{"id":10844,"date":"2009-09-29T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:22:30","slug":"the-todd-richards-parkour-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10844","title":{"rendered":"The Todd Richards Parkour Show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/uplogo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/uplogo.jpg','popup','width=901,height=506,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/uplogo-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Uplogo\" \/><\/a>Apparently, when <strong>Todd Richards<\/strong> isn&#8217;t out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10415\" target=\"_blank\">trying to learn new tricks<\/a><\/strong>, he&#8217;s out promoting the &#8220;extremely fascinating sport of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parkour\" target=\"_blank\">Parkour<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221; Yes, the same &#8220;sport&#8221; clowned in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/96406\/the-office-gossip\" target=\"_blank\">opening segment of this fall&#8217;s <\/a><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/96406\/the-office-gossip\" target=\"_blank\">The Office<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/96406\/the-office-gossip\" target=\"_blank\"> premiere<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfpf.com\/contents\/view\/10\" target=\"_blank\">World Freerunning &#38; Parkour Federation <\/a><\/strong>website reports that TR will be hosting a special <strong>MTV<\/strong> show on October 22, 2009 titled <strong><em>Ultimate Parkour Challenge<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you loved the opening chase in CASINO ROYALE, then this show, hosted by Todd Richards, will blow your mind. . . Born in the suburbs of Paris, Parkour\/Freerunning turns an urban jungle into an action-packed playground. Moving quickly, efficiently or just plain creatively, Freerunners re-imagine the world as they cruise over, under, around and through whatever is in their way. . . Join 8 of the WFPF Founding Athletes as they live up to their motto, &#8220;Know Obstacles. Know Freedom&#8221;!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the show was originally scheduled to air in April, but got pushed off until October. Oddly, members of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.mtv.com\/Discussion-Thread\/Parkour-Is-NOT-a-competition\/0D3FCFFFF01AC2B53000900B29E41\" target=\"_blank\">hardcore Parkour community are not happy about the show<\/a><\/strong> nor the organization promoting it. Which is kind of funny in itself.<\/p>\n<p>For his part Todd says the show is basically, &#8220;Me talking about ninjas getting paid.&#8221; And as we all know, Todd has been a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/the-tackledbox.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/holy-in-shape.html\" target=\"_blank\">ninja supporter<\/a><\/strong> since way back in the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfpf.com\/contents\/view\/10\" target=\"_blank\">World Freerunning &#38; Parkour Federation<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, when Todd Richards isn&#8217;t out trying to learn new tricks, he&#8217;s out promoting the &#8220;extremely fascinating sport of Parkour.&#8221; Yes, the same &#8220;sport&#8221; clowned in the opening segment of this fall&#8217;s The Office premiere. The World Freerunning &#38; Parkour Federation website reports that TR will be hosting a special MTV show on October 22, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10874,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions\/10874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}