My childhood had some guy surfing on the power lines.
omg mine was inspired by Jet Set radio characters, grinding on the power lines, rooftops & whatnot ! quite close
SSX characters for me
I had Sonic, from the Sonic Riders series. Seeing as Sonic could slide through some cable thing, made sense. Plus, like, Danny Phantom, maybe, and maybe others.
I had Ben from Ben 10 mostly as xlr8 or heatblast if need flight. Picking up powerups like milestone or postbox.. Lol
Skiing and jumping snow banks between driveways for me, and BMXing in the summer!
hell yes! I'm my case, I rode a dirt bike just next to the highway jumping overpasses, dodging trees and whatever else I needed to do to keep pace with the car without crashing
Same!
Excite Bike pog
same here. For my dad it was skiing
Basically the same, but BMX for me lol
Yep, dirt bike for me too. Maybe it's a lack of really creative imagination, but someone doing parkour couldn't have kept up. A dirt bike makes sense because it could do highway speeds.
I had a blade extending from my hand and cut down everything we passed like telephone poles and trees and mailboxes but I couldn't let it touch metal so I had to angle my hand up if we passed anything like that.
Similar, I had lasers coming out of the side mirrors but would have to take my hand off the “button” so it wouldn’t cut down the signs, telephone poles, mailboxes, people, etc.
I had the same thing except it was some sort of laser and since I have aphantasia I didn't get to see any of it and just looked for weak spots.
I always imagined a ninja doing flips and shit.
I'm glad this post exists, I thought it was just me.
Mine was also a ninja that used signs as weapons. He'd pull them out of the ground and use them like swords.
Signposts with reflectors on them had special powers depending on the reflector color.
Mine was a cool skateboard dude who did the most amazing grinds and flips
Sonic the Hedgehog.
I got that Sonic Autism
No, all of ya'll are crazy. The dot of dirt on the window was the aiming device for a laser, and you had to use it to cut all the electrical wires without cutting trees or the poles, because those are wood and it would start a fire.
I always wanted to go here:
Just follow them on and on until I reached some presumably paradisaical location.
Seattle has a park/trail like this
I can hear this photo. Take some fluorescent bulbs along and go at night.
I hadn't remembered this in years, but I always imagined myself out there like the Flash and how my older brothers were in the car watching me burn it up and being super impressed. I literally might not have remembered that during my entire adult life. Thanks for reminding me. Although I was more like seven at the time.
Nah, it was my imaginary friend doing bmx tricks, we didn't have parkour back then.
Also, how could a person run fast enough to keep up with a motor vehicle? Sheesh, does your imagination completely ignore science? You gotta have at least a bicycle to keep up.
Also, this is the first time I've ever seen or heard someone else talk about this kind of daydream. So, it's pretty fucking cool, even though the details aren't the same.
Tony Hawk’s
What do you mean "did"!
Parkour wasn't a thing when I was 10, for me it was Strider running along with the car and slashing stuff.
Damn, I thought I was the only one...
Mine was an imaginary me on a dirt bike doing sick jumps
I had a cheetah running along, occasionally a horse. But not in the city, only on the motorway
It was Mario, represented by a dirty spot or water droplet on the window, who would be made to jump over things by moving my head up and down
You guys got a window seat?
I had a dragon flying along side. Sometimes it's a bike dodging opposing traffic and jumping ramps
I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out wtf anime that is on the top because the style looks like exactly what I'm into, and it turns out I've already seen it lmao
Bubblegum Crisis, it's rad as fuck
From one of the best episodes IMO.
I took my Dramamine so I could read without vomiting.
Reminded me of this short film (that’s clearly sponsored by the North Face) from a a few years ago. https://youtu.be/IXw17Cjbeeo
Was about the post the same. RIP JP
It's more fun in a high speed train
Mine was an invisible flying squirrel jumping and gliding between tree tops at 110 km/h...
It was the line painted on the side of the road that was zooming this way and that to keep up with the car. Sometimes it would snake away to a rest stop and then merge with us again after the exit.
I wonder what it will do to kids these days that they don't use their imaginations like this. Kids today will be glued to electronic devices.
Regrettably no. I would imagine myself unhinge my jaw and eat all the trees and brushes we would pass. For whatever reason, kindergarten-me strongly believed that everything without a heartbeat looked very delicious and edible. Trees, clouds, snow, sand, windmills, brick buildings, flags, other cars, busses and the sun itself.
Grew out of that phase when I began school, but yeah. In a way I kinda miss being so young and new to living that you're still figuring out what is and isn't possible. The world seemed a lot more fun when you didn't yet know the rules, lol.
I loved sonic riders, so instead of the Lil dude doing parkour, he had a hoverboard to do sick tricks Sometimes the Lil dude was tony hawks
Grew up in a cold part of the world, was a skier doing grinds and flips, but yeah, same idea!
I usually either imagined a dirt bike or it was Spider-Man or the Hulk
I think it's really interesting that everyone seems to have had either a humanoid running along side the car or something aiming from their eyes that can cut/smash only certain types of things. I wonder what makes it happen.
As for me, I sang songs in my head to the rhythm of the defilement of the discotine lines on the freeway.
Close, but not quite the same. I used my fingers as the imaginary runner, leaping from thing to thing, riding wires, etc.
