Parkour FAILS

[Royal Dragon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Nlk7n1KQI&dpos=0

[GeneChing]

Perhaps I just haven't tuned into Parkour deaths. So tragic.

Bridge Jumping Chinese Parkour Enthusiast’s Body Found
by Peter Barefoot on Monday, April 15, 2013



From Sina:
Body of Sichuan Parkour Enthusiast Who Went Missing After Jumping into River Found 8 Days Later

From Chengdu Commercial Daily (reported by Zhou Taiyang, Zhang Bingrao), April 6, Parkour enthusiast Wang Zijian went missing after jumping into the Tuojiang River from Tuojiang Bridge No.1 in Luhzou which is located at where the Yangtze River and Tuojiang River meet. Yesterday [April 14], on the 8th day of Wang Zijian’s disappearance, his body was found over 10 kilometers away downstream in the Yangtze River.

Yesterday [April 14] morning, over 10 kilometers on the Yangtze River downstream from where the incident occurred, on a sand dredger near the Guifei Garden of Luhzou Jiangyang District Huangyi Town, boatman Old Qiu was busy as usual. “Old Qiu, seems like something got caught by the buoy tender,” a nearby boatman from the Junfeng told Old Qiu. Then, Old Qiu asked the captain of the Qinglong No.9 to go check it with him on a skiff. When the skiff was near the buoy tender, they discovered that the steel cable of the buoy tender had hooked a dead body. The two of them called the police afterwards. The police dispatched a speedboat to salvage the body. According to a policeman at the scene, there were no evident bruises on the body, “however, because of the huge impact from the dive, his face was apparently twisted/warped.”

Because the characteristics of the dead body was similar to the height of the previously missing Wang Zijian, the police informed this situation to Wang Zijian’s family members. Yesterday [April 14] afternoon, at about 2:30pm, Wang Zijian’s mother, his uncle, and some other family members arrived at the Luzhou City morgue. The Wangs identified the deceased as indeed being Wang Zijian. Upon seeing him, mother Wang burst into tears: “Jian Jian, you can’t do this to your mother…” She passed out before she could finish. The other family members immediately rushed to bring her back to consciousness.

According to Wang Zijian’s uncle, because of his parents’ divorce, Wang Zijian has lived with his mother ever since he was small. “She suffers from depression, and before this, her son was her biggest concern. Now her boy is gone, and we don’t know if she can get through this.” It has been known that Wang Zijian’s body will be cremated today [April 15]. After Wang Zijian’s disappearance, other parkour enthusiasts in Luzhou had from time to time come to the riverside to mourn him. “Now that the child has been found, we’ll tell the other enthusiasts, so they can see Jian Jian one last time,” says Wang Zijian’s uncle.

Comments from Sina:

手机用户 [四川成都]:

These kids know only to do things they like, but forget to do things their parents like~which is to be healthy and alive!

guest [上海]:

Disregarding one’s safety is the worst way of being unfilial!

氷的眼淚 [上海]:

How could other people save him? By having another person jump down 40 meters? By the time people made their way to the riverside, he had been already been carried away [by the current]. This is a river, not some small brook in front of your home!

4371醉 [福建福州]:

So cool you died, right?! Next time, remember not to think with your ass.

[Note: 跑酷 pao ku is the Chinese word for "parkour" and literally means "running cool".]

手机用户 [广东深圳]:

Nowadays kids don’t know what responsibility is.

手机用户1793461937 [浙江杭州]:

This kid is so irresponsible to his mother. It wasn’t easy for his mother to raise him, yet just like this, he’s gone. “The grey haired burying the black haired”, it shouldn’t be like this!!!

手机用户 [北京]:

Although this is a case of suffering the consequences of one’s choices, I still want to say: Rest in peace.

手机用户 [山东潍坊]:

Parkour is a type of physical exercise, not for ignorantly showing off.

guest [新西兰]:

Now that you’re dead, there’s nothing “cool” left.

手机用户 [广东广州]:

You only live once, don’t treat life as a game.

Comments from Sina Weibo:

Simon__梁施文:

China needs this kind of fear-no-death spirit!

刚烈无双伏龙芝:

This Darwin Award winner… has been found.

Sir-Hunter:

Reading the comments, seems a lot of people are criticizing him. I want say: those who have different values have no right to speak! And people who are in pursuit of their dreams don’t ever need to be understood!!! Life itself is a bet, it may be colorful, it may be mediocre, it may be a worthy death, or it may be life-long gloom!!!

