Sparring Ring Idea

[krogothwolf]

The whole crossing the line of the cirlce seems kinda weird? What's the point? and aside from knocking the guy down, 5 seconds seems kinda long. Why can't a knock down be the point as opposed to the line crossing?

[Hanuman]

Originally Posted by krogothwolf

The whole crossing the line of the cirlce seems kinda weird? What's the point? and aside from knocking the guy down, 5 seconds seems kinda long. Why can't a knock down be the point as opposed to the line crossing?

The crossing the line is to give a time advantage, so you can run away.
Finishing a 3-8 person fight ESPECIALLY with weapons means you either get severely hurt or severely hurt people, winning can get you sued, losing can get you hurt, so you run away.
Parkour is the art of running away, tricking is the specific fiend of parkour for non-practical movements. You can notice a parkour master by his ability to go from point A to point B more quickly than normal movements and with the least loss of energy to do the movements.

The circle concept is to train you to understand when you get a person and to train split second timing to be able to bolt away as soon as that happens.

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Lev

Parkour is the art of running away, tricking is the specific fiend of parkour for non-practical movements. You can notice a parkour master by his ability to go from point A to point B more quickly than normal movements and with the least loss of energy to do the movements.

Yeah, I know that, the concept of staying within one area seems antiethetical to everything I've ever learned about parkour.

Parkour=effcient movement from point a to b
Freerunning= The beautiful movement from point a to b
tricking= Moving beautifully, not necessarily going anywhere

The circle concept is to train you to understand when you get a person and to train split second timing to be able to bolt away as soon as that happens.

Yeah, sounds like a Capoeira rhoda.

[Hanuman]

Originally Posted by Premonitions

Yeah, I know that, the concept of staying within one area seems antiethetical to everything I've ever learned about parkour.

That's because it's a mixed styling, it trains suppression, run reaction, transition from combat to parkour (possibly after being floored a few times and taking a few hits) and the synergy between a suppressive situation straight into a fleeing situation, such as if 3 guys (one of them armed with a pistol, the others with knives) hold you at gunpoint and escort you along, you could disable one into the others and make a dash for the corner of a building and hit cover before the pistol holder could aim at you.

It's not training for any specific thing, it just breeds good habits.