parkour

I'm mostly posting this right now so that I might spare some of you from having to see that picture of the world's ugliest dog that Jared put up just below this post.

Parkour is about treating the landscape around you as a bunch of physical obstacles. Described by founder Sébastien Foucan as a "philosophy", "way of life", and "state of mind", it tends to look more like a bunch of guys just jumping around like crazy. But they make cool videos! Here's one starring Parkour hotshot David Belle. His site seems to be down right now, but at one point it also had links to some more good videos to watch.

Via this particularly bizarre episode of Achewood, to be fair.