Transported from in military convoys, climbing mountains and what does “mbois” mean? Is training with Parkour Generations ever the same if you don’t have to train in the rain and be covered in mud? Puji and Rifna are two female practitioners among over 150 others who came from all over Indonesia to meet in Bandung for the National Jam 2010. Read their words here! http://www.girlparkour.com/page4.htm
LOL! Thank you Shi from Parkour Sydney! You’re just so mbois! :))
Differences between running and Parkour
Whilst the runner is likely to only think about dealing with an obstacle when they are faced with one, the practitioner of Parkour actively seeks out obstacles to hone their skills and practice their movements upon. In fact the majority of their time is spent practicing to be free in their movements, rather than just moving and facing whatever comes their way.
Most runners will spend the majority of their time directly practicing their sport and try to improve their technique during the activity, or might even work with a trainer, but they will spend most of their time running. Whereas in Parkour, a person might spend most of their week training individual elements or techniques and only combine them all in to a ‘run’ just a few times per week, depending on the individual.
Parkour is a return to the roots rather than a new branch of gymnastics.
And movement is only one part of the whole when it comes to Parkour. Back in the mid-eighties in a quiet suburb of Paris, it was in Lisses that the childhood games of a handful of kids would grow to inspire what we now call Parkour. There were no jumps or obstacles in the beginning, there was simply a desire to become stronger and challenge yourself. Can you lift that rock? Can you throw that stone across the lake? Can you jump and touch that branch or can you push that car? The children played every day and pushed themselves to achieve something new. As they grew up, they became stronger and fitter as their bodies adapted to their activities. It was only with a great deal of training behind them did they begin to wonder.. Can we jump from here to there?
Whilst some might then argue that Parkour is a new activity born in Lisses, that has evolved from running and various other activities, such as gymnastics, others agree that Parkour is one of the oldest disciplines known to man. Going back to a time when the first men and women had to hunt and fight for their survival each day, they would have used their bodies not just for running but for climbing, balancing, jumping and swinging too, indeed moving any way they can to avoid prey or to hunt. So to some, Parkour is a return to those roots rather than a new branch of running or gymnastics.
So is Parkour a sport? A discipline? An art form, maybe?
The term sport seems to suggest a competitive element these days and although competition is something that various organisations are trying to promote and organise, Parkour is a non-competitive activity.
To date, every large-scale organised instance of Parkour competition has resulted in at least one major injury to a competitor. This is chiefly due to the nature of the activity and the only safe way to progress is to work within, but of course close to, your limits. When competition is introduced, people are too eager to take chances and prove themselves better than their peers and it is only in stepping too far beyond these limits that Parkour becomes dangerous. More similar then to a martial art, Parkour is a discipline focused on self improvement and the mastery of oneself and the immediate environment.Beginning your journey in Parkour as a runner, you might be surprised at just how different the respective practices feel, even if they might look similar at first glance. Very few muscles in the upper body are stressed to the extent they will be during a Parkour session and upper body strength and development is one of the first key focus areas of training for a new recruit. This, combined with exercises linked to balance, the passing of obstacles, ways of moving over, under and through your environment and drills to hone spatial awareness and adaptability all fuse to create a complete discipline for the body and mind. And it is this ‘mind’ aspect that also separates more traditional running activities, from Parkour.
“A lot of people are attracted to or put off from Parkour by what they see on the Internet, and I think the Internet does a bad job of showing what Parkour is,” she says. “It doesn’t show the intermediate steps, the training, the failures it took to get that.”
Henry, a 30-year-old postdoctoral researcher at George Washington University, lives in Northeast D.C. and trains at Primal Fitness in Northwest, the first Parkour gym in America.
She focuses on keeping her body fit and learning new moves, rather than constant motion or making videos.
We did it! We’ve walked from Lebak Bulus (Jakarta) to Rumah Sakit Salak (Bogor)! It was a bloody hell 38-kilometre walk that took 11 hours and 15 seconds (breaktimes included).
