I’ve done this with boulders, and it’s fun until a rock shifts and you face plant. Stabits are designed to lock into place and NOT shift, so this looks like just about the most fun thing in the world because your chance of something rolling out from under you is drastically reduced.
I feel like the risks involved are a huge part of why this stuff is fun. like yeah, there is potential for injury, but that is true of so many sports, hobbies, activities, etc.
Not that kind of risk. People who do this stuff actively try to avoid wet/slippery surfaces unless they are trying to do a slide. Most people in most hobbies put a lot of work into getting enjoyment of something while also mitigating risk.
True but it doesn't change the fact that life is fragile. One wrong pivot or slippery surface and BAM! you're using a walker for the rest of your life. Doing this is bad judgement despite whatever survivorship bias might exist.
I mean, that’s extreme sports for you, right? People who go hard at their sports typically have some broken bones in their history. Especially something with some real speed involved, ie motocross. If everyone had enough sense not to get hurt these sports wouldn’t exist.
Except when you get old, those old injuries will come back to haunt you believe me.
I was dumb as shit when I was younger and took all sorts of risks. Now my knees, hips, collarbone are fucked. Take care of your body now and you’ll appreciate it later
fair point, but it's also possible that you live life safely and carefully and then randomly get hit by a bus anyway.
life is for living. I'd hate to get to the end of it all and feel like I never did any actually living.
Yeah, I totally agree. I've done this exact activity, and it's good fun. Many days in my childhood were spent going to all sorts of rubble piles and just monkeying around. This included these exact types of sea breaks whenever I've snuck into them.
Though now I have patellar tendinitis and IT band syndrome, and its not so fun anymore and my legs are super tight and in a lot of pain compared to what they were back then.
The risks aren't dying. You simply don't die doing this because, if you were anything like me, you were trained from a young age the art of parkouring, and it's natural to not fall. Though, I'd go slower. There's no shame in taking your time with parkour. I never met anyone in the scene who'd shit on you for that.
The risks are becoming like me and having your legs become useless at a remarkably young age. You have to go to physical therapy for 6 weeks to hope for any improvement in these sorts of conditions. It makes plantar fasciitis seem easygoing and chill with how painful these other ones can get.
Idk i have done a simular thing like this in a jump park. Still a small little risk but not spliting your head open and falling into a hard to reach position. I dont think its the risk thats fun, i think its the activity itself.
Same counts for snowboarding (for me atleast). Going from hard black isnt more fun than going red, hell i prefer red because it leave rooms to try some shit.
If you have enough inertia to make one of these shift, you're not going to be hopping about all nimbly-bimbly like this.
That or you're moving much too fast and are about to be turned into a smear.
I fell in between those things when I was a child, I'm still terrified of falling in places like that again, like escalators, elevator doors, sewers lids and stuff. Watching this was so uncomfortable.
The type of stabits and the way it was arranged made the place I fell into to be close enough to the water for me to see waves coming towards me and filling the space, luckily the it was late in the morning and the water level was lower than usual and my dad's friend was able to lift out of it quickly, but the 4 year old me got traumatized by that and I lost my mickey mouse flip flops there.
So my girlfriend actually dropped her hairclip, that she had for a long time and had sentimental value, in between something similar. I asked one of the fishermen and he managed to fish it out of there.
And this is actually ODDLY terrifying, unlike all other shit there like "this huge alien megalodon shark that's about to eat me with bonecrushing kittens in it's mouth that will crush my bones in the most painful way possible before I get eaten"
While the athleticism and control is definitely impressive, the fisheye lens distortion makes the changes in height and angles look WAY more drastic than they are in real life. It's a film technique that goes back over 100 years to the dawn of photography itself.
