[Guide] Learning Parkour - The Swift Way!

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

Learning Parkour - The Swift Way!

 

Most of this guide is focused on getting started, and is intended to help new parkourists learn parkour faster and without making frustrating mistakes giving up.

 

All the amazing parkourists out there started from being a newbie, with no exceptions. Some of the newbies reading this topic might be the parkour legends of the future but you still have a long way to go and I am here to help you start your journey. You don't have to follow my instructions exactly, or at all. There are many ways to learn, everyone goes his own path. I learned by just experimenting with friends, and it just might be a good way for you too. But anyways, I recommend you to read this article to get some helpful advice.

 

 

A bad way of learning parkour

 

A whole lot of players think that to learn parkour they need someone to teach them. They watch parkour videos and wish to be like the players in these videos, then they ask them to teach them parkour and never get a reply. Next time they talk about parkour they say "I want to learn parkour but not one wants to teach me", this is the main reason I decided to write this guide.

 

A good way of learning parkour

 

Players usually imagine themselves doing impressive and complicated tricks in the future, and decide that their goal is to be able to do that. That's a great goal and there is absolutely no problem with it, but aiming so high without looking at the way to your goal isn't the best thing to do.

 

Here are a few simple steps that can help you build your learning plan:

• Learn more about parkour - do your research, watch various parkour videos, read articles, just learn more about what different things there are in parkour. Get familiar with different concepts and parkour styles.
  This step will be easy for you because I've done a lot of the research for you, I'll get to it later in this article.
• Define yourself a clear goal - whether it is to be able to make big and impressive jumps, to be able to climb any building you want, to become an OMP master, to know all the parkour tricks, or even to become the best parkourist ever. Just make sure you know exactly what you want.
• Break it down into small goals - Now that you've done your research, you know enough to be able to choose small goals or check-points to build your way to the final goal. For the first goals pick something not too far fetched, you need to start from something you can accomplish quickly and easily. Increase the difficulty gradually, go step by step so you'll always have some progress and will not lose your motivation.
  These check points can be learning new parkour skills and tricks, accomplishing goals like conquering a whole map or reaching higher places, or even getting better parkour equipment.
• Start parkouring! You have a plan, you have useful resources that some of them are made especially to help you learn parkour - use them. And most importantly, have fun!!

Learning from videos is an option for talented players, fast learners and experienced parkourists, but it is not the best way for most beginners. For those of you who can learn easily enough by just watching others doing parkour, I recommend starting from "parkour guide" videos. While these are not real guides and the commentary doesn't provide any new information you can't already see clearly in the video itself, the main reason they are good for learning is that the tricks are shown clearly and slowly enough. you can watch videos by TFP, BRTT, AoP, GTT, or any other team you know that makes this kind of videos. You don't have to worry about the language because - as I already mentioned - the commentary doesn't provide any new information. Another useful type of videos can be found in the Parkour Dictionary, there you can see various basic tricks from player's view so you can see what things should look like from your own view in the game.

 

When you are already capable of learning from videos, it is most likely that you will be able to learn from any video because you already have the basic understanding of how things work in parkour. The types of videos I mentioned in the last paragraph are the easiest to learn from, but you should try repeating tricks from other videos too. Succeeding a trick you see in a video that isn't made to teach players is a nice way to confirm you are getting much better at parkour.

 

If you are not yet capable of learning from watching parkour videos, you should focus on the basics - the most fundamental skills that are used almost everywhere in parkour. Once you master these, learning from videos and trying more complex tricks shouldn't be a problem for you. You can find videos and explanation of all the basics in the Parkour Dictionary.

 

The order of tricks in the Parkour Dictionary is based on similarity of concepts. I tried to put the most basic things first but the order isn't perfect for learning. I recommend starting from these: (in order)

Swing, Tower, Ramp, Bump, Mine Jump.

