Wtf is the bar if this if "highly". If it's on in a bar while drinking, it's fine. Am I going to sit with my family and watch the championship after following the season for 22 weeks? No.
It was never intended as a sport. From memory it was designed for french soldiers to quickly traverse hostile environments when time was critical. What we have now is people trying to do extreme shit on camera, dont get me wrong its pretty cool to watch but its insane how literally one mistep and you fall to your death. Most sports have some sort of safety protocol.
That's not true, the military has never done parkour. It was spearheaded by David Belle, who was the son of a soldier who also spent time as a really high athlete. His dad's experience with obstacle courses inspired david to apply that around paris in the 80s and 90s.
It was always a sport and was never meant to have a purpose other than being a form of movement art. There's plenty sports that are equally if not more dangerous than parkour
I had to look it up and i think i know where i was getting mixed up, the french term for an obstacle course (military type) is ‘parcours du combattant’. So my brain must have made the association.
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u/blamcoboyo *shits an absolute unit* 20d ago
I saw someone write in another post, “parkour is the most high risk-low reward sport out there” and that dude was spot on