posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:07 AM by Endie

Gobsmacking

Undoubtedly the stupidest, strongest, most accomplished crazy athlete I have ever seen:

Crazy Russian doing some sort of, erm, "street athletics" thing

Small-budget production companies could save a fortune in CGI by just having this bloke around: "just jump backwards off this 25-foot-high ledge would you, Ivan?"  The sad thing is that such skilled, idiotic strength which once would have got him a place as a stuntman is pretty pointless these days.  People would see it in a movie and just assume wire-fu.

Comments

# re: Gobsmacking

Tuesday, July 04, 2006 5:27 PM by Tom
Having just seen Ong-Bak and from the looks of the trailer for District 13, it seems that there's a bit of a renaissance going on and that <i>parkour</i> type skillz are going to be flavour of the month soon.

# re: Gobsmacking

Saturday, July 08, 2006 4:55 AM by I So Want One (Lane)
Thanks for the comment a while ago, nice blog yourself.

# re: Gobsmacking

Saturday, July 08, 2006 5:32 AM by s
Yeah, "Parkour." NPR's All Things Considered did a piece on it about a week ago. It sounded really cool. "The Kids" all over the world are getting into it. They train for quite a while on mats before flipping onto concrete and jumping across rooftops. :)
It was cool to actually see it. Thanks.

# re: Gobsmacking

Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:16 PM by Endie
Lane, your blog ("I So Want One") has, on its February archive, a trojan, which uses a buffer overrun sploit on a dialog box from the look of it. I'll post this chez vous as well...

# re: Gobsmacking

Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:20 PM by Endie
And I am so behind the times: I'd never heard of Parkour. Tsk, and they say kids these days just sit in front of playstations all day? That stuff is well hard: I wish it's been around when I was young enough to heal bones quickly :) My rugby-playing would benefit from it...

# re: Gobsmacking

Sunday, July 09, 2006 8:47 PM by Lane
There we go, I think I fixed the trojan. Apparently that got in there by accident, seems likely someone hacked isowantone.com. Thanks for the tip!

# re: Gobsmacking

Monday, July 10, 2006 10:05 AM by Endie
Good work, fella! I'm sure I don't have to tell you to scan your pc now ;)

# re: Gobsmacking

Monday, July 10, 2006 10:37 AM by the hippo
He ain't all that!! I carry out far cooler and infinitely more flamboyant moves in passing a glass door between my kitchen and bathroom, adjacent to a busy main road, to avoid being spotted naked in rushing to the lavvy, simply because I can't be arsed drilling two simple holes in the wall to put a curtain pole up.

Having seen me remove one shirt to replace it with another on your street, you'll fully appreciate the carnage which could result if some unfortunate motorist glanced towards me at the moment of critical mass.

# re: Gobsmacking

Monday, July 10, 2006 11:35 AM by Endie
"Having seen me remove one shirt to replace it with another on your street"

It's still the talk of the street. The neighbours say you were two fine figures of a man.

# re: Gobsmacking

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:21 PM by Lane
I use a mac, endie :( I wonder what happened?

# re: Gobsmacking

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:09 AM by Endie
Can you not view that on a Mac? Weird. Basically, the guy is climbing up buildings, jumping off ledges 7 or 8 metres off the ground, sometimes with backwards flips. Jumping 8 feet onto 6-inch wide walls above four storey drops. Insane stuff, and with amazing strength and balance. How he has got to 20 or so without breaking his spine is a mystery to me.

# re: Gobsmacking

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:19 AM by Endie
Oh, I get you: you mean you wonder what happened to get your site whacked upside the head by a trojan. No idead: the most likely cause would be that you uploaded it inadvertently, not realising the payload of whatever component caused the problem because it didn't target your opsys. If you can't see anything that might cause that, then it might be worth checking with your host. And making sure that you have a strongly-secure (numbers, characters and symbols) password, just in case you're right and someone did hack you.