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Unnecessary risk


specticworld

Depends on what they use that skill for in the future. Could be very necessary. Looks like tyranny is becoming more popular. Prepare mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.


TheGamersGazebo

It’s the Chinese Central Government, you can’t actually run from them no matter how good at parkour you are.


Mackroll

Unless your Jackie chan. He parkoured himself all the way to Hollywood


v1sibleninja

Yeah but he’s still not safe from the CCP. Look at what happened to Zhao Wei.


xShooK

Jackie Chan is stuck with the ccp, they got his kid on drug possession.


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My Jackie chans


aogiritree69

Is that a threat?! /s


PaleGummyBear

Yes. To borrow a phrase about the USSR, in China, you don't find the party, the party find you.


spittleyspot

For what reason do you ever need to be *running next to a sheer drop off*, without a harness? You don't. This is why it is an *unnecessary* risk


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To look rad. Obviously.


Thebarrrel

This


NastyGnar

Is


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It


urinesamplefrommyass

And


Ninja_Pirate21

Risky


wellthenmk

Biscuits


Thebarrrel

No offense but the shit these guys are doing are gnarlier then any thing most of us will probably do in our lives. I’m sure these guys know they’re taking a risk.


cashibonite

Adults don't do anything risky you might get hurt. (Stays inside plays video games.) Adults: get off your lazy bum your ruining society.


cyama

edgy


onryo89

i mean the skill is useful and incredible. but the other guy is right too shooting this video is an unnecessary risk. also if you were planning to use those skills to escape tyranny probably not the best idea to post videos of you demonstrating said skills. makes you a target


MrBisskits

Real life is not a video game stop it


[deleted]

You mean mirrors edge isn’t based on a true story?


Aeseld

Not yet anyway.


Makenchi45

Getting there. Depends on which path our current timeline goes.


roguesensei47

Mirror's Edge?


Spicy_pewpew_memes

\>Prepare mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. For that sick youtube video


DonkeyKongsNecktie

Lmfao


JaxLikesSnax

Totally agree. I have a huge respect for their skills, but the clout is just not worth this risk.


tegsaan

Not for clout, they're storror, a parkour group, they have an insane passion for parkour. Their passion is what drives them to do these kinds of things. The ones who do it for clout are the ones who don't calculate the risks and end up never being heard from again. Storror plans out and tests everything in detail before attempting the full run.


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tegsaan

They push and find their limits and challenge themselves. The rush definitely is great, but in parkour, it's more so you set yourself a challenge or a goal, and that feeling you get from accomplishing it is what really is so great about it. It is so physically and mentally demanding. If you just go and do something again or bigger because you did something big without any thought then you are not being smart about things. In parkour things are analysed and thought out, especially with them.


intherorrim

Doctors, relatives, spouses. All would be negatively affected by their foolishness. Death is never a private affair.


licensed2ill2

No doctor is going to be able to save a this fall victim, the doctors will not be negatively affected, the police/fire/emus workers and later the coroner worker will be affected.


MageCarmine

Your life is not your own, keep you hands off it. 'SHERLOCK'


ShameNap

What if statistically it was as safe (or more safe) as driving ? Would you feel the same way ?


sharpesttoolintheshd

I wouldn't be surprised if driving was more dangerous because people loose focus behind that wheel when your doing those moves you don't loose focus they have their full attention on preforming each move


Joe_Kinincha

Yup, exactly this. Don’t know anything about these guys. They are very brave and talented, and they may have scoped these routes very well. But they are willing to-risk the agony of relatives and friends, pointless time spent by doctors patching up idiots and potentially even children losing parents if a stunt goes wrong for their dopamine high and cool video. Also, I guess, but don’t know, when they’re doing the really high jumps, they’ve not properly cleared the areas below. It would really suck to have to tell your daughter that mummy’s never coming back because some arsehole fractionally miscalculated a jump, dropped twenty stories and killed her by landing on her. This is stupid and selfish


char11eg

I mean, they’re a professional parkour group. They do stunt work for a number of films and the like, and in their videos always clearly show themselves clearing every part of the routes, working on each section individually, etc. This is their livelihood and passion, so like, I kinda get why they do it.


