Roof Jumping Sport

Is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training.

Roof jumping sport.

Difficulty increases with other obstacles to avoid. A professional parkour athlete runs along the roof of a building in vienna austria. Jump from roof to roof. Many of the movements shown in pop cultural images and videos look simple but perhaps unsurprisingly are the culmination of a great deal of practice.

Don t fall on too many or else you will die. Wall jumping rolling and long distance landings require careful shifting of body mass that in turn helps practioners absorb impacts that seem impossibly dangerous. It traces its roots to the land diving practiced on pentecost island vanuatu in which divers jump off a high tower. Jumping roofs roof jumping jumping of the roof survivor falls an easy game to play but hard to win.

Bungee jumping sport in which the jumper falls from a high place with a rubber bungee cord attached both to his or her feet and to the jump site and after a period of headfirst free fall is bounced partway back when the cord rebounds from its maximum stretch. Difficulty increases with other obstacles to avoid. You have to jump from the roof and cushion the fall by falling on the canopy. Jump from roof to roof.

Up here witchalls reminds me briefly of another london legend. Critics of the sport say it encourages trespassing and can cause damage to property. Spring heeled jack a mythical victorian prankster cum outlaw said to have been seen leaping from roof to roof after dark. Did you know there is a y8 forum.