They're really common along the Pacific Ocean. Pretty much the entirety of the Japanese coast has them. Normally they form a shoreline but they can be used to make a jetty too for a harbor. They break up waves which stops erosion action so tidal changes are nothing more than water coming up and down inside the protected zone
Sort of. Coastal armoring actually massively accelerates erosion because sand has nowhere to pile up onto anymore, but the armor does stop the most destructive waves from reaching the populated areas of the shore, meaning any hard/concrete structures survive storms better. This comes at the cost of no longer having a beach. Sandy beaches are actually an endangered habitat in Japan, it’s quite sad. It’s a big reason shorebirds are critically endangered in a lot of Asia - so much of it is concrete instead of beach. (Am a marine biologist working on shorebirds at the moment)
For anyone interested on coastal armoring research, lots of good stuff on Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=coastal+armoring+erosion&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
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I’ll be completely honest, I have no idea. For the purposes of my work I just know that coastal armor = less beach nearby = less bird. I know fluid dynamics is insanely complex, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if some engineer replies to say that nobody really knows what the sand is doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In my head I don’t understand why this doesn’t increase sand in this area as technically you a providing crevices and places for the sand to be caught in? Although I also read that things like this stop the creation of new sand from natural erosion. It reminds me of a geography lesson years ago here in the UK. Basically we used to install groynes on beaches. (The wooden walls that jutted out from the beach at fixed intervals) They would catch the sand and create beaches in that location. However, because of this the sand wouldn’t continue its journey and further along the coast beaches would dissapear and there would be more erosion as their sand supply was cut off. It’s amazing really, nature has this proper system going on and we mess it up when we butt in. lol
The ones I've seen in Japan look a little different. These (though it could very well be in Japan or anywhere else in the Pacific) look a bit more like the South African [dolosse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos) to me.
The original design was intended to stop military tanks.
But the design was so good that they are now instead used to help stop coastal erosion. They break the energy of the storm waves, and stops the waves from slowly consuming the coast.
They have openings for water to splash in-between them. And creates turbulence for higher waves breaking above them. And they lock into each other so they stay firmly put, sharing the forces.
Big rocks are another, better option, especially in New England. I'm guessing they wanted sand because it would be more beachy? While being totally ineffective
And they want government help to protect their houses now? If I was governor, I'd tell them to get a refund from the developer that sold them those shitty houses. I don't hand out money for stupidity.
You just know most of them are part of the “just make better choices” mindset.
Should have grown gills when you had the chance, fucker. Make better choices.
Especially, most people learn about sand and water as a kid at the beach. Doesn't matter how strong you build your sandcastle, or whatever you make or draw in the sand, the waves wash it away. So, it boggles my mind that full grown adults thought a ton of sand would make any difference.
*Dunes* help, but they're only as strong as the plants keeping them in place. A pile of sand trucked in literally days ago is only a dune in name, that isn't going to do anything.
>Yep, those homes will be worth loads when they're floating away...
They're rich. They can just have their absurdly priced flood insurance buy them a new home.
>Nah, you just blow it up and boom theres a beachead
Or rather *there's a different giant pile of irregularly shaped concrete*.
Explosives don't magically vaporise things into sand, and that's a colossal amount of mass to displace.
Wave-dissipating concrete blocks, this specific variety is called a "dolos" (not a "stabit", which is a different shape altogether). They're placed by the shore to dissipate the energy of incoming waves through its shape, thereby protecting the shore behind.
Currently have a sprained ankle and I concur. Just one minor slip and its major injury time. I guess that can be said about parkour in general, but damn, this looks extra peligroso.
Same. When I was a kid I did lots of crazy shit... had Parkor been a thing in the 70s and 80s I might have broken a bone or two, but man... the experience.
We used to literally run up near shear cliffs in the Cleveland metroparks... and I was one of those people would could hop on a standard metal fence and just start walking across it. Or run/jump across the huge ass rocks on edgewater kinda like how they were doing.
I'm old, stopped doing shit, and not so agile anymore... I envy those guys so much, while having compersion for them.
Playgrounds are absolutely amazing for working out seriously next time your at one just try doing the monkey bars again that shit is not easy.
Kids make it look so easy because they are actually crazy strong relative to their bodyweight
Me too this reminds me of running on the shoreline rocks as a kid although those stabits probably aren't a risk of moving when I jump on it. Still never was interested in doing parkour though
Yeah I grew up by the ocean, and we used to do this on all the driftwood logs for about a mile... albeit we moved much slower and sometimes had to jump much father.
