Risky

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Risky, also known as NewTuberAustralia, was a compulsive liar who reached the pinnacle of his online fame on the 3RUN forums in mid-2008 after evidence was gathered to put an end to his succession of lies.

[edit] Lies

[edit] Logo

On May 27, 2008, forum member JJCR of Bestwood Parkour asked if anyone could make his team a logo for their t-shirts^[1]. Little did he know that his thread (which has now reached over 250 replies) would be the starting point of Risky's string of lies.

"I do logos & graphic design I will make logos for people if they have good reason... or pay me... Forget good reason I want money... pay me... :lol: Haha LOL"^[2]

When it became apparent that JJCR wasn't falling for his subliminal hints, Risky provided a sample of his 5-second work and agreed to produce a logo for free as long as JJCR provided stuff from his latest photo shoot. He also gave an invaluable insight into the making of one of his logos.

"That's just what I knocked up in 5 seconds so don't worry yours will be better. Anyway my point is that it says who I am and stuff from a photo shoot that I did."^[3]

"I literally did pretty much random things as an example, that wasn't me trying to make a good one. I just knocked up the "Risky" quickly put a random effect on it Put a pic below it, cut another pic out changed the colour settings, hue, sat, lum, contrast, brightness etc. & put a random edging effect on it. So yeah just a quick knock up with only the very basics.

As if that wasn't enough, he also gave an extensive list of the effects he would be able to apply to the logo, including "Embossed (good home made version not crappy cheap image editor one)".

However, to much shock, Capo Di Tutti Capi revealed that Risky's list of home-made effects was in fact the list of styles from http://www.cooltext.com/ . Luckily, Risky didn't back down, and one week later finally produced a logo

"I don't lie, I see no point in doing so. Since you don't understand what I mean can you please just let me get on with the logo."

"Is there anyway you could get some photos and I can actually do what I'm good at? The text thing is a bit too far out of my comfort zone."

"This is NOT the finished design."

After his over-complex t-shirt logo design began to get criticised, he attempted to use new tactics to stop others from replying.

"Now let's just wait for the haters to quote this and say something contradicting and pointless! (Y)"

"don't quote this and reply with a smart-ass reply please"

"Please don't reply as I already know it's just gonna be some stupid thing pointing out what you think is wrong when really it's just opinion.

To conclude his contribution to the thread, he gave one final logo design (which some believe may have been inspired by [1]) and announced he would be leaving the forums:

"I've decided to stop posting unless anything important comes up (you may have noticed this is my first post in a few days because it was a few days ago I stopped posting) :( the funny thing is I laughed at what others were saying about me... now that says a lot about my self esteem. :(
Bye Bye :("

[edit] NewTuberAustralia

In August 2008, after Risky's departure from the forums, a devastated Sean Babas made a topic about negative comments on his videos^[4], quoting one in particular which he received via a Youtube message from the user NewTuberAustrlia:

"Right... since that vid sucked so much I'm gonna right my main points as they happen.

00:19 - 00:23: you lent forward before taking off (I know a 6 year old that did gymnastics for a year that can do better) and didn't do a full rotation and landed what I would consider a bail it was so unclean

00:28 - 00:33: Again you lean back before take-off, do one of the worst tucks I've ever seen in this move, and land terribly. In the back flip you, well leaning back is an understatement; you pretty much full and throw yourself over into a poor layout attempt.

01:03 - 01:06 you know how I know he's not in your team? He has got good hight, good technique, good landings.. basically everything you don't.

01:06 - 01:08: simply pause at 01:06! You're lent forward so much I don't believe you can eve touch your toes if that's how you flip... again a landing so terrible I would consider that a very bad bail.

Ok, since everything you do is so... flawfull (d*mn right I just made up a word - the opposite of flawless)

I'm just gonna put in the things that are so terrible they make me laugh ok? 01:23 ok ok since you've got this clip watch it in real slow motion - the take off the flip and the landing. I can't even put it into words it sucks so much.

01:27 - 01:29 OH MY GOD!!!!!! WAS THAT AN AERIAL ATTEMPT!!!!!!!!! (No, it wasn't) That was so disgusting vomit came up in my throat.
I mean come on I learned that when I was 11 in a week!

01:31 - 01:32 Dear god you can't even land a 180 flip i mean it's not like you learned it after a week of street-stunts and stumbled a little... urrrrgghhh....

01:38 - 01: 42 LOL LOL ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FF*******CCCCKKKKKKKKK WAS THAT MEANT TO BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not even gonna attmept to describe that!!!!!!!!!!!! You know what If that's how you front (take-off at a hundred degrees when it should be zero, tuck like the hunchback of notre dame sitting in an arm chair land like it to, stall - then do a bad excuse of a gymnastic forward roll a 2 year old can do then well, it's not even a b-kick)


You know what, I've got to simply stop doing this out of disgust! Why should I have to analyze your vids after all? Just give it up, your giving everybody a bad name."

