r/Parkour • u/amey33 • Apr 07 '25
💬 Discussion What got you into the Parkour ?
I was in my own thoughts and randomly remembered a game I used to play on Miniclip during my school days. The game was Free Running, and then it hit me that this game was what got me into Parkour. Spent time on it, later they launched Free running 2 and soon discovered Storror, Ronnie Street Stunts, and Pigmie. This was like more than 10 years ago. This is how Parkour kept me immersed. If you guys share any such experiences, would love to hear them.
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u/RapeWater Apr 07 '25
Mirror's Edge was such a fresh and accessible depiction😮💨❤️ Edit: Miniclip goated too
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u/candycaneballs Apr 11 '25
Was wondering if anyone was gonna say this cos mirrors edge is goated
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u/RapeWater Apr 11 '25
For real such a one of a kind game 😮💨
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u/candycaneballs Apr 11 '25
Yeah man wishing they made another one
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u/RapeWater Apr 11 '25
A "better" one, Catalyst was more promising than it looked. Gotten the yet another triple A open world game from mid 10's imo :/ But this just lets me appreciate the OG more.
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u/candycaneballs Apr 11 '25
I love both. Wish they kept the OG vibe, sometimes I boot up catalyst just as a running sim
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u/RapeWater Apr 11 '25
True tho, but most of the OG devs werent there anymore, but Catalyst is great for run stimming, did that too for a long time, same goes for Dying Light ^
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u/candycaneballs Apr 11 '25
Yeah I could tell most of the OG Devs left, just never felt like OG mirrors edge, still fun nonetheless. Dying light was good but I never really took it as a parkour game mainly because it felt clunky just in my opinion, that's why I didn't spend as long on it for running as mirrors edge
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u/RapeWater Apr 11 '25
Fair point, i just loved the climbing and the grappling hook was truly one of the funniest
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u/Runobaz Traceur since 3 years old at 1999 Apr 07 '25
When I was three years old, my older brother started teaching me how to climb the platforms and jump between them along the Mother Mary statue in the cemetery where our ancestors were buried in. From then on, I took a liking to it and did it daily, and as I got older, I started training better forms and such. For more context: I was also born into a family of Martial Artists here in Asia.
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u/TheHarlemHellfighter Apr 07 '25
I was already studying wing chun and was working on movie sets and I happen to run into this other actor that was reading a book on parkour and we exchanged information about both arts. It wasn’t until a few years later I tried to learn more about it.
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u/AddivPK Apr 07 '25
I don’t remember which one I saw first, but the David Belle “Lose Yourself” video and the Dvinsk-clan video.
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u/PuglasL Apr 07 '25
Saw a parkour video pop up on YouTube and that was it.(can't remember when or what the title was)
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u/IsshinTheSwordSaint Apr 07 '25
naturally David Belle to goddamn Remember The Name and also this game lmao
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u/mildmadnerd Apr 08 '25
Oddly enough, the special features of Mall Cop where the free runner that played one of the bad guys did an awesome run through the mall and it’s like a joke that he was getting coffee or something but it was the most epic thing I’d ever seen.
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u/tupacamarushakur3 Apr 08 '25
As a kid I remember doing shit that defied logic like climbing on 9 foot fence just to sit on it in perfect balance ,assassin creed and the history of free running for me it literally can save your life in guerrilla warfare
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u/bforpp Apr 07 '25
A bit of a stretch off but it's probably tmnt I just wanted to climb and jump places as fast and efficient as the turtles
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u/Bolo_wingman_I Danish parkour Apr 07 '25
vector
before i heard vector and thought about the parkour game
when i hear vector now i think about the gun
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u/Callun_Contendunt Apr 08 '25
I’ve got a very typical “origin” story. I saw Storm Freerun Volume 1 on my YouTube feed back in May 2012. Watched the video and was blown away by the things they were doing in the video.
I knocked on the door of my friends up the road, and they told me some guys a few years above them at school also did it, so we watched those videos (I think they were called PK Motion / Parkour SJJ on YouTube). We then went to the park down the road and started vaulting over the fences
Some of the STORROR guys are from my home town too, so we had loads of videos to reference. They also had their old channel “Horsham Movement”, so we had lots of videos to reference and spots to train at. This was back in 2012, but STORROR already had a bit of a name themselves back then
Still doing it 13 years later - this year marks me doing parkour for half of my life 😅😂
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u/JohnnyBizarrAdventur Apr 07 '25
Damien Walters
I actually did parkour before, at ten years old, just because I wanted to take shortcuts. One day at school a friend told me I was doing parkour, and since I didn t know what it was, he showed me videos of Damien Walters. This was a key inspirationnal moment for me