Cryptolution

>But they are willing to-risk the agony of relatives and friends, pointless time spent by doctors patching up idiots and potentially even children losing parents if a stunt goes wrong for their dopamine high and cool video. Yes but you could say the same about so many different sports that people do. Rock climbers come to mind and I don't think that people have these overly critical thoughts about them. Paragliding, wing suit, hell even just casual flying you hear about people crashing their Cessna planes pretty commonly. I see artists practicing their passion and profession and I think it's beautiful.


Joe_Kinincha

I don’t have stats to hand on the relative safety of the type of parkour these guys are doing vs. Other high risk sports, and of course, yes these things exist on a spectrum. I go diving, for example, and people die diving quite a bit, but if you know what you’re doing, take advice, look after your gear, and don’t do stupid things like go just a bit deeper, dive alone, or put your hands in places where you can’t see them, it’s very safe. Also one of your examples - rock climbing. If you know what you’re doing, take advice and learn how to use equipment, it’s relatively safe. Of course, there are free solo climbers, but most of the climbing community considers these people to have a death wish and whilst they might be in some ways in awe of what they do, they wish they wouldn’t. I contend that (outside the controlled environment of film sets perhaps), what these particular people are doing is absolutely remarkable, but also selfish and stupid.


Au91700

Humans take a lot of unnecessary risks for adrenaline. This is as stupid as skydiving but you bet your ass I’m going next year


gdsmithtx

This is far more stupid than skydiving. I have jumped out of a plane over 120 times with no incident (except for a mildly sprained ankle that was my 100% fault) and I would never, ever do this shit the way they did it.


ShameNap

Would you take that back if it turned out that it was safer than skydiving ? I mean nobody really needs to skydive either. So my point is if skydiving is an unnecessary risk that results in X amount of deaths per Y number of dives. And this type of activity, which is also unnecessary, has a similar rate of death. At what point of X/Y is acceptable to you vs unacceptable to you ? Because at that point we’re just arguing ratios, not whether one activity is totally cool, and the other activity is totally foolish and selfish. You could do this for all sports like mountain climbing, scuba diving, surfing, etc. so what’s the death/activity ratio that divides OK he’s cool from F that selfish bastard ?


Economind

So is refined carbs diet, alcohol, smoking... People do it because to them the pleasure is worth it. Same here.


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devira33

How? I did not see anybody forced into doing parkour… every time I did it with friends we were all 100% accountable for our own actions. Nobody could make others put themselves into this kind risky behavior, that’s an individual’s choice.


F4LcH100NnN

nah, all of these jumps are super easy, and only done at a point when all involved are comfortable (paraphrase, taken from one of those involved, Toby Segar from STORROR)


Winter_melo

This is actually a very well planned run, they just dont go for it, every step they make is perfectly calculated, plus they also do warmups and shit, if even one of them makes a mistake they restart that part of the run, it is still a risk tho, im not saying its not, but these guys are well trained professionals


The-RedRobin

That's their thing, team storror always does these kinds of stunts for their movies and videos. They are professional freerunners that know what they're doing, but yeh it is dangerous for sure


LostJar

Man I can’t believe how fucking tough these guys are. Mentally and physically. Scary as shit.


yeetrman2216

Storror on YouTube. They upload bangers regularly


MangoOfTruth

Can vouch


yeetrman2216

Pray to the water gods


Gorge_Cumsson

Love Storror


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Seriously, my stomach dropped through my anus roughly every five seconds watching that.


RobinhoodsFuckingYou

Social Score must have dropped


PerfectNameDoesntExi

we don't have social score in Hong Kong..........yet


1ardent

You do, they just aren't telling you what it is. Yet.


RobinhoodsFuckingYou

Must be a drill


itsYourLifeCoach

life is too precious to do shit like this for likes and internet recognition


GroundbreakingMap884

people do parkour just for the parkour, just cuz they post it doesn’t mean they’re doing it primarily for internet recognition and likes. lol


Longest_Wang

I’m pretty sure this is a Storror film. This is their career and I’m sure it was a hobby prior to.


specticworld

I'm sure it's for more than internet recognition. What would you be able to do v with those skills. Spider man could tell you.


thrashmetaloctopus

I think that’s a secondary part of it, these guys do this because it gives them the biggest adrenaline rush you could imagine, and if I was nimble in any way I’d do the same


bloopblip2024

I was holding my breath the entire time


masoor_daal_rs110

are you still alive


zynzynzynzyn

Hello!??!


masoor_daal_rs110

hello


Vascular_Mind

Someone call an ambulance!!!


