Has anyone ever used parkour to escape?

[KissMy3s]

I get kind of shy when someone starts talking smack about me, especially from someone I don't know. Altogether, I never ran away from someone, but I'm curious to hear stories from people. Were you scared? Did you know what you were doing and where you were going?

[2nd Chance]

HAHAHA ok so. This was kinda just me and my friends messing around, but I did use parkour to escape. So, here's the story...

My friends and I had went off campus for lunch, and bought some snacks on the way back. So, as a joke, I smacked my friend's chips out of his hands onto the ground, and then while he picked them up, me and my friend kept walking. The other one threw the chip can at me jokingly, so me and friend 2 started running. Friend 1 caught friend 2, but I kept running.

As I was running, I reached a staircase with two banisters on the side. When I saw it was in my way, I jumped up onto the banister. Friend one shouted out to me "You can't parkour your way out of this!", thinking I would jump clear over it. As such, he went around to catch me on the other side. I catwalked (ran, really) up the banister and he said "Actually, maybe you can."

Then I met up with him upstairs and paid him for the chips, while he gave me props for the escape. Good day haha.

[KissMy3s]

Hehe nice.

[BENNY]

yeah just once tho, it was a werewolf but i parkoured my way uphill, since everyone know werewolfs can't go uphill, i escaped. :)

[Chromos]

I was kicked out of the house after a fight with my parents (long story), and I was walking to a pay phone at a nearby train station. I made the mistake of walking through an alley in the middle of the night. Three hooded Nortenos were walking behind me...I stopped, they did. Then a homeless guy who was pissing on a fence stopped and said "Oh, come on guys, he's just a white kid! Leave him alone..." and they pulled KNIVES out of their pockets and charged at me. I did a sort of vertical wallrun up someone's garage door, grabbed onto the edge of their balcony, climbed up, vaulted the railing, ran across, vaulted the other side into their front yard, did a front roll when I hit the ground and escaped. I ran home so fast, I would have made the track team.

That was the scariest shit of my life right there. So yeah, Parkour can be used to escape, and it pretty much saved my life that time.

[Bagheera]

Wow, I'm glad you're okay. Craziness.

[BananaNinja]

I was kicked out of the house after a fight with my parents (long story), and I was walking to a pay phone at a nearby train station. I made the mistake of walking through an alley in the middle of the night. Three hooded Nortenos were walking behind me...I stopped, they did. Then a homeless guy who was pissing on a fence stopped and said "Oh, come on guys, he's just a white kid! Leave him alone..." and they pulled KNIVES out of their pockets and charged at me. I did a sort of vertical wallrun up someone's garage door, grabbed onto the edge of their balcony, climbed up, vaulted the railing, ran across, vaulted the other side into their front yard, did a front roll when I hit the ground and escaped. I ran home so fast, I would have made the track team.

That was the scariest shit of my life right there. So yeah, Parkour can be used to escape, and it pretty much saved my life that time.


I had a very similar experience, also with Nortes.

[BENNY]

I was kicked out of the house after a fight with my parents (long story), and I was walking to a pay phone at a nearby train station. I made the mistake of walking through an alley in the middle of the night. Three hooded Nortenos were walking behind me...I stopped, they did. Then a homeless guy who was pissing on a fence stopped and said "Oh, come on guys, he's just a white kid! Leave him alone..." and they pulled KNIVES out of their pockets and charged at me. I did a sort of vertical wallrun up someone's garage door, grabbed onto the edge of their balcony, climbed up, vaulted the railing, ran across, vaulted the other side into their front yard, did a front roll when I hit the ground and escaped. I ran home so fast, I would have made the track team.

That was the scariest shit of my life right there. So yeah, Parkour can be used to escape, and it pretty much saved my life that time.


wow thats epic!! :bowdown:

btw wut are nortinos?

[Beretta]

The Nortenos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortenos) are a street gang.

Well done Chromos!

[Chromos]

I just hope something like that doesn't happen again!

I'm gonna go get lifeguard certified this summer probably (CPR, First Aid, Water Saftey courses...etc), and probably work as a lifeguard in college. Maybe one day I'll use parkour to get to an injured person much faster than an average person would be able to. Maybe one day major cities will hire trained/seasoned traceurs who have taken first aid classes to lifeguard on land. They could walk around cities, at big events, so on and so forth.

