Parkour and what is parkour

Parkour


Parkour is going from one location to another as fast and efficient as possible while overcoming urban or natural obstacles.


Parkour is a sports and training dicipline that developed from military
obstaccle course trainings. And was further developed by urban street trainings where you go
from one place to the other as fast and efficient as possible while overcoming obstacles like
walls, rails, fences, stairs, small buildings and more.


Parkour movements include: Running, sprinting, climbing, jumping, fall breaking, rolling,
vaulting (Jumping over rails or fences), swinging, quadrupedal movement,
and other movements.


Parkour can basicly be practised everywhere.
Like on interesting urban settings, in nature and in a gym
with set ups like bars and leveled hightened places and set ups.
And in a gym matts can be used to break the fall.


Important aspects:
1: Agility, Strength, Flexebilty, Balance and Endurance
2: Coordination and precision. And being able to know what you can and can't do
3: Willpower


Important parkour movements:
Vaulting
-Vaulting over obstacles like bars
Arm Jumps
-Jumping and landing feet-first on a vertical surface,
 catching the horizontal top with the hands.
Rolling and landing better
-Using a rolling motion to help absorb impacts, especially when jumping from certain hights
Wall jump
-Running towards a certain highted wall and then jumping and pushing off the wall with a
 foot to reach the top of the wall with the hands.


More parkour trainings and movements:
Jumping:
 Vertical jump
 Broad jump
 Angled jumps

Rolls
 Forwards
 Backwards
 And sideways

Vaults:
 Two handed vault
 Safety Vault
 Speed Vault
 Lazy Vault
 Thief Vault
 Dash Vault
 Kong Vault, also known as monkey vault
 Kash Vault
 Side Vault
 Turn Vault
 Reverse vault or barrel vault

Landings:
 Precision
 Cat
 Crane
 Safety Tap
 Roll
 Quadrupedal landing

Bar techniques:
 Lache
 Underbar
 Bar kip
 Muscle up
 Extra: Grabbing a vertical bar with one hand to do a turn

Wall techniques:
 Climb up
 Cat
 Wallrun
 Tic tac
 Quadrupedal Landing

Movement combinations:
 Double Kong
 Pop Vault
 Cat to cat 

Extra:
Roofing: (I'd advice to do this only with permission and from survivable hights)
 Jumping from one roof to another


A possible broader history and more roots that helped develop parkour:
Military obstacle courses, urban running, catch or getaway developments (people who train to get from one place to another by overcoming obstacles as fast and efficient as possible),
stuntman (who do stunts without equipment) and ninjitsu (unequiped) climbing and getting away fast or catching someone. It was basicly already done and practised before it really became a sports.


Teams:
 There are parkour teams


Competitions:
 There are parkour competitions


Safety:
 Parkour is dangerous to even very dangerous so it is important that a person
 knows what he is doing.
 And for people starting parkour I'd advice to start with
 the simple and less dangerous trainings and movements.


My other writings about parkour:
Parkour: http://jeffreykoelewijn-sports.blogspot.nl/2017/12/parkour.html


By Jeffrey Koelewijn
 From Holland
And I might make a more complete version later, explaining all the trainings and movements further