Philosophy of Parkour for Beginners

Most people are introduced to parkour via TV or movies. They see Daniel Craig as James Bond tearing up a construction site in his pursuit of a bomb-maker with insane parkour skills. Or they see a sick chase scene in a parking garage that involves heavy use of parkour stunts.

Beginners imagine parkour as a series of increasingly high-stakes stage fights.

These scenarios are admittedly cool applications of many of the skills you’ll develop through practice of parkour. But they miss one of the core philosophical points of parkour.

Parkour is non-competitive.

This isn’t just …