They could be the lifeguards of the land. :D

[Zack Weldon]

Sweet dude I got certified over springbreak and am lifeguarding now! :). Anyway I have had to use parkour a few times. Once I was in willow springs past curfew and my friend had this bright idea of lighting a fire cracker in between two buildings so it was even louder. I didn't want him to but he did. Right as he did it a cop car passed and heard it haha what luck. He immediately pulled into the lot and I broke into a sprint. I directed my friend to a place to hide since he couldnt keep up with me. The cop drove up and around to where I was and he got out of his car I sprinted back over the grass almost hitting a table since it was dark I couldnt see but I vaulted it just in time. I pop vaulted a fence into someones back yard and got a few streets over going through peoples lawns. I got away and ran back to my buddy. Haha! Another time I was exploring the woods and I didnt know if I was tresspassing or not and I heard a dirtbike or quad or something I quickly scurried up a tree where I used my ninja skills to wait for him to pass. :D

[Bring It!]

Sweet dude I got certified over springbreak and am lifeguarding now! :). Anyway I have had to use parkour a few times. Once I was in willow springs past curfew and my friend had this bright idea of lighting a fire cracker in between two buildings so it was even louder. I didn't want him to but he did. Right as he did it a cop car passed and heard it haha what luck. He immediately pulled into the lot and I broke into a sprint. I directed my friend to a place to hide since he couldnt keep up with me. The cop drove up and around to where I was and he got out of his car I sprinted back over the grass almost hitting a table since it was dark I couldnt see but I vaulted it just in time. I pop vaulted a fence into someones back yard and got a few streets over going through peoples lawns. I got away and ran back to my buddy. Haha! Another time I was exploring the woods and I didnt know if I was tresspassing or not and I heard a dirtbike or quad or something I quickly scurried up a tree where I used my ninja skills to wait for him to pass. :D

As a general rule, you want to be careful about what you post on the internet.

[Zack Weldon]

I didn't do anything wrong I do not think. I hope not!! Thanks for the warning.

[BENNY]

I didn't do anything wrong I do not think. I hope not!! Thanks for the warning.

the walls have eyes, trust no one.:squint:

[Messenger]

I didn't do anything wrong I do not think. I hope not!! Thanks for the warning.

Haha, well you were out past curfew.

[2nd Chance]

Sweet dude I got certified over springbreak and am lifeguarding now!

I'm certified too :) But I hated lifeguarding and didn't take the job back this season. Ugh. Haha.

[Kirill]

The Nortenos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortenos) are a street gang.

Well done Chromos!
WOWLY SH@T

[Kirill]

damn, well i don't have anything as epic, but I was playing tag, decided on a wall run that I didn't necessarily know I was going to make... PLanted my foot wrong, and slipped of the wall

Got caught :(

Conclusion: So..when you are running, know your abilities :laugh:

[Zack Weldon]

Good point messenger good point.. haha.

[drow]

my parents were in a huge fight, so i had to pop out the window of my room and climb our wooden fence to get out... unfortunately this was before i started parkour so i ended up cutting up my feet pretty badly (landing on gravel is a no no guys)

these situations are kind of what made me want to do parkour, i think its a really good life skill. everyone calls me crazy, but i will show them one day

[Pirate]

haha, those nortes....
i could talk my way out of one of those situations.
:D

where I live there's a bunch of brick walls everywhere, and as kids a bunch of us would play tag and stuff, just messing around. but we all got pretty good at climbing over walls and such. I don't get scared when people try to chase me, I get excited, haha. And I knew where I was going cause I lived there.

[Pieperman]

man I figured there would be some better stories than this...

