Hey everyone!

So when I was young I used to do a lot of parkour and free running and been interested in getting back into it again casually over last few months. Only issue is it's been best part of a decade since I've done it and I'm not as active as I used to be to say the least.

I tried a simple Lazy Vault the other day and almost pulled a muscle and a while back tried a kong and messed up my wrists. Aside from stretching can anyone recommend me any advice to build up my joints and such so I don't cause any damage?

Thank You

Hey,

I am writing my Master Thesis at Utrecht University about how Parkour and freerunning are related to resilience and stress levels of people during the current Pandemic. Could you please help me out by filling out the survey below? Your help is much appreciated and will increase our kowledge of Parkour and Freerunning.

https://survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_3lAWbGWYemcz0mV

Please feel free to share the link with your communities and on social media! The survey will only be up for a few more days so please be quick ;)

The survey is available in English, German and Dutch, and as it is shared with 4 other students there are some other aspects in there as well (it still usually takes not much longer than 15 minutes).

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

I can't practise Parkour due to the distance of the closest schools and teachers but I already been jumping over hurdles in the steeplechase in track and field for years and I do run across obstacle courses used by military for airsoft guns, paintball, and other MilSim. Recently I started doing gymnastic exercises at home and the local gym has a rock climbing platform as well as long ropes for climbing to a ceiling. In addition I have a special machine simulating walking on stairs as well as living in a 2 story house which of course means I use the stairs to exercise daily. I also do play around skateboarding for years and recently started taking it seriously.

Will all these help with Parkour in the mean time while I'm awaiting for the local scene to improve since I can't take classes due to distance?

Self defense instructors often complain that Hollywood screwed up people about how dangerous street violence from showing muscular get knocked out in one hit to portraying weapon disarms as easy as 123.

So I have to wonder if movies give people the wrong impression about not just how difficult obstacle course movements is but even how difficult something as simple as jumping over a bench is?

I'm not exactly in shape to do parkour but I am athletic to run miles. When I was trying to clean my dad's car I tried to climb to the top from the front and ended up calling down aftering climbing to scrub the window and bruised my knees.

I thought it'd be a piece of cake because action movies always show climbing over the trunks of front of cars in a chase scene but I was surprised how difficult it was.

They always show Bruce Willis jumping over knee level objects like he's a steeplehurdler or Kate Beckinsale landing on the ground from a window with ease and effort. But in addition to the car washing incident, my cousin tried to use ladders to pick up a baseball. Despite it being supposedly secure (me holding the ladder, the ladder on a stable wall of a building, etc), he took at least 7 minutes climbing up and down. He had difficulty doing something basic as making the next step and grabbing the next section and he told me it felt like he strained his arms from lifting weights.

Mind you this is just climbing a ladder. And don't get me started how Assassin's Creed or other video games showed hurling yourself over objects like its easy as riding a bike or how anime shows somersaults and other feats like nothing more than stretching warmups.

So my question, much like how action movies screw up people for expecting one hit finishers, has popular media screwed up people about acrobatics, parkour like movements, and climbing over objects?