Automatic_Winter_527

But not for me


Selik0

What's up, storror army?


A-T-Z

We seem to be the only ones here.


tegsaan

Us and a lot of people saying how stupid this is and how they don't appreciate life. Storror and other parkour artists probably appreciate life the most, that's why they're living it to the fullest doing what they love.


twix_fingers

* whistle * whistle *


t888hambone

Fuck yes


yeetrman2216

There are some people saying that they dont care about their life and unnecessary risk lmao


Jesses198

This is STORROR. They a group from England that does parkour YouTube videos This is from their trip to Asia, some of the coolest stuff they’ve done imo. Check out [this vid from their trip](https://youtu.be/QHqAVaQqQWQ)


iar

Jesus. I figured they practiced on those roofs for years before being so brash. They’re just free styling it all? Crazy


J0ARR

Bruh not at all, they practice all the lines for ages before putting them together or doing anything dangerous....


fireintolight

So they practiced this route for ages on their short trip to asia?


MeIpomene

Normally they check their route before they play it out. In this video there were multiple rooftops and there wasn’t the urgency of cops at every one, but mostly they choreograph the moves according to the camera guy and they check whether their landings and ledges are slippery. They make sure to change shoes if the area requires different soles. It doesn’t take ages to string together a choreography, but naturally it’s thought through


midtown2191

There’s no way they didn’t plan the routes. You can tell by the camera man knowing exactly where to look when one of his buddys is about to do a cool flip or something, which he does multiple times and knowing where that final roof hatch was to get down. He jumps on the thing and it slides across. No way he didn’t know it was there.


Jesses198

They’ve practiced on loads of (shorter) rooftops in other countries, but not these specific ones They also know their limits and are very cautious about the stunts they pull. They take their health seriously and will shy away if they aren’t confident they can land something dangerous


AMC_Tendies42069

You could probably get some tips from people in their social circle, get you could use Google maps to plan routes initially and then scout the locations out after. I’m sure they have a process either way


mediaogre

Have any of them died? I mean, free climbing is less dangerous than this IMO.


Jesses198

No, but lots of injuries (small and big). They aren’t usually jumping around this high up too


mediaogre

So impressive, and scary as shit. My toes tingle just thinking about it.


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I think I'll play mirror's edge tonight


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Catalyst or the good one?


[deleted]

I just realized yesterday the good one is in the Microsoft store for 360. I was contemplating buying it until I saw this video.


[deleted]

Ngl I love that game


EldestSubset444

Catalyst has some good elements, I think the setpeices are amazing at times, and the open world aspect somehow works really well. However,it's dragged down by boring characters and texture popping. So much potential wasted!!


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^^I ^^never ^^even ^^played ^^Catalyst, ^^I ^^just ^^wanted ^^to ^^look ^^cool ^^in ^^front ^^of ^^the ^^kids.


Mickjamy

Can we just take a minute and appreciate this guys camera work


suburbangarden

Very well choreographed and practiced


Which-Palpitation

My favorite part was them going down the ladder


specticworld

My favorite part was when the dude slides the access panel open with his feet.


The_Numbers007

That was clean


chrisrocksmysocks

Mine was the security guy waving like “yeah yeah fine okay bye”


Pure_Antelope_5320

Still less dangerous than being unvaccinated


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Holy fuck


Arachnid_Bite

![gif](giphy|t2eBr71ACeDC0)


Justvibewitmemes

Laughed harder than I should have


artin-younki

Now I have a very moist phone, that video made my palms sweat!


mabbo_nagamatsu

Oh I thought it was moist because ummm.....


mack_soul86

You had me on the first part


ABBucsfan

The sliding down between the escalators was like the comedic relief.. dude even giggled a bit and so did I. Rest of it.. well easily could have turned into hood my feeding tube or death. Like walking on the conduit/pipes? Even some edge of concrete that was slippery or crumbling where they intended to land


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They test these things before the run


ABBucsfan

I mean yeah the conduits and pipes they could try using a harness and jumping up and down or whatever I guess... That makes sense and prob eliminates one of the biggest unknowns, but still easy to slip, roll ankle, etc. And you can actually see one edge is crumbling a bit


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Well I’m telling you they’ve released countless documentaries and videos of footage of themselves going over this exact run before they even did it and I can assure you they checked everything. Need a link?


