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Old video when i was on 7 day trip in Zagreb/Sesvete/Krizevci to practice parkour with some cool traceurs from those cities.
Many respect to Plod,Seven,Kole,Artanis,Spider,Vale,Tacko,Vanja,Mara,Meri,Zorak,Jackie,Bunta,Oz and Denis.
We had hard training sessions and alot of fun,hope i come again soon.
Especially big thx to Artanis mom and Plod's grandmother who situate me and fed me
Video was edited by Kole


Enjoy.

This guy Frank dont have half of his arm,but that dont stop him to practice parkour.
In this video it was all parkour(and fucking nice), except two useless movements;sideflip(1:03) and palmspin(1:18).
He can be very good inspiration for all of us!
Video here :


enjoy,i did

I hope we will meet in the future and train together.
Keep training hard,you have my respect Frank !

POST 1

Even the stuff just on the ground can be horrible on the joints and longterm functionality of your body because there is still alot of impact.

There is a serious number of people out there in the Parkour world with knee joint problems just because training is not proper before hand. In parkour (just like everything else in life) its like people are on a race of some sort.. trying to get results in 20 mins or less.

Not going to happen. Parkour is not the place to want to rush to be the best.

Most people I see and meet now a days will have joint problems later on. What happens is soon your skill and what you can do metally becomes greater then what your body can do physically. Very dangerous point to get to. Its where personal constraint plays a big role in training in order to be safe. Even though you can do something, doesnt mean you should be doing it at all yet, and a focus on making it more and more of a safe reality should be the prime objective.

If you get any sort of knee pain, it means you are doing too much too soon. Wake up and realize you are only killing your body and you have to take a few steps back to take more steps in the future.

2-3 years isnt enough to do big drops unless you spent that time conditioning like crazy. Not even big drops though, most people should cut out most things out of their training and replace them all with conditioning.

Funny thing is, most people dont realize that with a proper body they would get BETTER at parkour FASTER! Why can gymnasts learn parkour faster, why can rockclimbers climb in parkour so easily, why do martial artists pick up fast... All because their previous training and conditioning allows them to. Conditioning is SOOO important. 99% of the time for someone under 3-4 years serious training its better off working conditioning then Parkour. With all the effort people put into making their precision jump 1 foot longer or catleap 2 feet higher they could make their body so much stronger. Muscle memory works wonders and even though you didnt train "Parkour things" your body will remember them and with a stronger body you will be able to enhance them all.

In the end you can tell your friend the amount of training he puts into his body that is not parkour will determine in the end how much Parkour and how long he will be able to do it.

I could have written this all in 1 sentence. Rush rush rush... You get hurt.

POST 2
Ill explain by telling a story.. I love retelling this story because it woke me up and maybe it can wake others up too. I wont go into too much detail though....

The science center here in Toronto has a drop machine setup and shows you how much impact you take when you do a simple 3 foot drop. I talked to them for a bit and explained to them what I do and they allowed me to have the machine line stopped for a bit while I ran some tests that I was going to use on my website to show people how dangerous drops can be.

What the machine does is calculates the force you create hitting the ground from the platform you jump from. The platform you jump from weighs you before you jump. I knew that the tests would be inaccurate unless I setup a camera to make sure I jumped exactly the same each time so I did that in order to make the results useable to a degree. My girlfriend at the time was handy for that.

So I did 4-5 jumps and so did she. The results were shown as X times body weight. The results were something like; Me Best 1.8x bodyweight and done with a purposely bad landing was 4x+ my body weight. The hers had a similar best due to form, but a lower higher number when dropping wrong do to weight.

Think about this for a second. 180x1.8=324pounds good landing, 180x4=720 for a bad landing. Thats alot of weight I have to deal with on a simple drop!! 1-2 times is meaningless, 10might be meaningless too, 25 to some, 150 for others. But eventually if you dont strengthen your legs or recover properly after each time you train you will get tendonitis in your knees or strains or another similar injury. How many of you have ever gotten knee pain after training? Thats right... raise your hands.

What I learnt:

A. Lighter people land with a lower X times bodyweight even if their form is bad (but that wasnt a big surprise). Weight makes a huge deal to landing. Lighter people + Parkour = Better. It means that even if you screw up, you have to deal with alot less compounded weight.

B. Form plays a big role to an extent, and a split second too late compression can equal massive amounts of weight. Solid locks legs = alot of force.

C. Even a 3 foot drop done wrong can do damage over time if you have bad form, weigh alot, have weak tendons and train incorrectly.

D. Dropping at 10+ feet could net over 1000 pounds+ force in your muscles and joints. Taking drops like this over and over will speed up the injury process just the same as landing badly, overtraining, or having weak legs and still trying to push.

Now its hard to tell people what might happen to them because it all depends on how you go into drops, how strong your muscles and connecting tissues are, how you aim your foot at that wall, or etc etc when you are doing Parkour. We have a fairly big scene here in Toronto though and I watch a lot of people inadvertently put more pressure and force then they should into things all the time. It's important you ALWAYS pay attention to what you are doing and spend lots and lots of time on small things making your form and control near perfect.

But like I said before, the most important thing is to always realize even though you might think you are ready for something, you have to come to the understanding that chances are you probably are not and you are risking injury apon yourself.

By Pkdanno

Rest of the post you can see here :

http://parkour.net/parkour/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5993&forum=46&post_id=93722#forumpost93722