Let's get some shit straight...

Parkour: The ability to overcome any obstacle in your path and get from point A to point B as efficiently as possible. From French origin.

This does not mean flipping off of two story building, jumping twenty feet between rooftops, or any of that other crap YouTube has made it seem.

That, my fellow tracuers and traceusues, is the fine line between parkour and freerunning. This blog is to help, entertain, and be interesting to those who wish to survive that upcoming zombie apocalypse or run away from that ripped six foot seven bully coming for you for your lunch money. Learn the difference, and it can save you from being an ignorant wanna-be know-it-all.

An FYI, parkour is both a mental and physical discipline and art. You will only get good at it if you put hours and hours and hours of hard work at this craft. If you do NOT train, you will only end up being afraid to try. And how do you get good at something if you never try? Due to the physical stress, the workout I use to train will appear in a later post.

Now, for those of you whom stumbled across this site because a friend recommended it to you, and you are now sitting there going, "What the hell is parkour?" Here's a video link for you. THIS is parkour, NOT freerunning. Really, it's Parkour, literally.

ANYBODY can do parkour. It's not a new thing. Humans have been doing parkour for a very, very long time. It's actually a survival instinct hardwired into our brains. When someone is in trouble and you care deeply about them, ever noticed how you hop a fence much more efficiently than if they weren't? Or how about when you're being chased by someone who you know is going to hurt you, don't you notice how you start to do more incredible things to try and get away from that person? Parkour is basically just having the knowledge of how the science of running to or running away works. It also makes these tasks look cool as all hell.

Stick around and learn, or just click out of this blog and forget about it. Regardless, parkour will continue to grow and this blog will continue to write. This wraps up our first post. Look out for the next one, where we discuss the Ezio Workout (Assassin's Creed, anybody? Anyone? Bueller?) to prep ourselves for parkour.