Is there anyone here into free running, I have watched loads of videos on it and would like to learn it but it looks pretty difficult.

Anyone who doesn't know what free running is, here's a Wiki page about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_running

and a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSr1pozm6Y

So is there anyone here who free runs, when did you start and how did you start off free running?

I don't free run, but I always thought it would be nice.

But since I'm not really into this skater-ish style thingies I didn't start, btw free running on your own is just bad.

You'll need to be strong, fit and happy to risk life and limb in the search for thrills. Skills in jitsu, karate or similar (especially how to fall - I'm so pleased I did a couple of years of jitsu, just for this skill!) would be a massive benefit as well. Oh, and grippy trainers might help

I feel that there are too many signs in cities for this to be a viable 'sport' for you to partake.

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You'll need to be strong, fit and happy to risk life and limb in the search for thrills. Skills in jitsu, karate or similar (especially how to fall - I'm so pleased I did a couple of years of jitsu, just for this skill!) would be a massive benefit as well. Oh, and grippy trainers might help

I feel that there are too many signs in cities for this to be a viable 'sport' for you to partake.

Tristian didn't I send you a PM saying to drop it now and so on and just get on? I am just going to say that I skided a long the floor and hit the sign, not ride into it, I came off my bike before hand, lets not get into this though.

I have done MMA(Mixed Martial Arts) so I should have the skills and 'balls' to do this. I just need to build my fitness back up as I haven't exercised for a year and a half because of resting, my fitness level has dropped a lot, I will need to build my muscle back up as I have gone from having mostly muscle to now mostly fat, accidents are horrible as now I am not fit at all. Need to go to the gym as I can longer do MMA Where do you start though.

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But since I'm not really into this skater-ish style thingies I didn't start, btw free running on your own is just bad.

How is free running a skater thing, I am deffently not a skater so it's not a skater thing. I wont be free running on my own as my mate is also wanting to learn how to free run.

so is it same as parkour?

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so is it same as parkour?

I dont know, never looked at parkour, I think it is suppose to be similar isnt it?

It is not a sport for someone wimpish enough to think he was critically injured riding his bike into a sign and then steal tax payers money.

Who are you going to sue this time anyway?

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It is not a sport for someone wimpish enough to think he was critically injured riding his bike into a sign and then steal tax payers money.

Who are you going to sue this time anyway?

What are you on about tax payers money, does that mean I will be taking my Dads and the rest of my family, all my family work, you make it sound like my family live off of benefits. I was injured a lot when I came off of my bike, I am very lucky to be a live, I was told this by one of the best neuro surgeons in the country, he used to work in great orman street, so he knows what he is on about, you dont need know what happened and how bad my injuries are, they most of been bad as they was going to take me to Frenchay(Bristol) by air because my injuries was so bad so they could get me up there quickly but it would of been to risky. Why can't you just leave it, I may just give links to my pictures of me in hospital on monitors and after my op and the day after my accident.

Edit: I am no way a wimp, the doc said I must be able to handle pain very well as I didn't show and feel as much pain as what I should of, his words to my dad was, he's a little hard guy to be able to handle this aswel as he is. So I am not a wimp, what is with people about my accident.

Pictures dont make it the councils fault. I think the point the guys are raising is that doing parkour is asking for an accident, and you cannot expect the council to cover the cost of you acting like a lunatic this time. Will you ask the council to shell out compensation when the multi-story car park is 1 metre further away from the roof you where jumping to than you believed?

Owing to previous experience these guys are naturally concerned they're going to be paying not just your medical bills, but compensation for improper placement of a multistory carpark, and then paying your sick pay until you are back to sufficient health to work, before claiming invalidity benefit later in your life because your old injuries prevent you from bending over to shine shoes.

I came off my bike when I was young, it was a HUGE crash and i've the scars to prove it. The ambulances where on strike that week and I got taken to hospital in one of those army lorries, spread eagled over tank cutting equipment. The nearest A&E was on strike, and my parents where notified by a hastily written note on army paper stuffed through the letterbox (but not which hospital I was taken too which is a story in itself).

