Any urban climbers/runners?

[azma]

this is a sport i just recently heard about while climbing at Ibext rock gym, iv been watching some videos and i was just wondering if anyone has any expierences or stories dealing with this..... if u dont know what urban climbing is this is a good place to start for some videos and info on the subject...some of the stuff looks reasonable to try if u had someone to show u the ropes
just wondering....

http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/urban_graf ... affiti.htm

[White Rabbit]

Eh, I've climbed stuff, but not really like those parkour guys do. Mostly just to get into a place or for the view or whatever.

[Anne]

Yea, I've seen some stuff about this, but would never try it. I'd end up hurting myself or missing a ledge and falling to my death. Crazy, in really good shape people.

[S1L3N7B0B]

Aren't they called freerunners? The stuff they do is damn impressive.

On that note, I think Scion (owned by Toyota) did a commercial with some freerunners in it. Pretty sweet stuff.

EDIT: yeah... answered my own comment. Its the first thing listed under the media thing.

Car advert
(Shot on 35mm film for the release of a new Japanese car <Can't mention name yet> that will launch in Feb) - Jan 2005

[Sertile]

Oh yeah! I remember that. They were shooting up walls and jumping off stairwells and all kinds of shenanigans, and then it said "do not attempt - professional freerunners."

I remember the first thing that went through my mind was "freerunners?" followed shortly by "Professional? Someone pays them to do that??"

[Jojo Roberts]

I've been enchanted by the idea of freerunning. I've done my fair share running and climbing in the forests, but never in a city. Sounds like fun, I'm in.

We could link this with Shaolin kung fu training, learn some in-air sumersaults, wear all black, and become a bizzaro urban ninja group.

If we start stenciling "footclan" symbols everywhere on top of this, we'll make an interesting news story...

[Sertile]

Sweet! I would SO be a foot-soldier.

[tyler]

I will go freerunning.

[Sertile]

What would we do though, just run around on shit? And what, hope that someone notices? I guess maybe we could do it during events or something.

[tyler]

I want to organize a Rooftop Run downtown. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop and such...I think it would be fun.

[S1L3N7B0B]

I want to organize a Rooftop Run downtown. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop and such...I think it would be fun.

...that is until you miss a jump

[tyler]

Me? Miss? You've obviously never seen me jump. I haven't either.

[White Rabbit]

We could link this with Shaolin kung fu training, learn some in-air sumersaults, wear all black, and become a bizzaro urban ninja group.

I've got a ninja gi and tabi boots. I've never had a reason to use the gi for anything, but the boots are unbelievable for climbing chain link fence

[youthsonic]

Ninjas are AWESOME, and by AWESOME I mean like totaly sweet
--robert "my dad is a ninja" hamburger

[Sertile]

Well, I'll admit to being very attracted to this idea, but I'm still not convinced the plan holds water. What would we do, exactly? This sounds like one of the ideas I came up with in high school. I would come up with all these great concepts, like "I'm gonna dress up as a robot and walk around the Battlefied Mall!" or "I'm gonna build my own diving bell and explore the bottom of Stockton Lake!" but they always ended up either A: not happening, or B: not going as planned.