绿发魔女:

His bad judgement is a warning to other people. So everyone’s departing has something to do with his/her fate. He’s dead, and certain people are still taking pleasure in his misfortune. The real nao can are these people who show no respect to the dead. [弱][蜡烛][蜡烛][蜡烛][蜡烛]

冯小闹的祖国很傻很天真:

A SB’s behavior. Then there will be someone who’ll say: Live free and die proudly for your dreams.

还好没人叫这名:

Next time bring a condom, use it as a swim ring if necessary.

奋斗期的R:

Playing with one’s life and one’s life played out! Didn’t treat parkour as a sport/exercise, only wanted to attract eyeballs. God is above. Look at your mother’s torn heart, can you rest in peace?

Captain-Ares:

Wanted to play parkour in the water? Isn’t that too difficult?!

黄子洋VS滚滚子:

Overconfident. The price to pay is death. This young man is so really stupid.

老幼病残孕专座:

A worthy death, good, good. To die doing what one loves is better than most people dying slowly to their last breath on a hospital bed.

[GeneChing]

Not to be mean, but I truly did laugh out loud at a few of these.

Parkour Fail Compilation

ouch.

[GeneChing]

What a senseless loss. I wonder why we don't hear of more Parkour deaths.

Russian chess master Yuri Yeliseyev dies in Moscow fall
28 November 2016


RUCHESS.RU
Yuri Yeliseyev was admired in Russia as a grandmaster with original solutions to chess problems

Russian chess master Yuri Yeliseyev, 20, has died after apparently plunging from a balcony on the 12th floor of a Moscow apartment block.
A fellow chess grandmaster, Daniil Dubov, said Yeliseyev had been trying to reach another balcony but slipped.
Yeliseyev reportedly practised parkour, an urban challenge which involves climbing or leaping across roofs, fences or other man-made obstacles.
He became world junior chess champion in 2012 and was a grandmaster aged 17.
He won the Moscow Open 2016 chess tournament and ranked 42nd among Russian grandmasters. His world ranking was 212.


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Russian TV reports that he fell to his death from this balcony

Police quoted by Gazeta.ru news website said the marks on his body pointed to his having plunged from the 12th-floor balcony on Saturday night.
"Tonight my close friend died - an outstanding chess player and analyst, one of the most talented people I know, Yura Yeliseyev," wrote Daniil Dubov on Facebook.
"He was trying to climb from the window onto a balcony on the 12th floor but lost his grip."
The apartment block is on Moscow's Pyatnitskoye Avenue, in an area dominated by high-rise housing.
Does anybody still care about chess?

The origins of parkour


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Takes its name from phrase "parcours du combattant", the military obstacle course training devised by French physical educationalist Georges Hebert (1875-1957)
Modern parkour was popularised by French actor and stuntman David Belle - his video "Speed Air Man" played a large part in popularising the sport
Practitioners of parkour are often known as traceurs

The Russian chess team's national coach, Sergei Yanovsky, said Yeliseyev "was a very talented chess player, a very bright lad, he was always very popular in the team".
"Yura always sought unusual methods in everything, he had a predilection for unorthodox solutions... This is a very heavy loss."
Mr Yanovsky said Yeliseyev "even as a young boy always wanted to show his daring and climb to places.
"But he didn't go to extremes - he kept within sensible bounds. For example, he'd climb to a height of two metres (6.6ft) and walk along the edge just to show that he had a head for heights."


RUCHESS.RU
Another Russian chess grandmaster - Mark Taimanov - died in St Petersburg on Monday aged 90. He was Soviet chess champion in 1956.

Taimanov vied with US chess genius Bobby Fischer in 1971, in a bid to become world champion, but lost all six games.
Taimanov was part of an award-winning Soviet team and earned international respect for his contributions to chess theory.

[GeneChing]

The posts above were copied out of our Le Parkour thread.

'Two or three inches from death': The shocking moment a teenage parkour runner is knocked unconscious by a car in a hit-and-run

Jack Salvage was hit by a car after travelling across a road on a parkour run
His family released a photo of him in hospital in the hope the driver owns up
They do not blame the driver for hitting him but believe he should have stopped afterwards
Despite being 'two or three inches from death' he is expected to fully recover

By Paddy Dinham For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 10:15 EST, 26 December 2016 | UPDATED: 11:07 EST, 26 December 2016


15-year-old Jack Salvage in his hospital bed

The mother of a teenage parkour runner who was injured in a hit-and-run has released a photograph of her son in a hospital bed in a desperate bid for the driver to come forward.

