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Yes, yes, yes, Parkour — thanks for reminding me of the spelling, Tony — is a wild, wild, wild ride into the new ranges of human movement. Makes X-games movements seem trivial at best. The guy in the film is the most well-known Parkour ‘competitor’ (or ninja, depending on your mindset, I suppose) — based in France — check out a fascinating recent article in the New Yorker that covers him and his colleagues. I had posted a video to my blog a few weeks ago that mashed-up Pink Floyd (“We don’t need no education,…”) within a help the environment message. I think you saw it, Dan. It included the same Parkour movements.

On the side, I’ve been thinking about a blog post that uses Parkour as a metaphor for how our kids learn instinctively in this day and age (via technology) while also reminding all of us that such moves only happen through rigorous practice, building up moves little by little, pushing the extreme. See it as a learning metaphor on all fronts.

Thanks for posting the video, Dan. And the post itself. Cheers, Christian