More Le Parkour videos
Thanks Khalid for the tip off to Le Parkour. I love to find new French fads, good or bad. Here is another video. L’art de deplacement, the art of moving oneself. I guess it is spreading out and not just confined to France. I don’t see anyone that looks over 2 doing it, they must have died or ruined their knees.
The problem I have with this new “sport”, is that there are going to be a lot teens and pre-teens trying to do these moves and a lot of them are going to be seriously hurt or worse. But having been there myself ( a few weeks ago, I think it was) I know how difficult it will be to warn them of the dangers. Everyone knows kids are indestructable.
Have you ever tried telling a teen they were indestructible? You can get seriously hurt just trying to do that.
It is the same for skateboarding though. I used to be a skater and did lots of crazy things but none severely affected the rest of my life. I knew lots of others in the similar situation. Sure a few get really screwed up but most have fun and it doesn’t impact their life negatively. This is way more graceful than skating though.
Wow… is all I can say. I need to see that live!
There are le Parkour clubs all over France, although it really requires an agility and stamina that I don’t have, I’d love to see more of it.