Parkour and what is parkour
Parkour Parkour is going from one location to another as fast and efficient as possible while overcoming urban or natural obstacles. Parkour is a sports and training dicipline that developed from military obstaccle course trainings. And was further developed by urban street trainings where you go from one place to the other as fast and efficient as possible while overcoming obstacles like walls, rails, fences, stairs, small buildings and more. Parkour movements include: Running, sprinting, climbing, jumping, fall breaking, rolling, vaulting (Jumping over rails or fences), swinging, quadrupedal movement, and other movements. Parkour can basicly be practised everywhere. Like on interesting urban settings, in nature and in a gym with set ups like bars and leveled hightened places and set ups. And in a gym matts can be used to break the fall. Important aspects: 1: Agility, Strength, Flexebilty, Balance and Endurance 2: Coordination and precision. And being able to know what you can and can't do 3: Willpower Important parkour movements: Vaulting -Vaulting over obstacles like bars Arm Jumps -Jumping and landing feet-first on a vertical surface, catching the horizontal top with the hands. Rolling and landing better -Using a rolling motion to help absorb impacts, especially when jumping from certain hights Wall jump -Running towards a certain highted wall and then jumping and pushing off the wall with a foot to reach the top of the wall with the hands. More parkour trainings and movements: Jumping: Vertical jump Broad jump Angled jumps Vaults: Two handed vault Safety Vault Speed Vault Lazy Vault Thief Vault Dash Vault Kong Vault, also known as monkey vault Kash Vault Side Vault Turn Vault Reverse vault or barrel vault Landings: Precision Cat Crane Safety Tap Roll Quadrupedal landing Bar techniques: Lache Underbar Bar kip Muscle up Wall techniques: Climb up Cat Wallrun Tic tac Quadrupedal Landing Movement combinations: Double Kong Pop Vault Cat to cat Extra: Roofing: (I'd advice to do this only with permission and from survivable hights) Jumping from one roof to another A possible broader history and more roots that helped develop parkour: Military obstacle courses, urban developments (people who train to get from one place to another by overcoming obstacles as fast and efficient as possible), stuntman (who do stunts without equipment) and ninjitsu (unequiped). Teams: There are parkour teams Competitions: There are parkour competitions Safety: Parkour is dangerous to even very dangerous so it is important that a person knows what he is doing. And for people starting parkour I'd advice to start with the simple and less dangerous trainings and movements. By Jeffrey Koelewijn From Holland