Parkour (abbreviated PK) is a training method which focuses on rational movement in both the natural and urban environments. The focus is to move around obstacles with speed and efficiency. Developed in France by David Belle, the main purpose of the discipline is to teach participants how to move through their environment by vaulting, rolling, running, climbing and jumping. Parkour practitioners are known as traceurs. They train to be able to identify and utilize alternate, more efficient paths. Parkour can be practiced anywhere, but areas dense with obstacles offer many training opportunities. {Wikipedia}
Two primary characteristics of parkour are efficiency and speed. Traceurs take the most direct path through an obstacle as rapidly as that route can be traversed safely. Developing one's level of spatial awareness is often used to aid development in these areas. Also, efficiency involves avoiding injuries, both short and long term. This idea embodying parkour's unofficial motto is être et durer, meaning "to be and to last". {Wikipedia}
Damien Walters
Atkinson describes his experience
http://freethoughtopinions.blogspot.com/2010/04/parkour-godless-spiritual-experience.html
“The movement, and our underlying orientation in the session, encouraged me to let go of all conscious thought and simply be present with my breath, movement, and the physical environment. Lines separating roads, buildings, cultures, selves, and bodies disappeared. I had never experienced the city, or running for that matter, in this way. And even though I felt exhausted at the end of the session, a strange peace descended upon me.”
“Parkour can be a liberating spiritual experience standing in stark contrast to a sterile structured landscape in which it is practiced. The capitalist influenced modern urban space suffocates the human spirit while liberating those who transcend it. Rather than a sport focusing on strategies, goals, or outcomes, parkour focuses the mind like a lazar beam onto the present moment in order to transcend built structure with grace and precision”.
Let us rewire our muscle memory in accordance to the way of nature; let us have communion with God. Let us transcend mundane sidewalks, make a jungle of this oppressive urban architecture. No longer will we clumsily stumble through our existence, we will embrace obstacles as challenges and tools for rewriting our natural reactions. In a safe environment, we will force ourselves into the uncommon and unnatural, forcing ourselves to fall. Now, when hit with the ripples of events outside of our control, our natural reaction will be an adaptation, from the second of falling to the moment we’re safely back on our feet, it will have been as if we didn’t miss a step walking http://apexmovement.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/the-science-of-movement-logic-as-a-reflection-of-god-parkour-and-freerunning-as-an-act-of-praise/
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ok cool...
*only a note, that u will not find this information in the mainstream theory/explanation for these mysterious type of statues found in Mexico...
..holding a rock or a plate as a weight on the stomach it is said by Toltecs, it helps for the dreaming attention or something like that... have u ever heard about the Chacmools??
Exactly.
Its actually very interesting practice, there is a sense of freedom that practicing it yields. I never knew it had a name though, i always had this ability, it was just natural to me, I guess a gift the deep forest gave in all my playings in it.
this is great Adonai El Ra, very true there is a sense of freedom .... that's why its resonates ...
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Hey..I want to do that!! Loving the VIDEO!!
that is amazing!! wow! they are amazing athletes.
damien walter...wow
it is always neat to have what we think is possible challenged and changed to what could be.....and then pushed again...
Me too I often have dreams where I'm flying...well not really flying, more like gliding around....and...it's really a great feeling, to feel yourself gliding through the air....so smoothly and gracefully....you feel as light as a feather lol And now that I think of it, I think I have lucid dreamed it, because I would always control where I want to go...I didn't even think of it as lucid dreaming, it's just kind of how it was. Oh well lol
pretty cool Kelly ... ;) you should try this experiment, next time try to see your hands intentionally .... the sensation is .... well .... kind of liberating ;)
it's sounds like a great plan Marianinia ... ;) you know this could be compared to our life, we all have our potentials, however we need to learn how to use them ..... it goes to Love, compassion, kindness and so on .... and the learning starts with knowing how to fall .... to be safely back on our feet (metaphorically speaking)
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