The sport of parkour, for the uninitiated, is essentially urban running: the idea is to sprint through a challenging medium – for instance, a construction site – in impressive fashion. Players leap from rooftop to rooftop, or slide across horizontal I-beams, or otherwise endanger life and limb in awesome ways. The obscure sport received exposure last winter when it made an appearance in James Bond, and parkour videos briefly proliferated.
Parkour has failed to achieve mainstream acceptance, however, due partly to its lack of a real objective: there are no goals, or bases, or time limits. Participants run around like extremely athletic chickens with their heads cut off until either they get tired or break a femur. Perhaps in an attempt to render their pastime familiar to Western palettes, then, the St. Petersburg Parkour Association presents Parkour Ball, the bastard child of soccer and gymnastics. If you didn’t value your health, you might be tempted to play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EAxQbJTSdY
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