Fit & Fun: Leap into the sport of parkour - The Seattle Times

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Fit & Fun: Leap into the sport of parkour - The Seattle Times Mar 15th 2012, 02:02 Fit & fun | As a kid, I would pretend that our living-room carpet was shark-infested, which made it necessary to leap from couch to coffee table to chair, and then use a standing lamp to vault to the safety of the kitchen's linoleum floor. The fun ended when I broke the lamp, but I guess it was a form of parkour. At its most basic form, parkour, with roots in a French word meaning "route," or "course," is about creatively moving from here to there, overcoming obstacles efficiently, testing limits — like a kid would do. At Parkour Visions, a nonprofit Queen Anne gym, adults and kids alike learn fundamental and creative movements and proper landing techniques. The gym, at 1210 W. Nickerson St., offers a range of classes for people of various abilities and ages. The first class is free. "We just want people to understand what beginning parkour actually looks like as most think it's this crazy roof-jumping thing," says executive director Tyson Cecka. "They can jump right into any of the basics classes or come to the Sunday first-time intro class." For more information, see parkourvisions.org/gym/ Fit & Fun is a weekly notice about active recreational opportunities in the Greater Seattle area. To suggest a future item, contact Richard Seven: rseven@seattletimes.com. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.

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