Hi everybody it's Mat, this is my first video of FAQ
That is, a video dedicated to frequently asked questions about Parkor
Just a few days ago i create a post on my page where i asked to you to ask some questions about Parkour
And then I'd selected the questions in groups of three to create videos like this
The 3 first questions were :
Do you need a previous athletic preparation to start training in Parkour?
Do you?
Flips are still Parkour or it's something else?
And the last one were : There is a racommended age or height to do Parkour?
Here's my answers
The first question is one of the most frequent, and it's the one about the prerequisites to do Parkour
You are asking so much about it, do i need some previous exeperiences or i can start with zero experience?
The answer is : NO.
In my opinion you don't need previous experience in other sports
And that is because this discipline does nothing but go to help the practitioner to rediscover all those movements...
that we do not do more , not because we are not capable , but because our society has become sedentary, and it's addicted to technology
and nowdays our society do not need to jump, run, climb or crawl to live anymore...
So, anyone can do parkour from zero, because the only requirement is the erect stature
beeing a human kind, having two arms, two legs and the training do the rest for agility, coordination and strenght
obviously have experience in other sports helps , anything goes
Sometimes people who have been practicing martial arts , gymnastics are especially brought in Parkour . Even dance sometimes .
For exemple, some years ago a guy come to train with me and at his very first training he learned to back flip from a wall...How? I Dunno!!
When I asked him witch sport i practiced before, he replied, " I only did football school "
Therefore also depends on you , it depends on your character , from the experiences that you have had , depends on mobility that you have ...
And from whitch kind of conception you have about your mobility, and it is based on this that you will learn things sooner or later.
Like i just said, if you already had previous experiences it helps, but it dosen't mean that you can't start training in Parkour with no experiences
Like i did
The second question were about Flips, are they part of Parkour or it's something else like Freerunning?
My answer is particular, because in my opinion, Parkour and Freerunning are a different view of the same thing
it is immaterial that in Parkour you do vaults instead of the flips and for freerunning is the opposite.
Parkour it's called also Art of movement (ADD) and flips are movement too
It's true that they are usually used for aesthetic reasons, for a scenic and spectacular reasons is indifferent
The fact that I do not do many flips , because I'm not yet able, or maybe i don't like it
it does not affect my opinion on what Parkour and freerunning is.
It's a personal opinion, the fact that i choose to use vaults instead of flips in my traning sessions dosen't means i do parkour and not Freerunning
I repeat, they are the same thing but with a different view
The common description of Parkour is: Moving from A to B in the fastest and smartest way as possible
is the same for Freerun, maybe it haves only one difference, it has more movements in middle air.
Here's the last questions...
There is a racommended age or height to do Parkour?
The answer is just the same of the first question, NO.
Because, there's several different Monkeys species in the world, and all of them can climb and jump
Whether they are a gorilla , a macaque or something else
It is the same for us , who are descended from them
Obviously we have some more things and things in less
I wanted so much to have the tail still , now I would have more balance and I could have done better Dragon ball costplay
But i can't...Thus better addressing this question...
You don't need a particular age, or height to start with Parkour...
It's true that if you start at 90, you can't pretend to have the same agility of a 20 or 16 years old practitioner
But, in my opinion
Unless someone you've never practiced sports in his life and is already at an advanced age...
He can start but it's harder to obtain a good level
But a teenager or a young man, It should not even ask the question, because certainly he has the physical characteristics to train from zero without problems.
so you need to understand How to develop your training session
You have to train up your body
And that no matter if you are six feet tall or 4 , or if you are ten years old or thirty
So, relax, don't questions yourself so much because it's so easy to start with Parkour
You only need to try, to play, and discover what is Parkour for you, what is that movement for you
And consequently all the rest will be easier
Thank you all for the questions, and for the attention you gave to my videos
See you soon with new Parkour FAQs, and Parkour tutorials
Have a nice training
