Interesting thing to watch today in London

Free running is quality, Capuera is completely different. If you think it's shit get down to Camden tonight and check it out.

I was thinking about getting tix for this. is anyone else interested at all?

That Damien guy is obviously talented. In gymnastics. Nothing in that video is Free running in my opinion. Just because you do a couple of jumps and flips outdoors does not make it free running.

Fair enough.
Same principle as skateboarding, using urban-space differently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzvAm3SRbtg

I seriously dont think you could ever hold skateboarding and free running in anything like the same regard.

I seriously dont think you could ever hold skateboarding and free running in anything like the same regard.

In time I am sure it will be held in the same regard.

That is what surfers probably said about skateboarding way back.
I know I used to get lots of stick from surfies back in Australia because I preferred to skate.

In more interesting news today...German police hunt speedy skateboarder. That sounds like way more fun than freerunning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg57KBCjZl8

hhaha....twat.

thought it was cool when the french guys first came out with this. lots of skill and strength involved. looked like it evolved from climbing. running/climbing is to freerunning as cycling is to tricks. same sht.

one of the martial arts featured in bloodsport couldve been capoeira. the black dude, always very low on his stance. does the thomas flare (or is it flair?) thing on the floor and jumps on people's back, chops their head like a coconut...gonna have to grab that film now to check! on another film, eric bana doing his kickboxing moves in the film the castle. his kicks were awkward as fck...would pass as capoeira LOL

^^ hahhaha

there's a few kids that get together and have a go at free running round here (upper ground). i guess it's cool that they're getting together off their own back and doing something sociable, harmless, physically and mentally stimulating etc. but admirable as all that might be, i can't help thinking "you're jumping between bollards". i dunno, there's just something i find silly about it.

as an ex (and rubbish) skater and bmxer, either of these done well can leave me in absolute awe.

unless they decided to use you as an obsticale to jump over it doesn't really matter,let them get on with it.
Your 'fixed gear' bike ain't all that special.

I've seen kids running over parked cars in the street and just about every toddler insists on walking on walls ...

+1 to ma3k saying surfers thought skating was dorky once, maybe less so now...

'Jumping between bollards' is about what 'street' skateboarding looked like in about '86, but look at it now... completely evolved and way ahead of the era of Tommy G's san fran run in Future Primitive. That still is 'rad' (gulp, what a word) but looks tame compared to today's street skaters.

Can't say I've ever thought 'I like' or 'don't like' parkour or whatever. Its just something. Like that crazy aeroplane racing, meditation, writing lists all the time or nosepicking. Some people dig it, some don't.

there's a few kids that get together and have a go at free running round here (upper ground). i guess it's cool that they're getting together off their own back and doing something sociable, harmless, physically and mentally stimulating etc. but admirable as all that might be, i can't help thinking "you're jumping between bollards". i dunno, there's just something i find silly about it.

as an ex (and rubbish) skater and bmxer, either of these done well can leave me in absolute awe.

+1 At least they are healthy, active etc. If a bit crap - you've got to start somewhere. The bloke at the beginning of the Bond film was pretty cool IMO.

Free Running is on a par with that Brazilian martial arts dancing crap, it makes my fucking head want to explode when i see it. So gross.

• Pistanator's "wank!"
  

I think it suffers in this country from people doing it for about a year then going into Covent Garden with a cuica and standing round in a circle busting their extremely limited repertoire of moves. They do look like a bunch of divs however well-meaning they are. It takes a long time to get that shit right because it is fairly complicated.

I find it fairly dazzling when dirty Rio gangsters are doing it properly.

^^^
And the only thing better than watching good capoeiristas, is being in the circle with them.
And it's not all the big flash stuff. To be honest, it's when you catch the older (even younger, if they're talented), trickier (as in cunning/trickery, rather than 'tricks') who play the slower/smaller game of capoeira angola… now that's fucking fascinating.

You want to talk about a comparison between cycling and tricks? Angola is cycling. Let's say track or Tour de France: an art, made possible through some serious training and a very personal angle. Regional (the big game that everyone's more familiar with: all high kicks, flips 'n' shit)? Now that's just tricks.

Forgive my waffle, but I wrote a postgrad dissertation on the subject and, were it not for my fucked spine (fucked through a genetic propensity, a lifetime of martial arts and no doubt several badly-trained instructors), I'd still be playing capoeira. I trained for just over four years, but have barely done a cartwheel for the last two.

"Capoeira Wank!" WhyIoughtta… ;)

^^^
Of course, I do simplify. No doubt another capoeirista is going to lay into that micro-rant.
Regional is more than tricks. The relationship between the two forms and the variations within the schools (if you can ever call 'Angola' a school - even Capoeira for that matter) is incredibly complex and fluid.

But a simplification is exactly that.

(I'll get my coat now. Carry on.)

I, of course, am skilled in the Grange Hill School of Capoeira "I was only trying to kick you Ro-land"

what's all this talk about capper??

Rollerbladers aka fruitbooters are just about as bad as it gets. They should go back to appearing on tampon ads with Dr Albarn or whatever he was called.

I don't get the spinny burning stick thing that people seem to do in Brick Lane and on beaches in Cornwall.

Isn't freerunning called Parcour? I can see how you can compare it to skating. If it's done well it's quite impressive and done badly it's not - like fat kids trying to olli down the southbank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg57KBCjZl8

hhaha....twat.

that is the most awesome clip ever.

YouTube

haha! What's warwick doing on a London messageboard?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg57KBCjZl8

hhaha....twat.

Funny as, but it is from a movie:
YouTube - Quiet on the set

what's all this talk about capper??

^ Ha ha, that's a good one - 'National Library of Australia' - as if...