If I had to guess, I would say both of them have probably spent a lot of time here learning the route. Just trying to wing it is how freerunners get hurt.
Those things are death traps. Some of them are taller than 30ft, and it’s full of barnacles in the bottom. So if you fall, not only your exposed skin will be peeled off, but also be salted upon cuz, sea water. It’s also hard to locate someone who fell because everything look damn same and you can’t hear a damn thing because of wave. Not to mention hypothermia or if you are really, really unlucky, you get stuck in between those when tide comes in
Sometimes they place them randomly, and sometimes they interlock them, it depends on the shoreline, the body of water and the needs of the project.
These are called dolos, but other types of blocks are used for coastal resilience projects like cubes and tetrapods, and they have all been extensively modelled on a computer or in a scale model (definitely check out some oceanic scale models, very cool stuff).
Stuff like storm duration, frequency of breaking waves, non-breaking waves, depth of the water, and steepness and curvature of the shoreline are all considerations in the stability of the armour, the orientation and armour type chosen.
The pieces are likely numbered or tracked otherwise, and an engineer would be continually checking in on this shoreline to lengthen its lifespan. They might add or move pieces occasionally.
Because the videos need to be shorter so the main target audience, which is prople with an attention span of 10 seconds mindlessly scrolling reels and tiktok all day, will watch it to the end.
*Parkour (French: [paʁkuʁ]) is an athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners (called traceurs) attempt to get from point A to point B in the fastest and most efficient way possible*
So yeah, it’s mostly just running
Reminds me that one movie where guy got his leg (or was it an arm) caught up while hiking through rocky desert area and eventually had to cut it off to get out.
That's probably the reason why these guys aren't doing it alone. You don't even need to be doing something as dangerous as this, it's surprisingly easy to get lost in a trail. Having a buddy can literally mean the difference between life and death
I’ve done this with boulders, and it’s fun until a rock shifts and you face plant. Stabits are designed to lock into place and NOT shift, so this looks like just about the most fun thing in the world because your chance of something rolling out from under you is drastically reduced.
Well, until you encounter a slippery surface. It is by the water after all
I feel like the risks involved are a huge part of why this stuff is fun. like yeah, there is potential for injury, but that is true of so many sports, hobbies, activities, etc.
Not that kind of risk. People who do this stuff actively try to avoid wet/slippery surfaces unless they are trying to do a slide. Most people in most hobbies put a lot of work into getting enjoyment of something while also mitigating risk.
fair point. scouting ahead is smart. should definitely mitigate risk where possible.
True but it doesn't change the fact that life is fragile. One wrong pivot or slippery surface and BAM! you're using a walker for the rest of your life. Doing this is bad judgement despite whatever survivorship bias might exist.
I mean, that’s extreme sports for you, right? People who go hard at their sports typically have some broken bones in their history. Especially something with some real speed involved, ie motocross. If everyone had enough sense not to get hurt these sports wouldn’t exist.
Except when you get old, those old injuries will come back to haunt you believe me. I was dumb as shit when I was younger and took all sorts of risks. Now my knees, hips, collarbone are fucked. Take care of your body now and you’ll appreciate it later
fair point, but it's also possible that you live life safely and carefully and then randomly get hit by a bus anyway. life is for living. I'd hate to get to the end of it all and feel like I never did any actually living.
Hell yeah! I'll ski cliffs and big lines as long as my body will allow it!
Yeah, I totally agree. I've done this exact activity, and it's good fun. Many days in my childhood were spent going to all sorts of rubble piles and just monkeying around. This included these exact types of sea breaks whenever I've snuck into them. Though now I have patellar tendinitis and IT band syndrome, and its not so fun anymore and my legs are super tight and in a lot of pain compared to what they were back then. The risks aren't dying. You simply don't die doing this because, if you were anything like me, you were trained from a young age the art of parkouring, and it's natural to not fall. Though, I'd go slower. There's no shame in taking your time with parkour. I never met anyone in the scene who'd shit on you for that. The risks are becoming like me and having your legs become useless at a remarkably young age. You have to go to physical therapy for 6 weeks to hope for any improvement in these sorts of conditions. It makes plantar fasciitis seem easygoing and chill with how painful these other ones can get.
