I'd like to see #4 on a Parkour course, whereas I hate to see him putting all his weight on things that were not designed to hold his weight. Left Bank is probably right--he's a renter.Yeah, I thought, The Floor Is Lava is indoor parkour. But that can't be a new insight. Googling, I found this:
That made me think about something I just noticed on Instapundit:
MAYBE — JUST MAYBE — MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT AND DON’T ALWAYS SHARE THE SAME DESIRES AND GOALS: Women are still less likely to aspire to leadership in business, despite decades of gender initiatives – we need to find out why.
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And why exactly do we need to find out why?
It's an opening bit on an episode of The Office.
Until today, I’d never heard of parkour.
Things an old(er) man can only dream about...
We don't need to find out why women are less likely to seek leadership positions or careers in STEM. We just need to make sure there are no special barriers to the women who do.
If the floor really were lava, the radiated heat from it would totally crisp folks trying to pass over it as shown.
A homemaker is a manager. She leads a very small team, but the skillset is the same.
Men are still less likely to aspire to spend the afternoon shopping for shoes, despite decades of gender initiatives – we need to find out why.
Women are still less likely to aspire the afternoon finding why the engine misses at 2300 AND 4900 rpm, despite decades of gender initiatives – we need to find out why.
You know; now that i wrote that.. I'm wishing i HAD an engine that misses at 2300 AND 4900 rpm.. Because THAT would be SUPER Cool figuring out!
Risk taking? I enjoyed the Alice Roberts book, "Tamed," about how various species, plant and animal, became domesticated. Her general argument is that we tend to give homo sapiens too much credit for cleverness; domestication that ultimately benefits us must often have come about by luck, dogs domesticating us rather than the other way around, etc.
She stays with pretty ancient developments; I think the farther you move the clock forward, the more impressed you are with human cleverness and determination: real bronze (copper and tin) as compared even to poor man's bronze (copper and arsenic), some guy experimenting with molten metals, different melting points, danger. The breakthrough may really have happened at one place, at one critical time (cows were domesticated at a few different places), and then the tech was so useful, everyone wanted it.
Anyway, horses. She somewhat grudgingly admits that they could only have been tamed by repeated experiments. Cleverness and determination. It doesn't take much imagination to say it was young men, and even if they stay up at all, there are broken collarbones and broken backs. The elders might say: no more, we need our young men. Yet eventually some group of Mongols succeeded, and again, everyone who saw this wanted it. Mobility, the ability to haul stuff long distances.
Alas, the indigenous people of the Americas never learned this excellent trick. It used to be said that the overlap between the indigenous wild horses and the more recent indigenous people was a short period of time, perhaps not long enough to learn how to tame horses. Recent findings suggest it was thousands of years, people seeing horses at something of a distance, maybe sometimes coming across a corpse, but having no ability whatsoever to slow down a living animal, stop it, and tame it.
Men- like these, will always be warriors.
Of all the Tiktokies - I liked the lava one the most. The woman saying love names made the hair stand on the back of my neck. So uncomfortable.
That was very cool, very fun to watch. I've never heard of 'parkour', though my dreams are often a parkour event as it turns out.
This looks like immense fun to me. And I suspect the younger version of me might have done something like this. The current version wonders how I'd get up the first post.
I think that’s why I loved the Clan of the Cave Bear series so much.
Ayla- female- survived and discovered so much. I loved the way the author wrote. Cadence.
We love playing The Floor is Lava by the Kiboomers (best children's group EVER) with our smaller grandchildren. They adore it, both the song and what you do during it.
Lloyd W. Robertson, it is my understanding that the North American horses were introduced with the Spanish conquistadors. When the Spanish fled, backed off, merged with the native populations, or were chased from what is now the US (by the Comanches, among others), they left thousands of horses behind. Those horses in turn did what they do and became immense packs of wild North American horses.