Most of the pics was taken during my walk with the first batch. We’ve got 18 people who took the walk but we’re separated in 2 batch. So, are you interested in parkour? You want to jump from rooftops to rooftops? Forget it. Parkour is about how you adapt yourself on your surrounding environment. Sent from my iPhoneDulu di @ParkourJKT sering nih ditemuin yang kayak ginian. Tapi sejak sistem materi baru udah jarang rasanya teriak rame2 kayak gini. Lagi yuk! 😀
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Earlier today, I trained with Parkour Bandung fellas. I slept only for 3,5 hours (blame #worldcup) but surprisingly I could get up at 7am (thanks to the iPhone alarm), so I guess it’s a good sign that I could join parkour training at ITB then.
As usual, they started the training with a long run around ITB campus. Then they started the conditioning session, I have to admit that their conditioning were a bit more harder that ours in Jakarta. I joined @willyirawan and @adrtirta on first timers class. They’ve got quadrupedal movement, landing, precision, and short-tracking. And again, the only thing that I envy so much about their parkour training is their surrounding structures. I got home earlier to attend my high school reunion while Parkour Bandung fellas are about to start the sharing session. FYI, I guess @ParkourBDG now has more traceuses than @ParkourJKT. I spotted around 8-10 traceuses today.
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“Tapi untuk ukuran manusia, jarak maksimal lompatan yang bisa dilakukan 6 meter. Itu pun hanya bisa dilakukan oleh orang bule. Sebab badan mereka tinggi dan kakinya panjang sehingga bisa melompat lebih jauh dari rata-rata orang Asia,” terang Ino, yang saat ini bekerja di salah satu perusahaan di Pondok Indah, Jakarta Selatan.
Tidak pernah ada ukuran minimum dan maksimum dalam manusia melompat. Masing-masing tubuh memiliki kemampuan yang berbeda-beda. Secara postur memang benar bahwa orang-orang yang lebih tinggi memiliki daya jangkau yang lebih jauh daripada orang-orang yang lebih pendek.
Dijelaskan Ino, untuk melakukan aksi cat leap tidak bisa sembarangan. Bagi traceur atau traceusse (pegiat parkour pria atau wanita) yang masih pemula, aksi ini sulit dilakukan. Soalnya membutuhkan teknik tingkat tinggi serta mental yang kuat. Untuk itu, imbuh Ino, aksi lompatan kucing ini biasanya dilakukan oleh pegiat parkour yang sudah senior, paling tidak sudah menekuni kegiatan ini selama 3 tahunan.
Setelah gedung-gedung Taman Ria Senayan diratakan untuk dibangun mal oleh Lippo Grup, Ino dan kawan-kawan berlatih di Widyaloka, kawasan Gelora Bung Karno, Senayan.
Namun memang, di lokasi latihan yang baru memang tidak seekstrem seperti di Taman Ria Senayan. Namun mau tidak mau, mereka berlatih di Widyaloka agar bisa berlatih rutin.
Sementara untuk mencari tantangan dan medan yang baru, Ino cs mencari alternatif dengan melompati sejumlah bangunan yang ada di sepanjang Jalan Jenderal Sudirman. Setiap Sabtu sore mereka biasanya mencari jalur lompatan di jalan protokol tersebut.
Namun traceur yang diajak untuk tracking di Jalan Sudirman adalah yang senior. Sementara traceur junior atau pemula diajak hanya untuk menyaksikan para seniornya beratraksi di gedung yang ada di wilayah itu.
Selain melompati gedung-gedung di jalan itu, para traceur atau traceusse biasanya juga berlatih dengan melompati sejumlah halte TransJakarta. Untuk tantangan ini biasanya mereka lakukan setiap hari Minggu. Alasan mereka, di hari Minggu penumpang TransJakarta sedikit sehingga aksi mereka tidak mengganggu pengguna angkutan masal tersebut.
Saat ini, komunitas parkour di Jakarta berjumlah 200-an anggota. Mereka umumnya berlatih secara rutin di Senayan. Aldika Vialinata, salah seorang pengurus parkour Jakarta mengatakan, komunitas parkour di Jakarta mulai terbentuk sejak 2004.