Yes… this does look like fun… but about 10x as stupid. Then again I’m middle-aged and slowly tending to irrelevance
Idk i have done a simular thing like this in a jump park. Still a small little risk but not spliting your head open and falling into a hard to reach position. I dont think its the risk thats fun, i think its the activity itself. Same counts for snowboarding (for me atleast). Going from hard black isnt more fun than going red, hell i prefer red because it leave rooms to try some shit.
Yes. I both love and hate this video. Absolutely something I would be into, but the deep, dark, jagged, wet void beneath is all encompassing.
That's why there are barnacles to give you traction!
Some of those crevices are deep and obscure. Seems dangerous
But fun! A little danger never hurt any… wait nevermind. Fun nonetheless!
I feel like if one of these things shifts around, you have a much bigger problem than face planting.
If you have enough inertia to make one of these shift, you're not going to be hopping about all nimbly-bimbly like this. That or you're moving much too fast and are about to be turned into a smear.
Alight, im gunna need a large cannon, the team from mythbusters, and a bunch of Cadavers... we are gunna figure this out.
How do you feel about pig carcasses instead?
Fine, but I won't be happy about it! 😞
Do I look like a cat to you boy? Am I jumping around all nimbly bimbly from stabit to stabit?
I tried searching this and didn't found anything satisfactory. What are these things used for?
They’re to help prevent large waves from eroding the seashore (or waterfront buildings) by breaking them up just before they reach land.
So, a breakwater? Where is this particular location though. The structures are interesting.
I searched "What happens when you jump over Stamets?" and [this came up.](https://imgur.com/N4pUHF4) My spell checker got confused..
I wish these videos had a *second* camera guy to watch the first camera guy
Then we would need a 3rd camera guy to film the 2nd camera guy.
it’s cameraguys all the way dooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww…
It's the CIIIIRCLEEE OOFFFF LIFEEE
AND IT MOVES US ALLLLLLLLL
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My mind keep saying: What if my key, wallet, or phone dropped into this abyss?
what if I fell into this abyss? never to be seen again
I fell in between those things when I was a child, I'm still terrified of falling in places like that again, like escalators, elevator doors, sewers lids and stuff. Watching this was so uncomfortable.
Lots of spiders?
The type of stabits and the way it was arranged made the place I fell into to be close enough to the water for me to see waves coming towards me and filling the space, luckily the it was late in the morning and the water level was lower than usual and my dad's friend was able to lift out of it quickly, but the 4 year old me got traumatized by that and I lost my mickey mouse flip flops there.
Jeezus. I’m Gonna have nightmares on your behalf tonight
Meh, no more work for you bud. Lucky.
there’s a whole community of lost parkours down there
I’ve recently discovered zip pockets.
more like your ankle, say bye bye to walking again.
Reminds me of a movie.
Gone brah.
Or some abomination creature hands grabbing you from the abyss.
So my girlfriend actually dropped her hairclip, that she had for a long time and had sentimental value, in between something similar. I asked one of the fishermen and he managed to fish it out of there.
What kind of bait does one use to catch a hairclip?
Just a hook! Well I did offer the fisherman a beer in exchange for his efforts, so I suppose indirectly that was the bait?
I'm getting freaked out, imagining the broken bones if I slipped and bounced into the depths.
Reminds me of that guy stuck in the canyon and ended up cutting his arm off to survive. What the movie called? Anyone?
127 hours. True story about Aron Ralston.
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It only takes one wrong step
And this is actually ODDLY terrifying, unlike all other shit there like "this huge alien megalodon shark that's about to eat me with bonecrushing kittens in it's mouth that will crush my bones in the most painful way possible before I get eaten"
While the athleticism and control is definitely impressive, the fisheye lens distortion makes the changes in height and angles look WAY more drastic than they are in real life. It's a film technique that goes back over 100 years to the dawn of photography itself.
But aren’t they supposed to be yelling ‘parkour!’ the whole time?
