parkour

so, i've been told by someone that i may be losing my readership due to lack of posting. well excuuuse me! only kidding. it's been pretty busy 'round these parts if you've talked to me lately. but thankfully, em and i are done w/ school now so we can relax! at least a little.

anyways, this is just a random post about something called "parkour" that i heard about on NPR recently. NPR: the fount of all wisdom. parkour is basically insanely acrobatic people doing insanely acrobatic things in insanely dangers urban surroundings, with no restraints or safety measures. i think it's basically just them and their buddies w/ camcorders. but it makes for some great youtube posts.

so, according to the NPR story, this guy named david belle is credited as being the founder of this little internet/xtreme-whatever movement. here's a clip of the leader of the pack in action:



neat, huh? well, anyways. here's a well-produced scene, from some uncredited movie. but you can see that the production values are significantly higher in this clip:



i hope you enjoyed that as much as i did.