Public Misconception of Parkour Imagine all you had ever seen of running was the 100m sprint in the Olympics. Parkour is a non-mainstream, not-very-well-known discipline. As such, it hasn’t been understood all too well by people in society in general. The media loves spectacle and sensation, so they portray parkour as a daredevil stunt discipline. The parkour that’s made…
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Creativity, Parkour Vision, Adaptability, etc
Take a look at the set-up in the photo. What do you see? Consider what you could do here – make a mental list of all the different movements or things you could do here. Compare it to any experience in any sport you have, or even to what someone might do in a fitness…
Parkour’s Variety
Over the years, I’ve tried out a whole load of different sports, games, exercises and movement disciplines, and enjoyed most of them. As a teenager I started out with sprinting, also doing non-competitive longer runs, joined the rugby team and basketball team shortly after, and started going along to a karate club my friend did…
Taking the Stairs
“some quote about humans being meant to move” Exercise is good for you, right? (If you aren’t in agreement so far, then probably stop reading now. That’s kind of an underlying premise of this whole post.) The way we view ‘exercise’ or ‘move’ in our society is a bit odd. It’s been allocated to…
Playing while I’m Waiting for a Train
The below video shows me playing while I’m waiting for a train. (Note — this is from 2015). It’s a fairly pure video: I put my phone camera on a tripod and filmed myself waiting for a train for twelve minutes. Filming can mess with the purity of something, as you are now performing for…