Parkour

[Tharwen]

Could you explain what you mean by "there is no purpose of it outside of itself"? I don't understand.

People do it for its own sake, not necessarily for any useful purpose (I'm just paraphrasing here; this isn't my opinion).

 

[traceur_]

Borderline off-topicness to follow:

If there is a game about walking for the Wii, why not a parkour game?!?

A Wii fit board is one thing but a Wii city would be a tad expensive me thinks.

 

[Clashero]

I do it, although it's been some months since my last time (I had surgery and couldn't do any sort of exercise. I'll probably be able to get back into the gym and parkour in 2 weeks or so).

I never go out just to do parkour. I do it all the time when I'm walking around. It makes going to run an errand a lot more fun when you're doing parkour (traceuring?).

While it's good to see some obstacles, figure out how to best go over them, and then do it, I love the improvisation aspect to parkour. Once I was sprinting to catch the train (I had to go 2 blocks). I dead-sprinted the first block. In the second I jumped over some bikes and kong'd over two railings (not a double kong, I can't do that one). Then I had to vault over a wall because there were a lot of people on the sidewalk. After vaulting the wall, I jumped on top of one of those slightly elevated things they have in front of apartment buildings for putting plants and grass and whatnot. There was a huge bush in it, and to my right there was a bit of a gap and a wall, so I jumped using my left foot into the wall, and used my right foot to propel myself back and over the bush.

Not only did I reach my train (by a mere 5 seconds), but I felt very accomplished and in a really good mood for the rest of the day ^^