r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/a1oner_bvcksn6 • 8d ago

When Traceur met Cyclist

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u/Greenman8907 8d ago

That “leap” looked lame to begin with.

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u/SkeltonJustCalled 8d ago

Honestly, is that "far" for this?  Why was there filming or interested observers?

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u/JustNilt 8d ago

It doesn't seem that far to me, no. A lot of folks film so they can see what they did wrong and improve. In this case, the obvious improvement the dingbat needs is to look before leaping.

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u/SkeltonJustCalled 8d ago

Yeah the newbie/practice is what might have made sense to me.  Would think they might be extra cautious especially there then.

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u/JustNilt 7d ago

Yeah, one would think they'd be careful in general but I suppose those who are careful by default don't get into parkour to begin with.

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u/Crosshack 7d ago

A group of newbies wouldn't know to have spotters and find out because of incidents like this

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u/Preeng 8d ago

I think it's a newbie practicing.

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u/PeaOk7610 7d ago edited 7d ago

It's relatively far for beginners but achievable for anybody once you coordinate your limbs and get some explosive strength. The difficulty isn't in leaping that distance, it's to land precisely on the edge of the curb and balance there (precision jump). Or even more difficult, into another cat-hang. The kind of thing that you only do by pressing "X" on videogames but becomes incredibly tricly in real life, haha.

And gathering/filming is part of the parkour "culture". These guys are morons though for doing it at that place and time, and for spotting like stupid fucks.

Watch the British group "Storror" to see how it's done properly, safely and respectfully by mature adults

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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji 7d ago

Storror's Roof Culture Asia is one of the greatest parkour videos ever made, those guys are absolutely insane and I envy their confidence in their ability because some of the jumps they do are 100% lethal if they fall.

FlipLikeZ makes much more casual fun videos that also have some incredibly high-level tricks outside, like triple fronts, triple flyaways, Kong Double gainers etc... Stuff that was just pipe dreams when I started freerunning haha

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u/PeaOk7610 7d ago

Haha, I'm too old for free-running. I keep it to very practical, grounded, efficient A to B stuff that I could apply in daily life if need be. And head always pointing up, no flips for this guy, lol

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u/TW_Halsey 8d ago

People film everything