#65Parkour Power to the People
By Peter Bell | posted on 15 June 2009 | 7 comments
There is a movement, a mass movement, running free through the cities and towns, effortlessly vaulting, climbing or balancing on almost any obstacle in their path. Movements executed with amazing power, speed and grace.
This is parkour. A revolution in the streets, sports halls and city walls:
Battling against anxiety, boredom and movement suppression: "walk don't run", "no talking", "no ball games" and definitely no fun.
Parkour can liberate the power of youth and we have proof...
The disaffected become self corrected and redirected. Confidence is built, skills developed and fears faced.
Apathy & aggression turns into Energy & Progression!Fatness turns to fitness and youth crime is replaced by training time.
The journeys, the achievement, personal bests and group success, all levels of skill and fitness are welcome.
Gender, ethnicity and post code area are irrelevant. Respect your self and others. Build bridges. Make friends and push each other on. "lets all get stronger together". No one is left behind.
Free up movement, free up minds, redefine what's humanly possible.
Though progress has been made there is so much more to do. You have to move to improve...and parkour's momentum is building everyday.
So ask yourself"what part can I play in this revolution?"
Pass the message to everyone you meet, explain, demonstrate, repeat.
Do presentations at schools and community groups, set up parkour clubs, vault, balance, climb whenever you have time. Network with friends and campaign as a group.
Free up movement.
"use your environment to keep fit""you're not too old to jump around!""Break out of social conditioning and take that short cut" "Move the way you want to in public "
Tell your family, your friends, your sons and daughters. Help them be the healthiest and stealthiest they could possibly be.
Spread the word, let parkour be seen and heard. You are a liberator of human movement!
You have a month to make a difference. This is your blog now - post here your pledges and your progress.
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About the Author : Peter Bell7 Comments:
Im going to start being more direct and not going the long way round! As long as its safe and im not on private property I dont care what other people might think ....they might even learn something ;-)
By 
Unknown, at
1:07 pm, June 15, 2009
'You must be a light unto yourself', as a wiser man than I once said.
By Dan, at
7:39 pm, June 15, 2009
beautiful post...
By Arteba, at
7:38 am, June 16, 2009
Mate, this is great post!!
By James, at
10:06 pm, June 16, 2009
Ive been spreading the word through many different channels and I'm getting a lot of positive feedback.
I have heard from people in the UK, Europe, North and South America, Students are telling their teachers, people are teaching their friends and family. Youth workers and local government workers are all spreading the word.
Keep up the good work parkour people!
Tell me your success stories and what you plan to do next. I will feature it my next blog.
Thanks
looking forward to hearing from you.
By Peter Bell, at
7:19 pm, June 17, 2009
Remember together our combined actions make a difference, even if you have made a small difference I want to hear about it. If you have gone out and told only one new person: I want to hear about it...but do aim high!
By Peter Bell, at
7:23 pm, June 17, 2009
It might be a bit late to post something here but I wanna say something:
Everytime I'm cat-balancing in front of people they always think or even say "what is he doing?" thinking I'm weird or something. And I must say that it was kind of troubling me in my training, made me loose my focus.
But not anymore!! Now I just keep doing it with all my focus and without caring about what people think, and it feels really good. Because I feel my body likes it.
Next time i'll ask them to try ! If they only knew what it brings to the body... Plus it's fun !
By 
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12:15 am, July 07, 2009
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