The heartbreaking photo shows then bed-ridden 15-year-old schoolboy Jack Salvage lying on his back fitted with a neck brace and head support after he was hit by the motorist, in an incident which was caught on CCTV.

He was out on a parkour training run with two friends when they ran out into the road - but only Jack was hit. He admits he didn't see the car coming.

The impact threw his body to the side of the road, where he lay unconscious for several minutes.

The shocking footage shows the moment he is struck, as well as the aftermath, where the driver of the silver vehicle briefly stops, before continuing on their way.

Teenage parkour runner Jack dramatically injured in hit-and-run

Police are also appealing for anyone who recognises the car - thought to be a Mercedes or BMW - to come forward.

Jack's mother Gemma-Louise Salvage, 34, admits the driver may not have been culpable for the collision, but she just wants them to come forward.

She said: 'He's extremely lucky. I want the driver to be caught, but I'm just thankful Jack is alive to be honest.

'The driver didn't really have a chance to stop, but they really should have stopped once they realised they had hit a child.'

The incident happened on a residential road in Newhaven, East Sussex, on Monday December 19, at around 8.20pm - and Jack has since made a remarkable recovery.

He spent a night at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, East Sussex, where he had a CT scan on his body and was kept in intensive care overnight.


The incident happened on a residential road in Newhaven, East Sussex, on Monday December 19

Incredibly, he suffered no broken bones but is still feeling the effects after his release - with regular headaches and pains in his legs.

Jack also revealed that a paramedic informed him he was just 'two or three inches from death' because the impact was not quite with the middle of the car bonnet.

Had that been the case, he would have been thrown straight down the road instead of to the side - meaning the vehicle may well have run him over.

He said: 'I don't remember much really, but we went for a run and I didn't pay much attention to the roads.

'My mate ran straight in front of me, he got across and so I sprinted after him.

'He shouted 'Car' and before I realised, the car smashed into me and I hit the car bonnet.

'I think I hit my head on the bonnet, and I don't remember much after that at all until I woke up on the floor unconscious.


Police are also appealing for anyone who recognises the car - thought to be a Mercedes or BMW - to come forward

'I woke up and I couldn't feel my legs, but I had a lucky escape. My mate was asking: "Jack, are you alright? You've just been hit by a car."'

He added: 'I got rushed to hospital where they put a back brace, head brace, neck brace and pelvic supporter on me.

'The paramedic said to me that if I had been hit literally two or three inches into the middle of the car, I'd probably be dead.

'But somehow I managed to land on the side of the road as I was hit towards the edge of the car.

'I landed partly on the grass, but I could have been thrown forwards and run over again, so I was really lucky.'

Since his release from hospital, Jack returned to A&E two nights later with severe headaches, and was tested for a bleed on the brain and given more painkillers.

The whole sequence of events has been captured on CCTV from a nearby house, which police have released to help with the investigation.


Jack (right) with his stepfather Luke Watson and mother Gemma-Louise Salvage prior to his injury

Jack's stepfather 'Luke Watson, who lives in the town with the teenager, also said the driver should come forward.

Mr Watson, 29, said: 'It's pretty shocking. Jack's shaken up about it.

'His friends are a bit shaken up as well. To see their mate get hit like that, it's affected all of them.

'We want to get as much out there as we can. It's obviously going to help – it's all we can do.'

Roads policing officer PC Gary Douglas from Sussex Police, said: 'We wish to trace the driver of the car involved and also to speak to anyone who may have seen what happened or who has other relevant information.'

[GeneChing]

Man Who Fell 40 Feet Down Chimney Was Making Parkour Video
February 17, 2017 6:08 PM
By Melissa Garcia

DENVER (CBS4)– A man who fell 40 feet down the chimney of a Denver loft building remained behind bars on Friday, charged with trespassing.

Dustin Hinkle, 26, told CBS4’s Melissa Garcia that he and a couple of friends were making a Parkour video on the roof of the Denver City Lofts near 17th and Champa when something went wrong.


(credit: CBS)
“I didn’t even believe in God before this,” Hinkle said. “That’s a real mind-opener right there. I fell forty feet, and I’m alive.”

Hinkle said that he was running, climbing, and jumping on top of the building when he dropped down onto a chimney cover that fell through.


(credit: CBS)
“We were just trying to have some fun, and I jumped off, hung off the edge and my feet were only two feet above the other one, and I dropped down, and I fell through the top of it,” Hinkle explained.


