The Science of Parkour

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:   / 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:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://jeb.biologists.org/content/22... https://jeb.biologists.org/content/je... https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewc... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://hal.laas.fr/hal-02042616/file... https://content.sciendo.com/view/jour... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1... Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bri... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gro... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ser... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/we-... Special thanks to Ronnie Shalvis for the parkour footage! Youtube:    / ronniestreetstunts   Instagram:   / ronniestreetstunts