Parkour

The fundamentals of Parkour:

To sum up Parkour is directed perfectly from John Morrison (a skilled expert in parkour) in this video:

"It's basically working out your entire body, your wrists, your knees, your ankles, your shoulders, pretty much everything.  This type of intense training is a full body workout!  Imagine someone going into the gym doing the bench press over and over again, there just building up one muscle group.  There not conditioning there body to withstand any kind of punishment or abuse."

While having been around for sometime, parkour is still relatively new to the world of fitness and still is not accepted as a true foundation for fitness.  But when you get right down to it and study it for what its worth, Parkour is truly one of the most physical and rewarding activities a person can do! 

Advantages of Parkour:
-Build up every muscle group in your body through one workout
-Can avoid the people in the gym (the world is your playground)
-Gives you added strength and endurance
-Builds up your physical activity
-Ever changing, evolving.  there is NEVER a similar parkour workout
-Keeps you EXTREMELY focused on your task at hand
-Mind/body awareness

Disadvantages of Parkour:
-Probably the biggest disadvantage and ONLY one is that it can be extremely dangerous if taken for granted
-Have to be pretty well physically fit for it requires a lot of movement, motions, bending, stretching, jumping, hurling, etc.

Parkour is getting from Point A to Point B in the shortest amount of time possible.  Without letting anything stand in your way!  Many different physical activities are associated with parkour.  Some of the basic moves are kong vaults, side vaults, dash vaults, and wall climbs.  The level of skill is endless.  It all depends on your work effort and how much you sacrifice to reach your goal you set forth.