CBS4’s Melissa Garcia interviews Dustin Hinkle (credit: CBS)
After plummeting forty feet, officials said that a cable caught his fall.

Hinkle said he was stuck inside the chimney for almost two hours.

“I felt like I was going to die honestly,” Hinkle said.


Copter4 flew over the chimney rescue (credit: CBS)
Firefighters entered a vacant apartment unit and tore through brick to get him out.

It was a technical rescue that had to be done very carefully.


(credit: CBS)
“When we start breaching walls and breaking through brick, it’s not instantaneous,” explained C.J. Haberkorn, Assistant Fire Chief with the Denver Fire Department. “Because number one, we have to account for the patient on the other side. We just can’t be putting sawblades and sledgehammers through it. It’s got to be a very deliberate coordinated effort.”

After a visit to the hospital, Hinkle was booked into jail and charged with trespassing.


Jayce Anderson (credit: CBS)
His friends Jayce Anderson, 23 and Mary Jo McHugh, 20, were also charged with trespassing and with interference of a police officer for allegedly running from police.


Mary Jo McHugh (credit: CBS)
Hinkle said that he does not think he will be jumping on buildings again any time soon.

“Honestly no, not after this,” he said.

Firefighters said the chimney that Hinkle fell into was an old incineration chimney.


(credit: CBS)
Hinkle said that he was grateful to the rescue crews who saved him, especially since he and his fiance are expecting a baby.

Melissa Garcia has been reporting for CBS4 News since March 2014. Find her bio here, follow her on Twitter @MelissaGarciaTV, or send your story idea to mkgarcia@cbs.com.

I'd still kinda like to see the vid.

[GeneChing]

Rooftopping is different than Parkour, but not entirely unrelated.

Death of Man in Skyscraper Fall in China Puts a Spotlight on ‘Rooftopping’


An image from a YouTube video of Wu Yongning. Mr. Wu amassed thousands of online followers with his high-altitude stunts before dying in a fall last month.Credit via Weibo

By Christine Hauser
Dec. 14, 2017查看简体中文版查看繁體中文版

For months, Wu Yongning had climbed towers and buildings high above the streets of cities in China, turning a camera on himself as he teetered on ledges or clutched an antenna with one hand.

Through his dizzying lens, he became a celebrity for his high-altitude stunts, amassing thousands of followers on Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site.

But on Nov. 8, his online posts suddenly stopped.

That was when, the police in China now confirm, Mr. Wu fell to his death from the top of the Huayuan Hua Center, a building more than 60 stories high, in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, Chinese media reports said recently. This week, a video of his fall was posted online and widely shared.

The young man’s death exemplified, again, the internet obsession of inviting millions of strangers to witness a life, in all its perils, pranks and failures.

It also shed light on the thrill-seeking subculture associated with rooftopping, in which ambitious daredevils scale skyscrapers around the world and take selfies against magnificent views above the tops of cities, from New York to Dubai to Russia.

In China, Mr. Wu’s death prompted the official media to warn about live-streaming stunts. “By climbing on high buildings without taking any safety measures, Wu put himself in danger and pushed himself to his limits, but that does not mean what he did is a sport,” a report in China Daily said on Tuesday.

Mr. Wu’s family told The Xiaoxiang Morning Post, a newspaper based in Changsha, that the young man, who had worked as a film extra, had dangled himself from the building for a video he hoped would earn as much as $15,000 if it went viral — money he would use to get married and pay his mother’s medical bills.

An excerpt from the video of Mr. Wu’s last moments shows him on top of the building, clad in black with his hair pulled back from his face, meticulously and repeatedly wiping the ledge. He swung his legs over the edge and partially hung there, clutching it with the full length of his arms, before pulling himself up and sitting down to wipe the edge again.

Then he swung his legs over one by one for a final time. He did two pull-ups into the void, gripping the ledge. Attempting a third, he appeared to struggle, trying to find a hold with one foot after the other. A small sound resembling a human voice, perhaps a whimper, can be heard on the recording. Then he dropped.

His death resounded in the community of people who seek urban altitudes for thrills, for curiosity, or for profit.

Daniel Cheong, 55, a professional cityscape photographer who lives in Dubai, home of some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, said that when he moved to the emirate in 2008 there was a small, informal group of rooftoppers who found each other on social media through their photographs.

“There are different flavors — those who are doing it for the pure purpose of cityscape photography and those who are doing it for the thrill to post on Instagram and YouTube,” he said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.

