Welcome to
my blog about parkour and freerunning, and about how you can bring it into the
sports clubs. First of all, here is a short definition of parkour and freerunning
for all of you who don’t know what it is…
PARKOUR AND FREERUNNING
Parkour is
a sports discipline using fluid movement to get
from one point to another through urban environment in the fastest and most
efficient way possible. Practitioners are called traceurs, and use running,
jumping, climbing and other movements which are suitable for the situation.
However, freerunning is an inclusive form of parkour and is like an acrobatic
and athletic way of movement. For freerunners, efficiency doesn’t matter, but
they express themselves by moving creatively in their environment. At the end
of the day, the border between this two disciplines blur and you can be both - a traceur and a freerunner.
Even if
both disciplines are trendy sports and getting more and more popular, they
don’t find their way into the regular sports clubs. Some practitioners say that
the clubs would limit the freedom and independence of the sport, but I believe
that there are a lot of advantages of bringing parkour and freerunning into
regular sports clubs, so this is the mission of this blog…
MISSION AND VISION OF THIS BLOG
The goal of
this blog is to promote the construction of parkour and freerunning in sports
clubs in order to open this unique discipline for a wide range of people and
especially younger children. In the next posts I’m going to show you how it could
work and what advantages a structured practice within a club has. To illustrate
my arguments, I’m going to use a lot of examples from my own experiences and
you should know who I am…
ABOUT ME
My name is
Jonas Müller and I have been a traceur since 2011. I started training for
parkour in my lovely community - and hometown - of Düsseldorf, Germany. Click
here for the community’s Facebook page. After
a while some friends and I founded a working group at our school to practice
parkour together. Then, when we had left school, we got the chance to become a
parkour-team within the sports club ‘Hellerhofer Sportverein e.V.’. The club
has been trying hard to develop the range of possibilities currently and today
there are two more groups in which we introduce and coach younger children in
parkour. Until now I’ve had amazing experiences as a parkour member and coach
of a sports club and want to share them with you through this blog…
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