Free running

[Nicky]

Last night while flipping through channels I came across a show featuring three french men preforming a sport knowen as free running. I was completely baffeled the things they were doing were just unbelivable! They were clearing jumps that must of been 15 feet wide. It's supposde to be a new sport/disapline where people use thier bodys to jump elgantly with style from building to building, rails poles, using the city as a big playground. Maybe you've seen the nike commercial where the chicken is chasing the dude. Well thats free running. Has anyone else ever heard of it seen it? I think it's truely amazing what the human body and mind can achieve.

Heres a link with some video and pics of free runners check it out it's pretty intresting to watch.

http://www.screwgravity.com/


Cheers
Kayla

[Tim_Cranwill]

Yeah, I saw it. I actually saw it a few months back too. Pretty amazing stuff! I wish I was even 10% as agile as those guys. :D

[Nicky]

same how amazing would it be to just fly from building to building avoiding all the trafffic below.

[peterm15]

i saw a show on it about a year back.... awsome stuff

[chas*e]

I saw it ..weird things out there...seen it before in a prison break movie

[Tim and Julie B]

Yeah that was cool. I would have loved that when I was a crazy teen. Maybe it's better I didn't see it. LOL. I want to see more on free running. That 360 wall run over the gap is what got me more then the big jumps.

[Nicky]

They don't have it on thier site but on the show I was watching the guys just scaled the buildings so fast and swift it was unreal I'm still speechless. I would love to learn but I suppose thier are faster forms of suicide lol:P. I'm so hooked on it I'm trying to do some more research on it, be sorta cool to see it in the olympics one day lol.

Cheers
Kayla

[sneaky_boa]

Very cool stuff! I like the philosophy behind it, not letting cities be your prisons, but rather your playgrounds. Although I have to say, they may be agile now, but they'll have arthritic knees and wrists before they're 40!

[Bartman]

Weird stuff, but deffinetly amazing! Man if I was a cop, id be scared of these guys :p Imagine trying to chase one of these guys down

[Slannesh]

Spiderman: The first Freerunner ;)

[Youkai]

Originally posted by sneaky_boa
Very cool stuff! I like the philosophy behind it, not letting cities be your prisons, but rather your playgrounds. Although I have to say, they may be agile now, but they'll have arthritic knees and wrists before they're 40!

I was going to say, these guys are going to DESTROY their joints, knees especially. Though it's pretty impressive to watch...

[Darren179]

Could you imagine seeing these guys on cops. I couldnt imagine a cop leaping a wall that fast.