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25 May, 2006

Parkour (Free Running) At Its Finest

I've been watching Parkour videos for a while now, but I have never seen anything like this. For those of you who don't know, Parkour is the sport centered around moving through an environment at high speed in the most efficient way possible. It fascinates me because to be good at it you need a mix of extreme strength, coordination, flexibility, agility and good ol' fashion guts.

There are a lot of Parkour videos, but this most recent one I found is particularily impressive. The Russian fellow performing executes this sport with a level of control that I haven't seen in a lot of videos.

Enjoy.



1 comments:

Redracer said...

Wow. I have to admit that he's definitely got athletic prowess. But, the only thing here is that this isn't a continual one shot motion. The illusion of a constant, or "fluidity", is seemingly given by the process of takes from scene to scene, which, because I know that this is being filmed for purpose by someone who is having to move from place to place to keep up with this guy, actually takes away from what he's doing, in my opinion. If he truly wanted to impress me more (as I am NOT knocking the guy) he could have filmed this differently so that the camera person wouldn't have to stop, relocate and get to the next location to witness his next feat...OR find a camera person who can rival his ability and follow him with a camera that never lets up. Surely the new stabil-a-shot type cams could handle the motion.....

Very cool, none the less, regardless of my critiques. And a very well put together video at that. Thumbs up!

5:45 AM

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