We know most of you guys would prefer hot booth babes filling up our megapixels, but Panasonic's above all of that sexyist mess. Instead, they gave us some freerunners hopped up on caffeine, rainbows and Abercrombie cologne running and rebounding like ADD children. [PMA @ Giz]
Panasonic Booth Acrobats Bounce Around Like Wannabe Ninjas
11:30 PM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By matt buchanan
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Where's the option for training the booth babes to do this? Preferably with little clothing...
What the freak? My god that was horrible o_O
Nothing like getting a bunch of kids who practice a failed french sport to jump around like idiots to sell Asian electronics.
whos the retard who voted teen disney...
Booth babes degrade women; Teen Disney FTW.
1.4% (1 vote)
Bring on the degradation: Booth babes.
80.3% (57 votes)
Trade shows are boiling cesspools of humanity.
18.3% (13 votes)
@Travisism: I wouldn't call it a FAILED sport. It is very popular in some places.
Couldn't they have hired a crew that were at least decent with tricking?
I voted 2, before even reading 3.. while the page was loading I was like ah fuck! 3! I wanted #3!
That was pretty cool. I liked the part 13 seconds before the end of the clip, with the guy in the white sweater.
I'm in ur trade show. doin parkour!
AB3 for the win Peter!
I do Parkour. These guys sux. The discipline is not failed, and it is very popular, in some places. Actually, i never thought id ever have to be "That Guy" but, here it goes. Thats not Parkour, it's poorly demonstrated free running. There i said it, its over, phew...
Parkour: Getting from one place to another on foot as efficiently as possible.
Free Running: Getting from one place to another having as much fun and showing off as much as possible. Like parkour whit ascetic movements.
For some great demonstrations of Both Parkour And Freerunning go to:
www.Parkour.tv
@Travisism:
1. Parkour is not a sport, it is an art.
2. I'd love to know how exactly a sport "fails".
I'm watching this without sound, but all that comes to mind is 'Napoleon Dynamite'.
"We are so cool, dude".
@Heartwork: While I think Parkour is thriving, to see a failed sport: [en.wikipedia.org] The ones in red? Either they aren't notable enough, or just nobody cares enough about them to even start an article, although someone cared enough to link to them at some point.
Someone wrote a five section article (Not including see also and links) on UNDERWATER HOCKEY! They rank lower than UNDERWATER HOCKEY on the sport totem pole. That is fail in my book.
I didn't know you could tumble around and look bored at the same time. Well done?
Was there any discussion of a routine or was the idea for 'em to just run around and clump up taking turns at different areas?
I dunno, I just find displays like this a bit off putting, but that's just me.
Oh, and eye candy FTW.
It won't let me vote for #2 and #3.
what kind of question is that? IM GUESSING this site has some 90% male audience? ;)
Some decent parkour/free running would have been cool, but this...is just sad.
Ninjas? Yaright. Give all da $ to my man Tony.
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Throw in a few armfuls of Booth Babes too!
Choices two and three are not mutually exclusive.
@xXCapto-ExsequorXx: Yayyy! Someone else whom is informed and awesome.
Congratulations.
Alright it is time to inform you guys of the real details.
That was team sideswipe, the practical inventors of XMA, so don't say that they could have hired a better team of trickers. Also, this was only a 50 second clip of 20 hours of shows.
Let me tell you guys some of the moves that were thrown. Double leg full off of the platform. Six step wallflip. double kong screwdriver off of someone's back. frontflip out of the 2nd story window. Round off kamikaze. double b twist. double cork. double leg x-out flash off the platform. 2 step wallflip full. round off double full. double front off the platform.
Those were only a few of the moves thrown at the convention. Before you guys flame try to get the details first.
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