TRWhy are you talking to me
I'm talking to you because you're talking to me, and because unlike you, I respect other people enough to want to have a conversation with them.
AniasDave you've said parkour is about following one's own individual path, yet you then state fun isn't a good enough reason to do parkour. Why should I have follow a set philosophy? Because the founders say so? That's a bit of a double standard there. You tell someone parkour is about finding your own path yet demean it when it doesn't fit your criteria or the founders. Hell if parkour wasn't fun I don't think any of us would be doing it.
It's not a double standard. Saying that a path isn't Parkour does not demean it, and saying that a person doesn't practice Parkour doesn't demean them. This is the point I'm making, that we shouldn't choose our path based on what that path is called. We should go our own way, make progress in the directions we want to make progress in. Only after we're doing that, and only if we want to talk about it, do we need to work out what labels fit our practice. That's the key point. We change our label to reflect our practice, we don't change our practice to reflect our label.
Do what you want to do. If it's Parkour then call it Parkour, but if what you want is not Parkour then why would you want to label yourself as practicing something you don't value?
As the phrase goes, "we play, but play seriously." Parkour is fun, but it is fun because it is useful and practical, because it provides real benefit in a noticeable way.
