I’ve still yet to participate in parkour, because I’m too lardy, too lazy, and too scared I’ll break my neck. In other words I think I’ll leave it to the professionals.
The world went through a phase several years ago of being completely obsessed with freerunning, or parkour as I prefer to call it. But that obsession has now ended.
However, there are still hundreds of brilliant freerunning videos being uploaded to YouTube and other online video websites every week, and just occasionally one sparks my interest.
These demonstrations of the sport aren’t all that spectacular – I’ve seen longer, higher, and more daring jumps – but they’re sublime. This is parkour as an art from more than an extreme sport. Which is the way it should be.
