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April 4, 2019 1:06 AM

World Chase Tag is the playground game of tag made competitive and played out using parkour techniques one on one in a closed jungle gym-like arena with 20 seconds on the clock. Medium interview with Damien Devaux, brother of founder Orlando. Their youtube channel has a ton of videos as does their instagram.
posted by juv3nal (5 comments total)

This is fun! I do kind of wish for a more layered court — it would be awesome if there were as a vertical escape option from the corner instead of just left or right — but that would also be a much bigger injury risk.
posted by sixswitch at 4:55 AM on April 4, 2019

I kinda love this, though it gets repetitive after a bit. The first time I came across this stuff on YouTube, I had this super specific sense memory of the part of tag where one waits behind an obstruction of some kind, judging the speed and direction of the approaching tagger and waiting for the perfect moment to break in the appropriate direction.

Stuff like that just reminds me that we are not separate from nature. What more perfect example could there be of our sustained interest in ensuring we can track predator / prey distances and velocities appropriately? This could easily be antelope versus cheetah, though the tagging procedure would be much more...final.
posted by lazaruslong at 5:44 AM on April 4, 2019

Meanwhile the obviously best Tag variant languishes, little-known.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:14 AM on April 4, 2019 [1 favorite]

I kind of love this
posted by gc at 9:54 AM on April 4, 2019

That looks super fun, and also a superb way to bust a knee.
posted by gottabefunky at 12:29 PM on April 4, 2019