28 July 2009

More Parkour!

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Young people jumping all over landmarks? Check!
Pirate metal? Check!
Ninjas? Check!

If only there was a skateboard this one would be made of solid gold win!

It’s been posted by “jumpninja001” with the following note:

    I’m going to Finland, these guys aren’t. We jammed to celebrate. Shame I’m not a good camera man, we’re better than we look. Honest. Excellent soundtrack as promised

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good upon you, jamekins, for sticking it to them in a civilised manner – and more power to your parkouring… ; )

do you tool about the northbourne flats area? be some good spots there for some considered parkouring, i’d rekkun. (probably an added bonus of being chased away by junkies, make you go harder higher and faster!)

Yes but now they can be slightly informed underachivers. It just irritates me when people with no understanding of something start to criticize it. If they read through the information here http://parkour.asn.au/ and here http://parkour.net/ and actually understand what parkour is then we could talk :p

Don’t worry about the comments Jamekins. Generally speaking people who bitch about other people’s efforts speak as veteran underachievers.

I know that no one will read this but I feel I should jump in to defend my video. This video is not intended to be viewed as demonstraiton of skill, it is intended as a documentation of us having a fun day. It was not ment to make people go WOW! PARKOUR! and the people in this video are not representitive of the best traceurs in Canberra. Most of the serious practitioners in Canberra don’t make videos any way (hence why every “parkour” video from Canberra is rubbish (well exept fot the NatSoc 08 videos)) and the only reason it only has 2 places in it is because the camera ran out of battery. Also the song isn’t pirate metal it’s folk metal.

johnboy said :

Surely you mean Alestorm?

Battleheart are Alestorm – they changed their name a couple of years ago. When they recorded ‘More Wenches and Mead’, they were known as Battleheart (it was on the ‘Terror on the High Seas’ EP).

Sorry, I’m a metal nerd.

I thought it was really cute how they played tag! They look like really good kids.

you have to start somewhere before you can do the things in that last video.

for the lazy – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquXcwooV6A

try doing what the bloke did in 0:38 without ending up in a morgue and i’ll be impressed.

how’s that parkour. more like jumping over 0.5m blocks. put into youtube parkour to see what real parkour is.

Metal + Jetro Tull = Pirate ?

Multilevel carparks would have worked better but then it wouldn’t have been “Canberra”.

Would Stromlo Park work? Non-urban Parkour, that would be very Canberra!

That was a really good scene right in the middle there though; when like 4 guys jumped over that waist high white stone. Wow.

Muttsybignuts6:27 pm 28 Jul 09

Parkour in Canberra could probably be good however this is just a bunch of kids hopping over a big stone. Having said that, I couldn’t get my fat old arse jumping a 20 cent piece.

The pirate metal might be OK if the vocalist wasn’t playing one of those handheld keyboard thingys ala Pseudo Echo circa 1986.

Looks like wheelchair material to me

I actually like Parkour, but Canberra just ain’t the place to strut it out. The high density landscape just isn’t there.

It belongs where it was originated, France.

Waiting For Godot5:06 pm 28 Jul 09

Jim Jones said :

AngryHenry said :

Pirate Metal = False Metal…

Death to false metal.

You’ve obviously not heard Battleheart sing ‘Wenches and Mead’.

Reminds me of the Woodstock album where Grace Slick introduces the Jefferson Airplane set by saying “You have seen the heavy groups, now you will hear morning maniac music.”

Jim Jones said :

AngryHenry said :

Pirate Metal = False Metal…

Death to false metal.

You’ve obviously not heard Battleheart sing ‘Wenches and Mead’.

Hehe! Maybe I should give it a go! I’ve never had time for it though, I kind of lump it into a novelty category like the whole ‘talk like a pirate day’ thing, pirates have had a renaissance lately and metal is supposed to be against the trend.

That said, a few more steps back and all metal is a little silly isn’t it?

Not that I don’t love it mind.

Surely you mean Alestorm?

AngryHenry said :

Pirate Metal = False Metal…

Death to false metal.

You’ve obviously not heard Battleheart sing ‘Wenches and Mead’.

Pirate Metal = False Metal…

Death to false metal.

Exactly!

😀

grundy said :

That was really… reaaaaaallllyyy… un-impressive.

Never have liked the Parkour that has come out of Canberra.

Yeah they should just give up and do easier stuff like useless, pointless and unconstructive bitching.

Nice soundtrack, but that isn’t *real* pirate metal.

Alestorm are the real deal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-Z_psXODw

That was really… reaaaaaallllyyy… un-impressive.

Never have liked the Parkour that has come out of Canberra.

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