I'm Michael Jacobsen from Greater Vancouver and this is where I share my thoughts. I am testing Ghost as a blog platform for Marketing purposes, but feel free to subscribe and click around.
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As well as having a world-class indoor training facility, there are lots of great spots to train parkour outside for free, in and around Vancouver, BC. This is my list of the top 7 places I recommend you visit, if you're in the region and want to do
Parkour can simply be defined as moving with obstacles but there are many different styles of training that can be hard to make sense of. Without being too pedantic, I like to say there are 5 types of parkour: traditional, freestyle, adventure, ninja, and fitness. #1 - Traditional Parkour This
As an action sport aficionado, I find it interesting to compare how different sports shape people. For example, rockclimbers have freakishly strong upperbodies, martial artists have a quiet confidence, and surfers have their own kind of glow. Some sports, like tennis, are known to provide a strong mix of coordination,
Parkour has a strong philosophical core with its own values but, much like the "unwritten" codes of surfing, there is no official codification. Similar to the five tenets of Taekwondo or the eight principles of Bushido, I'd say there are seven virtues of Parkour - because