{"id":679,"date":"2007-10-19T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/free-running\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T16:55:49","slug":"free-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/free-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that not a day goes by without another &#8220;extreme sport&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s the case with free running. Have you heard of it? I hadn&#8217;t until watching a Modern Marvels episode on rubber. Take a look at the videos below to see free running (and you can marvel at how many of these young people will survive into adulthood&#8230;)<br \/>\n<center>Note: You might want to turn the volume down&#8230;<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WEeqHj3Nj2c\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WEeqHj3Nj2c\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAside from a complete disregard for one&#8217;s well being and superb physical condition, the people who practice free running also have special shoes with a rubber sole that has extra gripping properties &#8211; the way it works is that the rubber is &#8220;soft&#8221; such that it molds into the nooks and crannies of the surface it is touching. This technology is also being used in rock climbing shoes unsurprisingly. This &#8220;stealth rubber&#8221; was invented by a company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveten.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >FiveTen<\/a> and they&#8217;re now selling many shoes to people in need of extra traction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that not a day goes by without another &#8220;extreme sport&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s the case with free running. Have you heard of it? I hadn&#8217;t until watching a Modern Marvels episode on rubber. Take a look at the videos below to see free running (and you can marvel at how many of these young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}