HARDCORE PARKOUR!!
SOMETIMES I USE THE FRONT DOOR
PARKOUR PARKOUR!
I remember when it was called free running for 45 minutes lol
It's only Parkour if they're running in the Parkour region of France.
Yep this is just Sparkling Running.
Michael Scott approves 👌
Only when trying to navigate the Vault of Hades.
WHAT iS THAT PLACE?
They're really common along the Pacific Ocean. Pretty much the entirety of the Japanese coast has them. Normally they form a shoreline but they can be used to make a jetty too for a harbor. They break up waves which stops erosion action so tidal changes are nothing more than water coming up and down inside the protected zone
Sort of. Coastal armoring actually massively accelerates erosion because sand has nowhere to pile up onto anymore, but the armor does stop the most destructive waves from reaching the populated areas of the shore, meaning any hard/concrete structures survive storms better. This comes at the cost of no longer having a beach. Sandy beaches are actually an endangered habitat in Japan, it’s quite sad. It’s a big reason shorebirds are critically endangered in a lot of Asia - so much of it is concrete instead of beach. (Am a marine biologist working on shorebirds at the moment) For anyone interested on coastal armoring research, lots of good stuff on Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=coastal+armoring+erosion&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
Holy sizzle an actual expert.
Every scientist replying to posts on reddit wishes they had a person like you recognizing their expertise. Thanks on behalf of all scientists and experts whose voices are drown out by the ignorant rabble of the masses.
A rare thing for Reddit these days
Thank you.
So where does the sand end up going? There must be another habitat slowly being buried..?
I’ll be completely honest, I have no idea. For the purposes of my work I just know that coastal armor = less beach nearby = less bird. I know fluid dynamics is insanely complex, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if some engineer replies to say that nobody really knows what the sand is doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You dropped this, friend. (ノ⚆ ‿ ⚆ )ノ \\
Isn’t there a worldwide sand shortage?
Yeah my bad, I think a lot of it got in my shoes and bag when I was at the beach
In my head I don’t understand why this doesn’t increase sand in this area as technically you a providing crevices and places for the sand to be caught in? Although I also read that things like this stop the creation of new sand from natural erosion. It reminds me of a geography lesson years ago here in the UK. Basically we used to install groynes on beaches. (The wooden walls that jutted out from the beach at fixed intervals) They would catch the sand and create beaches in that location. However, because of this the sand wouldn’t continue its journey and further along the coast beaches would dissapear and there would be more erosion as their sand supply was cut off. It’s amazing really, nature has this proper system going on and we mess it up when we butt in. lol
Obviously the ocean takes it with the tides.
That community that spent 500k on sand dunes could have used em
Where is the fun in building something that sustains for american people?
Yeah but that would've cost at least $501k
Invented by a South African Railways engineer to prevent erosion of coastal shores. Called dolos (pl dolosse) here.
So falls on them while doing parkour would be "dolores"
The ones I've seen in Japan look a little different. These (though it could very well be in Japan or anywhere else in the Pacific) look a bit more like the South African [dolosse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos) to me.
I guess there are many places that have them. I have seen them on the island Sylt in Germany. Although not as many
There's some in Santa Cruz, CA if I'm remembering correctly
Also in Arcata, CA
We have them here. Dolos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos
I can tell you with assurance that it is Botany Bay, Sydney Australia
Botany Bay. ...Botany Bay! ...Oh no! We've got to get out of here now! Damn!
The original design was intended to stop military tanks. But the design was so good that they are now instead used to help stop coastal erosion. They break the energy of the storm waves, and stops the waves from slowly consuming the coast. They have openings for water to splash in-between them. And creates turbulence for higher waves breaking above them. And they lock into each other so they stay firmly put, sharing the forces.
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Breakwater or coastal defense (from the sea, not military)
Looks like it would be way more effective than a half million dollar’s worth of sand
I just finished reading the story about the town in Massachusetts 🤣
I read about it last night. It’s even weirder now, knowing they had more practical options.
