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Parkour Soccer! watch!

youtube.com — Insane! Crazy skills on these guys! Someone in the YouTube comments thinks there might be some CG involved, but it looks to me like plain ol' practice, practice, practice.

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  • allaboutdatiki, on 02/06/2008, -27/+39no xbox no ps3 no psp no ds ... just a ball ...
    • BriscoeJr, on 02/06/2008, -16/+2WTF are you talking about?
      • ninsei, on 02/06/2008, -0/+11he means they don't need all that, just a ball!
    • 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.
    • Servebot, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1no tubes
  • ophello, on 02/06/2008, -15/+6Where do I sign up?
  • FameMoney, on 02/06/2008, -28/+10Fake ....special effects !
    • fontoon, on 02/06/2008, -9/+3you sound like a couch potato , just because you would never get your lazy arse of the couch (and probably couldn't) doesn't me others haven't
      • diggitydoc, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7you must be so active you cannot be bothered to complete words, WOW!
  • bobbybobington, on 02/06/2008, -15/+105Cool? Yes. Soccer? Yes. Parkour? No.
    • drafhk, on 02/06/2008, -3/+14They jumped from one rooftop to another at the last second. Does that count?
      • 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.
    • ep53, on 02/06/2008, -8/+19Special effects? Yes.
    • mraustin1337, on 02/06/2008, -12/+6This kinda stuff is awesome. My friend has a site for tutorials on "tricking" (another name for parkour) http://www.tricksession.com/ There is usually tons of information you can find just for your area too, for example there is a parkour training class this summer in Colorado (where I live) that I'm taking. It's only like $200.

      I really wonder what will happen with this sort of "sport."
      • mraustin1337, on 02/06/2008, -3/+5I forgot that linking to related sites gets you dugg down. Last time I try to be useful!
        • smacksaw, on 02/06/2008, -2/+3No, just that there is no other name for parkour.
          • mraustin1337, on 02/06/2008, -4/+2Parkour and Tricking are essentially the same thing...

            "Parkour ... is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour]

            "Tricking ... is the informal name of a relatively new underground alternative sport movement, combining martial arts, gymnastics, breakdancing and other performing arts to create an 'aesthetic blend of flips, kicks, and twists.'" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricking]

            They fit into the same category. If you can do one the other will come more easily... Due to the similarity I believe that my statement was correct and informative.
          • gudnbluts, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1"They fit into the same category. If you can do one the other will come more easily"

            So do American Football and Rugby. It doesn't make them the same thing. Parkour is (oversimplifying) but running, jumping etc. across rooftops, buildings and other public and private constructions. It's all about getting from a to b in interesting ways. Tricking doesn't require any of that.
      • dalaeth, on 02/06/2008, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour != http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricking
    • 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.
      • 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.
    • davidrools, on 02/06/2008, -6/+8it's as much parkour as it is soccer
    • 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.
      • surf314, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1Yea we did some basic parkour stuff in my kung fu class, or at least the kung fu equivalent. It was mostly about not hurting yourself. For instance one of the exercises was jumping from a height and trying to jump far forward and then roll, the goal being to learn how to efficiently convert your downward momentum into forward momentum. Because the downward momentum is what'll get you hurt.
  • BoneStamp, on 02/06/2008, -20/+16Anytime something amazing is in a video or picture people say after effects or photoshop was used. Maybe I'm really naive, but I like to believe that once in a while there are amazing people with great talent and this is one of those cases. Plus, I have trouble believing FIFA would endorse this video if After Effects were used (http://www.fifastreet3.com).
    • 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?
    • 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.
    • jppott, on 02/06/2008, -3/+0actually if you browse the site some I think you might find that it is real.... http://www.fifastreet3.com/flash/wk/player.asp
    • 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 :)
    • 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!
    • DarQraven, on 02/07/2008, -0/+0Simplest example to prove that it's fake is 0:39. First you see the green guy kicking the ball at about a 30 degree angle, and it takes roughly two seconds to get to the other guy. Then the next kick is also at about a 30 degree angle, yet takes NEARLY FOUR seconds to get to the other guy so he has enough time to do his walljump. Unless they somehow found a way to slow time or change the gravitational constant at will, this is impossible.
  • 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.
    • orangetiki, on 02/06/2008, -1/+9hey it's easy, free, and you get to millions of kids eyes through digg. why not?
    • isaactwito, on 02/06/2008, -2/+2I don't get the part where millions of people read digg. From the 'big' stories only getting a couple thousand diggs I doubt there are all too many people who use digg that much.
      • 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.
    • 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.
    • mombassa, on 02/06/2008, -5/+2Soccer balls don't move like that? Perhaps your balls don't get enough action.
    • crazyhorse13, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1I agree. If these people have the ball control necessary to pull off these tricks, none of them should ever miss the goal.
  • sronbheatha, on 02/06/2008, -16/+7Here's an ad from the game to prove it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPp9pEn62no
    • centran, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1Is this the new Rick Roll'd? Really? The sewage spill over show that is called Tim and Eric take a crap and put it on film?
      What are we going to call this new rick roll....
      You've been sat!
  • stevegraham, on 02/06/2008, -7/+32Or parkour football to the rest of the world
    • GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 02/06/2008, -10/+8FAIL: The Caribbean, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand... all call it soccer.
      You know America didn't learn about "football" and say "eff you we're gonna call it soccer." When it arrived here we already had a thriving sport called football. So we used a secondary term, FROM ENGLAND by they way, SOCCER. So soccer is an English term that we use to keep it straight.
      • charlesdavisIII, on 02/06/2008, -5/+3futbol actually
      • 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.
        • Markpdotcom, on 02/06/2008, -2/+3I don't think there is a problem with its use, just the way many (not all) American's claim the term "football" as their own, when clearly it has historical roots else where to apply to something else. Football is Football in your country, else where in the world its something else.

