B#1 SPORTS WITH A TWIST

 SPORTS WITH A TWIST

PARKOUR

Parkour ( (abbreviated PK) is a holistic training discipline using movement that developed out of military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to move quickly and efficiently through their environment using only their bodies and their surroundings to propel themselves, negotiating obstacles in between. They try to maintain as much momentum as possible without being unsafe. Parkour can include running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement and more, if they are the most suitable movements for the 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 by Raymond Belle, David Belle, Sébastien Foucan and others in the late 1980s,Parkour became popular in the late 1990s and 2000s through films, documentaries and advertisements featuring these practitioners and others.

 MOVEMENT,

There is no official list of "moves" in Parkour, however the way practitioners move often sets them apart from others. Some examples of the ways in which practitioners move:

• running towards a high wall and then jumping and pushing off the wall with a foot to reach the top of the wall
• moving from a position hanging from a wall-top or ledge, to standing on the top or vaulting over to the other side
• leaping before an obstacle and pushing off the top of the obstacle with the arms, before landing with the feet on the other side
• jumping and landing accurately with the feet on small or narrow obstacles
• jumping and catching a ledge with the hands while the feet land on the vertical surface below
• using a rolling motion to help absorb large impacts.

EQUIPTMEN

There is no equipment required, although practitioners normally train wearing light casual clothing:

• Light upper body garment such as T-shirt, sleeveless shirt or crop top if anything is worn on the upper body;
• Light lower body garment such as sweatpants, some wear tracksuit bottoms or shorts.

Comfortable running shoes, ones that are generally light, with good grip and flexibility are encouraged. Various sport-shoes manufacturers, such as Nike, with its "Free run" shoes, have developed shoes specifically for Parkour and Freerunning; and many other companies around the world have started offering Parkour-specific products. Some practitioners use thin athletic gloves to protect the hands; most do not, preferring the increased grip and tactile feedback. Since Parkour is closely related to méthode naturelle, practitioners sometimes train barefooted to be able to move efficiently without depending on their gear. Some traceurs also like the feiyue martial arts shoes for their light weight, thin sole, and flexibility. David Belle notes: "bare feet are the best shoes!

RULES.

This sport don't have rules Because is a free sport.

I like the parkour, because it is an extreme sport where you take your body to the limit, and it's very fun and not routine. It's always something different.