Entry #6 Fly HIgh

So recently my boyfriend went to a parkour tournament in Las Vegas for his job. If you guys don't know what parkour is, its basically a sport that involves negotiating through obstacles involving flips, jumping, climbing, and of course running.

If you guys saw the video above it's  mind blowing how people can move their body. right? Kurt is so passionate with what he does that it made me look up it's history and how it became a sport.

It all started because of George Albert,  the founder of parcours. He was an officer of the  French navy before World war 1 and was a victim of a volcanic eruption. This experience lead to him, believing that being an athlete involved courage, skill, and selflessness. He travel around the world studying  indigenous people and their movement. When he came back home, he developed  new methods to exercise by using what he had learned in his journey. He is one of the founders of obstacle course training.

Modern Parkour

was developed  by the Yamakasi group in the 1980's using George Albert tainting method mixed with gymnastics. It is a way to express yourself with movement with in your environment
and at the same time encouraging  concentration, quick thinking, flexibility and Discipline.