Posted by DC at 20:13
For those who been watching the websites and forums will have heard about the Ariake shoe that K-Swiss have developed.
(Read up on our forum about it here: Training Shoes)
Well now it's official and up on their main website for all to read up and see. Make sure to check out the latest TV spots there too. One of them features Tyson Cecka from the States who I happened to think is doing vey well recently.
You'll also notice a rather famous face sporting the Ariake's on the main Free Running page.... ;-) ... A one Mr Sebastien Foucan.
Go check it out: www.kswiss.com
Posted by DC at 02:37
"We want to change the way that players are able to move in first person. No more restrictions, no more being blocked by simple barriers such as walls and fences. We want to enable the player to move like a real person, with the ability to run, jump, vault and slide in a way that has never been seen before in a first person game."
Sound familiar? :-)
Mirror's Edge was announced by EA DICE, as being ready to release in 2008 on Xbox and PS3.
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Posted by Specs at 17:25
Three of PKSA's traceurs (JaX, Specs & Miles) recently helped in
the making of a 12 minute Corporate DVD for Tracker (the company that installs a GPS tracking device in your car and locates stolen or hi-jacked cars).  The Corporate DVD is the
first of its kind we reckon! The DVD dumps the old conservative business
appeal for a bold and innovative new concept which showcases the real
side of the company, the fast recovery of stolen vehicles and saving of
lives.
The 3 traceurs swapped their usual athletic wear for tactical gear
and dawn a full Parkour piece which involved cool chase
scenes surrounding the depiction of a true story where a innocent
civilian become a hijack victim within a matter of seconds and it is a
race against time to save him from being murdered and parting from his
beautiful little daughter.
The diary if the shoot follows (as written by Jax):
The team arrived at location one, Fernhead park on Wednesday around
noonish and began scouting their obstacles and choreographing routes
for the first chase scene. The scene would consist of 3 Tracker guards
(members of PKSA) chasing a single hijacker which would be played by
Gareth, Tracker’s communications manager.
The traceurs started with an unorthodox warm-up which consisted of
doing a number of new generation maneuvers on the playground equipment  ,
this was then followed by the ‘normal’ warming-up of the joints
(letting the blood flow through the joints and muscles) and very easy
stretching.
The guys then changed into their ‘Tracker’ gear which consisted of
black everything: guns, gun holsters and rugby-shoulder pads included The team then met up with the film crew and began discussing the sequences that would be filmed at the location.
The scene started with the 3 traceurs in a Tracker patrol vehicle where
they radioed about a unarmed hijacker; following this was a high pace
chase where the hijacker got out of the stolen Audi and wall-ran a
small pillar into the park (he bailed, scratching him arm to crap), he
was then chased by 3 Tracker guards which used the same method to get
into the park, the hijacker then continued to run through trees and
jumped over a small staircase while the 2 guards pursued him through
the trees the other guard wall-ran an adjacent wall to gain ground on
him, when the 3 guards reached the staircase, 1 guard ran around while
the other 2 did speed-vaults over the staircase railing. The hijacker
continued running until he reached the second staircase where he jumped
straight over, the guards closing down on the 20m lead ran to the
second staircase where 1 guard did a monkey-vault over and the 2 other
guards did turn-vaults, 1 to precision and the other to roll. Most of
the shots where filmed by the handy cam, steady cam and with the use of
the gerbil, the traceurs also got to try out the pencil cam which was
attached to the traceurs’ head to film realistic first-person
perspectives.
The second scene moved from the park to an adjacent house which was
being renovated. The hijacker ran into the house and hid under a bridge
by the pool, the 3 guards pursued him into the house with drawn guns,
the 1 guard going around the back of the house and the other 2
searching through the house. The 3 guards came to the pool area and the
hijacker made a run for the wall which he would go over and land in a
construction site which would be the location for the following day.
The sun was starting to set when the crew took a break and ate some
dinner. While everybody else was eating Miles and I decided to jam the
music with DJ Tikka (Specs) hitting the barbecue beat and doing some
break-dancing and capoeira.  This was followed by monkeying Bernie’s car which the Duckman duckfied (dented)  and in return Bernard just said “Ah, dis okay! It gives my car more style for the ladies”.
We then shot the last scene of DVD where we arrested the hijacker and
put him in the police van with the guard dog and rescued the civilian
from the boot of the Audi.
Later on into the night we moved to a basement parking where the
capture of the hijacker would be shot. The team ran down a staircase
chasing the hijacker into the basement parking, the hijacker hid in a
storage room while the Miles and me searched the parking lot and
cleared the area with light sticks; as we reached the bottom of the
parking lot, the hijacker made a run for the gate where he was tackled
by Specs and apprehended by us.  That was a wrap for day 1.
Day 2 was to be shot at the location of the construction site where the
scene would continue from when the hijacker jumped the wall at the
house. The scene started with Specs and me speed-vaulting a gate and
tic-tacing off a wall in pursuit of the hijacker through the
construction site. We then moved through a staircase where Miles ran
straight up, Specs cat-leaped, muscled-up and ran on the rail into the
next room and myself wall-running the adjacent wall to the staircase
into the room.
The Duckman then struck again by duckfing (breaking) a R2000 pane of glass.
The next scene was shot of us running through the room, up a ramp and
down a staircase where we bumped into Tanya Van Graan… Wow, she is HoT!
We then moved to the bottom of the construction site where Miles jumped
down a flight of stairs and Specs and myself joined him running at full
pace. Miles and me ran after the hijacker up another flight of stair
while Specs gap-jumped into the building and used scaffolding to move
up to the next floor, on the second floor we joined again following the
hijacker into a room where he knocked over a coal-fire into our paths.
The hijacker jumped and cat-leaped to wall and dismounted to the first
floor and ran off into a room which would improvise to be the basement
staircase. We followed him with Specs doing a jump to cat-leap on an
adjacent wall, Miles doing the same as the hijacker and myself doing a
precision jump and then to cat-leap and dismount.
The last scene of the production was the hijacker and the 3 guards
jumping over a wall and landing in a pile of sand which would improvise
to be the wall from the house into the construction site. Once that was
done we decided to film some of the movements with the pencil cam but
alas the battery was dead but who needs a pencil cam when you have a
Specs? Specs did all his movements with the handy cam strapped to his
hand to improvise as a pencil cam.
With filming all done at the Gas Works and the sun setting, the shoot
was wrapped with the Duckman’s infamous words, “YES! No-one has died
today” to which Murphy answered to 5minutes later where he bailed in
the rubble.
We leant a lot through his shoot as it was our first realistic Parkour
shoot. We found how little Parkour was done because of how fast one
moves through obstacles in need such as catching the hijacker. And yes,
once again there was A LOT of running done!
Thanks to Specs, Miles, Gareth, Fred, Nick, Nadeena, Jacqs and the Burnman!
Go check out the behind the scenes photos on Flicker!
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