first. Yeah, there's a few standard moves. So the 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.720 cat leap is basically like, say you're clut your eyes 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.360 unless you're driving right now. Uh. Say you are on 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.520 a the edge of one five foot parking deck. Okay, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.600 all right, it's five ft off the ground, and then 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.000 there's another there's a gap five ft gap in between 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.680 it and the edge of another parking deck which is 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.760 seven ft off the grounds the wall in front of you. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.160 So let's say you are um, you You're like, well, 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.880 I think a cat leap would be best for this. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.520 What you do is you run off of the first 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.159 parking day, jump the gap, grab the ledge of the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.320 um first of the second parking deck, and hit it 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.000 with your feet. Just plan it right there on the 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.320 wall and basically you're just hanging off the side for 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.520 a nano second before you you use the momentum to 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.359 pull yourself up with your arms and jump the rest 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.520 of the way onto the next parking you very cat like. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.520 It's used to get onto a higher object than you're 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.680 currently on and it's a good way. That's much much better. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.600 The role very common. You've seen stunt guys do this forever. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.760 They jump off a building onto a lower building, and 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.119 they always you know, to absorb the shock on their legs, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.080 they tuck and roll. They observe it in their shoulder 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.680 instead exactly tuck and roll, cover the head, pop back 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.240 up and keep going. Because it's all about forward movement 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.160 with Parker. Yeah, whereas I would jump off, I would land, 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.960 probably break my ankle, vomit, and then like later until 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:59.919 somebody found me. That's what Chuck would do. My favorite, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.760 as you know, is the cong vault. Well, the cong 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.960 vault is the coolest. It's the coolest. It It looks 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.600 like what apes do in the jungle. Uh. You run 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.520 up on let's say a wall, and you leap forward 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.840 and you push yourself off with your hands, play with 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.119 your hands and don't let your legs touch at all 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.480 and just follow on through. And there's double cong rolls 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.600 where you tap twice. There's triples there. We saw a 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.919 quadruple in a gym. So basically, when your hand is 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.600 touching that wall, your your body is laid out behind you. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.560 It's like you're diving toward it, almost exactly, but you 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.359 have like your two hands about just a little ahead 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.879 of your shoulders, and then right when your hands touched, 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.639 you bring your legs up basically through your chest in 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.000 the wall, and then you you just bound away. You 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.439 vault away. Hence the name cong vault looks very animal like, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.320 and one of the early practitioners said that he noticed 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.119 that it's it's like witnessing an animal in the jungle aggressive. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.360 That's one of the goals of park Corps is that 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.600 you can basically move as quickly and fluidly as an 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.040 animal and instinctually too, is what I understand. I will 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:11.160 never know that sensation, but it's it's what I understand. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.439 Is the goal. You got the precision jump, which is 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.040 pretty easy. It's basically like a standing broad jump. Just 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.200 jump from one place to another. Yeah, but that's if 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.359 like I want to jump on that little two foot 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.040 section of wall, like you don't have the benefit of 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.000 a role because there's nothing else there. And then the 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.320 speed wall, Yeah, that's easy. That's basically to do that. 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.920 How any kid has ever jumped like a chain link fence. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.280 You just put one hand down and throw your throw 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.600 your feet the opposite side over and uh, I guess 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.400 with part core the differences that you're doing this much 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.400 more quickly. Yes, and you keep running and uh, those 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.600 are just a handful of moves or many many more 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.680 Jim Kota like moves that you can do like side 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.640 wall runs and sliding, and people now are doing those 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.960 little half flips adding a little flare to it. I 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.960 guess the free runners are pretty cool. So, Chuck, let's 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.760 say that you are listening to this, You're like, I 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:09.159 have tons of upper body strength, I'm eighteen or older, um, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.240 and regard for my own well being, right, and I'm 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.640 really interested in this. Where would one go to find 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:19.240 out more about parkour or to learn parkour? Uh? You 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.560 get a jam. Well that's one place. That's when they 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.720 get together and hit the streets. But if you want 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.800 to learn, like I said, you can go to the 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.080 there's gems all over the country. Now there are there's 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.040 academies where you can sure you can pay. If you 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.640 go to Parker dot com slash groups, you can look 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.080 up basically people who are doing it in your area, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.800 and that's probably one of the most recommended ones if 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:43.800 especially if you don't have any cash to shell out, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.480 because you're going to learn in the context of other 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.960 people who know Parker no more than you do and UM, 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.080 so you'll you'll learn, you'll learn safety as well, but 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.800 you'll be challenged to UM. And then yes, there's academies 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:01.600 as well. There's videos everywhere everywhere. YouTube has UM at 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.200 least six different channels according to parkour dot Com of 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:09.560 just parkour videos and UM basically, you want to wear 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.520 a helmet at all times. You want to wear knee 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.320 pads and one of those big sumo guy suits. To 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.359 see a park where people wearing any of that stuff, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:23.359 I'm okay, CEO and yeah, beginners, you should always do that. 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.720 Oh also, I should have probably mentioned at the beginning 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:30.000 of this that by UM downloading this episode impressing play, 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.800 you immediately forfeited any rights to sue US or any 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.400 of our parent companies. You'll be careful out there. Yeah, 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.520 I want to. I'm gonna you know, my goal in 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.000 life should be I want to do a successful Kong leap. 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.440 That's not gonna happen. I want to do that, dude. 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.440 I will watch you try. I'm fast. I will watch 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:48.760 you try anytime. I'm a lot faster than you would think. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.960 Let's go right now. I get these little legs pumping 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.040 and I can. I get my upper body leaning in 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:58.520 the right direction, and it's it's pretty funny. And remarks 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:00.879 about my my cat like speed for a guy with 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.639 a few extra pounds on him. I want to see this. 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:08.679 I'm gonna learn this. Okay, we're gonna want to. I 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:10.560 don't want you to see the final results. I'm gonna 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:13.000 perfect it. I want to see everything leading out to that. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.520 Now you're not gonna do I'm gonna learn it in secret. 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.760 And then next time we're in New York, I'm just 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:23.000 gonna bust it out. One day You're gonna be like leaf. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.359 That would be very surprising. I look forward to that 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.200