Does Parkour give you a 'rush'?

[Shane]

Created this thread after removing the Parkour poll option from the 'Which Sport Turns You On The Most' Thread.

For me Parkour really gives me a great rush. I don't think I would be doing it if it made me feel really good inside while I was doing it.

[Ben]

im not going to answer the poll, i don't think i get a 'rush' from doing pk, but i do get a feeling of thorough excitement and fulfillment when im doing it and i feel a sense of achievement even at the simplest of movements. it's hard to explain, but there is something there, that's what makes it so thrilling and enjoyable, but i don't know what to call it.

[Shane]

Its a rush Ben, the adrenaline and the excitement.

[Riccardo]

Yeah Ben, hes right. that would be what you call a rush :P
The 3 main reasons i do parkour are: The Rush, the exercise and the fact that we almost always have a laugh

[Ben]

i didn't like to call it a rush, as i would class a rish as like a physical thing you feel like a rush on ewould get from drugs, and teh achievement and excite from pk is not like taking drugs, unless it is...i really wouldn't know. that's why i didn't want to vote but now i have. im with you.

who is the 3rd voter? (me being the 4th) someone voted against our votes but didn't post anything...

[Sponge'K'nob]

so you guys get like a seual rush when you do parkour? it wasnt me that voted btw....

[Riccardo]

When you do something really scary or do something for the first time, its almost orgasmic!

[Sponge'K'nob]

ewwwwww lol

[Sponge'K'nob]

ewwwwww lol

[Pearson]

I get a rush o blood to me fukin head when I fall or but thats about it.

[Riccardo]

the polls had 6 vote, are there even 6 traceurs on the forums?

if your going to vote, it would help if you have tried Parkour before, so we don't get false readings and if you haven't tried it, why the hell not!?

[Sponge'K'nob]

i havnt tried because im too small :P and i dont want to fall over.....end of

[Ben]

yeh where did the other 3 votes come from?

[timswfc]

running along a small flat wall dunt give me a rush

[Mikhael]

I get a rush o blood to me fukin head when I fall or but thats about it.

yeah like the time i tried to do a head volt thing over the wall i wass trying it out and my m8 said hed catch me if i was going to fall ...

i fell and almost knocked myself out but it happens :D

[Shane]

running along a small flat wall dunt give me a rush
That is because thats not parkour Tim.

[Riccardo]

running along a small flat wall dunt give me a rush

Now try the running along a wall about 30 foot high,then tell me you don't get a rush!
The whole fear part is what i love about parkour!

[Mattimadhead]

It GAVE me a rush when i did it for a while it was really good but now i get the same rush from doing a perfect ollie on my skateboard or mastering a cool smooth trick on my bike :p

[Ben]

yeh i get this rush when i do a roof gap, that's why i do the same one again and again, it never gets boring.
i get a constant rush from just like vaulting the two odeon walls repeatedly or justlike running round and round teh odeon konging verything in sight and running round the whole place climbing stuff (not lampposts) and jumping stuff and not stopping until my heart does.

[CraigYohn!]

lol, in sports terms, I'd call a rush, a burst of energy all over your body, not jumping over plant pots. :)

[Mattimadhead]

LMAO!!!!!!! like the one we can agree we get from being faced with a 6ft drop , no suspension and a nice hard flat landing :) ... but keeping on the subject parkour is kinda great once yer into it !!!!

[clownboot]

gives me a rush, especially when youve done something that you've been wanting to do for ages.The bigest rush I got was when i did that massive cat leap at the english block in shefield, off the roof onto the red wall.
That got the adrenaline flowing especially it masked the fact that i nailed my ankle for about 5 mins:P

I think you know the one i mean.

I realy need to come and do some parkour in sheff again but they cocked up the buses changed the times. Maybe ill perswade my freinds to drive me there.

[Shane]

yeah get back here and train. No one else seems to anymore. :(

[clownboot]

I know the feeling ^^^

[Ben]

yeh that catleap's a good one, i love doing it. feels immense flying through the air off a roof stright into a wall lol

the scene in sheffield is going to be amazing this summer. we've all improved loads this last 6 months and we know what it's all about now. the guys from manchester will be training with us quite a bit this summer, paul's just bought a car lol so he's going to be heading up.

[snakehips57]

There are people on this forum who just don't understand what Parkour actually is, so when they are cracking jokes about jumping over plantpots, that is when I would like to kill them...

[Corey2.0]

Yeah, you definetly get a massive rush when doing parkour, nothing beats that feeling when you make a jump that youve never attempted, or you perform a new vault for the first time etc Its that feeling that started my parkour addiction.

[Shane]

Yeah, you definetly get a massive rush when doing parkour, nothing beats that feeling when you make a jump that youve never attempted, or you perform a new vault for the first time etc Its that feeling that started my parkour addiction.
Parkour addiction. That's a nice way of looking at it. :P

[Corey2.0]

Isnt it just haha