#PARKOUR !

[obsession-with-arcane]

we all know that one scene

let me know if you know the artist and i’ll add it

[missriyochuchi]

The Masked Torchbearer in the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

[doghowto]

Ninja, the parkour city dog, showing off! 🥷 Follow me for more talented dogs!

[4gifs]

Parkour cat has hang time

[captain-jale]

THE TORCHBEARER WAS SIMON NOGUEIRA!

Simon is a parkour athlete, and a French/world champion.

He is part of the French Freerun Family (3F), a pillar of parkour and a direct descendant of the Yamakazi spirit (the founders of parkour).

Simon actually performed officially for Assassin's creed before, as Arno and others. He was also part of a lot of artistics projects around parkour.

You can find a lot of the 3F videos on Youtube, as well as the AC collabs. Go check his work if you can, it's amazing

[adorkastock]

Street Clothing Climbing

A few years I did a shoot with King Chaos at a playground. Though he wasn't wearing the normal form fitting clothing my models usually do, the shoot had a lot of really neat climbing and action stuff. I haven't posted much from it since it's not my usual but I think I might make a pack from it. There's a lot of neat poses and the clothing folds are interesting and useful!

[architectureandfilmblog]

Siedlung Halen, Atelier 5, 1961

“More than 50 years on, it’s one of the most successful housing estates in existence“

PARKOUR HALENSIEDLUNG (2007), SIEDLUNG HALEN (2010)

These videos offer two perspectives on the iconic Halen development - one looks at history and design detail, while in the other its massing, human scale, and playfulness are demonstrated through parkour.

The 79-home Swiss project was designed by 5 young architects on a forested site overlooking a river, 15 minutes cycle ride from Bern. The land had been intended for their own houses, until costs necessitated a higher density. Communal facilities such as the swimming pool, playground and community hall have shared ownership, and the internal streets are pedestrianised. For additional reading, this feature in Monocle (quoted above) includes short profiles of some of the residents. They reflect the fact that the buildings, arranged on a slope with high walls between gardens, seem to have found a sweet spot between community and privacy. As one resident says:  “You can sunbathe on the top floor balcony as God intended without anyone seeing.”

Perhaps part of Halen's success lies in how well it resolves two areas of tension in our relationship to spaces. Firstly the public/private balance, something like what Le Corbusier referred to as "silence, solitude, but also daily contact with mortals.” And secondly, Prospect Refuge theory, in which we crave immersion within nature, but also shelter from it - a view of the surrounding landscape, but also a feeling of enclosure and protection. 

[youhaveforgottenmealready]

Olympic Torchbearer

I am literally obsessed with the torchbearer from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in beautiful Paris.

They are meant to represent the Spirit of the Olympics. They carried the torch from the sewers, to the rooftops, into the Louvre, and even into a Melies film.

And at the end, they changed into armor and rode a metal horse on the Seine, wearing the Olympic flag as a cape like a super hero. Yes, the horse ran ON the water. Every bridge they passed was lit up with dove wings for peace, and when the torchbearer arrived on land, the metal horse became a gorgeous, real, white horse. When they passed under the bridge, there was just a brief image of the rider with those white dove wings behind them so they looked like a warrior angel, but for peace and sportsmanship instead of for actual war.

Also, they could do parkour.

Best opening ceremony ever. Full stop.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was running away from something and did some parkour. I landed wrong, died and became the narrator of a romance story that ended with them kissing at the very place I died at.

[mimez-meme]

Present mic and his sick parkour skills🥶🔥

I need sleep.

[todayontumblr]

Friday, December 22.

You better watch out

And you better not cry. You better not pout, and here's why: he sees you when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows when you've been bad or good, and he knows these absolutely kickass parkour moves, deployed for the purposes of handing out presents, spreading Christmas cheer, ensuring the potential recipients of gifts are well-behaved, leaping from snow-blanketed rooves, and vaulting fences. So be good, for goodness sake. 

[jaubaius]

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What an awesome purrkour🔊😸

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[mellifluousoctopus]

I just found out that parkour guy during the opening ceremony IS supposed to look like Assassin's Creed because of UbiSoft being French and being involved in the rebuilding of the Notre Dame Cathédrale

[commanderfoxdeservesbetter]

Headcannon here, but since the Corrie guard probably has extremely limited/zero access to things like speeders or hover bikes, they picked up parkour?

Just imagine corries learning how to safely descend/ascend various levels without access to things like stairs or ladders, because they know the price of losing the suspect.

And what would the reaction of the GAR be?

AHAHAHAHAH YESSSS

Fox started the trend - he saw a kid do it with their friends and in a moment of desperation, he asked them straight up what they were doing

They showed it to him and in the times he had available, he learned from them how to ascend and descend from buildings to levels safely

Now, he wasn’t about to teach the Corries that until they were doing a patrol and one had him following a suspect and his patrol of shinies that was with him saw and RECORDED him doing parkour and in the end, he was hounded by his men to learn

(Turns out though many Corries were attempting to do parkour without even knowing that’s what it was during patrols because they had no speeders or transportation; Fox just taught them how to do it more efficiently, effectively and safely)

The GAR was never meant to find out. That was Fox’s only rule to the Corries doing parkour: don’t let the GAR find out

Thorn swears Fox broke the rule first. Fox knows it was Thorn who broke it though

Them two were having their monthly parkour competition and were jumping and flipping off buildings and levels for fun. It was the only time they both had time off at the same time together

Bacara and Neyo’s battalions were on leave at the time; hence, Thorn and Fox avoided the 79s

HOWEVER, the Corrie Commanders forgot that Bacara and Neyo like to explore Coruscant whenever they’re together and those two saw Thorn scale a building and flip to another building during their exploration

They also saw Fox curse out Thorn and do a double flip to the same building his SIC was on, almost falling when he didn’t land quite right.

(Luckily, Thorn was there to catch him)

According to Thire, the two weren’t originally going to say anything except Stone accidentally pissed them off when he and Thire was on patrol and Stone bumped into Neyo which caused him to drop the ice cream food he had in his hand to the floor. (Stone denies he bumped into Neyo; swears it was actually Thire who did it but the video cam apparently glitched during that time so there’s no concrete evidence). Either way, Neyo was willing to let it go but the ice cream cost all the credits that Bacara saved up during his missions and he wasn’t about to have his best friend disrespected that way

Hound doesn’t care who did what. What he did do was put up a sign in the barracks that has the words “OUR CCs ARE THE REASON WE CANT DO PARKOUR ANYMORE”

(They still do parkour though. They just become extra careful on not getting caught)

That lasted for about two weeks before Fox threw in the towel when on patrol and saw a suspect right behind Cody and General Kenobi and decided his job was more important than a secret and said “fuck it”

This caused not only the GaR to want to learn how to do parkour, but many Vod who had batchmates in the Coruscant Guard began reaching out to learn why they do parkour, how to learn, and it become spread out in the GAR to have competitions with the Corries (the Corries always won)

Thorn still has on camera Cody’s expression of awe and disbelief as Fox straight up ran, flipped over him, scaled the building next to them a few feet and jump off towards the suspect’s speeder. It’s hearted on his camera roll so he has easy access to it and can show it to Fox when he’s having a bad day

(Fox deletes the video when Thorn doesn’t come back from the Scipio mission)

(He also stops doing parkour until the end of the war)

[live-fit]

[viejospellejos]

Y por eso vivimos menos…

@dannypierce_