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Name of 'sport' consisting of jumping up and down roofs?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:56 am
by cftranslate
What's the name of this extreme sport or activity: young people jumping off roofs and balconies and in the street.
Thanks
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:53 am
by Superhal
I tried looking it up for you but I can't find it. All I can remember is that one of those Scion commercials had two guys doing it and it mentioned the name of what they do.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:51 am
by CEJ
I saw an entire show on Discovery channel about some people in France who do this. They traverse an entire city without touching pavement. For the life of me, I can't remember what it was called though, but it seems extreme sports and adventuring have invaded the urban life (and a lot of them were born there to begin with). Will keep my eyes open for the term.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:04 am
by JuanTwoThree
Parkour? Free-running?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:10 pm
by Stephen Jones
cat burglary?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:21 am
by Superhal
free-running, or le parkour.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:31 pm
by Andrew Patterson
There was a program called "Jump London" a while back on Channel 4 in the UK. They merely filmed three blokes doing the sport over famous London landmarks. It was surprisingly good TV, actually.
Wikipedia even has an article on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_London
Don't think I'll be taking it up any time soon, though. Just got out of hospital after having a 2nd DVT. At least it didn't give me a pulmonary embolism this time.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:36 pm
by fluffyhamster
Sorry to hear about your recent hospitalization, Andy! Here's to hoping you don't have to go back in again anytime soon (unless the Polish nurses are pretty)...