parkour

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to play a flash for you before giving my speech. It seems cool and amazing, it’s it? Who can tell me what it is. Yep, this sport is called parkour. You can see it in some movies or mv, such as Jingwumen2 and Ma donna’s mv Jump. In foreign countries, it’s more common to see youngsters playing this sport. But with the popularization of universal social websites, some videos of parkour come to Chinese youngsters. They can’t resist imitating them to catch others’ eye s. Once there was a time that my bro wanted to try this, as expected, my mom made an utmost effort to oppose. As expected, my bro tried it without my mom’s permission. But how to play it well. Parkour calls for qualities and the right value to play it.
Parkour comes from France, its French pronunciation is parkour.
What is parkour? Firstly, it happens in cities. As a matter of fact, most sports are being done on playground or athletic field, which are spacious and flat. However, parkour is absolutely different. It has a closely relationship with high buildings and large mansions. You may want to ask why they choose these tough places, because the object of parkour is to get from one place to anther using only the body and the objects in the environment. Although the obstacles can be anything in one’s environment, but the rails and public structures in urban areas are most suitable. Secondly, it emphasizes on fluid manner. Participants jump, vault and climb at a quiet fastest speed to move in any environment.
So to sum it, parkour is the art of moving through your environment using only your body and the surroundings to propel yourself.
Although parkour is an amazing extreme sport, only a minority of us can play it well. How to play it well, the first requirement is the qualities, including physical and mental quality.
As for physical quality, that is to say, first of all, you might as well be born with an excellent balance of body. The legs and arms are supposed to work together, otherwise you will encounter
trouble to get rid of this weakness. Then, you should have a great jumping skill, which is a special attribute for parkour, compared with jogging、swimming、badminton、soccer and so on. Because when the participants are doing parkour, they meet a lot of steps、walls、channels between two buildings, if they are not good at jumping, they may get their body injured. That is horrible.
As for mental quality. Courage and confidence are the key to behave yourself well. Have you ever played bungee jumping? That is an easy extreme sport. The courage is the only mental quality you must have. However, just a merely number of persons have tried that, for most people can’t overcome their fear. But parkour needs much more courage than bungee jumping, for you are not sure when and where the danger lies. And the more you are afraid and not concentrate on the environments, the more likely you may be in trouble. Confidence is also a must to face the music, not only parkour needs. If you are going to make it, you must believe in yourself.
The second requirement is the right value that inspiring you to play it. Some participants play parkour only to seek a feel--moment mental enjoyment. Some to show themselves off. But for real participants, parkour is just like Olympic games, higher、stronger、faster are the aim they try their best to achieve. For them, the value of parkour is to get over obstacles and challenge themselves to face the real world, only in this way, can you increasingly make progress and stick to it. Finally, you can make a success.
Remembering my bro, who have tried parkour? As expected, he gave up even within one minute after trying once. Because for one thing, he tried just for he thought it was cool; for another, he has a poor physical quality.
You see, not all people are suitable to play parkour. At least expect my bro.
Thank you, that’s all.。