I recently received an interesting question from Zak Zabriskie. Zak is a student writing an essay for a school project and I thought I would share my answer here as well since it’s becoming more and more relevant as time goes on:
Would an increase in popularity of Parkour be beneficial or detrimental to the philosophy and fundamentals of Parkour?
I recently received a request via the contact form to assist with a research paper on Parkour. Matt Marble wrote to us:
I am doing a research paper on Parkour for a school project and was wondering if I could ask you a few questions about this topic:
1. Who founded Parkour?
2. When was it created?
3. Why was it created?
4. Where does it exist?
5. Why is it so popular?
6. What challenges has it faced?
7. How will the problems be fixed?
Thanks for the inquiry, Matt. I’m posting my answers here for the benefit of others and any comment others might wish to contribute.