Mr. Cheong, who has a photography business in Dubai through which he gains access to rooftops legally, said that he has been on roofs as high as 100 floors up, fixing his camera equipment to a safety leash. On some rooftops, there is nothing to stop a person from going over the edge, he said.

“The goal is to capture the cityscape,” he said. “The attraction really has nothing to do with the fact that you go to the 100th floor. It is purely for composition.”

But he said informal bands of rooftoppers, many of them Russian, are seeking to build online networks of followers on YouTube and Instagram, and hopefully, a lucrative deal out of advertisements.

Such thrill-seekers, he said, “mostly have a reputation for sneaking illegally on rooftops to get selfies. It is more the thrill of getting very high.”

Neil Ta, a photographer in Toronto, took up rooftopping in 2009 to fulfill an aesthetic curiosity, climbing to the tops of tall buildings in Canada and during his travels in Southeast Asia for the view.

“The reality of it is not everyone is going up there and prancing on the ledges and being irresponsible,” he said in an interview on Thursday. “There are a lot of people going up there and looking at the city from a safe distance from the ledge.”

But Mr. Ta said he became disillusioned with the changing nature of the skyscraper adventures over the years. Instagram grew more popular for recording mischief-making and feats of daring. Security was enhanced in high places, and gaining access to roofs of skyscrapers became more difficult.

Where once he persisted through the challenges of scouting locations with unlocked rooftops, Mr. Ta began to notice “a newer breed of rooftopper” who did not hesitate to use a crowbar or bolt cutter. He quit rooftopping in 2014.

“There was no art left in the process,” he wrote in a farewell blog post that year. “No subtlety.”

Mr. Ta said on Thursday that he sympathized with Mr. Wu, however. “He was doing it to win a prize. I could see why he would want to do that to provide for his family. So I can’t really fault him.”

[GeneChing]

Parkour enthusiast, 16, dies while trying to make a five-metre jump across a Tasmanian blowhole
The body of Alexander Vincent, 16, was found near the Blackman's Bay blowhole
Police were called after he didn't return from a walk along the Tasmanian beach
Authorities suspect that he fell trying to make a five metre jump inside the rock
It is the second death in the area this year after a 17-year-old fell from a clifftop

By Yael Brender For Daily Mail Australia
PUBLISHED: 05:59 EST, 22 December 2017 | UPDATED: 06:13 EST, 22 December 2017


Alexander Vincent passed away in Tasmania

An extensive land, sea and air search of Blackman's Bay ended in tragedy after the body of a missing teenage boy was pulled from the water.

Police suspect that 16-year-old parkour enthusiast Alexander Vincent died trying to make a five-metre jump from one side of the Blackman's Bay blowhole to the other on Thursday.

The family is 'understandably distraught', Inspector David Wiss told ABC.

Alexander was last seen in the Kingston Beach area at 2pm.

When he didn't return from a walk along the foreshore, his family raised the alarm.

'After a few hours the family became concerned because he wasn't at his pick-up point, they contacted police and police undertook an extensive land and sea search,' Inspector Wiss revealed.

'Tragically his body was located in the water just outside the blowhole itself.'

Divers were prompted to search the area after his jacket was seen near the blowhole, with a helicopter searching the coastline and a police boat scouring the River Derwent.

Offering his condolences to the Vincent family, Kingborough Mayor Steve Wass said, 'It's a tragic event and our sympathies go out to his family and friends.'

The tragic death of Alexander is the second in the area this year after 17-year-old Maggie Lore fell from a clifftop in January.


The body of 16-year-old Alexander was found near the blowhole at Blackman's Bay

The incident has renewed calls for better fencing and warning signs in the area, with Councillor Was saying the council was awaiting the coroner's report into Maggie's death before responding.

'We are aware that we do have dangerous cliffs and of course we know that some accidents can occur,' he said.

'We can't fence it all and I'm sure the community wouldn't want us to fence it all.'

He added that adding fences would not have prevented Alexander's death, as he fell from a 'natural part of the foreshore' that is open to the water.

Parkour fails are such senseless deaths...

[mawali]

I am a non parkour enthusiast but I like the physical fitness challenges of which I do participate but I also am no fool realizing that **** happens. The extreme conditions are what people pretend they can handle but if they were really serious they would join the military and participate/put their real skills to a different level.

The Australian photo of the cliff by the sea is really dangerous if you have an unreal expectation of skill but why go to such lengths for such a dangerous stunt. It makes no sense.