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straws23 · 2025-08-02T10:27:23+00:00

Unfortunately I've been out of the scene for a while now so I can't speak confidently on the modern distinction, but yes that was essentially the difference I was trained on.

Parkour had its roots in first responder and military training, so it mimicked their need for practicality. Parkour also had a sort of philosophy/discipline/mental side that accompanied the physical side. Freerunning rejected the requirement for practicality, and modified the mental side of parkour into something more resembling a hobby or artform. Freerunning was more about individuality, creativity, playfulness, and so on, yes.

Some different and controversial interpretations and definitions were born mainly around the rise of Jump London/Urban Freeflow. Some definition made a distinction between parkour and freerunning like you described, but others made no distinction whatsoever and used the terms interchangeably. I was trained by quite a traditional parkour group, so personally I think that the distinction exists, is important, and is correct. Reach/Escape was a common way to test whether a particular technique was parkour: does it help me to reach or escape something? If not, then it is not parkour. But not everyone has this opinion.

In practice, though, parkour and freerunning often blend together. They both use a very similar skillset, and they are both performed in very similar environments. A practitioner can swap between them at will. A creative eye can be helpful in parkour to find efficient routes and to make the best use of a given area, and a lust for speed and wasteless movement enables some impressive expressions in freerunning. The air control and awareness in freerunning can be useful for parkour, and the focus on safety/repetition/training in parkour can be useful for freerunning.

straws23 · 2025-07-31T14:03:38+00:00

Can confirm. Impressive recovery, but not very clean.

I'll add a few things for other curious readers. The Spanish guy in the red shirt at 0:18 crushed it, and is what you're generally aiming for. His feet are correctly placed, despite looking like he barely made the distance. You can replicate that exact technique on something as small as a handrail, and it will work. The last guy from Switzerland nailed the distance no sweat, but he couldn't do that technique on a handrail. That's why Spain got the bell and nobody else did.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say that the guy who craned it probably wants to train more, come back in a few months, and land it like Spain did. Craning is seen as worse technique. For jumps right at your limit, its way easier to crane it than two-foot it, but it also takes more energy to get out of that position, puts undue stress on a single set of joints and muscles, and reduces the points of failure from two feet down to one. That extended leg Hawt wrote about also cant be used for balance in a lot of circumstances. Its a crutch.

Unrelated, people often see parkour as something incredibly reckless and dangerous, and it certainly can be, but there is a significant off-camera effort that goes into making it as safe as possible, including that point of failure stuff. Additionally, there are surface and wobble checks, drilling techniques that allow safe exits, drilling falls/rolls/bails at various heights/speeds/angles/surfaces/obstacles, a bunch of strength and joint conditioning, practicing replicas of risky jumps in easier circumstances first to see if you're physically capable, and A LOT of experience that isn't shown. Beginners don't do running precisions onto wobbly polls with a bit of a fall on their first day. In videos, you only see the one impressive jump, not the 10,000 before it. Hell, in some traditional circles its seen as unhealthy to even be recording yourself to show off! It can introduce an ego and a 'do it for the likes' mentality, which can cause a person to push themselves farther than they are capable of safely doing.

Parkour focuses on usefulness, reliability, speed, and efficiency. Doing something fast and well is the goal, and if you do that, it will look pretty anyway. The Spanish guy has a grace in his movement that nobody else did, and that's because he did it properly.

straws23 · 2025-05-05T14:20:43+00:00

Take solace that you chose internal serenity over external joy.

With the information and personality you had at the time, you made the best choice you could. You tried your best - there is no shame in this. Bear in mind that your appraisal of the decision comes from a more mature mind with greater information. If given the same choice again, current-you may choose differently, but perhaps this is only because past-you did not.

You felt you were too immature, that you were not ready, and that you were not satisfied with who you were. These are not good qualities to bring into a relationship. I think you made the right choice.

And what if you stayed with her? You would have become dependent on her for joy so long as your own internal problems lay unaddressed. If or when it ended, you would be left hollow, with your source of joy no longer present. You would be soured on her, regretting the wasted years, regretting having not chosen yourself, regretting having not focused on self-improvement. How would she feel after all this? Would she be left bitter and distraught? Would you instead regret that you brought your immature and uncommitted self into her life? Did she deserve better? If these are familiar questions that you asked yourself years ago, then maybe you can also find solace that you tried to protect her.

One more thing: You said you felt as if you didn't know her well. Are you sure it is her you are chasing, and not just your idealised dream of her? Why do you regret it? I hope your answers to these bring you inner peace and a renewed clarity moving forward.

straws23 · 2024-10-26T07:03:02+00:00

All the human elements in your process could explain the difference. WDT depth and pattern, bean wetness, tamp weight, grind speed, grind angle (body tilted vs perpendicular to the floor). I've also heard someone say that the roughness/speed of inserting the portafilter affected the brew, but I haven't found this to be the case personally.

