A little more help, please

[Buck]

OK, there's a 'sport,' I believe it's popular in France, in which people run around the street or through the park and do tricks, spins and jumps as if they are on a skateboard, but they aren't on a skateboard.
Does anyone know the name of this activity?

 

[Buck]

Nevermind, I got it.
It's parkour.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Well, I knew it wasn't butter.

 

[Ashy Larry]

OK, there's a 'sport,' I believe it's popular in France, in which people run around the street or through the park and do tricks, spins and jumps as if they are on a skateboard, but they aren't on a skateboard.
Does anyone know the name of this activity?

it is called "parkour", according to a show I recently watched*, I think they referred to it as "urban gymnastics".....  
it's pretty "gay".

*at 3am in France, programming is limited.  

 

[Buck]

OK, there's a 'sport,' I believe it's popular in France, in which people run around the street or through the park and do tricks, spins and jumps as if they are on a skateboard, but they aren't on a skateboard.
Does anyone know the name of this activity?

it is called "parkour", according to a show I recently watched*, I think they referred to it as "urban gymnastics".....  
it's pretty "gay".

*at 3am in France, programming is limited.  

Thanks, I just found a couple Web sites about it:
http://www.parkour.com/
http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/

What does Ozzie Guillen think of this activity?

 

[Ashy Larry]

Ozzie thinks Marriotti invented "parkour" .

 

[Buck]

Let's start a fantasy parkour league.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Clearly, these people need to get an f-in haircut

 

[Idaho]

Clearly, these people need to get an f-in haircut

a haircut that goes six inches too low

 

[Boom_70]

Skitzo mania

 

[Buck]

Since competition goes against the philisophy of parkour, our fantasy league will just draft 'tracers' and that will pretty much be the end of it.
No games, no season.

 

[Songbird]

Parkour Lewis Can't Louvre.

 

[Boom_70]

I've seen people doing this in Central Park and had no clue what they were doing - now I understand.

 

[21]

I've seen people doing this in Central Park and had no clue what they were doing - now I understand.

No, those were Iowan tourists trying to escape the sketch artists.

 

[Breakyoself]

is this different from freestyle walking?

 

[Buck]

I've seen people doing this in Central Park and had no clue what they were doing - now I understand.

Weren't you curious about it when you saw it?

 

[Boom_70]

I've seen people doing this in Central Park and had no clue what they were doing - now I understand.

Weren't you curious about it when you saw it?

Yes but just assumed it was out patients from Bellvue

 

[shotglass]

Parkour Lewis Can't Louvre.

That's pretty classic.

 

[da man]

I thought it was just called ``stupid.''