| Jump Britain...Dumb boys acting like monkeys jumping | | | | tops, castles and skyscrapers. The adrenaline is |
| around could be one point of view taken from this | | | | palatable even from the safe comfort of the living |
| new outdoor activity 'Free Running' recently | | | | room. It doesn't take long to realise this sport could |
| broadcast by channel four. I prefer to take the | | | | be loved by a lot of people, those people that stand |
| opinion of graceful street acrobat, performing | | | | at the train station wondering if they could jump |
| incredulous feats of the physical only possible by | | | | from the platform to the other side of the |
| control of the mental.In this programme the athletes | | | | tracks.The only negative factor of this programme |
| (the respectable title they deserve) perform acts | | | | was the obvious lack of women participating in free |
| that can only be described my mind over matter, | | | | running, as in too many extreme sports it's as if the |
| heart stopping stunts such as jumping over the gap | | | | pursuit of freedom through risk taking is tightly |
| in the roof of the millennium stadium, a 150ft drop, | | | | restricted to the Y chromosome.The truth about |
| no ropes, no safety, nothing to rest the mind from | | | | free running is that anybody can do it. It isn't like |
| those 'what if's' we human too often struggle | | | | surfing where it takes months of practice to be able |
| with.This activity rewinds back to more primitive | | | | to even stand up on the thing, anyone can jump |
| times, the way in which the free runners leap over | | | | from one object to another, it just takes a bit of |
| objects with very little sense of danger is reminiscent | | | | mental practice (and maybe pumping a bit of iron at |
| of the way monkeys and tarzan leap from vine to | | | | the gym) when it comes to the more riskier |
| vine through the jungle. It is an instinct not | | | | stunts.There will no doubt be a massive political |
| necessarily understood in logical or practical means | | | | correctness backlash with tons of stupid kids jumping |
| but it is the same instinct that possesses a child to | | | | off buildings with no prior practise or training, but this |
| climb a tree and jump off the highest branch possible | | | | is true of every extreme sport which has come out |
| or see how many stairs they can jump down to the | | | | of the underground in the past 15 years. Eventually it |
| bottom.As the programme goes on it becomes | | | | will make its way into the acceptable mainstream, |
| almost impossible to blink as the performers take risk | | | | only in a matter of lawsuits and years.Channel 4 |
| after risk, scaling multi-storey car parks, bridges, roof | | | | programme 'Jump Britain'. |