Rencananya, jelas Aldika, seluruh komunitas parkour di Indonesia akan berkumpul di Bandung pada September 2010 mendatang. Dalam even tersebut, rencananya mereka akan mendatangkan David Belle, sesepuh parkour dari Prancis, untuk berbagi ilmu. Prancis memang dikenal banyak jagoan parkour, salah satunya diangkat menjadi film berjudul ‘Yamakasi’.
Nicole Powers: This is the second movie in the District 13 franchise. How did it come about?David Belle: Luc Besson called me to see if I was interested in doing a follow up adventure. As far as I was concerned there were no problems at all.NP:The screenplay was written by Luc Besson, who also wrote The Fifth Element and The Transporter. What did you like about this particular script?DB:I liked the storyline in general. I thought it was a good action film. The character is a little like me, not in everything, but I felt pretty close to that character, and I was willing to embark on this adventure.NP:Obviously it’s an action-based film. Did you work with Besson in the construction of the action scenes at the writing stage or was it more of a case of collaborating with the film’s director, Patrick Alessandrin, at the point when you were preparing to shoot?DB:As a matter of fact when Luc writes the action he doesn’t write that much detail. He leaves us some room for maneuver and he allows us to make some proposals on the action. Then he picks what the best solution is and we move forward like that.NP:Which was the hardest scene to shoot?DB:The whole shooting was difficult. Keep in mind we were in top form so in the beginning you do one of these stunts and it’s pretty easy. You do the scouting of these scenes and you say, “Ah, that’s going to be easy,” and you say, “I’m going to do this during the shooting.” Then it turns out that something that was initially anticipated as something that was going to be easy turns out to be quite difficult. You’ve got to be very careful because at the end of the shoot you’re exhausted. But we’re under the same amount of pressure throughout the whole shoot, however, I should say, since we rehearsed in advance there weren’t as many problems as one might have expected.NP:I guess the issue of physical tiredness is compounded if you have to do multiple takes.DB:Well yes, that is true. I should add that we tried to spare our forces, save our energy, as much as possible. When we had a stunt scene, we would rehearse the scene two or three times in advance — everything but the stunt itself. Then we would do the shooting in just one take. We would rehearse it two or three times, when we were all psyched and we were ready, we would hit it and we would just do it. That was our policy for stunts which were really dangerous.NP:Were there any injuries on set?DB:I injured my lower arm. We were doing a chase scene in the Gypsy Quarter and there was a police car chasing me. So I’m running and I made a sudden turn and my arm got caught on a doorknob. The doorknob went into my arm. I needed five stitches. The doctor told me I had to rest for a week, but the next day it seemed like the stitches were holding so we started on the roof again.The thing is, that door was supposed to be closed, but someone has left it half open. So when I was running, just like you might get your bag caught on something that’s sticking out, that’s what happened with my arm.
