Don't Try This at Home: Subway Parkour

Jakob has a nice video of a masked man doing a nice wall-walk while waiting for an L-Train. Please don't imitate this-- if done incorrectly, there is a 150% likelyhood that it will send you catapulting into the path of the train! If you've never heard of parkour, it's a form of street acrobatics invented in France: "Le Parkour (also called Parkour, PK) is a physical discipline of French origin in which participants attempt to pass obstacles in a smooth and rapid manner." Super-cool!

Speaking of NYC videos, check out these two new clips from TurnHere: Greenpoint and Hell's Kitchen.

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By Jake Dobkin in News on January 26, 2006 12:28 PM

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CAK

Check out http://www.pkcali.com

Positive Parkour community for Los Angeles and all of California.

www.pkcali.com

-CAK

tommEE pickles

wow, many videos on that site made me hate the internet

tien

that's so weak.

and there's no bus that goes from greenpoint into manhattan.

homeopt

it was cooler when black french kids were doing this. but as with anything else, the suburban whitekids were bound to steal it and claim it as their own.

Tim N.

Dumb as a second coat of paint.

Anon E. Mouse

1. Masked?

2. Nothing I haven't seen kids do in grade school, and better I might add.

Victor

Good stuff. My personal favorite Parkour video involves a Russian kid. Check it out.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929&q=russian+climbing

dude

Your link is bad - it should be: http://www.vimeo.com/clip=38831

Anyway, first observation - this is pretty lame parkour; you should have put a link to a good example such as http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1949559010406999329&q=parkour This may be one thing the French and Brits do better than we do.

My second observation is that Jakob's website is incredibly irritating; I think if you look up "hipster douchebag" in the dictionary, his picture would be next to it.