What Is Parkour

Parkour came into being in France in 80s. The word parkour came from French word parcourir which means run everywhere and also has the meaning of surpass the obstacles. The meaning of parkour is to consider the whole city as a large training ground. For parkour, any enclosures or housetops are the target to climb or go through especially those abandoned houses are an extreme sport and deserve to be watching.
Sometimes people use PK instead of parkour. It is often be classified to the extreme sports and its training ground based on the daily life environment. This sport does not have any certain rules and people in parkour only regard various daily infrastructures as the obstacles or assistants, running and jumping among them. Parkour also has many various names in different places. This sport was founded by David Belle from France and it can improve the capacity for change towards emergency both on mentally and physically through the agile sports. And it is similar with martial arts and the difference between them lies in martial arts imagining combat with others while parkour imagining run away in emergencies.
The extreme sport of Parkour is kind of free-running while their difference lies in appreciation because free-running demands more performance while parkour is aimed at speed that is pragmatic. Parkour associated with agile climbing like monkeys and someone consider it as an art. The unexpected actions are feasts for people and its reason lies in that these actions can not be imagined by common people. The fans of parkour would rather like to regard it as a lifestyle advocated by youth. Parkour is not only helpful to body but also significant for mind. It requires your fully attention on parkour from beginning to the end. We can learn how to overcome fear and improve the ability to overcome difficulties through parkour. People can improve themselves through breakthrough various obstacles.
Parkour was originally launched by French soldiers in The Vietnam War and began to prevail in Britain in 2002 and later David Belle prospered it. Maybe some of us watched the Banlieue 13 which is a French movie. This movie is the embodiment of parkour culture. The hero of this movie is David Belle and is also one of founders of parkour.
In the world of Parkour, participants are called Traceur. And the actions of parkour combined with all free actions, improved creative ideas and encouraged people to find beliefs belong to them. Even though flips and spin do not belong to parkour now, a number of fans of parkour extremely try to perform these actions in parkour. Through it, we can know parkour does not confine to certain actions. If you like, you even can create actions for parkour. Freedom and unexpected effect out of imagination are the targets of parkour actions.
The founder of parkour is David Belle who is thirty-six and was born in France. When he was a child, he liked to run and jump on the roofs of his school. His inspiration of parkour came from his father who is a solider. The conception of parkour was defined by David Belle and his friend, Sebastian Foucan.