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August 17, 2009

Everyone try and do the flag

So, in back gardens all over the UK yesterday, lads were trying to do this:

It's the 'flag' or 'hold' - a freerunning move perfected by Tim 'Livewire' Shieff and others. In his final run, Livewire elaborated on it by doing a 'walking flag' - walking up a drainpipe with his body horizontal. I reckon that's what swayed it for the judges and ensured that Livewire pipped Victor 'Showtime' Lopez to the post. Great TV - next year BBC1 should buy it.

The flag is also the move depicted on the cover of HACKING TIMBUKTU. I wouldn't have chosen this image myself, (a) because the flag belongs more to freerunning than to parkour and (b) because it looks like the character could be skydiving or just lying around. But now that Livewire has made the flag THE iconic freerunning image of 2009, I have no complaints :-)

Posted by sahelsteve at August 17, 2009 09:54 AM