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Freerunning/Parkour

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    #32
    g4rg4ntu4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭g4rg4ntu4


    I'd be very interested to come along and check it out sometime. I'm a little too old to get involved in the physical side of it but I'd like to bring my cam and maybe film some stuff.


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    #33
    johnny b
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭johnny b


    just checked out jump britain. awesome. would love to meet up with some people in dublin for a run, and to share ideas. have never practiced parkour before but have always done the simple stuff just to amuse myself. didnt realise it was a sport til now! fantastic


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    #34
    anthonymcg
    Registered Users Posts: 660 ✭✭✭anthonymcg


    I remember seeing this before but someone in work mentioned seeing Jump Britain last night and I stirred my interest. :) Defo gonna tape the repeat on Saturday the 15th. Be interested in partaking sometime but I've next to 0 experience with it.


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    #35
    TheJester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭TheJester


    hey, just found your thread. could somebody PM me with info on your parkour meets or email's?. i've gotten a sudden interest, bitten my the bug if you will, in parkour. thanx

    Jester


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    #36
    themadman88m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭themadman88m


    hi, i want to start parkour and i'm not sure how ta,wht moves or action do i need to learn? Scene Jump britian last night, great, got me and a few other motivated to take it up. any advice?


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    #37
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,907 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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    #38
    mellowyellow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭mellowyellow


    Hi all,

    Much like yourselves, myself and a few others are up for doing some free running around Dublin.

    To this end (having faithfully read the above posts) I propose meeting up in Iveagh Gardens in Harcourt St beside the waterfall at about 12 ish next saturday, if all goes well maybe we could continue it.

    Also I don't want to step on anyone's toes here so if there's other meetings happening please feel free to let me know.

    So - Anyone up for it?


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    #39
    idiotproof
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭idiotproof


    Would love to head out but going to Bristol for the weekend but post how you get on, I'll definitely head out when I get back.

    Good buzz


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    #40
    scoby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭scoby


    It looks like there'll plenty of interest for a meetup at 12 o clock on the 16th of Jan
    so we'll see ya'll there.
    I've done a bit of a hatchet job on the parkour-ireland site and the forum should now be working.
    Head over there to ask questions and we'll do our best to help out.


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    #41
    imad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭imad


    eeej, im from holland, livin in dublin, me and a friend used to do a mix between capoeira and breakdancing, and basically took that out on to the streets..
    this parkour , or free running sounds, and seems quite like it!
    should be fun meeting up and havin a few jumps!
    but is it on, any day other than the saturdays?
    just got a new job, and its a 1-6 thing..
    please let me know whats happening, be nice to get away from the pubs for a bit, and do some feeling-free!!


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    #42
    mellowyellow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭mellowyellow


    Hey imad,

    u send me a txt on that 085 # today?

    My knees still bandjaxed from last sat, fogies like me need to warm up next time!


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    #43
    imad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭imad


    ej man!! niiice!! yes that was my text!

    last sat was good, no scars here..
    but i saw some parkour video bits of like a minute each,
    some of it was really good!! some of it was too easy..
    but there are some nice tricks to practice!
    one guy kept doing this trick where he ran along a wall,
    then put his both hands on the wall, and..
    sord of cart wheeled on the wall??
    and that trick with the back flip off a wall..
    NIIICE!!!!

    im so gutterd i cant be coming along saturday..
    2morrow!!?
    but maybe if im off early, or if you guys keep it up for a good while?
    can you ask if you meet these parkour ireland people,
    if the've a practice room anywhere?
    or if they meet during the week?
    have fun man!!


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    #44
    patjunfa
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭patjunfa


    Saterday? People talkin bout the 16th I think which is Sunday


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    #45
    Mimikyu
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    #46
    Silverblade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Silverblade


    scoby wrote:
    It looks like there'll plenty of interest for a meetup at 12 o clock on the 16th of Jan
    so we'll see ya'll there.
    I've done a bit of a hatchet job on the parkour-ireland site and the forum should now be working.
    Head over there to ask questions and we'll do our best to help out.

    Is Iveagh Gardens near the college?and do yee still run if it rains?


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    #47
    Zed159
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭Zed159


    Hey, iv only gotten into parkour recently, anyone in the limerick city area?


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    #48
    NoMis
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭NoMis


    Hey I just got into parkour a few days ago and have been practising like mad. I missed the dublin Jam yesterday, so whens the next one?


