Thursday, September 17, 2009

Le Parkour/Free Running

What is Parkour and Free running? They are pretty much the same thing but they are a little different from each other. This is a popular sport mainly taken place in England,France,and the UK. There are not a lot of Free Runners in other countries and there are a few in the U.S.A. Le Parkour means "The Art Of Movement". Its not the kind of sport that's like the other sport. You could do this anywhere because its mostly doing Parkour vaults, flips, and wall running. Parkour vaults are doing tricks on rails, doing crazy stuff off of objects, and combination's. A vault is jumping or leaping, especially with the use of hands. In England there are a lot of people who do this for fun in the city.
The reason why I am writing about this because I find this interesting and tell people about it. I want to do free running too and I'm working on it. There are lots of different vaults to do and I know how to do a few of the vaults. In the future, I might plan on taking gymnastics for private lessons to learn flips. This is not for sure but if I'm good enough I would go to England or France to do Parkour with a team. I was interested in Parkour when I found some video on You tube and I started to watch them. When I was watching some videos it looked fun and made me want to do Parkour. The people who are doing Parkour are BEASTLY and they are incredible. From these videos I try to learn some of the vaults they do and tutorial videos. I want to list the things I can do Monkey Vault, Kong Vault, King Kong Vault, Lazy Vault, Turn Vault, Gate Vault, Under Bar, maybe a Bar Flip but I had attempt it on my couch and the Palm Spin, Wall Run up about 9ft-11ft high, Human Flag Pole, a Front Flip but I'm still working on the landing, oh and Dive Rolls.

Here are some videos you could check out on You Tube copy this link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pcqRuFEMLs
Check out more videos if you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZhgIn4iVzg&feature=fvst This one is about Vaults.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXmkmtx8eI&feature=channel This video is my first front flip attempts in the summer xD. Tell me what you think about it. Comment Me!

4 comments:

  1. Haha you misspelled a word in the second sentence lol....
    David ur a beast already for knowing all those stunts :P

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  2. where i dont see a misspelled word in the second sentence...

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  3. hay i can do most vaults, and almost a backflip.

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  4. lol yea nathan is right i see the misspelled word me and luis are laughing hella bad at computer lab right now~

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