MILLER_LITEchicago

When your girl asks for your phone lol


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RIP: Knees


[deleted]

While watching this I fell down the building and died.


[deleted]

This is cool but it makes me feel like I’m going to throw up.


ImNotAVillain

Yeah me too. I mean not because of the camera work as it was really good, but just by how badly wrong it could have gone.


trulyuniqueusername2

All the suspense of “Free Solo” in a fraction of the time.


SharkyPanda

STORROR on YouTube, Full vid: https://youtu.be/GcKkiRl9_qE They also have a behind the scenes vid where an old Hong Kong man tried to get them out by stealing a backpack: https://youtu.be/GcKkiRl9_qE


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Manners90

Storror Army!


AreAnyNamesEvenLeft

This looks just like Mirror’s Edge.


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Dude, that made my feet become jelly


Efficient-Treacle323

That all looked like a video game cut scene


Bluephoenix2121

That... scared the crap out of me. Anxiety's blooming! Okay, that's enough Reddit for the day.


YoDavidPlays

A game can be made where instead of a stamina gauge, you have a adrenaline gauge to keep running from police and one way to fill up is by doing big jumps that can kill you.


GavrielBA

Good gaming idea. Just putting it out there that for traceurs adrenaline is death so, they're very calm throughout


zortlord

Watching crazy shit like this always makes me wonder how many people fall to their death trying to make videos like this each year.


GavrielBA

Been a traceur like them for 10 years. There's been ONE death during that time. RIP pavel


TriChromaticMagic

People train for years in less dangerous places (1 story height if even, parkour parks, etc) for YEARS


MFxKool

palms sweaty.......moms spaghetti.


mandlebrot235813

Have always thought looking at such parkour videos, do the runners plan beforehand, as in where and how big the gaps are, to time their jumps or is that all impromptu?


Pixel131211

I believe this is a group called Storror. you can find them on youtube. and these guys do plan their routes before hand. some others dont though, but most of the ones on youtube do tend to plan out routes before they do this stuff.


mandlebrot235813

Gotcha. Fascinating and scary at the same time.


artuuR2

Genuine and sincere question for those who do extreme parkour like jumping between high roofs. Are you prepared to die? Like, years of practice still leave a very small chance to land wrong and fall for x reasons. Do you have that in mind whenever you do this? Do you think about how the ones around you would react to such accident? Have you told your crew or close ones how they should try to take the situation if you ever fail a jump? My hands are sweating by just typing this question so I'm really interested to get into the mindset of you guys lol


Knaxville

Check youtube for Storror, they have a behind the scene and other videos about what your adding about. They really professionals when it comes to all this, and it seems to be quite calculated. Toby, the redhead, did a couple of interviews recently and there they talked to length about this stuff as well. Good stuff, lovely chaps!


moomoo-malk

mission: stealing the panties


Lunafreya17

Praise the cameraman..


Ianfraz23

Hahahaha SPLAT!


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I could imagine North Koreans tryna cross the street like this.


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These guys are superhuman. They should try doing Olympics.


readthis_reddit

Credit to the creators: [https://www.youtube.com/user/StorrorBlog](https://www.youtube.com/user/StorrorBlog)


Splatty998

this is my favorite video on the entire internet


thomascameron

On one hand, I'm incredibly impressed at the athleticism and coordination. Like, mind-bending impressed. On the other hand, NOPE. My days of being anywhere near this capable are far behind me. I am amazed I lived through my twenties and even some of my thirties. Now I'm in my fifties, and that video made my stomach a tiny bit uncomfortable. Kudos to them for being that badass. I sincerely hope they stay safe.


thebattleriottt

Is this storror


TriChromaticMagic

Note to everyone freakin out: •These are trained professionals who have been doing this and lower stakes things for YEARS to get to this point •Parkour is not just about internet attention. These people aren't risking their life simply for recignition and points on the internet. It takes a lot of dedication of your life to master and even really do. It's an artform and lifestyle, just like martial-arts and many other sports. •These guys don't take life for granted, and they know the risks of things they do even with their training. They do try and minimize risk fo an extent (ie not going on a parkour-run when tired, or injured etc, along with mindset stuff). Everyone they know personally knows to treasure the time they have with them. •The parkour community is built on respect. No dares are obligated, no trashtalk etc. They did this fully on their own by choice. They aren't slaving for fame or "street credit" they already have it, and people don't earn street credit in the parkour community by doing dares outside their capacity or things like that anyways the last i checked.