Other free runners including Alex Watts^[5] revealed that they too had been receiving extremely negative comments from the (seemingly extremely high level free runner) NewTuberAustralia. However, thanks to some e-detective work a revelation was soon made - that NewTuberAustralia was in fact Risky. Evidence included that the first subscription was Risky's account StreetDevilz^[6], and comments made by the extremely critical user on Risky's videos and in his defense:

NewTuberAustralia (2 months ago)
Good intro mate!

NewTuberAustralia (2 months ago)
What a dick^^has no Idea what he's on about. I could imagine you training with him, that's be funny. You with your front 360's and him calling you a tard, whatever that means.

On Risky's re-edit of Russian Climbing
NewTuberAustralia (2 months ago)
I like this over the original!

There was also the occasional flame from his main account, StreetDevilz (he couldn't be bothered switching account?)

StreetDevilz (5 days ago)
You can't even land a front tuck!?! I learned them on flatland when I was 11 with no gymnastic training or any of that...

He was also caught red-handed reading the negative comments thread after supposedly leaving the forums^[7].

Realising that he needed to take action, Risky began to take on multiple personalities in an attempt to prove that he wasn't NewTuberAustralia.

StreetDevilz (7 hours ago)
Why are you being nice here and so negative via mail... I don't get you and cause of that comment everyone thinks I'm you.

NewTuberAustralia (1 day ago)
Haha! I hate StreetDevilz too! He called me overciritical and said I didn't have love for whatI did.

StreetDevilz (17 minutes ago)
He thought I was 3run cause I uploaded they're vids XD! *facepalm*

In an attempt to make the previously empty NewTuberAustralia account more believable, he also added some profile info and favourited a video of a dog doing a backflip^[8]

On holiday with girlfriend in New York!
Age: 21
Well My name is Jack Robertson, I'm from Hobart and don't have much to say.

On holiday with girlfriend in New York!
City: New York
Hometown: Hobart
Country: Australia
Occupation: Student

He wasn't fooling anyone.

[edit] Claims

(To be expanded)

• He can do a one arm chinup^[9]
• He can hold a "one armed elbow-stand" for 9-11 seconds
• He is organising a huge massive free running jam in Fife on the same date as the 3RUN Family Jam with the help of Zyrken, Flippad and Blane^[10].
• He owns a gym^[11]

[edit] Quotes

[edit] One arm chinup

"To learn to do one armed pull-ups I used to use my index finger on one hand and a full hand on the other. Then I used my pinky. Then I could do one handed pull-ups. I also did a lot of one armed hangs, still do. They seem to help quite a lot with pull-up exercises.^[12]"

"I'm not that good at them, I mean Bruce Lee could do 50! I can't go from a full one armed hang all the way up so that my chin is all the way over more than once, and when I say once I mean really struggling and just getting it."

"I can do them yes, just very badly. Once I've got them that good I'll put a video up."

"And my one armed shin-ups are really bad! If I made a vid of them you'd just say that you're really disappointed - bit of an anti-climax."

[edit] One arm elbow-stand

"The point wasn't to impress but to find out the name. As it says in the description, these are within my first 10 attempts. Anyway the longest that I held it for was (I timed it yes) 6 seconds so I was trying to find the name so I could maybe find a tutorial to help. But I don't think I need a tutorial anymore as after drilling and practicing them I just held one for 9-11 seconds! But I still lack control over them, maybe in a month I'll be able to hold the perfectly!"

[edit] The reason they call me Risky

"The reason they call me risky:

No it's not because I take stupid unnecessary risks.

The first thing that was caused by me that changed the way I thought about everyday training is my first theory on risks, It's kinda hard to explain but I'll give it a shot.

If you jump you open yourself up to succession & failure.

If you choose not to, you close the door on succession and open the door of security.

Would you rather have the chance of success yet failure, or no chance of failure but walk away unsuccessful?

This is the basic idea, however you could say the basic Idea to "Chaos Theory" is anything can happen.

Basically I find it hard to put into words.

Tell me what you think."

[edit] Notes

1. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - LOGO". 3run.co.uk
2. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - LOGO". 3run.co.uk
3. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - LOGO". 3run.co.uk
4. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - Negative Comments". 3run.co.uk
5. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - Negative Comments". 3run.co.uk
6. ↑ "YouTube - NewTuberAustralia's Channel". Youtube.com
7. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - Negative Comments". 3run.co.uk
8. ↑ "YouTube - NewTuberAustralia's Channel". Youtube.com
9. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - Help with flag holds: Conditioning and training.". 3run.co.uk
10. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - FREERUN JAM! [Fife"]. 3run.co.uk
11. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - FREERUN JAM! [Fife"]. 3run.co.uk
12. ↑ "3RUN Forums • View topic - Help with flag holds: Conditioning and training.". 3run.co.uk