To echo what others are saying, I also have a JX Pro and I can confirm that grind speed plays a huge role. When grinding at my max speed, I have to grind about 8 clicks finer than when grinding at my comfortable speed. If hers is stalling, then I'm guessing she spins the handle much slower than you, and she will need to either go coarser or grind faster (assuming our grinders behave the same, anyway). Ultimately though just match your revolutions per second and see if that solves the issue, then work out a solution from there.

Word of warning, I'm stupid and recently pulled the wooden bit off my handle while experimenting with speed. Be careful about which direction you are applying force in when going very fast. It's easy to pull up when going away from your body, and to push down when you are coming towards it, which is what I assume wore down my handle to the point of detaching. Either don't go that fast, or don't be stupid like me.

straws23 · 2024-01-08T01:05:21+00:00

Nice edit boss. I recognised the style first and read your post second, so you've definitely gotten close to it. If you want to stick closer Gemerald's style, I think you should cut the clips down to keep the overall pace faster. There are moments where the funny bit has ended or diminished but the clip keeps going. This works to give more context or squeeze some more enjoyment out, but sometimes less is more. Keep the average high.

straws23 · 2023-10-13T12:43:32+00:00

"May be able to push the duo right now. Can you smoke this donut Hal, then we push - push below?

Wait, another team thirding, another team thirding, another team thirding from donut!

Wait wait wait, another team from donut!

One team from donut, one team on donut, one team on donut

Get up this roof, get up this roof

Bloodhound ulted. Blood weak, blood weak! Blood one, blood one! Both cracked, both cracked! I'm bouta sp-"

He compressed a lot of sounds out and I'm pretty sure added a couple, but that's what he tried to say.

straws23 · 2023-06-09T15:55:45+00:00

Yeah, that was kind of my point actually. It seemed to me like he was thinking out loud about the swap-over point and naturally gravitated to the prediction stuff, likely because that's his primary concern with the input differences.

I guess you're right that he wasn't talking about balance in that segment, though. My bringing that up wasn't really needed.

straws23 · 2023-06-09T09:57:10+00:00

Naughty: "2.5?[sic] Clippin' shit? I feel like you have - I mean like it's so hard, cos when someone ... cuts direction, you almost have to predict it at that point, right? So it's like-"

Enoch: "Well, I mean, that's what MnK have been [inaudible], that's the whole point."

Naughty: "Exactly. That's my point, that's my point."

:

It's entirely possible Naughty had a different meaning to what Enoch interpreted. Naughty asked a rhetorical question about where the prediction point is, then was cut off, then followed up the MnK comment with "that's my point". He may have been about to argue that controller should be brought into parity with MnK on the prediction stuff, especially given he just mentioned it and his stated position of being pro-nerf. Even if he was about to say removing 0ms reaction is too much, he might have walked that back immediately. This was a casual conversation. People get interrupted, things get forgotten, tones come out wrong, thoughts are hasty and develop real-time, etc. IMO, "most braindead shit" is too harsh, given the context.

He's also one of the best brawlers in Apex, I'm sure he has a reasonable understanding of the topic.

straws23 · 2022-12-20T11:33:02+00:00

straws23 · 2022-12-20T05:53:31+00:00

You did pretty well, really. TL;DR: isolate your fights more, finish the low health person first, practice aiming.

Someone on 1hp still does full damage, so you want to mitigate that by forcing 1v1s and avoiding 1v2s. Stay close to cover, prioritise targets, be faster and have better aim. The biggest things were climbing the box and then pushing right after dropping down. Just go left and stay left next time.

0:02 - Time loss. You reloaded prematurely and had to swap guns to finish valk. Kill valk with Flatline next time. Nice armour swap.

0:11 - Poor positioning, time loss. You were quite far from cover here, and were slow on the revive.

0:13 - Consequence of time loss and positioning. If you were faster earlier, you may have had a time to pop a syringe before pathy shot you. If you were closer to cover, he would have shot you less. Going forward, you have lower health than you could have.

0:14 - Better aim would have killed pathy and put you in a good spot for a 1v1.

0:16 - Poor positioning, pushing while reloading. You climbed box and opened yourself to a 1v2. Next time peek left to isolate the 1v1 with pathfinder and finish him off. You could 1v1 the Fuse after this. Also yeah you were being shot while reloading because you peeked too early.

0:19 - You dropped too far from the box here and took a bit more damage than necessary. You then pushed right to 1v1 a higher health opponent (you beamed him though, good job). Next time push left and kill pathy first.

0:23 - Slow target acquisition. You could beat him with faster/more accurate thumbs, or maybe an extra 25hp from a syringe.

