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Without triathalon:
With triathalon:
Parkour matches the definition of a discipline much more closely than that of a sport. There’s no competition, no showing off, and no government. There is, however, intensive training – physical and mental – and a code of conduct. The differences between parkour and sports are even more significant than the similarities between parkour and a discipline.
Parkour has helped me to do right things and give the correct way of thinking. During the practice for 2 years, I’ve learned a lot about what life is. I’m so grateful to God because a lot of friends beside me had taught me to keep practicing and be discipline.
Since I joined Parkour Indonesia on 15 November 2009, beside I got friends, I’d explored the way of life from parkour view. It’s not about to compete; it created not to impress, but to help people around you.
At first, I didn’t know why I so enthusiastic to attend this hard training method every week and survived till now. Until finally I found the steps about parkour training. I must build my strong body first to do parkour as efficiently as possible. I’m not strong enough to jump a gap about 2 meters, to do 50 climb-ups, stay within 10 minutes on cat leap position, 100 precision without a pause, keep running for a hour; but for the most importantly, I must keep my concentration during do all of this.
How can I do 10 muscle-ups if I couldn’t do 50 climb-ups without a pause? How can I run 10 kilometers if I just run jogging for 10 minutes? How can I jump 4 meters to drop if I’d not do 1000 squat jumps? To get the progress, just keep on training! You can exercise with simple training, such as doing 100 meters quadrupedal or more; to get climb-up, you can do with dolphin push-ups or pull-ups; jogging for 40 minutes or running for 20 minutes; and many more that you can find it from other training method.
Although I have been practicing parkour 2 years, my journey is still long. There’d be so many gaps and obstacles to pass. But, to pass it away, I must keep training. I just have a little bit talent to do parkour, and sometimes, I felt nervous, but my fellows never give up to be strong and to be useful, so it become my motivation to always do Parkour. Everything you do in Parkour would get the results after take years.
And also I want criticize people who took the title of “Traceur” arbitrarily. For everyone who I’ve ever seen, there’s a phenomenon of parkour as a life style. They’re using parkour to make someone impress, good imaging, plebeian used a word “Traceur”, “Parkour”, “l’art du déplacement” but rare to do the training. Wear a baggy shirt, training pants, parkour logos, but never do the discipline.
If you love this art, stop talking bullshit and go training!
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I think its obvious that these days, parkour/freerun practioners is rarely do a conditioning. And the “pure” methods of training is slowly fades. Much people people comes to this journey, yet, only little remains. Many of them didn’t survive in this journey. Much because long term injuries, and because they didn’t understand the philosophy of parkour it self.
They got nothing rather than 1 day of fun, and the next day injured, and never practice this discipline again. As I see it, plenty of people did huge jumps, and big drops in their first year of training. This may be fine for you for few months, but sometimes, NOT on the body itself.
Everyone can move, everyone can jump. But only some remain ‘fine’ for the next few years. Because he does every movement with excellence. Even the simplest movement, do it with excellence because you’ll never know what’s going to happen in the next few hours/days/months/even years !. I think its very important to do every move with extra precautions, excellence, because it teaches and train the body better.
Until then! Stay safe! :D
Written by : @ardhiskippers
COMPETITION DOES NOT FULLY REFLECT THE SPIRIT OF PARKOUR AND FREERUNNING
I'm a social networking enthusiast, parkour practitioner, student of physics engineering Gadjah Mada University, and loud thinker.
