Parkour (updated)

I do not believe that I have brought up the subject of Parkour yet, so I shall do that now.  Parkour, not to be confused with Free Running, is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment.  In English, Parkour is the act of getting from point A to point B in the most efficient way possible.  Most often that means being able to vault, jump over, certain things such as: tables, fences, railings, benches, etc...   Once properly trained, Parkour is a very safe activity, but if you don't properly you can be majorly injured.  On the other hand, Free Running is a little different.  There are a lot of the same actions such as vaulting stuff, but you also go out of the way to heighten your commute.  Things such as flips, spins are used to kind of show of as you are making your way over the obstacles.  I don't have any plan to free run, but hopefully I can get down at least the basics of Parkour, because that would just be awesome.

Parkour can be found in a lot of movies such as: 007 Casino Royale (the new one), Live Free or Die Hard (the hamster), and also in a French film where David Belle (the founder of Parkour) is one of the lead roles, District 13.  Parkour is also majorly attributed with the popular video game, Assassin's Creed, where you control the main character as you can run across building tops and travel throughout the whole sandbox world.

-- CK