I don’t usually listen to podcasts and generally I’m not interested in them but my brother listens to them quite regularly and he would let me listen to some of them. Occasionally, instead of putting on music when driving he would put on a podcast. Earlier this month, while driving to college he put on this podcast by a well known youtuber, Markiplier talking about his experience learning parkour in school. He even uploaded the podcast with animation of the events to go with the storytelling. It wasn’t a professional class but basically a gathering of three or four students who came after this one kid proclaimed to know parkour and offered to teach people after school.
The youtuber went thinking they would do some beginner parkour and at first they did albeit with a little risk factor of doing it on the forth story ledge of a building, but then they decided to jump off the second story and to do a forward roll as they land. The alleged teacher demonstrated first and then the others went one by one. The second person managed to do it and so came the youtuber’s turn. He jumped off and lands on his butt from the second floor. Weirdly, he was fine but the person who went after him fell on his face. I’m surprised no one died.
Well his experience did remind me of doing stupid things as a kid like riding the bike without holding the handles. That didn’t go well. Blood marked the end of that event. Back in school, I also remember kids trying to jump down a set of stairs and jumping from bench to bench in the waiting area. I think it involved 90% guts and 10% skills. The kids who managed to do it, all had this fearless confidence.
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