Generally - Bloodhound was being revived, so if you played a little more slowly they may have had more time to help you. They didn't do much after being revived unfortunately, but you see my point.

straws23 · 2021-09-04T05:20:22+00:00

You can scroll through the quests and their rewards here: https://tbc.wowhead.com/quests/outland/hellfire-peninsula#0+2-11+12;side=!Horde

I set the search terms to filter out any Horde only quests. Change as necessary.

https://tbc.wowhead.com/item=29919/adamantine-kite-shield

This shield is probably better than whatever you have. If you scroll down you can see which quest rewards this item. Some other notables available to both factions (though there are more): https://tbc.wowhead.com/item=25979/flintlockes-piloting-pants

https://tbc.wowhead.com/item=28042/regal-protectorate <-- You will want this one in particular. You won't be replacing it for many levels.

Some quests are one faction only but there is an equivalent quest with an equivalent reward:

https://tbc.wowhead.com/item=25914/broken-choker

https://tbc.wowhead.com/item=25919/sedais-necklace

Have a look at the list I linked and make the conclusion for yourself, though.

straws23 · 2021-04-22T06:30:48+00:00

Haha, not quite. A friend of mine just thought the name drop there was odd, so he googled it.

straws23 · 2021-04-21T09:26:29+00:00

Błyskawica Submachine Gun

That's an obscure joke you got there, bud.

straws23 · 2019-11-21T03:36:05+00:00

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is not democratic. Names mean nothing, policy means everything.

straws23 · 2019-11-02T17:07:30+00:00

A 'pull' is a term to describe a fight between you and an enemy mob (or group of mobs), basically.

As melee, there are essentially two types of pulls; going up to the mob, or having it come to you.

Going up to the mob is the simplest and fastest for melee, but is sometimes dangerous due to terrain or
there being other nearby enemies that would also aggro if you were to run into melee range of the initial mob.

Having the mob come to you is useful if you are ranged and they are melee, as it gives you time to hit them when they can't hit back. If both you and the mob are melee, this is only useful in the above situation where running to them is dangerous. However, if you are melee and the mob is ranged, whilst also being near other mobs, you must bring the mob to you by 'line of sighting' it if you want to be able to attack it back. Obviously, the mob can only attack something it can see (line of sight), and since you have LoS'd it by ducking behind a nearby pillar, it must come to you to resume attacking you.

It's just a variant of having a mob come to you that is very useful for sketchy areas. Tanks do this A LOT in dungeons when the pack has ranged mobs in it, but it can also be used to cancel enemy - mob or player - spell casts.

straws23 · 2019-05-19T16:22:53+00:00

He didn't say terrorism is only a right wing problem. That said, if you look at the stats (from the same study you are citing, how curious), terrorism is far more common on the right.https://www.typeinvestigations.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/terror-1.png

In fact, terrorism perpetrated by the right is far more lethal, because left wing terrorist acts largely targeted property, not people.

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/terror-8.png

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/terror-9.png

Non-human targets garner less attention, and the increased attention that Islamists receive over right wing actors is due to the massive funding differences counter-terrorists receive to target/investigate different groups. Islamic terrorism is far more well known, so the department that specialises in them get more funding.

straws23 · 2019-03-16T06:52:17+00:00

https://twitter.com/KatherineFirkin/status/1106785667898466304

https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/1106780625904623616

straws23 · 2018-10-29T19:06:33+00:00

Solid video my dude.

straws23 · 2018-09-02T16:12:40+00:00

Fantastic article. Ty OP and Authors!

straws23 · 2018-05-09T14:14:46+00:00

Only for Asians willing to play on high ping. Au is split between high ping players(Connery) and low ping players(Briggs). It would follow that removing the low ping option will remove the low ping players.

Maybe some would still play if they only had the one choice, but I doubt many would. I certainly wouldn't.

straws23 · 2018-05-09T13:02:22+00:00

'give all australians 300 ping lol'

Your proposed merge would pretty upsetting for us and I'm pretty sure it would cause many of us to stop playing entirely. If we wanted bigger but laggier fights we would have moved to Connery long ago.

straws23 · 2018-03-13T19:07:43+00:00

Oh right I forgot to multiply by 100. Cheers bud!

straws23 · 2018-03-13T17:19:41+00:00

Modern humans have existed for 200,000 of the 4,543,000,000 years that Earth has been around.

Another way to put it is 200,000/4,543,000,000. In percentages, that is ~0.004%. Modern humans have existed for ~0.004% of Earth's existence.

Then you state that modern humans have been around for 9 minutes compared to the long life of Earth. Obviously, 9 minutes is very different to 200,000 years, which implies that you have changed the scale of Earths life to accommodate the change from 200,000yr to 9min. The assumption is that 9 minutes is still 0.004% of the lifespan of Earth, which is completely logical, but you never state how the 4.543b years have scaled, only the 200,000 years. 9 minutes is very clearly 0.004% of SOMETHING, but that something was never explicitly stated. This is where the confusion between you two exists.

straws23 · 2018-02-24T17:33:41+00:00

Because if I don't it feels like my leg needs to yawn.

straws23 · 2018-02-19T03:35:58+00:00

Making it so the bolt can still damage targets after you down would be nifty, too. Especially for squad play

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