The Comanches (the Nermernuh) were the top of the horse riding pyramid. It is said that no one on earth could ride, shoot/attack and hide themselves while at a full ride better than a well trained Comanche. They did not start out that way. They were not very good at much until they took on horses and worked through generations to train and learn how to handle them. They became the best in North America, maybe the world. Early on, US soldiers trying to fight the Comanches would tell stories of how they had never seen such fighters on horseback. That is, those soldiers who lived to tell the tales.
but having no ability whatsoever to slow down a living animal, stop it, and tame it.
isn't THAT, what carrots are for?
I'm dizzy.
Land of the Obvious: "After decades of puzzlement, biological males with penises continue to buy more athletic supporters than biological females. Biological females continue to buy brassieres instead. We need to find out why."
"David Begley said...
Until today, I’d never heard of parkour."
That's because it has nothing to do with Nebraska, Omaha, or Creighton University.
The horse was native to North America but the first humans to cross the Bering Strait ate them. They were then extinct for thousands of years until the Spanish reintroduced them.
I also liked the "Clan of the Cave Bear" series although the last few started to get like a soap opera. I drove back from Spokane to LA after taking my daughter to law school (Gonzaga) up there. Two other kids came with me and we listened to the "Cave Bear" audio tapes all the way. When we got home, they ran into the house to listen to the last 20 minutes. Her research was very good.
In a Netflix anime, the piles include bubbles. Skipping them seems like a calling. I haven't finished watching it. 😞
Link to trailer
'That is, those soldiers who lived to tell the tales.'
And what did it get the Comanche?
Jobs making sure the jumbo shrimp tray is stocked up in the dinner buffet.
The male sex is correlated with the masculine gender (i.e. physical and mental attributes) and at his prejudicial extreme is masculinist. The female sex is correlated with the feminine gender and at her prejudicial extreme is feminist. The transgender spectrum represents a state or process of divergence from normal, and, with social progress, a compelling cause to label the normal distribution of people... persons as cis or aligned, cisgender or sex-aligned gender. Gender is separable from social standards that are often set to normalize a favorable juxtaposition of the sexes.
The Bond movie "Casino Royale" was my first introduction to parkour- the entire opening scene is a parkour chase. Seeing these guys reminds one that humans were, at one time, agile climbers- not quite up to the level of monkeys and the lesser apes who can grip with their feet, but not as distant as we seem in modern days.
It is probably a good thing parkour wasn't a thing when I was growing up- it is definitely the kind of thing I and my friends would have loved...... probably killed myself doing.
Curious George.
My feelings are hurt.
My son loved (who was born in Omaha, Nebraska) LOVED Curious George as a child, but he called him George Curious. He’s an alum of Creighton Prep which used to be on the campus of Creighton University.
I flipped my go cart and four wheeler more than once. Stupid young boy stuff. I do not understand why there is any rational reason to jump from pillar to post as shown here. There is a predictable outcome. You miss and if lucky hit the ground. If unlicky, a trip to the emergency room. Guess it’s just because I am more risk-averse now than when I didn’t have any sense. 😂
'If unlicky, a trip to the emergency room.'
Went to the bars Saturday night looking for some action and got shut out.
I was unlicky : )
Oh, Clan of the Cave Bear. The first book was fine, although already implausible -- Ayla has tamed a lion and invented singlehandedly a ridiculous number of gizmos. After that, it devolves pretty swiftly, into blatant prehistoric romance-novel territory. Jondalar, and "First Rites," and "his size" matching "her depth," and so on, and on, and on. Bleh.
The first book was interesting precisely because of the Neanderthals. Once they were removed from the picture, Jean Auel's actual writerly proclivities were given free rein.
I was surprised to find out that "The Floor is Lava" was some kind of American tradition.
I thought my older brother invented it.
My step-grandson did a parkour class with other boys at a Boston park. At 6, he was the youngest and smallest boy, but he enjoyed the climbing and jumping. I saw a small class for girls too.
My nephew, 11, also does parkour. I think that's how he broke his wrist.
Ha, Joe!
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