Parkour

[Randy]

Parkour is a holistic training discipline using movement that developed from obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to quickly and efficiently overcome obstacles in their environment, using only their bodies and their surroundings to propel themselves; furthermore, they try to maintain as much momentum as is possible in a safe manner. Parkour can include running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement, and the like, depending on what movement is deemed most suitable for the given situation.
Parkour is non-competitive. It may be performed on an obstacle course, but is usually practiced in a creative, and sometimes playful, reinterpretation or subversion of urban spaces. Parkour involves seeing one's environment in a new way, and imagining the potentialities for movement around it.
Developed in France primarily by Raymond Belle, David Belle, and Sébastien Foucan, during the late 1980s, Parkour became popular in the late 1990s and 2000s through films, documentaries, and advertisements featuring these practitioners and others.
Parkour's training methods have inspired a range of other activities, including freerunning and l'art du déplacement. Although their creators define them as separate activities, practitioners and non-practitioners alike often find it difficult to discern the differences between them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7QNWEGcNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFYxxuVXj40

Do you think parkour is interesting / fascinating? Take a lot of skill? Would you be good at it?

 

[Nebulous]

It is very cool, watching those videos makes me wonder if I tried it, I'd smack my face into some concrete a couple seconds in

 

[Evil Eye]

It looks cool, but there's no way I'm trying it for the reason Nebulous gave

 

[Jazzy]

Very impressive and needs a great skill of balance and courage. I have neither of those, so no way would I try it.

 

[Nebulous]

Very impressive and needs a great skill of balance and courage. I have neither of those, so no way would I try it.

Sure you do! Get yourself a good sports bra!

 

[Flurry]

I've always found it pretty sweet. Though when I first saw a video I didn't even know it was called Parkour.