The art of Le Parkour.

May 31, 2002 10:54 AM

The art of Le Parkour. Want to be a real life Spider-Man? Try keeping up with these guys.
posted by homunculus (7 comments total)

Hmm, this is similar to my idea for a sport called "Straight line Mogging". basically the idea is to take a Mog and drive as far as you can in a straight line. Over mountains, rivers, trees, houses, whatever. There would be courses and time and deviation form the course would act as a scoring system.

Just remember you heard it here first.
posted by betaray at 11:14 AM on May 31, 2002

This is like Mummenschanz, right?
posted by user92371 at 11:30 AM on May 31, 2002

Those videos are amazing.... spiderman indeed.
posted by TuxHeDoh at 11:35 AM on May 31, 2002

Very cool.

I'm a huge fan of climbing and jumping. But my exercises don't get much beyond clambering up some rocks and jumping into water. This stuff is very impressive. It seems like a fun sport. Too bad I'm not quite as built/toned/in-shape as the guy in the video...

user92371, it doesn't seem to have much in common with Mummenschanz as far as I can tell. Well, both involve body movement, I suppose...

And it's much cooler than just driving a massive truck over stuff, betaray. This is a lot more physical and personal.
posted by whatnotever at 6:33 PM on May 31, 2002

This is the same person who does all the leaping over rooftops in the BBC idents. I would link but the BBC site seems to be suffering from World Cup overload.
posted by Summer at 4:19 AM on June 1, 2002

This reminds me so much of the Crouching tiger, hidden dragon movie. Amazing stuff.
posted by sans at 7:26 AM on June 1, 2002

This is so much better than "freestyle walking."
posted by zerolucid at 6:01 PM on June 1, 2002