The accident was around 1990 or so and a few years back I went past the hedge that finaly arrested my not inconsiderable mommentum after 200 metres of skimming across the road surface and a kerb. You could still see that the section of it my flailing body had removed still hadn't fully recovered.

Should I have sued the council for making road surfaces hard, or for making hills steep, or for bushes having lots of thorns in?

I didn't sue them of course, I was back doing sports at school before the bandages where even removed - although they wouldnt let me do swimming. Then again I was already in considerable permanent pain anyway from an accident on a school sports pitch where the posts didn't have padding around them - maybe I should have sued them for that...

The irony of course, is my grandparents still think i'm a woos.

Kids today have no idea !

Now i'm not implying anything, merely explaining their concerns and telling a few stories. Maybe this is an opportunity for you to prove these guys wrong? Go do parkour, get yourself hurt, and then - reality check - don't sue anyone! That'll maybe restore their faith in you.

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What are you on about tax payers money, does that mean I will be taking my Dads and the rest of my family, all my family work, you make it sound like my family live off of benefits.

Regardless of how badly injured you were (and I accept you might have had a bit of a bruise, possibly even a cut) you still cycled into a sign post, which was your fault, and because you weren't wearing a helmet, which was your fault you bumped your head and ran home and cried about it. At no point had the council committed some huge great crime against you, the sign was there before you and it is still there now, I doubt many other road users have issues with avoiding making contact with it. You then sued the council and are trying to wax money out of them, paid for by the tax payer, because they built some solid signs that can withstand an 8 year old not quite off his stabilisers yet (which we paid them to).

How do you come to the conclusion that you are not trying to take tax payers money?

I dont have any medical bills, people claim compensation every day. You guys dont know how severe my injuries were, my pelvis is just nearly fixed so I can run again, I couldn't run before without it like jumping out and making me limp for about 2 weeks each time it happened. They put up a new sign when one company got hold of them saying about my accident so they most of done something wrong. I wasn't going like a lunatic when going around the corner. I also have scars to prove it, one going from one ear over my head to the other ear where they had to cut me to fix my injuries.

This isn't about my accident, this is about free running and how to learn it.
My Dad will be getting hold of a Barrister to take my case on because comp companies dont want to take my accident on because they dont want to lose work from the Council, it shows that they dont actually put things up within regs.

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I dont have any medical bills

That's because we paid them, via our national insurance contributions. If you dont get invalided out of work from your injuries then one day you will pay these too - though it's unlikely it'll ever cover the full cost of major surgery.

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people claim compensation every day.

Ah right, that makes it ok then.

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My Dad will be getting hold of a Barrister to take my case on because comp companies dont want to take my accident on because they dont want to lose work from the Council

Compensation companies will take on any winnable case, on the grounds that a winnable case is money in their pocket. If the case it isn't winnable you have to pay somebody to take the case on for you. This is because whatever happens lawyers want their wages and if the case isnt going to win and pay for itself then they want the client to pay them.

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This isn't about my accident, this is about free running and how to learn it.

The guy in the video was a gymnast. If you take up gymnastics first and have to wear a leotard please don't sue the council for improper placement of a sidestreet if somebody sees you going from the car to the gymn in your leotard.

Now if you'll excuse me i've got to sort out my tax returns. For some reason they want more money these days, which is apparently related to the increasing cost of fighting failed litigation cases for badly positioned cold weather fronts.

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Regardless of how badly injured you were (and I accept you might have had a bit of a bruise, possibly even a cut) you still cycled into a sign post, which was your fault, and because you weren't wearing a helmet, which was your fault you bumped your head and ran home and cried about it. At no point had the council committed some huge great crime against you, the sign was there before you and it is still there now, I doubt many other road users have issues with avoiding making contact with it. You then sued the council and are trying to wax money out of them, paid for by the tax payer, because they built some solid signs that can withstand an 8 year old not quite off his stabilisers yet (which we paid them to).

