What came first? Trials? Or Parkour?

I actually wrote a post about this very question today on my blog (linked above)! It gets more "old school" than you might think and it gives props to Neatorama for being not just a fun site, but a fun comunity as well.

I'm 29 too and I heard it pretty well. I wonder if the online version doesn't work as well as the real life version.

I tried posting this once already, but it never seemed to make it up. I just wanted to say that I'm another present-day lindy hopper and I'm thrilled to see this clip make its way into "mainstream" internet culture (as opposed to our fairly small, insular community of dance nerds, where it's a classic).

No one does it better than these guys - they are all true innovators - but if you want to see the new guard of Lindy Hoppers, do a youtube search for "ULHS Liberation" to see contest footage (largely unchoreographed) from my favorite modern era contest.

Two years ago, I wrote about 3/4 of a novel about this idea and it included 90% of the ideas mentioned the articles. The only problem was that I just wasn't a good enough writer to craft a piece of "entertainment" about an on-going real life genocide. It would have made for a great piece of fiction, but it just felt gross.