See also: http://www.videosift.com/video/Weird-Nature-BBC-Wildlife-A-Spotted-Skunk-That-Handstands

Bananular? You know that there's no point in comparing the 'efficiency' of running up a wall versus doing pushups on a kayak, right? Parkour will never be 'efficient' - taking the bus to where you want to go is 'efficient.' Parkour, or handstands on your skateboard, is just fun.

Seriously, when Is the palm plant back-flip EVER going to do you any good? I'm more of a fan of parkour, getting from point A to B as fast as possible. I agree, these guys are insanely talented, but I don't see them running up walls, falling from heights into rolls, or doing any kind of creative EFFICIENT technique of vaulting over an obstacle. Sure, the beginning was pretty amazing when they were flipping over the railing, but then they just wanted to show off by doing handstands on it. These are grown men showing off to four year olds in a playground how many one handed pull-ups they can do. I'd put money on them being able to do more impressive stunts including more obstacles.

I can do a handstand on my skateboard while moving, jump from my hands onto my feet and keep rolling. do I get a medal? maybe they're gym rats and could break my left arm in a right handed arm wrestle, but I think my skateboard handstand requires more coordination than any of these moves.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'help, persistence, backpack, handstands for you, chairlift' to 'help, persistence, backpack, handstands for you, bruises, chairlift' - edited by calvados

Tags for this video have been changed from 'help, persistence, backpack' to 'help, persistence, backpack, handstands for you, chairlift' - edited by calvados

You can skate up the wall in a handstand, do a 900, pause for ten minutes at the top, have a glass of water, do another 900, then ride on your fingertips to the bottom, but you can't climb the wall and skate down.

Yeah, the handstand is the kicker...

I have pissed longer then that in the past and yes I have a very large bladder. But it's a rarity and I'd have to go extremely bad. Granted, I've never done a handstand while doing it.

Thats obvioulsy a faulty treadmill... a treadmill handstand is one of the safest things you can do.

>> ^dgandhi:
Question for anybody who has done honor guard duty: Is this a massive breach of protocol? What is a marine "supposed" to do in such a situation?
I know Obama being commander-in-chief probably changes, or at least confounds, all the rules, but that marine looks very shocked.


I'd say as Commander and Chief if he asked the guy to do a handstand it'd be okay =)

Heaven forfend, a leader who respects his troops and acknowledges them as actual people rather than prospective death toll numbers. *shock horror*

There's no reason why many Aikido techniques shouldn't work in a sport setting. Sure there may be some things they do that are illegal - but lots of it is sport-legal strikes and holds designed to protect against the very same attacks used in sport fighting.

For example, the first part of this video shows a counter to a guy punching (the air a ways from) your face. Surely if you were able to block a punch like that and then do a whole bunch of crap before the guy reacted, you could just block that punch and punch him back (and do very well in a sport fight situation).

I mean, couldn't you do some Aikido training by having a guy really trying to punch your face? Wouldn't that do a better job of getting you ready? Or at least do that some of the time to get a feel for a real fighting situation. I mean, sure you wouldn't be poking his eyes out or something - but at least you could practice that first part where you counter his punch by touching his shoulder and then holding your other arm up there. You know, see if that actually works: feel what it feels like to do in real life.

I can't imagine training this way. I mean, imagine training basketball only in drills. Imagine training wrestling only with collusive opponents. I realize those things aren't exactly the same, but they're a lot the same. And sure there is going to be distortions when sport competition becomes prevalent, but I think that can be managed.

Other arts aren't perfect. Surely boxing isn't a lot like a "to-the-death" fight with 100 opponents with bottles (or whatever fantasy situation we're imagining)... but the key is that someone who practices boxing (or anything) is going to be used to feeling pain, used to having a real punch coming at them, and is actually going to be used to using their "weapon" on an unwilling opponent. They're going to have something they can pull out - whether that's a single-leg takedown, a straight left, or whatever - that they've really hurt unwilling people with before. I think that's huge.

In the end, the sad defense of these arts is usually "they were used for 100s of years and blah, blah, blah". The problem is is that for those periods, it's not like there was anyone collecting statistics, nor was it like these were the default modes of combat in those times.

There is no time in human history when war in general was conducted without weapons. It's not like we ever had two unarmed groups running at each other and we could see whose training worked out better. If unarmed defense was ever practical against armed defense, any study of it was always anecdotal and almost certainly biased. It couldn't not be - you can't repeat the experiment with the same people 10 times if the experiment involved serious injury (and learning between trials, and random choosing of specific strategy).

Edit: my point is is that the same "it's been studied hard for ages" could be said about Chinese medicine. Sure it's been around for 100s of years, but it wasn't really studied scientifically or rigorously - and as such you get some good things that clearly work, some things that kind of work (but probably rely heavily on placebo effect), but also a lot of nonsense, horrible theory, very little progress over time, and some things that are completely backwards.

PS: Gah, I just watched some of the video again. In one part, buddy throws a right and pretty much gives up his whole back to the other guy. I mean, you might as well train a counter for the situation where you duck down to avoid a punch and the other guy follows your head down and ends up in a handstand. How anyone can take this seriously is beyond me and I regret having wasted so much text on it.

Freerunners don't montage their flips on padded surfaces. I like cong to precision handstand though. That's pretty tuff.

If you count her feet, legs, arms, hands, a bit of stomach, neck, and all of her head, you've got more than 50 percent. You kids today will complain about any 'tang, won't you?

>> ^CamW:
i feel slightly ripped off actually... i feel i didn't get my full 50% nudity as promised

>> ^quantumushroom:
You can't watch these overly-flexible broads for too long.
A hot girl should never look like a praying mantis, even when she's praying.


Speak for yourself, QM. I think I'm in love.

Hahah nice 'fix'.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Thanks for the idea. I...uh...fixed the title.

In reply to this comment by karkarlee:
_{I suggest telling people it's a cute blond in a top and undies doing this. Might get more attention.}