Parkour, that wonderful French pastime of jumping on and over objects for the sheer thrill of nearly breaking your neck, has always been the most illusive of alternative sports. Not competitive enough to pull people away from their various footballs and unpredictable enough to make gambling either binary bets or ridiculous money pit/shot in the darks, parkour just hasn’t caught on in the U.S. However, I’d imagine all that is about to change:

I’m more than absolutely certain that Mario sound effects would make competitive sleeping an enthralling battle of wills. For those wanting to fill that parkour-less void in their life and yet are, for some reason, unwilling to risk breaking their own neck and dying of a staph infection in hospital should wait for Mirror’s Edge, a first-person parkour game being developed by Dice.

4 Color Rebellion: Power-up: Super Mario Parkour

- Rob O’Reilly

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