<p>Came upon a youtube video of a school friend doing this new sport.</p>
<p>Are any of your kids doing this?</p>
<p>Even though it requires very advanced athletic ability, I’d hardly call it a sport.
More of a fad. And one that peaked about five years ago.</p>
<p>Ha, ha! We are way behind down here in the south. Our friend who was on the video is an exceptional athlete, but the international nerds are also participating in it, so I didn’t know if it was a cultural thing.</p>
<p>All I could think of was, Where is your helmet!</p>
<p>To address your question more directly, it never really caught on here locally or anywhere else in the US that I know of (maybe big urban areas?). Then again, we’re probably as far behind the times as you are. So I’ll keep an eye out for any clubs forming.</p>
<p>I have a hipster friend that is (was?) really into it. We used to have long debates over whether it qualified as a sport.</p>
<p>It doesn’t ;)</p>
<p>My D does it. It’s intense – and does require advanced athletic ability and fitness. Why isn’t it a “sport”? :-)</p>
<p>^^ ditto S2^^
Special shoes. Club in New Haven CT. Pretty cool activity. Not a recognized sport, but a really fun hobby.</p>
<p>Wow, didn’t mean to stir up a debate about whether it’s a sport. I’ll call it an activity.</p>
<p>The first youtube video the kids were showing was a guy running up a wall. Pretty cool.</p>
<p>Next thing I know, there’s our friend jumping from one concrete piling to another, with nothing but sidewalk below him.</p>
<p>He’s American, but the friends who got him into it are Muslim and Asian kids, so I didn’t know if this was a cultural phenomenon.</p>
<p>Yeah I think it started in France.</p>
<p>Try searching Youtube for “Russian Ninja, Parkour in Latvia”. That was the first YT parkour video I saw (and is still one of the better ones, IMO).</p>
<p>I’m more interested in it than Sapling. Not doing it. Watching it.</p>
<p>My son likes Parkour. All the signs were there when he was about 2 :)</p>
<p>There’s an indoor Parkour gym in Seattle, and I think it’s quite popular.</p>
<p>Casino Royale opened with an elaborate parkour/free running scene.
[Parkour</a> and Free Running - Free Running and Parkour in Cities](<a href=“http://adventuretravel.about.com/od/hikingwalking/qt/Parkour_Free_Running.htm]Parkour”>http://adventuretravel.about.com/od/hikingwalking/qt/Parkour_Free_Running.htm)</p>
<p>When I was in my alternative high school in the 70’s we used to do some similar stuff with two friends who were male/taller- but I decided with my visual perception issues that unless
I wanted to break something that I better stop it.</p>
<p>As long as there is no damage to the public and private property, parkour “athletes” are welcome in my neck of the woods. Graffiti “artists” - not so much…</p>