Heads up - Jump Britain on Channel 4 tonight 10pm

[Corin Denton]

Similar stuff to that BBC trailer with the French guy jumping from building to building etc!

[chim_girl]

Thanks for the reminder.

[slinky]

have a look at supertricks.tk

Found this site from a video I saw on the extreme channel... some rather good videos..

slinky

[chim_girl]

Seems the video link is broken, decent stuff in the pictures gallery though.

[slinky]

chim_girl said:

Seems the video link is broken, decent stuff in the pictures gallery though.

One or two of the videos are broken, but evolution and the most of the others seem to work ok...

slinky

[Zorro]

Le Parkour is the name of the sport created by David Belle, some amazing footage here :

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/parkour/parkourenglish/

This jump is something else :

www.unoriginal.co.uk/specialamazingfootage1.html

[simpo two]

But think of the Health & Saftey issues chaps...

...if I did that (outside a govt-backed stunt) I'd be arrested.

[rob_f]

Awesome stuff, really inspiring! Not that i'd ever attempt it mind, could break a nail

Rob.

[hornet]

That was fantastic. Part martial art, part philosophy, part annoying jobsworth security guards. Good stuff. I'd rather kids across the UK were doing that than smashing the crap out of bus shelters week in, week out. Doesn't have the whole Jackass "let's do something incredibly dumb and see how much it hurts" feel to it either - I'd imagine you need very strong mental discipline do get good at that. Top notch.

[Phil Dicky]

hornet said:

That was fantastic. Part martial art, part philosophy, part annoying jobsworth security guards. Good stuff. I'd rather kids across the UK were doing that than smashing the crap out of bus shelters week in, week out. Doesn't have the whole Jackass "let's do something incredibly dumb and see how much it hurts" feel to it either - I'd imagine you need very strong mental discipline do get good at that. Top notch.

Fantastic tv.
I'll give it s go on my way to work, NOT

Phil

[EddyB]

It was just... wicked

[moleamol]

After doing the equivalent on two wheels with free ride mountain bike I found this excellent. And I want a go. I've always felt safer on wheels than legs but it just looks excellent.

[gemini]

As one who suffers from heights I felt my knees tremble when Seb climbed the outside of the Forth rail bridge

running up walls looks fun though

[wedgepilot]

I caught this last night, and wow!
I'd never come across parkour before, but those guys are something else. Part gymnastics, part cat, part nutter

Some of the moves I genuinely would not have believed possible. It made me want to get out there and try it...then I remembered I was a lazy unfit fecker

[cliffe_mafia]

I watched it last night and thought Seb was really good but most of it was pretty tame compared to what Jackie Chan has done in his films i.e. wallclimbing,jumps,balancing and jumping through tight spaces.

[Corin Denton]

I did like the bit where he jumped the gap in the roof of the Millienium Stadium!

[yertis]

Just watching it made me feel unfit. It's very cool (not knocking it all) but isn't it what kids used to do anyway, before TV and video games were invented?

[tycho]

Corin Denton said:

I did like the bit where he jumped the gap in the roof of the Millienium Stadium!

When I first saw that part, I thought "what a nutter" and then I saw how much spare distance he had when landing. Looks good but not very dangerous. Just needed a good head for heights. The guy was a great athlete though.

[tycho]

Corin Denton said:

I did like the bit where he jumped the gap in the roof of the Millienium Stadium!

When I first saw that part, I thought "what a nutter" and then I saw how much spare distance he had when landing. Looks good but not very dangerous. Just needed a good head for heights. The guy was a great athlete though.

[Liszt]

yertis said:

Just watching it made me feel unfit. It's very cool (not knocking it all) but isn't it what kids used to do anyway, before TV and video games were invented?

Which is how it started, him and his mates jumping from bollard to bollard in the playground, and the rest, as they say, is history.