NP:Where were the rooftop scenes shot?DB:On the roofs of Serbia.NP:Were there any wires or other safety equipment used in those scenes?DB:There were certain scenes, the scenes that were truly dangerous. Sometimes we had a cable, sometime we had a safety net, because sometimes we would have to rehearse or shoot a scene a couple of times until we got it right. With fatigue setting in you just don’t know how you might react, and you’re 20 meters up in the air, so sometimes we would shoot with a safety net. But generally speaking, we were free, our movements were free.NP:The way the action scenes are cut together to pumping techno music, they very much have the feel of a music video. Were you happy with the way everything turned out?DB:Generally speaking I like the film. As far as the music’s concerned, if I’m watching the film and I don’t like the music I just turn off the sound and put on a music track that I like. But I would have to say I generally like the music. It really meshes well with the pace of the film I believe.NP:Going back to how you first started parkour, I know you had military and martial arts training, but how did a type of movement you used to run across town become something that you realized was a stylized thing of its self, something you could make a career out of?DB:Of course, I was very active in sports when I was small, but it was because of my father that I discovered parkour. It was he who transmitted to me this art though his experience in the army and later as a fireman. He had worked on his own physical conditioning and I realized that the movement has a useful side to it. That you can move around to help people, to aid people, and not just to be an artist or to perform acrobatic tricks. There’s a more profound side to parkour.NP:With parkour there also seems to be a connection to your inner child. If you look at the way a child walks along a pavement, the last thing they want to do is walk in a straight line. They want to jump across cracks in the pavement or play stepping stones, and if there’s something to jump up on, instinctively they’ll want to jump up on it. Parkour seems to be very much about getting in touch with your inner child and taking the interesting way, rather than the easiest route.DB:I think you summed it up in a nutshell. That’s what it is exactly. That’s the first time anybody has given me the proper definition of parkour. Bravo Nicole!NP:Merci beaucoup! How has it changed since you started doing it? How has the art progressed?DB:It’s sort of like life. Initially the obstacles aren’t too high, and as you gradually gain increasing self-assurance and greater amounts of confidence the obstacles are higher, and when you fall it hurts more. So you learn through good technique not to take stupid risks. I didn’t ever want to give the impression that practicing this movement is crazy. I wanted to show that there’s a method that allows you to overcome obstacles, to navigate obstacles without taking major risks.NP:What do you do to train on a daily basis?DB:I’ve worked on the foundations so much, it’s similar to martial arts. When you practice a jump thousands of times for eight hours a day straight, your body develops a memory of it. You don’t have to be practicing that everyday from a 20 meter high rooftop. The question for me now is to maintain this physical conditioning. Now I train less. I do it more by feeling. I don’t have the same perspective anymore. My goal is to last vis-à-vis my age. I want to make sure that whatever my age is I feel good inside my body, and that I don’t have the impression of destroying myself.NP:Right, you don’t want to over-train.DB:That’s right. I don’t think it’s worthwhile. It’s not worth it to over-train. You know, we all have a certain lifespan. It’s not like we’re going to live 150 or 200 years and I could say, alright, I have 50 years to progress. Life goes by and it’s full of things to do, and I don’t want to get stagnated and be like an old karate professor who’s 70-years old and keeps repeating the same movement. Today I do parkour, tomorrow I might play the piano, maybe the next day I might go fishing. I don’t want to feel anchored. I want to continue to move, and of course I want to continue to practice my sport. But I’m trying to listen to my body and I try to always be interested in other things. I don’t want to deprive myself of those other things just for the sake of parkour.NP:I guess part of that goes back to maintaining the enjoyment by nurturing your inner child. It’s something that gets forgotten as we get older, but it’s important and intrinsic to the discipline too.DB:Well you know I think everyone has a trigger in their lives and that’s what parkour was for me. It’s like someone who plays music as a kid, and then, through music, discovers art in general, and beauty. He may not play music [anymore] but he may go on to other things, but the trigger, the detonating influence was music. Well that’s what parkour was for me. We all have something that when we’re young we discover, and that something will lead us to a world of other discoveries. That’s what parkour has done for me. .NP:So can you see yourself down the line taking acting roles where the physicality is less important? Perhaps even roles that don’t requite parkour?DB:Well if movies give me that opportunity, I would take it up with the greatest of pleasure.NP:Finally, I know you originally took up parkour with very practical, perhaps even lifesaving applications in mind. Are you doing anything to teach the next generation this skill and the practical applications too?DB:You’re completely right, we’re already working with the firemen of Paris imparting parkour techniques, and we’ve set up a program with the city council of Lisses to set up a place where soldiers, policemen, young people — anybody engaged in high risk professions — can come and get training. It’s not enough to just train in a gym. There we can move around a bit. We really can’t explain the sport in such situations, so these special places we’re setting up are much better for that.NP:Thank you for taking the time out to chat, and good luck with the movie in America.DB:Merci Nicole.
