For those of you who do not know, I fell in love with parkour about a year ago; incidentally, when I met my current boyfriend. I love it for many reasons, which I will list here. I decided to help me remember what days to train on, I would train on all SMWRF days (that’s pronounced smurf.) Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. This allows me 2 sporadic days of rest, and plenty days of play and exercise! This keeps me sane and my happy levels high!
By the way, this fits under health!!
- Parkour encourages visualizing to improve and discover techniques.
- It also encourages achieving and maintaining a strong body, strong mind, and strong spirit. In order to do this, you must not only maintain your health and fitness, you must also care for those you love, and care for society, and give to others, and embrace your responsibilities.
- To me, it also encourages dispelling all negativity in the body to allow free movement and a focused mind.
- It does not allow one to have disbelief in oneself. You are not allowed to ; ) say “c-a-n-‘-t” (I did not say it!) If you say coconut, then you must do 10 pushups to improve your language and physique. It is all about believing in yourself, learning your limits and then exceeding and changing them. It is all about an ever-changing individual.
- It’s fun!
- It also encourages great concentration and meditation.
- It encourages conquering your mind.
- It requires silencing your fears. It uses fear as an ally and a weapon. It warns you of danger and reminds you to have backups and friends close at hand. Simultaneously, it compels you to confront and then defeat your disbelief and fear. It allows a simple way to defeat physical fears, so to better prepare you for the more difficult mental blocks and fears.
- It requires constant vigilance, persistence, and awareness. You c-a-n-n-o-t give up or stop trying. In order to achieve the difficult, you must persevere and do things 100+ times!
- It constantly pushes my limits, pushes me.
- I am constantly learning new things and having my mind blown by what the human body is capable of!
- It suggests there is no limit!
- It also suggests applying all of these principles not only to physical barriers/obstacles, but also to mental and emotional barriers. All of which are great life lessons, and are best learned in as many ways as possible as to remember them when you need them! Rather than making the mistakes!
- I am constantly surprising myself with my abilities; unbeknownst to me previously.
- It attracts unique individuals: outcasts, rebels, nerds, geeks, jocks, happy, people who push and challenge the status quo (most who never accepted it as quo).
- It expresses my creativity through movement; the same reason I fell in love with dance time and again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j886vVYkFLY&list=FLQpd20sbsD62q7auTAMl98w&index=5&feature=plpp_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_-mT_UVMI&list=FLQpd20sbsD62q7auTAMl98w&index=17&feature=plpp_video
Because if pictures speak 1000 words; these videos speak 1 million! They are epic and they are parkour; that is epic squared!
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