These immediately-familiar media representations effectively communicate what Parkour looks like, but provide little insight into Parkour as a discipline. For the ten or so minutes we spoke, the practitioners behind drilled the same motion over and over though they grew tired and fatigued, they never stopped, and gave off a preternatural aura of focus. The superhuman images were enticing, yes, but I was more drawn in by the scene behind him. You may be familiar with some of them: in the opening minutes of Casino Royale (2006), Parkour co-founder Sébastian Foucan leaps, vaults, and climbs through a construction site with Daniel Craig in close pursuit in the much-anticipated video game Mirror’s Edge (2007), the player-character, part of a resistance to an oppressive regime, uses Parkour skills to traverse a futuristic skyline the popular video game franchise Assassin’s Creed has the player run, jump, climb, scale buildings, all to complete epic missions. He described Parkour as a means to travel quickly from point A to B – a standard definition – and gave a laundry list of media representations. An acquaintance – we were enrolled in beginning Greek together – spotted me as I walked by and tried to ask me to join On the other side, several students, took turns leaping over a low wall. I first encountered Parkour on a spring afternoon in 2012 I was walking home from a long day of classes and passed through a circular green partially girt by a moss-covered stone wall. As I have made my journey as a practitioner of each, I have often felt a connection in the mindset each discipline cultivates, and the sorts of lessons each imparts. I’ve trained Parkour for the past six years – about as long as I’ve been interested in Stoicism as practice. For such an end delivers one from toils and warfare, and from all scheming and adornment (Marcus Aurelius Meditations 4.51). And the short route is the natural, by which one says and does everything most soundly.
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