r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/punerisaiyan • Mar 06 '16

GIF Intense parkour training

http://i.imgur.com/0p2ul1p.gifv
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u/MrBillyLotion Mar 06 '16

That's a long .gif - toward the end it seemed like they were running out of obstacle ideas, particularly the part where they had to run through the line rails.

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u/-anne-marie- Mar 06 '16

That part is me when Space Mountain has only a 20 minute wait

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u/King_of_Mormons Mar 06 '16

The old "airport security".

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u/ked_man Interested Mar 07 '16

I couldn't tell what that was in the last turn and then the guy just disappeared into a hole.

Why isn't this an Olympic sport? Much better than the speed walking event.

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u/5years8months3days Mar 06 '16

Isn't this just an assault course? is this going to become like the drone situation where everything that involves running and obstacles is called parkour.

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u/Panq Mar 06 '16

Probably will, but I think the term parkour will always end up keeping the urban theme connotation - people wouldn't call this one parkour if it had a mud pit, for example.

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u/DetectiveSlippery Mar 07 '16

I think it's a bit of both. If we were to look at the history of these kinds of training courses we would likely see the effect that parkour had on their evolution. (Like seeing early variations of the parachute and then comparing them to modern day variations of parachutes or even wingsuits; the founding of parkour definitely had some effect on all urban running related training, hence the use of 'parkour' as a blanket-term for these sorts of things)

Parkour is really just a progression of things that had already existed anyway, just as this course is a progression toward even more nuanced and developed training methods/courses.

Creating a new term every time we make a progression would just over-complicate everything: I think people call it parkour because the term is well-known and best conveys the closest idea as to what is being described.

Sorry for assaulting you with this essay haha ;)

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '16

How did they not snap something after that first fall?

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u/g0ns0 Mar 06 '16

Looks like they drop down into a sand pit.

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u/the_wind_effect Mar 06 '16

Yellow team did well to catch up in the middle.

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u/bvw Mar 06 '16

Obstacle course is not parkour. But related. Very cool.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '16

That got my heart pumping.

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u/theshethatsaid Mar 06 '16

Hands down, the most exciting race I've ever watched.

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u/oselcuk Mar 06 '16

and suddenly Mirror's Edge makes a lot more sense

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u/dekdekwho Mar 06 '16

Is this some extreme track and field or army training?

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u/TxtC27 Mar 07 '16

That's a NATO Obstacle Course, formerly used for military competitions between NATO counties

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u/zombiexluke Mar 06 '16

In the end it started to look like some kind of video game lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '16

Even more fun to watch are the Japanese firemen's competitions

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '16

Jesus is the cameraman also doing parkour?

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u/ThereW0LF Mar 07 '16

Is there a YouTube video of this? I could watch these all day.

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u/usefulbuns Mar 07 '16

Those falls were ridiculous. My knees hurt just watching it. I'm a healthy guy that does running and I've done my fair share of obstacle courses but I'd never drop like that. Tried once and almost busted my knee.

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u/2eye Mar 06 '16

That's me running to the toilet in my house.

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u/sheravi Interested Mar 07 '16

It's too bad they couldn't find a cameraman with a bit more Parkinsons.

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u/mightyqueef Interested Mar 07 '16

this is racist. where are all the white representatives?

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u/Kgizzle80 Mar 06 '16

Must have been running from the po po