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    #49
    Silverblade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Silverblade


    Anyone wanna have a noon jump on Saturday or Sunday 22nd.
    Best place would probably be Iveagh Gardens (or so i've been told)
    anywho i'll be setting up a forum for Parkour soon. so check it out next week.


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    #50
    scoby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭scoby


    parkour ireland forum


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    #51
    kayl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭kayl


    hey im a newbie, um when and where be the next parkour meeting im rather titilated by the whole thing and what kinda gear shud 1 wear specifically?


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    #52
    kayl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭kayl


    hey is their any chance of creating some kind of meeting point for those who are more experienced with those that arent, i've never done it, n wud like to,any takers?


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    #53
    kayl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭kayl


    hey do you mean the 22nd of march?


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    #54
    antibrow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭antibrow


    do ye really know what ye are doing?
    pk doesnt have tricks.this isnt skateboarding without a board so stop turning it into it.

    im sorry but im a purest.im 2nd gen,mayb 3rd and this is disheartening.
    please try and find out some of the philosophy of the art and try and adopt some of it.it hurts(in a wierd way0 to see this whole thing becoming commercial and taking being taken somewhere it shouldnt be.
    Pk is about the movement, the path and the flow. not about the backflip 360's and double tap cat grabs. some moves are usee to enhance the grace and flow of the movement from A to B.this isnt an extreme sport with a tricklist and based on single event spectacles.

    Sorry for the rant but i didnt really have a choice. i dont want ye all to think im mean and not talk to me.im not some old,bitter guy.im only 18.
    anyone in cork here????


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    #55
    thafitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 363 ✭✭thafitz


    antibrow wrote:
    do ye really know what ye are doing?
    pk doesnt have tricks.this isnt skateboarding without a board so stop turning it into it.

    im sorry but im a purest.im 2nd gen,mayb 3rd and this is disheartening.
    please try and find out some of the philosophy of the art and try and adopt some of it.it hurts(in a wierd way0 to see this whole thing becoming commercial and taking being taken somewhere it shouldnt be.
    Pk is about the movement, the path and the flow. not about the backflip 360's and double tap cat grabs. some moves are usee to enhance the grace and flow of the movement from A to B.this isnt an extreme sport with a tricklist and based on single event spectacles.

    Sorry for the rant but i didnt really have a choice. i dont want ye all to think im mean and not talk to me.im not some old,bitter guy.im only 18.
    anyone in cork here????


    like in skateboarding, some consider it an artform and others consider it a sport. does it really matter once everyones having a laugh doing it?


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    #56
    antibrow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭antibrow


    i see your point but skating is really blurred.pk isnt.


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    #57
    MrScruff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭MrScruff


    it hurts(in a wierd way0 to see this whole thing becoming commercial and taking being taken somewhere it shouldnt be

    The main reason for a huge influx of people interested in this is the c4 documentorys surely!

    I think that the trick/gymnastic part of it also has a big part to play. Anyone can throw them selves down a set of stairs but who can do an aerial down em?
    If you watch alot of the pk clips on the net they contain alot of flips and wall runs etc. But I know what your saying, the emphasis is supposed to be about flow and grace apparently.

    Still nice to land a somersault and jog off cool as a breeze :cool:


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    #58
    Suzanne80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Suzanne80


    Hey guys, I'm really interested in doing parkour but I don't know where to start. I'm living in Dublin and would love to hook up with any traceurs who can resist laughing at my inexperience!! :o


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    #59
    imad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭imad


    have been away for a while there, but is everyone gone now, to the talked about ireland parkour site??
    and what are yous arguing about here?? :(
    skateboarding is all about the skate bord no? so whats the comparisment ?? like skateboardin, with out the board??? who said that any ways?
    and whats with the buzzin off what makes it tick?? either with flow or without. or with the 360 flip, or without.. is this turnin in to one of these "atlternative scenes" :confused: ?? , where, to be cool, or "in" you HAVE to have such and such shoes in a while? or like, you'll be uncool if you cant do the "superspecial tricks" or you dont get "it" if you do it for either the flow, or , just for the tricks..??
    what???

    whats it all about really?? :confused: shouldnt it be a feel good :D , look good :cool: type of thing, which does not want to be tied down to what some "god" wrote down somewhere???


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    #60
    MrScruff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭MrScruff


    I think your name really says alot about you...


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    #61
    jimjoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭jimjoe


    Is ther any1 in galway up 4 parkour


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