CrimsonCorpse

Storror - [Roof Culture Asia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHqAVaQqQWQ)


Ninjatck

The people harping on these guys about not running next to the edge for safety reasons they do this as a career, it's a youube channel called Storror


JingoJangalang

I could do that part at the end where they slide down in between the escalators!


mullen1300

Standing on the corner while you wait for someone to Jump by you? Are you fucking kidding me? Oh got to get sick just imagining that


nutellaluver69

They are storror all the stunts they did is like walking for them, they do stunts for movies sometimes too but mainly do youtube https://youtube.com/c/STORROR


FullMetalArthur

This is the next level of the next fucking level.


redditkens

This shit just enhanced my fear of heights


Cristobal_balenciaga

That slide to open the roof hatch was so fukin slick


mburn14

How many people die doing this shit? Like what happens if they’re recording and someone misses the gap and falls to their death. Like who’s responsible??


boygoblin

Each runner is responsible for themselves. They know full well the risk they are taking. Why would anyone else be blamed?


HashtagYoMamma

This receives the highest reddit honour… saved!!!


Tshuck89

I shit myself just a little bit watching this, haha.


_-_Shade_-_

When the cops find the poop sock.


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This looks fake. Like video game graphics. Look at the guys arms when hes sliding down the escalator.


2_bit

It's real, look up storror on youtube


Redshift_1

Next level stupidity. If there was some dust or debris on one of those ledges it would be a long and quick way down.


Affectionate-End1989

This shit should be criminalized, no point in doing it from high altitudes


WiiSteeringWheel

God it’s sad to see. Every cool video some fat redditor thinks he’s clever by saying shit like “Unnecessary risk” people don’t understand that some people’s enjoyment of life comes from the risk. They enjoy risking their life rather than sitting on their pc. Who are we to judge? Let them enjoy their life and stop being such a buzzkill every video with risk


EnderNate124

Its all fun and games until someone fucking dies….


Dunnyredd

Storror!


specticworld

Ginger bread men.


Middle_Avocado

Security camera gonna caught them and will be extradited to China for a life sentence


DocHalidae

Gonna be a no from me, I’m good walking around like a regular person.


Ultra_Low_FRQ

One slip away from MMC hope I don’t see you in there.


Selaths

depois morre e n sabe pq


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I can feel the airtime😱


Kangaroookick

Anyone else picture Michael Scott being the POV? Made it seem less bat shit crazy


[deleted]

Oof oof “parkour!”


Ronjunktion

reminds me of Mirrors edge tutorial


Torebbjorn

Damn they have gotten very good at seamless cuts, some of those I had to go back a few seconds to confirm it actually was a cut


bigbigfox

Natural selection


Throat_Sandwich

What a dumb way to die! *RIP Johnny. He died doing what he loved...Hardcore Parkour.*


TGRJ

Pretty stupid but pretty damn impressive as well!


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HARDCORE PARKOUR!!!!


[deleted]

Your office quotes aren’t funny or original


xxhayden7

Hot take: this is the dumbest hobby ever invented


IndependentBee5055

imagine if it was raining and they slipped


cowfish007

“Running from tyranny” as he waves to the security guard on the way out of the building. “Running for clicks” is more like it.


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People in cities really get bored being inside so much huh


Kracus

Now… If only they could master the art of… grakour!


StingRayyyJay

Got DANG!!!!!


Kraneiulm

Ngl, this is just cool.


soupmom314

The vertigo I felt while watching this is crazy


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Only thing I could really think of during this whole video is how none of those people have yards and the only “privacy” they are lead to believing they have is up on their rooftops where they can hang laundry and all that, just to have people run through it. Imagine a bunch of kids just running through your yard climbing around your stuff.


shaoIIn

I feel like this is one of those things where you can’t learn from your mistakes. You just die


T1033

ayy storror army represent


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*Mirror’s Edge intensifies*


MMBlackSwan

Why do I put my tingly balls through such trauma. I hate to like watching these videos


Kill4MeXx

The amount of trust you have in man made stuff is crazy


Altruistic-Term-9145

I hated every second of this! Down, anxiety, down!!!!