 

After mastering these, you can try pretty much any trick form the Parkour Dictionary, there are some more difficult tricks in it but most of them are pretty simple. Just make sure you have the right equipment for the trick you want to try.

 

Finding a good team

 

You want a team of players that are at about your level in parkour. Don't waste your time trying to join more experienced parkourists that don't need you in their team. You can try joining existing teams at your level or gather some friends to start a new team. You don't need to create a forum topic listing your team mates, and you don't even need to call it a team. It's enough to just know what friends are interested in parkour and just invite them to do parkour with you whenever you want. This is how most parkour teams came into existence, including some of the best teams that exist today.

 

Warnings!

 

There are a few big mistakes that many people keep repeating and it causes them to lose their motivation and stop trying to learn parkour.

 

Parkour is for everyone, but not every parkour trick is. Many players get demotivated by failing tricks they don't have the right equipment for.

 

These huge jumps you see in parkour videos are done using upgraded equipment that not everybody haves. If you seem to do everything right but the trick still doesn't work, it's a sign that you might not have the right equipment. A lot of low ranked players fall for it and wrongly conclude that they are not talented enough for this level of parkour.

If your best equipment is just M1, I recommend you TFP's M0/M1 videos. Sadly they didn't show a lot of what's possible with this equipment, but at least it is something you could start from.

 

A less popular thing (that sadly still happens sometimes) is that players give up after failing a few parkour tricks when they do have the right equipment. They don't understand what they do wrong. If you keep failing a trick - instead of repeating it over and over the same way - ask yourself some useful questions: are you doing something wrong? is anyone else in your team making a mistake? is the timing right? why did you fail last time? are you missing players in the trick to have more firepower to shoot the jumper further and higher? are you using the best equipment for this trick?

If you still can't get it to work, try watching a video of this trick and see how exactly the trick is done in the video, and with what equipment.

 

Another very helpful thing is remembering exactly what you did last attempt, look at the textures on the ground and remember where exactly you start accelerating from, where you placed the mine, when you shot... Every little detail you can memorize. Keep changing these little details every one or few attempts and see if it makes the trick work better or worse, try to fine tune every little thing. Keep experimenting with small changes and see how they affect the trick.

 

In most cases, if you can't perform a trick in the best way possible or the trick just isn't effective enough, you can add another player to shoot the jumper and give him the extra boost.

 

Do parkour with your friends in a private battle. Public parkour battles are the wrong place for it, they are just a big mess. It is important that you use parkour format for the battle because in this format there are no "kill zones" that make players self destruct when they get on top of houses or to any other area you shouldn't go in normal battles.

 

There are some myths that many believe and some useful facts they don't know, read the list of parkour myths and facts to make sure you don't repeat popular mistakes in parkour. (like using double damage and thinking it increases impact force too)

 

 

Helpful Information

 

What is parkour in Tanki?

 

Parkour in Tanki Online is about overcoming obstacles, climbing places that aren't reachable with simple driving, making cool jumps and tricks even if not to land on a high place, and making stunts.

 

Common things parkourists do:

• Just randomly jumping around for fun.
• Getting on top of houses.
• Making parkour videos - usually conquering a whole map in each video.
• Playing in special parkour styles. The most popular parkour style, not including the classic team-parkour, is OMP.
• Learning new tricks.
• Trying to come up with new tricks.
• Catch gold boxes using parkour - flying right to it while everyone else is watching them from below helplessly!

What is OMP?

 

OMP stands for "One Man Parkour" - it's a parkour style of climbing things alone, with no help from anyone else, and that includes not using their mines.

 

All links used in this article:

 

Parkour guide videos: TFP (M0/M1), BRTT, AoP, GTT

Parkour Dictionary

List of parkour clubs

Parkour myths and facts

 

 

Feel free to ask questions and share your own tips for beginners!

[Hex 11,520]

Approved!

