Parkour just jumped up a notch…it really escalated quickly (Video)

Fur… Sure…

The Soldiers would be nearly untouchable!

It would be a real bitch to pull off some of this wearing 80 pounds of gear and body armor.

That said, you should watch some vids of Rangers in action……

The French military implemented parkour so their military could get out of anywhere, you're a little late but good thinking

A couple of Special Operation units have been using a free running gym in California to try out a new kind of martial art/free running/PT

I like your thinking… They'd have to be referenced as ninjas though.

The day they start implementing parkour is the day I sign up for the military!

UK Special Forces teach free running on a basic level not like that video though =)

It started in the military as something called Méthode naturelle, or natural method, which then developed quite some time later into Parkour. Freerunning came right after that.

And David Belle

Not even close.

It bleeds of the energy of impact. Same thing for the rolling you see them doing.

If you take out the running part, then it's just called "free" instead of "freerunning".

You're super hot – is that really you in your profile pic?

actually the run after a hard landing helps to make the force from the landing go forward instead of down

There's so much moentum left after doing a move like that, so you can't not run after doing one.

Holy future knee replacements

I bet the outtakes reel is way more fun and nearly as impressive

I think they use them as counter-weights.

that's some real assassin's creed shit

I honestly just wanted them to not wear such ill fitting sweat pants. Those things get caught on something and your tricks are worthless.

you're an idiot… also nice anchorman reference with the video's title Bob!

u-tube racist oprah, at least one person will agree

like… absolutely everyone?

I was going to say… are the huge pants a pre requisite?

Loose clothing allows more freedom of motion. It's a lot to do with why soldiers wear baggy trousers.

Also extra padding for the road/parkour rash from sliding on concrete.

Not exactly going to do it in skinny jeans now are ya?

just how it works. try doing it in skinny jeans, hurts.

They need the extra room for their balls.

Hahaha … Planetoid! Good one. Paula is so fat she got her own gravity!

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Youz da clown suckah ass honkeyy

you correct peoples grammar on youtube don't you

RacerX2112 is correct, this is what's called free-running. It's less about travel efficiency and more about showing off. Pretty badass though.

Old argument is old.

Yeah, i came to the comments to see if anyone was going to say this

no one gives a shit

clearly they are on the streets. Or did you not see the bits when they were on the streets?

One guy didn't make it. It was in the first third of the video. His buddy made a long jump to a round platform and he followed but didn't make it. He slides down the front of it. Of course he makes it look like that is what he wanted to do.

there were at least 4 fails in this video, but they did some clever editing or pannd away as soon as it happened so it looks more fluid then it was

I was hoping someone would make this distinction

Regardless, this makes people more aware of both of them, so it's all good

Glad you said it, it's really not that hard of a distinction. Also, urban gymnastics, urban ninja, wtf, that's like saying riding a motorcycle is high speed bicycling; they're similar but it just makes you look really stupid

They could easily become stunt men and get paid big bucks Dumb Ass

You can totally get paid to do this r u kidding me and face plants who gives a damn you get to learn beast ass tricks and Ive only seen people get face plants if they really suck and don't know what they're doing Levi meeuwenburg gets paid for this shit