Parkour Book For Sale, What's your opinion on this Options

[FeelGood]

Here's the link

Here's a guy who writes a book on parkour and freerunning in order to teach beginners. Is his name (Mike Toal) familiar to you?

I'm just wondering what's the message he transmits through his book, can you really learn parkour from a book... ?
What are your opinions on this?

This post has been edited by FeelGood: Mar 6 2008, 09:56 PM

[Google Bot]

[giant]

I am the mighty prophet, i foresee lawsuit for copyright violations (counted three from two minutes on the page) and I see this piece of shit go down. Rejoicing will follow.

[elMit]

everybody cried about the ariake, now everybody's wearing because it seems to be a good shoe.... i hope it's not the samewith this stupid e-book... i mean it's not even printed... everybody can look up all the stuff easily for free....

[BigNinjaPimp]

this is so dumb. Isnt the speed air man logo copyrighted?

[Binary]

Hopefully Jerome, Dave or whoever can link this site to DBprod and get it taken down, plenty of image infringements not to mention it sounds like horse shit.

[Lolli]

kind of scary

[Wyler]

I know how to be a traceur now!! --> how to be a traceur in 5 steps^^

i hope that this is not going to reach any succes by the newbies and especially not by those with some experience (but i don't think so...)

[Jersey]

Tracer for dummys lol

WTF.

Elmit I don't think you can compare the Ariake with these book. The informations in this book can be shurely researched for free on several sites. OK Ariake is a kind of comercial stuff, but its not wearn by so many people because its sucks. And nobody would have it if he could get the same sort of shoe for free.

[Falco]

the ariakeshoe ist just ugly

[Scott]

Parkour is learnt from other people and from yourself, not from a book.

[Tune]

Scary, that make me think of all the stupid america pub...like :

The Abs King Pro, just 4 payment of 69,99$ and shipping price !

This post has been edited by Tune: Mar 7 2008, 02:32 PM

[Necro]

jeeeaa,now all we need is a book called:"how to do a KING-KONG" and then "how to do a MONKEY vault"

[Andeh]

im sold...

[BennehBoy]

I'm not the author of the e-book in question, but I have been working towards getting a parkour related book put together for quite some time now, another member pointed me toward this thread and it has interested me.

My aims are however quite different: I want to produce a work that will educate the general public, try to show them the WHY of parkour. Explain the differences between parkour, acro, tricking, freerunning, etc, show them the youth culture surrounding the phenomenon. I have no desire to create a 'tutorial' which could only ever fail.

Naturally there is an uderlying selfish reason for me to create a book, and that is to showcase my photography (and perhaps make a few quid in return), but having spent enough time studying the discipline I can assure you that I want to do it justice.

Hopefully some of the members of WYPK can vouch for that.

Do you think what I'm attempting to do can work?

There are links to my work in this thread: -> http://archive.parkour.net/index.php?showtopic=14322

[Andeh]

bennehboy being as your a fellow photographer (im AL|3N on trickery.net) i can completely understand where your coming from on the book side of things! the difference between what your doing, and what he is doing, is that you are making money from using your photography skills, but you happen to be a great photographer of parkour, and understand it just as much as some one that practices the art... where as this guy clearly doesn't and is just a bumbling idiot out to make money =/ i can atleast back your idea for your book, i personaly (no offence) wouldnt perchase it but im not a great fan of books, what with being dyslexic, but other photography lovers love books and i would recommend it to some one who wanted to know about parkour and see a great photographer simple as...

Andeh :x

This post has been edited by Andeh: Mar 11 2008, 03:02 AM

[Benbeniko]

Parkour is learnt from other people and from yourself, not from a book.

!, and this book is stupid too.