I have never really considered this so much parkour as just a chase, but I did some under-shoots off of tree limbs that gained me several feet. Anyhow,
there is this spot up on hill in Sonoma where high-school kids used to throw keggers, It was a perfectly logical spot to go if you wanted to throw a party... no cops would want to climb that F!@#ing hill.
Well this one time they came up and opened a gate (which had never been done before) they drove pretty much to where the keg was, once all the drunks kids realized that a car was actually coming up the hill, all hell had broke loose. People were running every which way. The initial escape was a piece of cake, we ran up the hill a ways and hid. When we came back though the cops were waiting for us. They flipped on their spot light and the five people I was with scattered. Now I never will know why that pig singled me out but sure as hell he was right on my tail, I'd say the chase lasted a total of 3 minutes. It ended when I made a jump from a oddly perched rock to another one, the cop was pretty close until that jump then he just stopped running and said he'd arrest me if I came back. Pretty fun to say the least.

I got another one about me sneakin into a ziggey marley concert, way more parkour involved, I'll post up when i'm not so tired.

[rparkour]

wow thats epic!! :bowdown:

btw wut are nortinos?

north mexican gang. hella vicious

[BobTheKing]

(Also in my training log.)

I would like to preface this by saying this is completely non-fiction and it just happened to me right now before I wrote this (at least an hour ago).

After having 2 1/2 beers at a bar with some old friends that I met, the bartenders and bouncer closed down the bar, and cleared out the place telling everyone it is time to go (at around 2 AM). I was waiting outside for my friend's girlfriend to finish her cigarette.

A few minutes after exiting the bar, we were approached by a stocky male, about 5'8", weighing about 200 pounds. He was panhandling, but doing it in a very awkward way which made me think something just wasn't right. He starting pointing at each one of us and said "I need fifty cents from you, fifty cents from you, fifty cents from you, and fifty cents from you." One person stated they had no more money. Another guy gave him all of his change (over $1.00 worth), my friend's girlfriend said she had no change, and I said, "I'll give you the fifty cents if you empty your pockets first to be sure you don't have any money." Those of you who know me, know I try to be generous, but I have no patience for people trying to put one over on, or scam other people. He declined, so I became more suspicious. He then told the group to step over, and then looked at the guy next to me, and told him to step away from me and move to the group (RED ALERT). As he reached back I told him "I am not looking for trouble!" and I ran like a bat out of hell, he was drawing a gun! I ran around buildings, through alleys, I f'n bolted!!!
I ran miles before I got a phone call from the others who regrouped and said the guy was gone.

The reason Parkour saved my life is two-fold. 1) I was able to spot faster, more efficient routes, as wells as having some of the Parkour techniques to more efficiently cover ground and put myself that much more ahead of a non-traceur. 2) I am in great shape due to the fact that I practice Parkour, and have lost weight because of Parkour. People in the small crowd even commented at how fast I ran later and stated "there was no way that guy could have caught you...you were gone!"

Thankfully, I am writing this now, alive, safe and sound at my house.

*A side note: I own several guns at my home, but because I am a law abiding citizen, I was almost killed without a second chance. Anyone semi-skillful with a firearm would most probably have at least shot me once.
Vote to allow law abiding, non-criminal citizens carry firearms!!!

[Beretta]

Great googly-moogly Bob. Well done.

Makes my story seem silly.

I used PK at work today to scale a 6 foot wall quickly to enter an area behind a blocked door where my coworkers were being assaulted.

[drow]

:ohnoes: what happened?

[rparkour]

yeah what happened brett?

[drow]

besides you using parkour to get past a locked door obviously

[Beretta]

I work in a school with emotionally disturbed kids with special needs. Most of the time (over 90%) I teach them to read and write, etc. or we play games and sing and dance and laugh together. Sometimes they get violent and we respond as necessary withing strict legal guidelines.

[rparkour]

how old are these kids if you dont mind me asking?

[drow]

nobody got hurt right (besides maybe a few bruises)

[Beretta]

All ages (5-22), people rarely get hurt, however injuries at the school over the years have ranged from minor (bruises, scratches, etc.) to more serious (sprains, broken bones, concussions, etc.).

I really can't say a lot about my work due to privacy issues, for instance ages of specific students, whether injuries occur in specific incidents, etc.

Really, I get paid to fingerpaint way more often than I have to deal with violent situations.

[drow]

sounds like a very enjoyable job. unless you have to break up a fight. that sounds a little less fun

[BENNY]

(Also in my training log.)

As he reached back I told him "I am not looking for trouble!" and I ran like a bat out of hell, he was drawing a gun! I ran around buildings, through alleys, I f'n bolted!!!