Sejarah Parkour
Parkour mempunyai arti bergerak atau berpindah tempat dari point A ke point B seefisien dan secepat mungkin yang menggunakan prinsip dari Parkour dengan mengedepankan keindahan bergerak sekaligus diimbangi oleh kemampuan dari tubuh manusia itu sendiri. Sebenarnya Parkour sudah ada sejak dulu sebelum manusia mengenal kata “Parkour” itu sendiri. Tapi Parkour dideskripsikan dan dikenalkan ke seluruh dunia oleh seorang pria berkebangsaan Perancis yang dikenal dengan nama David Belle. Dialah yang telah memperkenalkan olahraga ini ke seluruh dunia yang awalnya hanya berkembang di Perancis. Sehingga akhirnya berkembang ke seluruh daratan Eropa dan akhirnya menyebar ke seluruh dunia. Namun jauh sebelum itu, ada seorang pelaut Prancis pada abad 19 bernama Georges Hebert yang mengembangkan metode latihan yang mampu mengeluarkan energi manusia yang tersembunyi dalam tubuhnya. Hebert terinspirasi oleh suku di Afrika yang memiliki kemampuan atletik dan gimnastik. Ternyata, yang bisa membuat suku tersebut kuat adalah lingkungan sekitarnya yang telah melatih mereka dengan sendirinya selama bertahun-tahun. Akhirnya, Hebert menciptakan sebuah latihan yang diberi nama methode naturalle yang terkenal dengan moto ‘etre fort pour etre utile’ atau ‘to be strong, to be useful’. Latihan ini meliputi sepuluh gerakan dasar yaitu walking, running, jumping, swinging, quapedral movement, balancing, throwing, lifting, climbing, dan swimming. Metode itulah yang akhirnya dipakai para tentara Prancis di perang Vietnam. Salah satu yang mendalami latihan itu adalah Raymond Belle, ayah David Belle itu sendiri. Terinspirasi dari ayahnya, Raymond Belle seorang tentara Perancis yang akhirnya bergabung dengan sapeurs-pompiers ( pemadam kebakaran militer). Lahir di tengah keluarga pemadam kebakaran membuat David terinspirasi dengan cerita-cerita tentang kepahlawanan. Saat berumur 16 tahun, David memutuskan untuk meninggalkan sekolah untuk mencari kecintaannya akan kebebasan, aksi, dan untuk mengembangkan kekuatan dan ketangkasan yang dimilikinya agar berguna dalam kehidupannya, seperti yang selalu dinasehatkan oleh ayahnya. Raymond memperkenalkan pada anaknya tentang sebuah latihan halang rintang dan metode natural yang akhirnya dikenal dengan nama Parkour. Sejak saat itu , setiap David sepulang sekolah ia mulai memainkan skenario sendiri bagaimana dia bisa meloloskan diri dari situasi yang sulit. Menurut David, Parkour dapat berguna sebagai self-defense dalam keadaan tidak terduga. Saat martial art bisa disebut sebagai sebuah bentuk latihan untuk fight (bertarung), parkour merupakan suatu bentuk latihan untuk flight (kabur). Sejak Usia 15 tahun, David Belle pindah ke Lisses (salah satu kota di Perancis). Pada waktu itu, dia bertemu dengan para remaja di sana yang tertarik dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh David. Disinilah cikal bakal dari lahirnya sebuah grup Parkour yang dikenal dengan nama Yamakasi. Bersama teman masa kecilnya, Sebastian Foucan beserta beberapa pemuda lainnya mulai mengembangkan Yamakasi sebagai tim Parkour yang dikenal di Perancis. Namun karena perbedaan prinsip, David dan Sebastian berpisah dan meninggalkan Yamakasi. Sehingga saat film Yamakasi yang dibuat pada tahun 2001 harus tetap berjalan tanpa kehadiran mereka berdua. David tetap memegang prinsip Parkour yang tetap mengedepankan tentang keefektifan dan efisiensi yang menampilkan kesederhanaan dan memiliki filosofi melewati rintangan dengan cepat dan efisient. Sedangkan Sebastian lebih