View Full Version : Danny MacAskill's new video 'Industrial Revolutions'
Awesome skill, saw it on Ch4's Concrete Circus, which also showcased Parkour, flatland BMX and skateboard videos.
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DarrenSV650S
15-08-11, 11:39 PM
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=169798
I thought he deserved his own thread :P
robh539
16-08-11, 09:37 AM
concrete circus was awesome, the free running was nuts in places. good post mate
Sir Trev
16-08-11, 10:57 AM
the free running will fill hospitals with numpties trying to copycat...
Corrected for you.
Although the jumps and moves can look amazing it does rather encourage ham-fisted idiots with no coordination or sense of balance to have a go and break several bones. Trouble is people should be able to have a go if they want - perhaps there should be an aptitude test first, a bit like CBT.
parkour - grrrr i have a HUGE soapbox about that.
but Danny Mac was great!
robh539
16-08-11, 11:49 AM
Corrected for you.
Although the jumps and moves can look amazing it does rather encourage ham-fisted idiots with no coordination or sense of balance to have a go and break several bones. Trouble is people should be able to have a go if they want - perhaps there should be an aptitude test first, a bit like CBT.
I agree, hopefully people have sense than to try copy it, although natural selection and all that lol. I'm very happy watching the experts do it from the sofa lol
I agree, hopefully people have sense than to try copy it, although natural selection and all that lol. I'm very happy watching the experts do it from the sofa lol
Nah, is more fun watching the clueless uncoordinated wannabes hurt themselves :D
daveyrach
17-08-11, 08:38 AM
parkour - grrrr i have a HUGE soapbox about that.
but Danny Mac was great!
Why?? Keeps em busy gives em summit to do. So what if they hurt emselves, everyone has to start these things somewhere. My boy does BMX-ing (Not Flatland) when he started he smashed his face his fractured his arm and had various cuts, grazes and bruises now he is very good at it, worst thing recently is a wrecked pair of trainers
Danny Mac was awesome as usual as well
Sir Trev
17-08-11, 10:47 AM
Nah, is more fun watching the clueless uncoordinated wannabes hurt themselves :D
I used to feel like that. Going home from lectures when at uni I used to pass an area that the skateboarding kids frequented, and would laugh out loud when they fell off - more so when they started bleeding. Trouble is I'm a taxpayer now and realise I am footing the A&E bill for fixing them up again...
arenalife
17-08-11, 01:16 PM
Cool stuff like this makes all that Olympics discuss/javelin/hurdles stuff look like toss
hindle8907
17-08-11, 05:30 PM
brilliant.
carelesschucca
17-08-11, 05:37 PM
Why is everyone so down on people copying things like this?
Yes these guys you see are experts, but did they instantly become experts or did they start off with no skills copying the experts they saw?
daveyrach
18-08-11, 08:40 AM
Why is everyone so down on people copying things like this?
Yes these guys you see are experts, but did they instantly become experts or did they start off with no skills copying the experts they saw?
+1
Bluepete
18-08-11, 08:57 AM
I am in awe of what Danny Mac can do on a bike. Those drops he does would break me let alone me on a bike!
As for parcour, it's very cool when done well, like those lads. I always have a laugh thinking about trying to catch them for something.
Me; "Chasing suspects on foot...lost 'em."
Feckers.
Grumbles about how I could do that as a lad whilst skulking back to my car...
Oh, and nothing is funnier that watching a bunch of rubbish skateboarders trying tricks, failing miserably and trying to look cool as if they didn't want to do the trick at all!
Pete ;)
Why is everyone so down on people copying things like this?
Yes these guys you see are experts, but did they instantly become experts or did they start off with no skills copying the experts they saw?
cos its danngerous and may of the copiers (younger one just starting off) use private property to do it.
strange view to hold for me as I don't mind skateboarders. THink I;ve had enough of KSI ramming parkour down my throat saying the kids want it the kids should get it and therefore fund me £8k to do it!
best bit chair of the group is a cop and Like bluepete doesn't what to teach the scroates how to get away!:D:D
daveyrach
18-08-11, 09:54 AM
Like has been mentioned they all have to start somewhere, motorcycling is dangerous when you first start out and remains dangerous the whole time your on the road. Can lose the police on an M/C just as easily.
Sir Trev
18-08-11, 11:09 AM
Like has been mentioned they all have to start somewhere, motorcycling is dangerous when you first start out and remains dangerous the whole time your on the road. Can lose the police on an M/C just as easily.
True to an extent. You cannot start biking on the road until you are deemed old enough to be sensible (ha ha ha) but some of these emulators may well be very young and very stupid. Of course people should be able to have a go at things but come on - an eight year old leaping off rooftops trying out the free running he saw on Channel 4 is just asking for trouble. Time and place for everything. I hate the ever-tightening H&S mentality but this is potentially lethal.
daveyrach
18-08-11, 11:49 AM
True to an extent. You cannot start biking on the road until you are deemed old enough to be sensible (ha ha ha) but some of these emulators may well be very young and very stupid. Of course people should be able to have a go at things but come on - an eight year old leaping off rooftops trying out the free running he saw on Channel 4 is just asking for trouble. Time and place for everything. I hate the ever-tightening H&S mentality but this is potentially lethal.
I agree, but i remember being 8 years old and thinking WWF Wrestling was the dogs and jumping out of trees, I turned out OK (relatively), at the end of the day kids will be kids and they will do stupid things. We all have.
Easy to moan and criticise when your all grown up and sensible, just got to remember what we were like when we were young.
SoulKiss
18-08-11, 01:25 PM
Can lose the police on an M/C just as easily.
Unless you have taken your plate off - erm no.
Also - can you outrun a Helicopter?
daveyrach
18-08-11, 03:07 PM
Unless you have taken your plate off - erm no.
Also - can you outrun a Helicopter?
There's always one.
I know it is impossible to outrun a helicopter. My point was you can lose a car or copper on foot just as easily as running, you are likely to be caught eventually in either case.
carelesschucca
18-08-11, 09:35 PM
Unless you have taken your plate off - erm no.
Also - can you outrun a Helicopter?
If your john McGuinness you can!!! Therefore working on that principle yes it is a viable idea... I'm not, so I'm not going to try.
We should let kids be kids, my god I wouldn't dream of doing stuff I did when I was a teen or younger, worst crash I've ever had was on a pushbike at 8 years old. Its the only highside I've ever had. I remember the peddle hitting the ground me going up and thats it... I woke up being carried home by my mates and covered in bloody I lost 4 teeth, well I didn't my friend went back and found them for me :)
Just kids doing dumb sh** as Ice Cube would say.
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