Urban Exploration!

[Conduit]

Huge Picture dump incoming!

wowowowoWOWO!! now i go in storm drains with my friends sometimes and we can get around then neighborhood with em and stuff, but your's looks soo much cooler!!!! deep underground pipes and such. ours only go down like 5 feet this is just another reason why i dont like California a whole lot. they don't have these cool abandoned things.

I'm sure there's some cool ones somewhere. It's really just a lot of trial and error, the majority of the ones we do don't really have anything in them.

Also, ones close to the surface are cool because you can open manholes. I would never even try opening one of those ones where I was pretty far underground, the ladders are just way too sketchy.

[JayB]

Check out my DA gallery to find out what I think of urban exploring:

http://childofkarras.deviantart.com/

I seldom do it alone, usually I have my GF with me who assists me and always has a keen eye for good photo motives. Too bad the German civilization is quick when it comes to calling the police...

[vladnuke]

LA is pretty perfect for this, we have these unlisted backroads in mountainside neighborhoods which lead to the craziest goddamned roads imagined, and if you get high enough you can reach a hidden public park at the top of the of the mountain. It's pretty cool. Also there's a few off-piste shops, including a really nice Korean restaurant sitting all by itself.

[Nine Volt]

This and freerunning make me wish I lived in a city rather than a suburban town. Boston would be that city, methinks (mostly because Worcester, although very close, is not somewhere I want to live).

[Nine Volt]

Heh, maybe :3

[Nine Volt]

I'll trust you on that one :3

Back on topic, I can only think of a few places nearby that could be explored (all in my local industrial park). One is an abandoned furniture factory that my friends and I have climbed on top of several times, another is an abandoned office building near this hidden path to my local public pool, also near a Pepsi factory. The last is this abandoned sawmill, but it's totally surrounded by a tall barbed wire fence :/

[Conduit]

I'll trust you on that one :3

Back on topic, I can only think of a few places nearby that could be explored (all in my local industrial park). One is an abandoned furniture factory that my friends and I have climbed on top of several times, another is an abandoned office building near this hidden path to my local public pool, also near a Pepsi factory. The last is this abandoned sawmill, but it's totally surrounded by a tall barbed wire fence :/

Bring a blanket to lay over the wire, or see if you bend the bottom of the chain link enough to slip under.

[SticktheFigure]

This and freerunning make me wish I lived in a city rather than a suburban town. Boston would be that city, methinks (mostly because Worcester, although very close, is not somewhere I want to live).

On the note of freerunning and/or parkour:

You can really train anywhere. You just gotta develop your eyes, so to speak.
I live in the suburbs. Been training for three or four years now.
I mean, cities definitely outclass a ghetto suburb like mine, but you can still get into parkour.

[Conduit]

This and freerunning make me wish I lived in a city rather than a suburban town. Boston would be that city, methinks (mostly because Worcester, although very close, is not somewhere I want to live).

On the note of freerunning and/or parkour:

You can really train anywhere. You just gotta develop your eyes, so to speak.
I live in the suburbs. Been training for three or four years now.
I mean, cities definitely outclass a ghetto suburb like mine, but you can still get into parkour.

Any tips on how to get started for parkour? I'm planning on joining a gym dedicated to it this summer. I already train pretty hard for taeqwondo, so while my balance and flexibility isn't the greatest, its better then most. Right now it's really cold out, and I don't have too much free time, so outdoor training isn't really an option. Some tips on drills and whatnot that I could do to train now so I'm a little more prepared for later would be much appreciated.

[SticktheFigure]

This and freerunning make me wish I lived in a city rather than a suburban town. Boston would be that city, methinks (mostly because Worcester, although very close, is not somewhere I want to live).

On the note of freerunning and/or parkour:

You can really train anywhere. You just gotta develop your eyes, so to speak.
I live in the suburbs. Been training for three or four years now.
I mean, cities definitely outclass a ghetto suburb like mine, but you can still get into parkour.

Any tips on how to get started for parkour? I'm planning on joining a gym dedicated to it this summer. I already train pretty hard for taeqwondo, so while my balance and flexibility isn't the greatest, its better then most. Right now it's really cold out, and I don't have too much free time, so outdoor training isn't really an option. Some tips on drills and whatnot that I could do to train now so I'm a little more prepared for later would be much appreciated.

I'm sure any advice I give is advice they will also have some variation on. Nevertheless, I guess I can try.

Learn how to land. More specifically how to roll. It may barely be used depending on how you train, but it can always come in handy and save your life.

It's not a competition, so don't get caught up in others being better. It happens.

You will look stupid when you start. It's okay.

Take your time and do what you feel is within your limits. No need to push yourself beyond what is comfortable. That's just training time wasted on recovering from an injury.

And lastly, join a community. Online or offline. For online though (assuming you live in the US) I'd recommend American Parkour.

[MisterJayBrown]

A couple of friends and I drove this creepy abandoned prison a couple months back. It was pretty fun. We actually went because we saw a car outside of it, and figured we could scare some teenagers. Eventually we found the building the guys were in, and all of us started yelling "Bob Dole!" down it, at which point two 30 year old men came around the corner, apparently the owners of the car. And then, for some stupid reason, they asked if we were the police. After that, we hung around them for a bit, then went separate ways. We made our way into some building with a bunch of diverse rooms. We broke glass with a fire extinguisher, broke one of those light tube things (they're really fucking loud), and best of all, destroyed a room. We got the idea from David, cause he was drawing on the walls in permanent marker. It started off as things like "Katawa Shoujo" or him drawing kitty faces, just to confuse the hell out of everyone that went in there, but we got to a room and he started drawing operator symbols and writing cryptic messages. Then we broke the room as much as possible, which is also when I learned I should wear something other than sneakers when kicking through walls. All in all, quite fun stuff, and anything that we did there afterwards wasn't quite as much fun. I think that's pretty much the sum of what we've done, just the one thing.