While cruising the APK Forums I found this post from Frosti in response to Exo's provocative questions on "Death and Parkour" ...
When it comes to pk, everytime we go out and people see us there is inevitabley someone who tells us that we are going to get hurt, i remember quite well in Toronto a man telling me i was a "f***ing idiot" and pointing out a man in a wheelchair telling me that was how i was goign to end up. But the point they are missing is that we risk our lives everyday, we could be out fighting, doing drugs, throwing rocks at each others heads or any number of life endangering things, but we do parkour because we train to do it. As we train we better our abilities to perform movements safely and in control. So through pakrour we learn to control the danger we put ourselves under, rather than senselessly put ourselves in the face of death, we put ourselves in a position to control our lives. that's why it is stressed that one must only do things that one is ready for, so that they can remain in control. Parkour offers us a chance to truly live, to process the farthest extent of our lives rather than only looking on and watching it go. For the same reason that inner city school programs offer sports like boxing, so that kids can be in a controlled evironment rather than on the street where anything can happen. In that same line of thought we take the probability of danger and lower it by doing things we have practiced, trained, and prepared ourselves for.
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12-07-2005 06:24
sooo, youre saying if we train throwing rocks at eachother's head, then itll only improve living, rather than risk it?!??!
But ya, i read that too. Its a very good way to put it, and i will definately use that explanation in the future.
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12-07-2005 07:06
Good post by Frosti the Flowman! When concerned people [such as my grandma] express disapproval of what I do, I try to explain to them that you can get hurt doing anything. Driving, walking on the street, playing football. As with absolutely anything and everything, there is risk involved in parkour. And there have been a number of times that I'm 100% positive that my parkour training has allowed me to save myself from a number of trips and falls outside of when I'm training.
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12-07-2005 11:16
frosti the wiseman. man i wish i was better at philosophy. I guess i gotta go to china and PK the greatwall. nice words though. Some people definitely dont understand that its a discipline. But I think Pk is so good cause its every man's dream to run around free like a kid again.
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12-07-2005 12:55
yes exactly, when you practice parkour with a good level of control, actually keeps you more safe. Learn how to recover, how to land, roll, how to escape if needed, etc. Good post
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01-01-2007 11:33
this is interesting because my grandmother's freind was telling me on my trip to florida after she saw me doing a little pk that it was dangerous but my grandmother said that she thought it was cool and that i looked in control of my motion...shes been doing pk since the fifties...just kidding
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02-04-2007 21:24
i get this alot, not only with parkour. it really makes me mad! any sport is dangerous, you can injure yourself doing anything, you can die walking down the street! but does that mean we shouldnt? if we spend our whole lives in fear of pain, injury, or death, we wouldnt really "live".
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