 

Edits:

- One typo

- General redesigning and a bit of rephrasing in the middle

 

Wow! Nicely done there, well written. I would've added in media, pictures, GIFs, videos, you name it; but not bad either. Changed the title to make it look professional. *applauds*

[cube3e 1,973]

Ok.

[Blackdrakon30 2,943]

<3 Love the Parkour guide, really nice job with it! To be honest, I always wanted a parkour guide like this, Beginners often have a really touch time with parkour, and it's always really cool (to me, anyways) to see people willing to try and help out new people and advise them.  :D

 

10/10 imo, although like Pdox said, pictures would be nice to include.  :ph34r:

[Crip 4,735]

Reads well, and very helpful and informative.

 

I parkour like a pro so I don't need this stone, so anything for beginners I will appreciate very much.

[Tofu 6,773]

A life saver for mults like me who get embarrassed at every parkour meet

[Rajandjoy_1 1]

Hmm

[TTK_229 1,080]

Ewewew parkour

[PracticeParkourStunt 2,542]

Happy to see you posting this here :)

[GeeVuh 1,647]

 

Learning Parkour - The Swift Way!

Say whut? You didn't recommend F&F? O_O

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

Say whut? You didn't recommend F&F? O_O

it's not an advertisement for my parkour team, it's just a nice title. the swift way means the quick way, because this guide helps people learn parkour faster.

 

Also, I think that Fight & Flight is successful enough already and doesn't need more advertising... I mean we appeared on the latest VLOG. Also, as one of the leading teams in the parkour community I think we should contribute more to those who need help and we can help them, that's why I started posting these forum topics about parkour and i must say it works pretty well so I'm gonna keep posting more topics like these.

Edited January 16, 2017 by SwiftSmoky

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

These huge jumps you see in parkour videos are done using upgraded equipment that not everybody haves.

Is this the typo you corrected, pdox? Is this really the correct way to say this? o:

It looks like some very basic knowledge I'm missing... My English sucks lol

Edited January 16, 2017 by SwiftSmoky

[I.HONEST 3]

Well swift smokey...i donot knw if ull remember me or not...but i surely am impressed with u..seeing u being so known in En and other communities as well.

 

I did a little parkour with u when I was with nicknackpattywack (leader of s2.5).that time i totally thought u were a guy who was wasting time in climbimg building...thats where we became friends...from that moment on..we used to reguarly be in same maps...once u invited me to Industrial zone..u were all alone..i wasnt able to find as u were on the top...and u were using smokey and wasp..and saying abt parkour..while then i tied switching to rico wasp to get on top...and RIP ...i wasnt able to get on top ( as my parkour skill are OP (sarcasm overloaded)). Me taking rico wasnt able to do that but u did it with smokey...that caught my eye!..I knew that u would surely get some recognition some day..but it much huge than that i imagined.

 

Keep ur amazing work up and especially ur creative mind too as what u think is hardly imaginable by others!

 

Regards,

Honest

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

Well swift smokey...i donot knw if ull remember me or not...but i surely am impressed with u..seeing u being so known in En and other communities as well.

 

I did a little parkour with u when I was with nicknackpattywack (leader of s2.5).that time i totally thought u were a guy who was wasting time in climbimg building...thats where we became friends...from that moment on..we used to reguarly be in same maps...once u invited me to Industrial zone..u were all alone..i wasnt able to find as u were on the top...and u were using smokey and wasp..and saying abt parkour..while then i tied switching to rico wasp to get on top...and RIP ...i wasnt able to get on top ( as my parkour skill are OP (sarcasm overloaded)). Me taking rico wasnt able to do that but u did it with smokey...that caught my eye!..I knew that u would surely get some recognition some day..but it much huge than that i imagined.

 

Keep ur amazing work up and especially ur creative mind too as what u think is hardly imaginable by others!

 

Regards,

Honest

Good to see you back man! :D

ofc I remember you, we were too good friends for me to ever forget you!

I was trying (and failing) to teach your clan some parkour fighting :P

 

So are you back to tanki?