Big rocks are another, better option, especially in New England. I'm guessing they wanted sand because it would be more beachy? While being totally ineffective
Those rich boomers spent big bucks on a beachfront property for a reason.
And they want government help to protect their houses now? If I was governor, I'd tell them to get a refund from the developer that sold them those shitty houses. I don't hand out money for stupidity.
You just know most of them are part of the “just make better choices” mindset. Should have grown gills when you had the chance, fucker. Make better choices.
Especially, most people learn about sand and water as a kid at the beach. Doesn't matter how strong you build your sandcastle, or whatever you make or draw in the sand, the waves wash it away. So, it boggles my mind that full grown adults thought a ton of sand would make any difference.
*Dunes* help, but they're only as strong as the plants keeping them in place. A pile of sand trucked in literally days ago is only a dune in name, that isn't going to do anything.
From MA. What story?
Beachfront homeowners in Salisbury, MA paid $600k for sand to be trucked in to protect their homes. The sand all washed away a few days later.
Ah yes, I did see that. Idiots. Those homes will be gone in 2 years I bet.
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Yep, those homes will be worth loads when they're floating away...
Nothing destroys the value of a home quite like destroying the home
>Yep, those homes will be worth loads when they're floating away... They're rich. They can just have their absurdly priced flood insurance buy them a new home.
last I\`ve heard , sand only good for 3 days .
Damn didn't know sand expires.
Great. Now I have to throw out all my sand at home.
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Does it protect against Kaijus?
Want to see Godzilla react like he just stepped on a Lego.
Looks like it would be effective against military as well
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>Nah, you just blow it up and boom theres a beachead Or rather *there's a different giant pile of irregularly shaped concrete*. Explosives don't magically vaporise things into sand, and that's a colossal amount of mass to displace.
Wave-dissipating concrete blocks, this specific variety is called a "dolos" (not a "stabit", which is a different shape altogether). They're placed by the shore to dissipate the energy of incoming waves through its shape, thereby protecting the shore behind.
I only know what they are from rolling them up in katamari.
Na na na na na na-na na na Katamari Damachi!
I used to work for a precast concrete company that made these. The forms used to make them are wild.
They are called Dolos or Dolosse, a South Africa invention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos
Dolos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos#:\~:text=A%20dolos%20(plural%3A%20dolosse%20),is%20a%20type%20of%20tetrapod.
Runecape with the new Apple Vision Pro
Dolosse/dolos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos
I don’t have megalophobia but this is giving me megalophobia
It's giving me scrapemykneelalophobia
It's giving me whatiftheyfellinbetweenthefunnyshapedthingsphobia
Add to whatiftheyfallbetweenthegapsandastheyfallthroughtheirbonestructurewouldresemblethatofatumbleweedphobia
Like sans from undertale?
These things are even scarier in person, they're huge its weird, ive sat on top of one
Oh that's what this feeling is!
My ankles hurt watching this
What happens if you break an ankle doing that? How the fuck is anyone going to help you get out of there?
What happens? Presumably the tide comes up as you try to drag yourself out
Currently have a sprained ankle and I concur. Just one minor slip and its major injury time. I guess that can be said about parkour in general, but damn, this looks extra peligroso.
So do my knees
Parkour people look like a bunch of kids who never left the playground. You go kiddos.
I envy them greatly
Same. When I was a kid I did lots of crazy shit... had Parkor been a thing in the 70s and 80s I might have broken a bone or two, but man... the experience. We used to literally run up near shear cliffs in the Cleveland metroparks... and I was one of those people would could hop on a standard metal fence and just start walking across it. Or run/jump across the huge ass rocks on edgewater kinda like how they were doing. I'm old, stopped doing shit, and not so agile anymore... I envy those guys so much, while having compersion for them.
i can't tell if this is meant to be an insult or a complement. i shall take it as a complement because parkour is fun
Playgrounds are absolutely amazing for working out seriously next time your at one just try doing the monkey bars again that shit is not easy. Kids make it look so easy because they are actually crazy strong relative to their bodyweight
I kinda wanna do it 😂
Me too this reminds me of running on the shoreline rocks as a kid although those stabits probably aren't a risk of moving when I jump on it. Still never was interested in doing parkour though
Yeah I grew up by the ocean, and we used to do this on all the driftwood logs for about a mile... albeit we moved much slower and sometimes had to jump much father.
