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- RockyCosmos, on 02/06/2008, -6/+125Apparently none of you believers that commented before me have ever kicked a soccer ball, they do NOT move like that. Not to mention it says "Fifa Street 3" at the end, which is the name of a video game coming out next week. Just a viral marketing campaign from the folks at EA sports.
- bobbybobington, on 02/06/2008, -15/+105Cool? Yes. Soccer? Yes. Parkour? No.
- Skafia, on 02/06/2008, -4/+53Just because they're one rooftops and kicking, doesn't make it parkour.
- HolemCross, on 02/06/2008, -2/+37Shaolin Soccer?
- MISDIREK7ED, on 02/06/2008, -4/+34Fake, but cool.
If you wanna see some seriously sick soccer skills, check out the Amsterdam "Keepy Uppy" man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u0OCFWBPD4 - swaggadocio, on 08/20/2008, -7/+32Or parkour football to the rest of the world
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 02/06/2008, -15/+37Yeah!... Just a ball... and the latest quadcore G5 Mac... and Adobe After Effects©... and a couple a dozen grand. But still.
- BriscoeJr, on 02/06/2008, -1/+20The ball is obviously fake, but those kids are still great athletes. Haven't you ever seen Shaolin Soccer?
- frasermoo, on 02/06/2008, -2/+17Anybody who thinks that's real should step slowly away from their keyboards and proceed to the nearest park. Do not pass donut shop, do not collect 2000 calories.
Just go kick a real ball. - domness, on 02/06/2008, -0/+14Could never really call that parkour to be honest. Parkour is about going from A to B using cool, flowing ways to get over man-made things & buildings. Not just flips on their own..
However, still a pretty cool video though. - ByteGuerilla, on 02/06/2008, -2/+15Football (i.e. soccer) has been around longer than American Football. There was football before there was white folk in America. American football grew out of rugby football, which grew out of football. It was termed American football to differentiate itself from the football that the rest of the world played. Since football (i.e. soccer) didn't become popular in America, it's only natural that the 'native' sport of American football was shortened to just plain football.
You are right, however, on the origin of the word soccer. It's one of our words (us being the British), and it's short for 'association football'. Since you guys already had a 'football' game, you used the alternative name for it: soccer.
Honestly I don't understand why my fellow Brits seem to get so uptight about the American use of the word soccer. Soccer is a perfectly cromulent word to refer to football. Doesn't mean you have to use it. - hikaruzero, on 02/06/2008, -1/+13This isn't Parkour at all, it has nothing to do with it other than that it looks similar.
There are a number of foot-based sports which have tricks like this. Soccer and particularly Footbag, to name two.
That being said, that doesn't make what these kids are doing any less impressive. - allaboutdatiki, on 02/06/2008, -27/+39no xbox no ps3 no psp no ds ... just a ball ...
- drafhk, on 02/06/2008, -3/+14They jumped from one rooftop to another at the last second. Does that count?
- ep53, on 02/06/2008, -8/+19Special effects? Yes.
- ninsei, on 02/06/2008, -0/+11he means they don't need all that, just a ball!
- sandman979, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9Wasn't Pele Brazilian?
- mgrest, on 02/06/2008, -1/+10I absolutely guarantee you that what you saw in that video was not 100% 'real'. I've played competitive football every week since I was 9 years old (24 years); this includes playing with guys who went on to become professional players in the English league; and anyone in my position will tell you that what you saw was significantly 'shopped' or 'tereffected' or whatever you may wish to call it...
Trust me on this one :) - jonborthwick, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9Not that Alexa is the end all be all of anything, but... Alexa.com has digg averaging a reach of about 0.75% of internet users a day. A wild guess of 200,000,000 internet users in the US gives us 1,500,000 daily visitors. Factor in international visits, and yes, digg reaches millions of people a day.
- orangetiki, on 02/06/2008, -1/+9hey it's easy, free, and you get to millions of kids eyes through digg. why not?
- domness, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7I wouldn't even call it freerunning!
- trevorjez, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7are you serious? you think EA sports would really allow two guys to kick a soccer ball doing back flips above what looks like a freeway? yeah...i'm sure their lawyers totally signed off on that one.
