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- -l e g a c y_REMAINS Captain
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 Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:08 am
What's a purist? It means I stick to the way I believe things should be. I believe that parkour should be learned outside. On real obstacles. Not in a gym, not in a "controlled environment". Because parkour is not about being controlled. Its about breaking free of the bars we've put around ourselves and our minds, about achieving the motion we were meant to learn in the real world. A gym can never teach you how it feels to have pavement scraping against your palms. A gym can never teach you how to see the world. The obstacles they create in these so called "parkour gyms" don't train your mind. They have one set way for you to get over them. And that's not the way I believe it should be. When I started training with one of my friends, we went to this back alley. There were a few fences and brick walls and dumpsters and little over hanging bars. He ran right up and moved over one of he walls. I couldn't do that. I tried and tried and tried and I couldn't. Then I stopped and I looked at the obstacle. I actually 'looked' at it. I found a different way over it, a way that worked for me. A gym can never teach that. There should never be a set parkour training method. Because by creating a method you just build up another wall, one that none of those cat leaps or vaults or flips will ever teach you to overcome. A wall around the freedom of your mind. This is why I call myself a purist. Because I train in the streets, in the place where it all began.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:24 am
Well I usually do parkour outside and crazy flips and stuff like that in the gym. Just sucks that we dont have a good gym here where I live (+ It has been closed for 3 months and opens 3rd of august). The first months of parkour I was only outside but when I found out stuff like palm flips and double flips I just had to go to gym.
So: parkour outside, freerunning inside smile
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- -l e g a c y_REMAINS Captain
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:33 am
For flips I usually practice at the park. The whole ground around the stuff there is this big sandbox basically. I just do flips on that. Sucks when you get sand in your eyes or mouth though haha ^^ That's where I learned how to butterfly twist and how to back flip on ground. I practiced on a trampoline at my house for a bit then moved to doing it at the park now I do it everywhere. I mean, there's stuff you can do at home to make sure you don't kill yourself. You can even buy your own mats. But I wasn't talking about a gym in general. I was talking about a specific "parkour" gym.
They're setting up gyms that do nothing but teach parkour and I think its gonna lose what parkour is about and turn it into some sort of huge media thing. Sort of like when skateboarding was done in the beginning for the thrill of it and then people started doing it because it was the 'cool' thing to do. It loses what its about. And parkour has more to lose then skateboarding did. But that's my belief. Others can go to parkour training gyms if they want. I'll stick to my old school methods ^^
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:42 am
I myself agree with OP, in that true parkour needs to be learned outdoors, and not contained. Sure, gyms can teach SOME useful things, and you can practice in safety, but gyms dont have any passion in them, like the real world.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:34 am
Lol im not realy sure what i am, i just find any good place to start train, weather its inside or outside, i train anywhere i think its good to do it xD, i never thought they could have a free running gym xD but i like train outside where no one can see u when u fall xD
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