Tag: parkour

So I finally realized why I always like Spiderman instead of the other superheroes.  Spiderman glides.  He tumbles.  He’s an acrobat.  He has grace and skill, and yet he’s still connected to the earth.

I just saw a program on the Discovery Channel about a new urban sport, free-running.  The folks they were profiling were runing around London, jumping over obstacles, scaling walls, jumping across roofs and down from buildings.

I suppose this comes from my own natural lake of grace and agility. I wish I could be that graceful.  I wish I had the ability to climb and jump around all life’s obstacles like that.  I guess it’s why I like riding my bicycle, because the addition of angular momentum allows me to be more smooth and graceful than I can be on my feet (skids across the pavement notwithstanding.)