memilih untuk membuat gerakan-gerakan dari parkour terlihat lebih indah yang dapat membuat orang yang melihatnya menjadi tertarik. Sehingga akhirnya ia menambahkan gerakan acrobat seperti flip atau salto dikombinasi dengan gerakan “pacours du combatant” yang akhirnya menjadi Freerunning. Hal tersebut yang membuat David Belle berbeda pandangan dengan Sebastian Foucan. Karena menurut David Belle, gerakan acrobat atau salto sangat tidak efisien dan sangat bertolak belakang dengan originalitas Parkour. Selain itu, keinginan untuk melakukan gerakan hanya untuk dilihat orang lain tanpa keinginan untuk melakukan gerakan itu dari diri sendiri, merupakan hal yang bertolak belakang dengan parkour. Terminologi Parkour berasal dari kata parcours du combatant yang berarti pelatihan halang rintang untuk sesi militer. Kata parcours “c” diganti menjadi “k” dan “s”nya dipakai untuk menjelaskan filosofi Parkour itu sendiri. “Parkour’s philosophy about efficiency” . Sedangkan istilah traceur adalah sebuah sebutan untuk para praktisi Parkour. Seseorang bisa dikatakan traceur jika orang tersebut sudah memahami arti, basic, dan filosofi dari Parkour itu sendiri. Traceur berasal dari kata “tracer” yang berarti cepat, mempercepat (to trace/ to go fast). Filosofi dan nilai moral dalam parkour Definisi dari Parkour sendiri adalah seni berpindah tempat melewati beberapa obstacle dari point A menuju point B. Seni ini adalah cara baru untuk beradaptasi lingkungan atau melewati segala macam bentuk obstacles yang ada di sekitar kita hanya dengan mengandalkan kekuatan tubuh manusia seutuhnya. Tujuan dan inti dari Parkour itu sendiri adalah mampu menghadapi semua rintangan atau obstacles di sepanjang track yang kita lalui, baik itu di lingkungan alam maupun di lingkungan perkotaan, dengan mengunakan beberapa gerakan yang istimewa dan indah dengan cara mengkombinasikan beberapa gerakan yang mengalir dan control yang penuh. Parkour juga mengandung pembelajaran yang positif untuk diri sendiri, yaitu manjawab tantangan untuk melawan semua rasa takut dari dalam diri kita sendiri. Karena kadangkala setiap rintangan dan obstacles yang akan kita lalui tidak seperti yang pernah kita bayangkan. Nilai-nilai kehidupan yang terdapat dalam Parkour 1. Seni untuk melewati semua masalah dalam track kehidupan. Saat kita menjalankan track kehidupan, terdapat banyak rintangan dan masalah hidup yang terlihat seperti obstacles dalam hidup. Semua orang pasti mempunyai tjuan akhir. Tapi saat kita bergerak ke tujuan akhir, banyak rintangan (obstacles) yang menghadang. Dengan memakai prinsip dari Parkour, kita akan berusaha melewati rintangan obstacles tersebut dengan indah dan penuh control. Memecahkan masalah yang kita hadapi dengan efektif dan efisien. Semua manusia pasti mempunyai track kehidupannya masing-masing. 2. Melawan Rasa takut. Seseorang yang takut untuk mencoba, tidak akan berbuat apa-apa dan tidak akan menjadi siapa-siapa. Semua manusia pasti melewati proses seperti ini. Kalau kita tidak bisa melawan rasa takut, ngga akan ada kemajuan dalam kehidupan. Kita bisa naik motor, sukses dalam bisnis, menang tender dan sebagainya adalah buah dari keberanian kita melawan rasa takut. Tapi ingat ukur ketakutan dan keberanianmu dengan meteran nyali. Kalau kita terlalu berani, kita akan bertindak bodoh, ceroboh bahkan celaka. Tapi kalo terlalu takut, maka kita tidak akan berbuat apa-apa. Jadi antara rasa takut dan berani harus seimbang. 