Prompt Cast
The History and Practice of Parkour
TLDR Parkour originated in 1902 as a French military training method and has since evolved into a discipline focused on efficient movement and overcoming obstacles. It requires skill and strength, can be dangerous, but now has more training facilities available for safe practice.
Timestamped Summary
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Parkour is a discipline that has been around since at least 1902, when a French naval officer named Lieutenant George Herbert is believed to have started it.
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Parkour originated from Lieutenant George Herbert's observation of locals and Europeans fleeing a volcanic eruption in 1902, which inspired a French military training method called the natural method, and eventually led to the creation of parkour by David Bell and his friend Sebastian Foucault in 1988.
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By the late 90s, there was already a rift in the Parkour community between purists who believed in efficient movement and those who wanted to take it to the next level.
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Parkour is all about using obstacles to increase efficiency and gain momentum, while free running allows for movement backwards and includes aesthetic movements.
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Parkour can be very dangerous, even for those with training, and it requires a high degree of skill and strength, but there are now more training facilities available to practice in a safe environment.
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Parkour moves include the cat leap, which involves jumping a gap between two parking decks and using momentum to pull oneself up, and the roll, which is used to absorb shock when jumping from a higher to a lower surface.
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Parkour moves include the con vault, precision jump, speed vault, and various other Jim Cotta-like moves, and there are gyms, academies, and online resources available to learn and practice parkour.
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The hosts discuss their personal goals to learn and practice parkour, including attempting a successful con leap, and express their excitement for the day when they can surprise each other with their parkour skills.
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The hosts conclude their discussion on the grossest injuries they've ever heard of and announce the winner, Matt from Leeds, England, who endured having his intestines come out and be put back in by hand, and mention that they would take him up on his offer to ride on the fire truck if they ever visit Leeds.
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