*A side note: I own several guns at my home, but because I am a law abiding citizen, I was almost killed without a second chance. Anyone semi-skillful with a firearm would most probably have at least shot me once.
Vote to allow law abiding, non-criminal citizens carry firearms!!!

shit that fucking bum! this makes me mad! :mad: man wtf good are guns when you dont have them on you?! :bowdown: that was a close call man!
if that muthafuka pulled that shit on me i woulda shanked him 5 times before he can pull that piece level. :evilgrin:

[drow]

blood pressure^^^

[rparkour]

benny calm down *drow call arkham asylum*

[drow]

oh dears >.< *dials asylum for 2*

[BENNY]

lol arkham wouldnt be able to handle me... :p

[rparkour]

haha

[COMPLEXproductions]

Damn bob. I've had a couple wher my ass was saved by parkour.
1)I was approached by a blue van in redwood city(if u ask people here about that van they'll know what van ur talking about). It suddenly stopped about 20feet ahead of me. The van door opened and like 10surenos gangster guys jumped out and chased me. Luckely, they weren't a match for my fit and scared shitless ass lol.

2)I was walking home at night and walked past a junk yard. The gate was open and the guard dog came out grawling. (It didn't have a chain on)..... fuck. I flew. Faster then I have ever before in my life. Thank god I live next to a grave yard(how ironic huh?) Because it is fenced off and I vaulted the shit and kept running. Didn't stop til I hit home base. So yes, a graveyard saved my life hahaha.

3)Police time!!! I was in a construction site with my best friend(don't ask). So of course it was illegal to be there. Regardless, pk(along with a keen knowledge of my inner city) saved me from jail. On a number of occations.

[hillexallen]

3)Police time!!! I was in a construction site with my best friend(don't ask). So of course it was illegal to be there. Regardless, pk(along with a keen knowledge of my inner city) saved me from jail. On a number of occations.

There are two perspectives on using parkour to run from the 5-0:

1. Parkour should affect you in such a way that you should not have to run from the police.

2. Parkour should affect you in such a way that you should constantly be using it to run from police.

Pick the one you like... lol

[hillexallen]

I used parkour to escape from a kid who was chasing me with a steel rod for fun... don't ask me how I got into that situation.

[COMPLEXproductions]

It's tempting to ask though lol. and parkour does help be understnad things a bit more but how do u expect me to be an outstanding citizen with this f*cked up government? I dont commit crimes against police. I love police(atleast not the assholes). Its just their job. Still, the rush of getting away is addicting:naughty:.But i get that its bad. Im no angel:evilgrin:

[Meatlad]

The "fight or flight" response is a very primal brain function going back millions of years. Of course, to actually have to fight or flee probably means something went seriously wrong. The brain only gives you that feeling when it thinks you're fucked. Still, a whole lot of people find adrenaline rushes addictive, which is why we have such a smorgasbord of options, physical and chemical, to synthesize that feeling. Always got to be careful, as the consequences of inducing adrenaline rushes are rarely insignificant.

I've never run from police, and have only had to use anything like parkour once to elude a potential "bad guy". In '99 in Kosovo me and 2 other girls from the small hippie NGO we were working for were coming back to the house late at night after going to a bar. There were drunk dudes with Kalashnikovs everywhere back then and every local in the country had PTSD, so we were wary. Especially the girls, who aren't as liberated there. Some dude came out of an alley a block down and shouted to the girls to come to the alley, and started following us. We hauled ass to the 8-foot metal gate, locked from the inside. I did a wall-run up and a sloppy gate vault (didn't know about parkour or move names back then), and opened it for the girls. They got in and the sketchy guy was at the gate just as we closed it again. Maybe he just wanted to recite some poetry to them or something, but it sure felt sketchy.

I've just barely caught trains and buses by running and vaulting stuff, but never really had to use parkour like that one time.

