Topic: So my wife...

[Ryan A. Vetter]

My wife has watched me do parkour, and watched videos of it, but she herself wants to do it. She is 220 lbs., 5' 3", and 22 years old,; she claims she is in absolutely no shape to even begin parkour. Now I've personally have encouraged her to begin training, "I can't do the things you do." I've told her about Gorilla PK, "I doubt there's people my size doing let alone attempting parkour." So now I'm going to forcably show her Gorilla PK, and the support for people of such size.

She's plenty strong and flexible if you know what I mean , she's got everything she needs to get going she just needs to know she can have a larger support base to motivate her to do it.

So here's where you guys can help her, and me by association. I don't need life stories, just anecdotes, results, and positive reinforcement.

[Cory Finch]

Hi there.  I'm 280 on a good day, and I've been doing parkour for a few months now.

[Donald Morrow]

Hey Don't doubt yourself for a second that you can't do parkour. Anybody can do parkour, and have fun doing it. I started training early in the spring, and I was at 290 LBS. It was very basic things, balance on curbs, rolls, small precisions onto parking curbs, etc. that I started with. Then I progressed into some simple vaults. Just move at your own pace, and enjoy all that you do.

And as of right now, I weigh in at a little over 230 LBS.

[Kyle Rudolph]

Yeah bro. Anything is possible. I was around 290-300 lbs. when I started training. I weigh in now around 190-200 lbs. atm. Cutting down to 180.

Everyone can do parkour. I mean EVERYONE.

[Ryan A. Vetter]

Here's a kicker, she likes being a pretentious smart-ass so she asks, "Can anybody with a bad heart practice parkour?"

She apparently suffers from heart palpitations, symptom of anxiety, she truly believes she can feel it, when in fact it's just an increased heart rate.

[Donald Morrow]

You need to let her know that parkour isn't just jumping over a gap between two buildings, 40ft in the air, or backflips and such. Parkour is moving from point a to point b as creatively as possible. If your idea and/or limitation of creativity is balancing along a curb followed by a roll, then that is perfectly fine. Then, as she grows more accustomed to increase movement, I'm sure she'll start to try new things.

[gravity]

You need to let her know that parkour isn't just jumping over a gap between two buildings, 40ft in the air, or backflips and such. Parkour is moving from point a to point b as creatively as possible. If your idea and/or limitation of creativity is balancing along a curb followed by a roll, then that is perfectly fine. Then, as she grows more accustomed to increase movement, I'm sure she'll start to try new things.

dont you mean efficently as possible