Thursday, December 2, 2010

Parkour!!!!

Parkour is possibly the coolest thing EVER! It's waaaay awesome. If you consider it a sport, (which i do) it is the fastest growing sport in the world! It is my favorite thing to do. Parkour is basically figuring out a new way to get around. It makes just plain getting around REALLY fun. They do competitions for parkour. It would be way cool if they put it in the olympics. It is a lot cooler than soccer, football, baseball, and all those other sports.

Parkour has a lot of flow. If you want to get over an object then grab a bar and swing over a fence, you would of course want to put flow in it. You want to move fast so you can make it all the way over the object, grab the bar, use your motion to swing, let go, get over the fence, roll it off, and keep running. If you don't put flow, it would be much harder. You would have to jump onto/over the object, jump on the bar, swing, let go, go over the fence, land it, get up, then keep running.

Vaults: Vaults are a way to get over stuff. I will explain some vaults. Speed vault: run at the object, jump sideways with your legs to the side. Use one hand and put it on the object. Push off the object.(you are still in the air) Turn your body back so it's straight and land on the ground running. Lazy vault: it's basically where you get on the object and climb down the other side. It's not the ideal one and it's probably the slowest. Well, that's about it for parkour.

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