Did anyone see Jump London?

[Judge]

Did any of you guys in the UK see the program on chanel 4 Jump London?

Man that was so cool, it has inspired me and some of my school friends to start doing some of that stuff at school. Teachers aren't too pleased though. :p

[Rieper]

lol, you athletic enough?

[csh1]

*watches them fail every time*
nope dont think they are:p

[jernau]

Explain please....

[csh1]

its a program with people climbin things and jumping off things and stuff; like battleships etc

[___T-X____]

i heard it was the dogs bolox, but i missed it...any good ?

[csh1]

i dunno i didnt watch it *shrugs*

[Xian]

These guys have been doing this stuff for years - and even though what they did looked amazing I've seen some even better stuff before from them.

[csh1]

David Blaine?

*Teases him in box with burgers on mini helicopter*

[Judge]

I missed the actual program (argh I was so pissed at myself for that) but managed to find about half of it on kazaa (I hope I'm allowed to say that :p). So i have watched that religously for a while and I know a guy who has it on tape, so I'll be getting that off him soon.

To be truthful me and one other guy where doing something similar to what they were doing in their early years, but this has made us think alot more about it.

As to the athletisism thing.... the thing that needs most athletics is the acutal jumping and climbing, there is also loads of medium size jumps that you can do which involve more balancing than strength. But I really must work off my computer geek arms :p

[csh1]

LOL....i knwo the feeling *flexs huge arms*

[___T-X____]

go go Gadget arms

[jernau]

Ah, OK.

I tend to avoid such programs as the number of safety systems in so called "extreme sports" is IMO totally gay.

I was lucky enough to grow up when this kind of stuff wasn't so mainstream, regulated and unimaginative.

In the last few years I've met and become good mates with many of the founding members of groups like the DSC and OSF and realised that there is nothing much left to do in this arena now.

Damn, I feel old.:(

[csh1]

lol *arms pop, swears loudly at cheap blow up arms*

[Judge]

From what I've seen there aren't any safety systems in Free Running and its hardly mainstream. Its fucking hard :p

[jernau]

Originally posted by Judge
From what I've seen there aren't any safety systems in Free Running and its hardly mainstream. Its fucking hard :p

If it's on TV there are. No question. Thank Keith Chegwin for that.

[Judge]

Who?

[csh1]

*shakes head, not sure who*

[Judge]

Maybe this is just on american TV, I dunno. They had to ask permission to run on some of londons older/privately owned buildings and people were worried about what would happen if it "went wrong" on TV and what it would do to their reputation. So I don't think that there were any safety nets, as it were.

[csh1]

heh...no fun britons:p

[Hell-demon]

I watched all of it. It was amazing

For thoe of you who dont know what Free Running is, it is a dangerous (yet fun) urban game. Invented by a French group called the Yamakazi it uses running and leaping and all sorts of athletics to basically leap from building to building.

Or in their case from battle ship turret to deck (sooo cool that was). Some of the stunts are matrix like (which is also how they explain free jumping). It wasnt just the yamakazi who started it, it has developed from other groups aswell.


hhhmmmm hold on Ill get some pics....

[Judge]

The bit that most impressed me was when one of them did a wall run but span as he was doing it.

That was amazing.

[Omnituens]

i ment to watch that.

and forgot.

d'oh.

[Psyco Groupie]

was quite cool ... nothing that amazing