The Journey to Understanding
Hello,
This is being written for a few reasons. The most important is to help others avoid the same hardships I have went through in the past few days. Also to try and explain how my reasoning went to try and help your reasoning.
Le parkour is something that is almost impossible to explain to others. You can tell them what it is but the discovery of its true meaning is something that must be found out by the person themselfs. You can only find out so much from another and in the end your gonna have to discover things on your own.
The first problem arised when I tried to look at Le Parkour from the perspective of a sport. The problem with this view point is that as a sport the purpose of Le Parkour would be to move as swiftly and gracefully as possible. If this is the case then we would be only running a race and the some of the movements would be useless and unneeded.
Next I tried from the view of a art. The problem of an art is that arts place creativity first. Which rules out the speed and directivness of Le Parkour.
Overall I have relized now that Le parkour is unique and can't be defined while using other sports or arts as a bearing and it can't be explained by others. Le Parkour is something that only you can explain to yourself.
In the end remember that things come as the come and forcing them ends up backfiring on yourself.
-JumpingJosh