SciShow: The Science of Parkour

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Content of the Lesson: Traceurs, or parkour athletes, seem superhuman in their ability to scale up walls and drop down from rooftops without injury. But it turns out that there’s a fair amount of biomechanics at play behind these powers. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/1/jeb190983 https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/222/1/jeb190983.full.pdf https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=psychpubs https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02701367.2013.762300 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10255842.2020.1714932 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3761764/ https://hal.laas.fr/hal-02042616/file/Maldonado-et-al-2018.pdf https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/hukin/72/1/article-p15.xml https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10255842.2017.1382892?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Computer_Methods_in_Biomechanics_and_Biomedical_Engineering_TrendMD_1&origin=a70d7697d3ec186bcd03b87562bebf24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10255842.2017.1382892?needAccess=true Special thanks to Ronnie Shalvis for the parkour footage! Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/ronniestreetstunts Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/ronniestreetstunts Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-jumping-over-building-gm469150996-61384008 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brick-wall-background-interior-and-exterior-texture-building-and-wallpaper-gm1127104454-296949386 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-practicing-parkour-gm887533250-246313754 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/group-of-friends-playing-basketball-gm611183278-105120405 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/serious-female-soldier-leaving-home-gm1210807296-350915326 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/we-bring-a-world-of-adventure-into-each-others-lives-gm1163495540-319493786


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