I almost got into a fight with a Parcour...
 

This guy shows up at my gym and starts doing some stupid jumping around bullshit. Now I just started a couple months ago and I'm no master at Jujitsu or anything, but he just looked plain silly. I get up from the mat and asked what he was doing and he told me it's called Parcour, a French martial art. He then pulled out his iphone and showed me videos of people doing it. I said it looks more like training than anything but he was insistent that it was a fighting style.

So I say, leave it to the French to develop a fighting style where the main technique is how to run away. He wasn't too happy with me and tried to start a fight on the spot. He was there on a free trial pass and I don't think he'll be showing up again anytime soon. Parcour and Capoeira are the two dumbest forms of "martial arts" or combative training I've ever seen. One teaches you how to run away and the other teaches you how to dance in front of your opponent until he dies of boredom.

Capoeira have some cool moves when fighter is on the hand and smacks with legs, but i agree is really shity with all the dancing

Every body was kung fu fighting :thumbsup

Parcour is not a martial art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

Cool story bro.

sounds gay.

:1orglaugh nice one!

also I have never heard of parcour being a fighting style...maybe he got a little confused after watching this french movie that involves parcour and good guys fighting bad guys, not sure what it is called

Careful JFK...

According to the UKs largest newspaper, its racist to mention that song!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ng-singer.html

:helpme

He said it, not me. I thought it just looked like pretty cool cross training.

what the Chosen said :thumbsup

Most martial arts aren't very practical in the sense of being applicable in a street fight.

It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal,engage them; if fewer, be able to evade them; if weaker, be able to avoid them. - Sun Tzu

Banlieue 13

definetly

Portuguese martial arts involves a quick kick to the balls and some elbow smashing... not pretty, but affective... hehe

Parkour is not a goddamn martial art, it's free running, skipping over obstacles, jumping, all that cool stuntman stuff, but it has nothing to do with fighting. Obviously if you do it you're pretty fit and agile but that guy was obviously an idiot.

Parcour (parkour?) could however be considered as a martial art accessory, like an add-on skill to one's existing martial art (or arts, for those who know more than one).

Kind of like when a woman dresses up to go out she puts on all these accessories, like earrings etc.

Tell that guy that his parcour is the "earrings" of martial arts. :D

so you come up to a guy, insult him and you upset why he reacted? he should of knocked your ass out, i hate smart asses like yourself

old school :1orglaugh

Hardcore parkour!!
 

Yep. What he said.

If you ain't got good things to say, go mind your own business instead of insulting others' choice of spending their free time. I bet you're a good judge of what a dumb and a smart martial art is, with your two months of jiu jitsu.

Granted, parkour is not a martial art but you're a moron.

Parcour is indeed not a martial art and Capoeira is indeed very gay.

If it's french they call it Savate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savate
From the french things I prefer :
http://galleries.crocreview.com/bang...er-white/4.jpg
and beautiful smile.

Was going to say the same thing.

Parkour is NOT a martial art, it's like "free running".

LOL... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Capoeria works...
15 sec in.

I do that shit all the time

kick some ass

Oh yeah? Well i almost got a BJ from Jamie Chung

how is parcour a martial art? They're just jumping and running (away)

The worst opponents to fight with are runners, because if you're stronger than them you can't reach them running... and if you're the weakest - you can't get away....
Pretty sucks, right?

Priceless! :thumbsup

i wouldn't want to mess with anyone in good enough shape to actually do parcour.

unless you were able to attack them on the spot, they will just bounce around until you are tired..lol
then come in and get you.

although these days i would never get into a fight unless you were attacking me or my family, and then it wouldn't really matter what you were studying because id most likely just want to break your arm or punch you in the throat as many times as i could.

fighting is for high school boys who haven't got a care in the world

you could be the "winner" in a fight but still you have lost an eye

goodtimes

Yeah, friend of mine went to krav maga classes for a few years. In the end they busted his knee in a training accident. No more martial arts for him.

I run, if someone threatens me, I'll be able to leave him behind. Did so once, dude on a motorbike wanted to beat me up, but every time he got off the bike to hit me I left him behind, then he had to go back for his bike to catch up, repeat 3 or 4 times and he got tired, I laughed at him all the while.

He was just a kid though, so I wasn't keen on hurting him and getting in legal trouble, at one point he tried to hit me with his helmet and I jabbed him in the throat, as a warning only, I pulled the punch. If I'd really wanted to hurt him he was wide open. Chimping out might feel impressive but it doesn't help in a real fight.

Whatever dude. If he can't take a joke he can take a flying fuck...the same goes for you. It's funny that the two people that were offended in this thread are probably Frenchies that took offense to my comment because it's true. When I first joined the gym they gave me a rash of shit for not already knowing martial arts because I was Asian. I should have just started swinging on people, right? Fuck off.

It's called hazing, it happens all the time and is a right of passage. I wasn't the only one that commented on his jack assitude. Everyone else did as well and that's why he wasn't at the gym last night. He probably couldn't run away, jump over a dumpster, or climb a wall fast enough after everyone fucked with him. He didn't have the balls to stick around so he would have never made it. I guess that's why he has perfected the art of running away. Good for him.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :thumbsup