Parkour in 1930

Posted: February 11, 2013 by JonoShmono "SykOse. Live. Extreme." in Balance, Free Running, Parkour

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The skills, grace and fluidity of Parkour have always impressed me.

If I were half my weight and still had the build I did back when I played long stick midfield in lacrosse then I would want to learn the skills and athleticism inherent in parkour. If you don’t know what parkour is then a good explanation would perhaps be “freestyle urban running”. Essentially you use the landscape around you to rather fluidly traverse rooftops, handrails, scaffolds, walls and so on. Originally it was created as part of training developed out of military obstacle courses.

As I was stumbling through the internet (Yes, using StumbleUpon), I came upon a video titled “Parkour in the Year 1930”. The video below is the same one but from YouTube instead due to the lack of embed code on the other site. Much of what this video shows would indeed be considered parkour…

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