          Don't tell me I am wrong for calling my game Football, just because you know it as something else.
      • 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).
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 02/06/2008, -4/+2So the Native Americans invented football? I have a hard time believing that American football was played before any Americans knew about soccer.
        • adraft, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2Wow you missed the point big time. He said by the time soccer made the leap to America (started gaining ground in America, that is), we had already grown attached to American football. So whether or not Americans knew of soccer (they did) doesn't matter, it just wasn't as popular, just the way it is today.
          • sgtbutterscotch, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1That's preposterous. You might as well say soccer has NEVER caught in the United States of America, because I'm pretty sure it's never "made the leap to America."
      • DeFex, 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.
        • wellyuk, on 02/06/2008, -2/+3Rugby (full and proper name is Rugby Football) played with the hands mostly, but it is a kind of football.

          Australian rules football is also mainly played with the hands but in Australia, it is referred to as football.

          "While it is widely believed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot. These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. While there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has even been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball."

          And have a read here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28word%29

          Stop being so ***** pompous about the word football.
      • wellyuk, on 02/07/2008, -2/+1Actually, you'll find that the history of soccer and American football in the US began roughly the same time, around the 1860s. And that the word "football" was used in the US for a significant number of years - the US Soccer Federation was named the US Football Association until the 1945 (when it became the US Soccer Football Association) and didn't drop the word football from it's name until 1974.
  • Rizzinator, on 02/06/2008, -8/+2amazing
  • baker1181, on 02/06/2008, -17/+5If only I was Mexican.
    • ep53, on 02/06/2008, -3/+3If only you were Mexican...What? You could kick a football like Pele?
      • sandman979, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9Wasn't Pele Brazilian?
        • uziko, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2close enough, it's not like he was icelandic
        • ep53, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1I was using Pele as an example....Could have been Beckham
    • Paperthin, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2they were French.
  • musters, on 02/06/2008, -6/+1Kick Ass!
  • 0crabby0, on 02/06/2008, -3/+7Video game - but very cool
  • monkeybiscut, on 02/06/2008, -7/+0i wish this was real! It would be soooo cool (still is kinda)!
  • Csaliture, on 02/06/2008, -10/+1That was way better than I thought it was going to be. Parkour is awesome.
  • Skafia, on 02/06/2008, -4/+53Just because they're one rooftops and kicking, doesn't make it parkour.
  • xb0xterr0rist, on 02/06/2008, -6/+1Damn
  • 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.
  • 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
  • mrblue182, on 02/06/2008, -8/+1thats not parkour, thats freerunning.
    • domness, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7I wouldn't even call it freerunning!
  • HolemCross, on 02/06/2008, -2/+37Shaolin Soccer?
  • TreatsTheBear, on 02/06/2008, -4/+1Holy crap that's awesome.
  • pogfreak, on 02/06/2008, -11/+2Parkour is such a gay word. digg me down if you agree!
    • 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.
  • azkid, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4awesome. 2 thing I both love but suck at.

    i don't care if its fake
  • ravensncrows, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1id love to see some of this on regular league game
  • IZasPIE, on 02/06/2008, -4/+1WOW! That is so tight!
  • synned, on 02/06/2008, -6/+1Digg me up if I'm wrong...but isn't that Mia Hamm?
    • Tyorant, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1Nice try, but no e-penis extension for you today.
  • 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.
    • MattZed, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2I wish some TFC players could pull those moves. =(
  • Pete7872, on 02/06/2008, -3/+1i saw this a few days ago, it was to fake for me to even enjoy..that ronaldinho video a few years ago was cool, but i found out that was fake and now its to easy to spot
    • melonade, on 02/07/2008, -1/+1Why do you think something has to be real to be cool?
  • Jsmuli2, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1dugg for being fake but entertaining
  • poppieprong, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1It'd be kinda neat if they were real, and then toured like the Harlem Globetrotters. Or maybe not.
  • OpticalLiam, on 02/06/2008, -4/+4Digg, you used to be cool.
  • squarez, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1These guys are awesome.
  • n0c0ntr0l, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2That ain't parkour. Parkour is about moving from A to B as fast as possible. I'm learning it in my spare time, and much more emphasis is placed on jumping from place to place than kicks and spins
  • skribble, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsO6D1rwrKc
  • markross, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2The one teed up off the guy's head is frickin' sweet.
  • hokkos, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6It's an AD for Fifa Street 3 : http://www.video.fifastreet3.fr/
    Viral marketing .... but cool anyway
  • 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.
  • crinzema, on 02/06/2008, -2/+2Remember the Lebron James Nike commercials with the full court shots? THAT WAS SO AWSOME! The digg community IQ is now 0.
  • RedRummy, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2all the hard 'tricks' on there are CGI, mixed in with some nice real stuff.
  • AzMegladon, on 02/06/2008, -9/+2its not soccer, it ball skills, nice vid. soocer is gay
  • 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)
  • mombassa, on 02/06/2008, -2/+1This the Beautiful Game taken to a new level.

    Beautiful simplicity and elegance. Nothing that could be appreciated by pimple faced, fatass American video game playing fools.
  • DeFex, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1Holy nit picking diggers batman! I didn't even know what "parkour" was and now i already have 10 different contradicting explanations!
  • wellyuk, on 02/06/2008, -3/+1Very impressive but better ball skills here:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=MzOpjBOzMqA
  • Nayson, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3CGI..
  • tensvb, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1Cool, though not Soccer nor Parkour
  • s1mulacra, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1its like AND1 soccer....minus the doo-rags.
  • 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
  • Ksg89, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Balls have shadows
  • thetanman, on 02/06/2008, -8/+3Soccer sucks.
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