[drow]

wow complex, your town sounds hella shady lol

[COMPLEXproductions]

wow complex, your town sounds hella shady lol

Its really weird here. We have very drastic changes in class(and safety) that vary a lot from block to block. As in, in some couple of blocks you'd have nice houses and stuff, then you'll turn on to a street and there are a butt load of gangsters chillin' in front of apartments(that happen to think EVERYONE is in the opposite gang). So you just have to know(live here for a while). Or else it has the potencial to be unsafe. Lucky for me, ive lived here my whole life. Though sometimes to get where you need to be, you have to go through places you dont want to. This is where pk(and a set of fast legs) come in handy. But its not HELLA shady. Generally its not bad(i.e. it could be worse lol)

[Corndogg]

Parkour is the best in the "flight" aspect of Fight vs. Flight.

But the best thing is to always be aware of your surroundings, and avoid that situation in the first place!

[drow]

i think we have had examples of that before

[Meatlad]

wow complex, your town sounds hella shady lol

That was just where I was volunteering for a few months. All in all a great place, good people. Considering what had gone down there just a couple months prior, a credit to them that things weren't worse.

[COMPLEXproductions]

That was just where I was volunteering for a few months. All in all a great place, good people. Considering what had gone down there just a couple months prior, a credit to them that things weren't worse.

When were you in redwood? And what were you volunteering for?

[Meatlad]

When were you in redwood? And what were you volunteering for?

Redwood? No dude, Kosovo (Kosova)! Balkan Sunflowers, fall/winter '99.

[COMPLEXproductions]

Wrong town then dude lol

[BENNY]

Damn bob. I've had a couple wher my ass was saved by parkour.
1)I was approached by a blue van in redwood city(if u ask people here about that van they'll know what van ur talking about). It suddenly stopped about 20feet ahead of me. The van door opened and like 10surenos gangster guys jumped out and chased me. Luckely, they weren't a match for my fit and scared shitless ass lol.

2)I was walking home at night and walked past a junk yard. The gate was open and the guard dog came out grawling. (It didn't have a chain on)..... fuck. I flew. Faster then I have ever before in my life. Thank god I live next to a grave yard(how ironic huh?) Because it is fenced off and I vaulted the shit and kept running. Didn't stop til I hit home base. So yes, a graveyard saved my life hahaha.

3)Police time!!! I was in a construction site with my best friend(don't ask). So of course it was illegal to be there. Regardless, pk(along with a keen knowledge of my inner city) saved me from jail. On a number of occations.

It appears fate has written for you a suspenseful tale. However, while this novel holds most intrigue, what is to come of the ending? shall you simply follow the pages, or choose to challenge what fate has written for you? one can only match, move by move, the machinations of our fates, and thus defy the tyranus stars...:doom:

[209Traceur]

Sigh, complex, ur town isnt THAT bad. Come down to stockton, and you think your town pretty nice.

[rparkour]

complex u live in rwc? we gotta get together and train sometime, i live peninsula too

[drow]

lol, and everyone thinks that fremont highschool is all ghetto. just because the mexican population is above 2% lol

[rparkour]

our entire school is mexican. go WHS!

[COMPLEXproductions]

our entire school is mexican. go WHS!

YOU GO TO WOODSIDE???:wtf:

[COMPLEXproductions]

Sigh, complex, ur town isnt THAT bad. Come down to stockton, and you think your town pretty nice.

I never said it was bad. Its pretty nice, but like in most places, shit happens sometimes lol. But this is all spread out in the 16years(my life) i have lived there.

And Benny. What??? haha

[rparkour]

oh yes complex. woodside rules.

[drow]

well complex, problem solved?

[COMPLEXproductions]

I went to woodside. It doesnt rule, everyone there was kinda stupid. The teachers dont know crap, especially the history teachers. I guess it was fun freshman year. Most of high school fun doesnt happen IN the actual high school. I still go down there to visit friends and stuff during lunch sometimes(im 16, not one of those "i graduated but have nothing better to do other than lurk around my old high school" people lol). Do you live in redwood or just go to school at woodside?

[rparkour]

go to school at woodside. live in palo alto. ur friends hang out on the quad or up top?

[COMPLEXproductions]

By the library stairs lol. Im going to be there friday during lunch. Meet?

[drow]

:jacked:

[rparkour]

sure

[rparkour]

oh wait, cant, i have a doctor appt during lunch

[COMPLEXproductions]

damn.

[drow]

:jacked:

[rparkour]

ok i can meet this week.