8? It happened last May the 16th. I couldn't go home, I couldn't get up off of the floor, A ambulance took my to hospital from where I came off, I was off my bike before I hit the sign. A bruise yea right, try this Look at the angle of my nose, I smashed the right side of it to peices, I had CSF leaking from it which is dangerous. This is after my op 1 2, a lot of machines monitoring me. You don't know how bad my injuries were as most of them was internal injuries, one of the most uncomfortable things was having a 5inch needle in my back for weeks taking CSF out to lower the risk of getting menajitus, very uncomfortable. I nearly died last year, May 16th very very close, I can just say you go through it and see if you survive, I was told by the doc that I am very lucky to still be here. I just cant work out why cant you just drop it and talk about the topic on hand, not my accident, I am fed up with it.

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Poor me was hurt because of my stupidity and look at the scars OMG OMG OMG

Oh come on man. You cycled into a post, and you hurt yourself badly. Now you're trying to blame someone else for the post?

Our point is that the same thing is likely to happen again. But then with a different object than a post: maybe something sharper and bigger. Who knows. We already see it coming that you'll fall off something, or cut yourself, and blame something else again, and beg for money again.

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though it's unlikely it'll ever cover the full cost of major surgery.

Well that money you pay then didn't cover my op as it was major surgery I had, 3 different teams working on my head for 6 hours, I class that as major surgery.

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I had, 3 different teams working on my head for 6 hours.

When are they going to finish their task?

Sorry, I had to

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I wasn't going like a lunatic when going around the corner.

So how did you cycle into a sign? Given your story about hitting a stone it proves your too young and immature to ride on the road given that you can't read the road surface and are incapable of controlling your bicycle when you do run something over. Imagine if it had been a car that you had launched yourself into, the poor owner would have the inconvenience of having to peel you off their car. Get a life, your OK (well maybe a bit brain damaged) now and as you have admitted have no medical bills to pay for if you actually had a serious accident you'd consider yourself lucky and get on with making the most of life.

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This isn't about my accident, this is about free running and how to learn it.

You're incapable of running because your internals are falling about the place and you want to start throwing yourself off buildings?

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My Dad will be getting hold of a Barrister to take my case on because comp companies dont want to take my accident on because they dont want to lose work from the Council, it shows that they dont actually put things up within regs.

Or because they don't want to loose? You seriously believe compensation specialists won't sue the council, that it what most of their work involves (although admittedly most is a little less frivolous than this).

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Oh come on man. You cycled into a post, and you hurt yourself badly. Now you're trying to blame someone else for the post?

Our point is that the same thing is likely to happen again. But then with a different object than a post: maybe something sharper and bigger. Who knows. We already see it coming that you'll fall off something, or cut yourself, and blame something else again, and beg for money again.

You lot dont know the half of what happened so who are you to say what happened and may happen again, annoying me alot now. The sign was illegally placed and I am not going to let compo of up to 80k drop which will help me to start off life on my own.

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Well that money you pay then didn't cover my op as it was major surgery I had, 3 different teams working on my head for 6 hours, I class that as major surgery.

My NI contributions dont cover my own major surgery. Tristan's NI paid for you.

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Or because they don't want to loose? You seriously believe compensation specialists won't sue the council, that it what most of their work involves (although admittedly most is a little less frivolous than this).

We got told this by a company, they said they would like to take the case on and my Dad said why wont you then, their reply was is that as the council gives them a lot of work if they help people sue them they could lose work and they dont want to.

I am making the most of my life, I am ok now, I was saying I wasn't when I had my accident. I am over it but I just dont like people saying what happened when they dont know what my injuries are and so on, so drop it now.

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You lot dont know the half of what happened so who are you to say what happened and may happen again, annoying me alot now. The sign was illegally placed and I am not going to let compo of up to 80k drop which will help me to start off life on my own.

What the? A donation of 80 grand, just because you cycled into a static object?

*gets on his bike, and races into the nearest lamp post*

Mate, illegally placed or not, the sign was there! And you hit it, because you didn't watch out.