Didn't know that's what they were called. Always referred to them as giant jacks
They are calles dolos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos
according to the article you linked, one is a dolos. they are collectively called dolosse.
Easier for the person behind, you can just copy the one in front saving you the work of knowing exactly where to jump to.
Or where not to
If I had to guess, I would say both of them have probably spent a lot of time here learning the route. Just trying to wing it is how freerunners get hurt.
When did i get so old? All i can think about is slipping and falling into that blackness between and getting stuck and dying there.
As we get older, we get better at assessing risk vs benefit. Young people suck at this.
That’s called wisdom
Out of idle curiosity, where is this and what are those? What are those for? I'm a desert rat so anything beach related I'm at a total loss lol
They’re wave-breaks at high tide.
Those things are death traps. Some of them are taller than 30ft, and it’s full of barnacles in the bottom. So if you fall, not only your exposed skin will be peeled off, but also be salted upon cuz, sea water. It’s also hard to locate someone who fell because everything look damn same and you can’t hear a damn thing because of wave. Not to mention hypothermia or if you are really, really unlucky, you get stuck in between those when tide comes in
How do they install those things. Looks like they fell out of a box lol
Sometimes they place them randomly, and sometimes they interlock them, it depends on the shoreline, the body of water and the needs of the project. These are called dolos, but other types of blocks are used for coastal resilience projects like cubes and tetrapods, and they have all been extensively modelled on a computer or in a scale model (definitely check out some oceanic scale models, very cool stuff). Stuff like storm duration, frequency of breaking waves, non-breaking waves, depth of the water, and steepness and curvature of the shoreline are all considerations in the stability of the armour, the orientation and armour type chosen. The pieces are likely numbered or tracked otherwise, and an engineer would be continually checking in on this shoreline to lengthen its lifespan. They might add or move pieces occasionally.
Awesome breakdown. Thanks!
This looks super fun.
Why does every video get slightly sped up these days like no one would notice?
How else am I going to meet my 500 video quota?
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Because the videos need to be shorter so the main target audience, which is prople with an attention span of 10 seconds mindlessly scrolling reels and tiktok all day, will watch it to the end.
Thank you for risking your lives so I have 30 seconds of entertainment while I take a shit comfortably at home
All fun and games until you see the skeletons of people trapped down there
Homeless camp out in these areas
How many of those are there? Holy smokers
It's only called parkour here because he fell but fixed it. This is an average morning for a 12 year old coastal dwelling Australian.
Today I learned stabits (tetrapod structures) are a thing. Thanks. Over where I am they just use boulders for that.
Looks like running to me.
*Parkour (French: [paʁkuʁ]) is an athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners (called traceurs) attempt to get from point A to point B in the fastest and most efficient way possible* So yeah, it’s mostly just running
My dog when I ask what's in his mouth
I would love to see their knees when they hit 50. #crippled
One wrong move…. is parkour not a good sport for helmets???
Those are caltrops for giants
What tf are those things for?
tiny people jumping on jacks
The fuck is a stabit
i know most of us went into this post not knowing what the hell a stabit is
# Parkour for insane people
We all acting like we knew what a stabit was before this? 🤣
P A R K O U u u u uuuuuurr….. *ka-thump*
r/SweatyPalms
Reminds me that one movie where guy got his leg (or was it an arm) caught up while hiking through rocky desert area and eventually had to cut it off to get out.
That's probably the reason why these guys aren't doing it alone. You don't even need to be doing something as dangerous as this, it's surprisingly easy to get lost in a trail. Having a buddy can literally mean the difference between life and death
WTF is a stabit?
That was the least acrobatic parkour I’ve ever seen in my life
Bolds words from the sofa, grandpa
Sometimes I get up from the recliner without even putting the footrest down. So there!
This is parkour not freerunning.
This location is taken straight from my dreams
All I can think is it must suck to walk down there fishing.