I'd say the biggest thing about me that has changed since I stopped blogging is my interest in sports. I dislike certain most sports less, but I think most of them are overrated; especially football. Football is a variation of CAPTURE THE FLAG, but not the best. The best kind of capture the flag is the kind where you play with paintball guns. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I wanted to talk about parkour and freerunning since I've been obsessed with them lately. Most people haven't heard of parkour before and slightly more have heard of freerunning, but still, not many. Those who know of both don't really know the difference. Parkour is French for simply 'the art of movement'. It was always there, but it was given its name and popularity by David Belle. Parkour and freerunning are types of urban gymnastics. If you see a grown man at a playground with no children, they're probably training since that's the best place. I would say the difference between the two is that parkour is the efficiency of movement and freerunning is the freedom of it. In parkour, you're normally trying to get from one point to another in a city as fast and in as straight a line as possible. This means climbing buildings, jumping from one to another, vaulting fences and all the other stuff our obese police officers hate. Freerunning uses most of the same moves, but you're not really trying to get anyware and it looks cooler because you do more flips. You don't really need flips in parkour, they're just to look better. I always liked challenging others to catch me, especially last year when me and ten others would play a game called infection, which I think is the same thing as manhunt. One person would start out as the infected and tag others. Everytime you get tagged, you're infected and it goes on until everyone is. We played it during HAC (our 'recess' at my school). You would usually start out hiding and once the infected found you, you'd run from them, jumping border fences and climbing baseball ones (Actually, only I climbed the baseball fence because I'm a ninja.). This year, I heard about parkour (I didn't even know it existed as a sport before then.). Someone asked my dad what sports I liked and he said parkour. I asked "What's parkour?" and he told me parkour was urban gymnastics. I searched it on the computer like I always do with new topics and learned the PK roll and tons of different vaults and wall runs and stuff like that. I might even end up putting some tutorials on here. The thing I hate about parkour is how it's not accepted unless you're in a gymnastics class (I wish I was in one.) or on your own property. My favorite place to practice is at schools because they always have those parallel railings that you can balance across and practice precision jumps on and do almost any kind of vault over. I also like playgrounds, but there're so many adults watching. At least every single kid wants to play tag and can never catch you. Adults... don't... understand... "Why don't you play any sports, son?" "I do, I'm a traceur." "What the hell is that, son?" "An urban gymnast." "Go play football you anti-social ************* *****-***". I don't actually thing adults would act like that, but they can still be annoying when you don't use society's accepted extracurricular activities. Thank you for reading.