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I am not going to let compo of up to 80k drop which will help me to start off life on my own.

Holy mother of a half-goat, £80,000 !? You've got big eyes.

I got knifed in the face (an improperly placed thug) and got £3500. How on earth do you figure throwing yourself into a solid object gives you the right to buy a small house out of my tax money? Which I kinda hoped would pay for more sign posts so people could find my house when they visit.

Seriously, from 13 to 18 I was in agonising pain from a post that didnt have padding around it when it "should have", I didnt sue anyone. In fact I still made my county running team and won sports days and things - just sometimes I folded up in crippling pain during events, but most of the time it was just extreme pain. Always there, always hurting, and always the fault of the council.

Just dust yourself off and get on with your life, instead of asking somebody else to pay for you to live the life of riley.

If you want abject luxury, earn it.

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Well that money you pay then didn't cover my op as it was major surgery I had, 3 different teams working on my head for 6 hours, I class that as major surgery.

So you've already taken tens of thousands from tax payers, the council should sue you for wasting hospital time and tax payers money. It was a bit of a bump but nothing much really, you've recovered from it so get over it. I think a lot of people have a much more mature attitude to life and death and what it means than you. You're lucky in clearly not having lost some of your innocence yet. I've carried a badly injured mate into the back of an Air Ambulance, he finds the whole incident amusing now and was straight back onto the rugby pitch as soon as he could and didn't feel like suing for being high tackled or for a mistake the paramedic made (both valid cases that he could win unlike yours), instead he was eternally grateful like you should be.

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You lot dont know the half of what happened so who are you to say what happened and may happen again, annoying me alot now. The sign was illegally placed and I am not going to let compo of up to 80k drop which will help me to start off life on my own.

That is what just pisses us off, as a cash struck student I really don't want to be paying your hospital bill let alone your pocket money fund whenever I actually manage to earn some money (or spend it).

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Holy mother of a half-goat, £80,000 !? You've got big eyes.

I got knifed in the face (an improperly placed thug) and got £3500. How on earth do you figure throwing yourself into a solid object gives you the right to buy a small house out of my tax money? Which I kinda hoped would pay for more sign posts so people could find my house when they visit.

Seriously, from 13 to 18 I was in agonising pain from a post that didnt have padding around it when it "should have", I didnt sue anyone. In fact I still made my county running team and won sports days and things - just sometimes I folded up in crippling pain during events, but most of the time it was just extreme pain. Always there, always hurting, and always the fault of the council.

Just dust yourself off and get on with your life, instead of asking somebody else to pay for you to live the life of riley.

If you want abject luxury, earn it.

I get that much from permantant face deformation, my eyes no longer sit level from my eye socket drop 4mm. My injuries is why I could get so much, we have looked on the net on compo companies websites and looked at which accidents I have and how much they pay out for it, just one of them being £25k.

Can't you just let it drop and get on with it, when I start working I would rather pay for someones injuries then people from other countries coming in and living off of benefits that we pay for or people who dont work.

I can't be bothered with this now, if you don't have anything to say about free running keep it to yourself. Becky I don't care if you won sports days, it's not exactly I hard thing to win is it, I am not really a runner I work out for strength and agility, but I don't run because there is no point in it, thats why free running intrests me because I can use things that I have learnt from MMA and so on. Sports Day, I bet your proud of that aint you, one of the most boring events ever.

I am going to earn my money, I want my own programming company properly up and running by the time I am 30.

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I am making the most of my life, I am ok now, I was saying I wasn't when I had my accident. I am over it but I just dont like people saying what happened when they dont know what my injuries are and so on, so drop it now.

Do you not understand? You are over your injuries now, how ever bad they may have been you are far luckier than a lot of people, you still have a future as an able bodied person. You have cost us a lot of money for being an idiot but I am in favour of free medical care at point of access in principle so just have to accept that some people will abuse the system. Now what entitles you to a lot of money? There are a lot of better use for that money, like helping those who aren't so lucky as you for a change?