3. Bangkit dari kegagalan. Saat kita mencoba suatu gerakan di Parkour, kita akan selalu mengalami kegagalan atau jatuh. Tapi kalo kita terus bangkit berdiri dan mencoba lagi, kita pasti akan bisa menguasai salah satu gerakan tersebut. Begitu pula dalam kehidupan. Intinya berani gagal alias berani jatuh. Coba lagi dan pelajari supaya tidak gagal dan jatuh lagi. 4. Flexibilitas dan fluiditas. Berlatih Parkour akan membuat diri kita flexible dan semangat kita terus mengalir. Begitu pula dalam kehidupan. Saat kita berada dalam lingkungan baru, kita berpikir untuk tetap flexible dan mampu beradaptasi dengan lingkungan tersebut. Walaupun lingkungan tersebut awalnya tidak membuat diri kita nyaman. Sedangkan fluiditas akan membuat diri kita mempunyai semangat yang terus mengalir untuk menjalani kehidupan walaupun mempunyai masalah yang berat. 5. Kreatifitas dan kebebasan. Dalam Parkour kita bisa berkreasi untuk menciptakan gerakan atau menggabungkan beberapa gerakan dasar menjadi gerakan baru tergantung kreatifitas kita. Hidup pun begitu, kita harus kreatif sehingga bisa berguna dan bermanfaat dalam kehidupan. Selain itu, Parkour juga mengajarkan kita untuk bergerak bebas menuju kebebasan tanpa melawan aturan. Parkour menentang kompetisi Sebuah kampanye datang dari beberapa praktisi Parkour tentang menentang keras adanya kompetisi dan rival di dalam Parkour. Kompetisi tidak sesuai dengan filosofi dan nilai moral dari parkour yang mengutamakan kebebasan. Kompetisi hanya akan mendorong seseorang untuk mengalahkan orang lain yang disaksikan oleh penonton atau hanya akan menambah keuntungan oleh beberapa corporasi yang hanya mengambil keuntungan dari Parkour. Latihan Parkour bukan ditujukan untuk melawan atau mengalahkan orang lain. Parkour ditujukan untuk membantu orang lain sehingga manusia mempunyai cara berpikir moderasi (sederhana) dan memiliki ketahanan fisik yang lama. Parkour bukan olah raga ekstrem Banyak orang awam yang melihat video-video Parkour mulai beranggapan bahwa Parkour adalah olah raga ekstrem dan menggolongkannya dengan olahraga seperti skate board, bmx dan lainnya. Sehingga banyak orang yang nekat melakukan gerakan-gerakan berbahaya yang akhirnya berakibat pada cedera serius. Parkour tidak hanya berhubungan dengan nyali saja, tapi sangat berhubungan erat dengan pikiran matang, latihan fisik dan dan teknik yang terus menerus dilakukan. Gerakan-gerakan yang kita lihat melalui video seperti yang dilakukan David Belle dan anggota Yamakasi merupakan hasil dari sebuah latihan panjang selama belasan tahun. Mengembangkan dan menyebarkan parkour Saat ini Parkour mulai dikenal di seluruh dunia termasuk di Indonesia sendiri. Perlahan-lahan beberapa traceur yang mengerti akan filosofi dan teknik dalam Parkour mulai bertambah. Berkat pembelajaran dari beberapa informasi yang benar mengenai originalitas tentang parkour dari sumber-sumber terpercaya, lambat laun Parkour menjadi sebuah kebutuhan dan disiplin dalam setiap traceur yang memiliki pemahaman dalam jiwanya masing-masing. Pengetahuan seperti inilah yang harus disebarkan ke masyarakat luar dan memberikan edukasi yang benar tentang Parkour mulai dari sejarah dan filosofi yang terkait di dalamnya. Intinya adalah, Parkour bukan hanya melatih fisik saja. Parkour juga mencerminkan sebuah filosofi moral dengan nilai-nilai tersendiri. Bukan hanya sekedar sebuah olah raga, tapi juga sebuah seni. Dan yang paling penting Parkour adalah sebuah filosofi yang selalu dipakai semua orang setiap hari. Artikel ini ditulis oleh Brex (Traceur asal Malang) dan Bullseye (Traceur asal Jakarta)
Daniel Giovanni 