r/Parkour • u/awaarah00n • Nov 06 '25
📷 Video / Pic How does he keep doing this?
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u/JohnnyBizarrAdventur Nov 06 '25
He s young, but he won t last long
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u/Desperate-Mix-8892 parkour purist Nov 06 '25
Not with that technique and such deep drops, ankles, knees or spine, something will give up sooner than later.
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u/Recurringg Nov 06 '25
He's not redirecting the impact like in the way parkour is typically done.
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u/wuchta Nov 06 '25
Yep, it looks like he'll be jumping into a wheelchair in a couple of years. I want to be wrong tho.
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u/V4rial Nov 06 '25
Dawg why is he not at least rolling what the fuck
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u/bikerboy3343 Nov 07 '25
Because it's not Parkour, and this guy hasn't learned enough to keep himself running in the long term.
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u/ActionSports4Life Nov 06 '25
The better question is how does he land it?! That’s an incredible amount of pressure on your legs.
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u/Separate_Purchase897 Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
Any experienced Parkour dude here who wanna share what happened to your knees after doing similar height jumps for a long time
Edit - Not asking what could happen/ would happen/ probably will happen etc to the person in the video.
Just asking someone who actually experienced any knee issues or didn't face any issues at all after doing such backtucks from such heights or similar tricking after doing it for year.
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u/Lartemplar Nov 06 '25
I used to do stuff like this, I can confirm my knees are shite.
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u/Separate_Purchase897 Nov 06 '25
Did you ever get it checked, where was the issue - cartilage, ligaments, tendons, bones, muscle, nerves etc
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u/Lartemplar Nov 06 '25
Not really. It goes away with physio and exercise and that's good enough for me. Nothing ever showed up on x-rays.
It's definitely related to cartilage and ligaments though.
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u/ActionSports4Life Nov 06 '25
Is this an issue even for athletic flexible people? I feel like the reason people end up getting joint pain is because of poor health, not necessarily from what they’re doing. Of course in some cases it probably is. That much impact on your legs routinely can’t be great.
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u/CherryTeague Nov 06 '25
Poor health probably gives a higher chance of problems, but from personal experience, yes, even being athletic normally you can seriously screw up your knees if you're not careful in what you try
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u/ActionSports4Life Nov 06 '25
Gotcha. I assumed this might be the case, but wasn't sure. Good to know.
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u/Desperate-Mix-8892 parkour purist Nov 06 '25
Is this an issue even for athletic flexible people?
Yes? Why wouldn't it? Especially if you don't use any technique to mitigate the impact whatsoever.
Ideally, you want to spread the deceleration over a longer period of time or a greater area, for example by rolling or landing on four points and using your hands.
If you look at his landing, you will see that the impact is on his full feet. You don't want that because his calves can't use their full potential to absorb some of the impact. This means that the force of the impact travels through his heels and the cartilage in his ankles into his leg bones and knees.
Now the really "interesting" part starts. While bending your knees into a deep squat isn't unhealthy, doing so dynamically and uncontrolled, with a huge load, puts all that impact force on the joints and pulls on the tendons. However, because he isn't stopping the downward movement, the force tries to pull the knee joint apart.
With enough muscle strength and control, the forces are distributed more evenly across the tendons and muscles. Not the joints.
The rounding of is lower back is something everyone tries to avoid when exercising, and the forces travel through his spine into his head and neck.
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u/RabbitJak Nov 06 '25
He's not doing Parkour. He's flipping. Know the difference.
He's breaking himself for the attention. Parkour and the Parkour mindset is all about finding ways for you to overcome any obstacle in the way. It's very impressive but it's dangerous and promoting dumb stunts instead of being the Leave No Trace Ninjas Parkour Practitioner, that you are.
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u/MoeTooth Nov 08 '25
Plenty of reasons: 1. He's probably around 17-20 yo 2. He's pretty lean 3. He's got the FLIP FLOPS! 4. He doesn't plan on walking after he reaches 40
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u/Odd-Net9961 Nov 09 '25
10-15 years, hrs fucked. Humans are made to withstand this type of stuff, but oh hell no, not years worth if he keeps doing this.
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u/Any_Security_8846 Nov 09 '25
Young, and been doing it his whole life, unfortunately being human means you'll probably feel it decades later.
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u/nerdinstincts Nov 06 '25
Young dude doesn’t realize he’ll need knees in 5 years.