- diggitydoc, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7you must be so active you cannot be bothered to complete words, WOW!
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -1/+8and the americans were extra smart calling it "football" when most of the time it is played with the hands.
- hokkos, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6It's an AD for Fifa Street 3 : http://www.video.fifastreet3.fr/
Viral marketing .... but cool anyway - liquiddarkness, on 02/06/2008, -3/+9What Mr.Austin1337 doesn't understand is that Parkour has a very specific and defined philosophy that goes contrary to tricking. Tricking and Gymnastics have been around for a while now, each with a unique history and definition. People who come from these backgrounds(like his friend) see videos on the web, many of them mislabeled and think, "Oh I've been doing that for years!" Or they simply learn some techniques but never study the philosophy or underlying art. They say, "Parkour and Tricking are essentially the same thing..."
That is just not true. What makes it worse is that these people then make more videos of tricking with some parkour techniques thrown in, call it Parkour and post it on youtube, continuing the cycle. On the other end of the spectrum, you have those that practice and teach Parkour trying to wade through the stream of misconceptions and point newcomers int he right direction.
Parkour is not about doing tricks or showing off or executing a particular technique. It is about leveraging and overcoming all obstacles so efficiently that you could make use of your skills in a life or death situation. With tricking, your goal is to impress. When you do a technique that's it, it's over. Your goal has been completed. If you get hurt doing it, that sucks but at least you pulled it off.
In Parkour, that mindset could get you killed. Please do not spread misinformation. - dalaeth, on 02/06/2008, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour != http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricking
- wellyuk, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Your mum sucks you.
- Ksg89, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Balls have shadows
- sadmax, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5Last i checked all over England its still called football. There's the CFC (Chelsea Football Club) which is the current team that holds the FA cup (Football Association Challenge Cup).
- 0crabby0, on 02/06/2008, -3/+7Video game - but very cool
- domness, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5Haha so when people digg pogfreak down.. we agree? or he's just a knob who wants better stats?
I'd like to think the latter is true. - smacksaw, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4Rooftop jumping, wall jumps...what do you want them to do, run with the ball in their hands? It's no longer footballing at that point, either.
- azkid, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4awesome. 2 thing I both love but suck at.
i don't care if its fake - trevorjez, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3and lebron james can sink full court shots: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/32068/lebron_nba_or_ ...
- Markpdotcom, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3Spanish, French or Italian?
- jmpeagle, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3keep him at 0
- Nayson, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3CGI..
- daytona81, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2no, this wasnt parkour, this was soccer tricks on roofs tops. i i saw one jump on a roof top.
- RedRummy, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2all the hard 'tricks' on there are CGI, mixed in with some nice real stuff.
- mraustin1337, on 02/06/2008, -3/+5I forgot that linking to related sites gets you dugg down. Last time I try to be useful!
- poppieprong, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2Ah. And I was just sitting here thinking, "jeez, that looks like one of those 'street' versions of EA Sports games." I guess I should watch the videos to the end from now on. I shoudn't've dugg it.
- thetaggerung, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2This is the furthest thing from Parkour, and wouldn't even be considered freerunning. This is simply soccer (or futbol) tricks.
(Parkour is efficient movement through the environment with as little extraneous movement as possible. Flips and tricks are certainly NOT Parkour, although they can be incorporated into freerunning, which started off from this discipline. Both Parkour and Freerunning are safe, as most practitioners do NOT go onto rooftops) - davidrools, on 02/06/2008, -6/+8it's as much parkour as it is soccer
- soil, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2it's not shopped, the kick from :07 is just so hard it makes the ball disintegrate when it hits the fence. WOW!
- markross, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2The one teed up off the guy's head is frickin' sweet.
- HibikiRush, on 02/06/2008, -1/+3Buried for being viral marketing, especially for an EA game. Played the demo and the game isn't anything special.
- AlianMark, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1http://agoratalk.com/2008/02/06/interesting-report ...
Interesting reportage - Parkour.
I enjoy this sport, and I like it is. Parkour - forever - travbrack, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1CGI Balls FTW
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids. ... - inactive, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2close enough, it's not like he was icelandic
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