Parkour

At some point last year Ezra discovered parkour; I think it was through Minecraft. He started talking about it more and more, trying to explain it, and making up moves on the play structures at school. I would describe it as urban gymnastics, and if you search for it on YouTube you’ll find a bunch of videos that are pretty amazing.

Unfortunately, I’ve had some trouble finding a class for them to take. There’s a group that does free classes in parks for beginners each month and we did one of those a couple of months ago. The boys had a blast learning how to jump over fences and safely roll around. A couple of weekends ago we tried another class at a gym in San Jose. I thought there wasn’t enough instruction on how to do the moves correctly and I think parkour is really meant to be done outside, but the boys loved it. I didn’t take many pictures but I got a few of them doing wall jumps.

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We’re still on the lookout for a better class, but it was a fun morning!