Parkour Some More!

Daredevils Defying Gravity in Seattle

Several months ago I blogged about Parkour, I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one interested in this subject. I think this is a base human activity that needs to be relearned, taught in schools, police academies and military bootcamps. There is an unexplainable 'connection' made when this is done right that can only be beneficial. Add to that the obvious and possibly unknown health benefits and you can't go wrong.

"Some local daredevils live by the way of "parkour", which involves gliding through the world with no wasted movement. The movements, which involve running and launching, may look like some daring stunts to the outsider, but each one is carefully calculated."

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If You Believe in Evolution

Do you ever wonder what our current lifestyles are doing to the evolutionary line? The chemicals we've ingested over the decades changing our physical features along with our body's chemistry, not to mention the combinations of foodstuffs provided to us changing our DNA. What about our sedentary lifestyle? We pay money to walk on treadmills and lift weights without work, yet most of us today couldn't carry out the average work day of 100 years ago, much less the strength diligence and stamina to stay alive during the trek across the continents. I can remember playing when I was a child, running and jumping. I can still remember a vague feeling that I was meant to do this sort of thing, that if I just DID and didn't THINK I could fairly fly. Years (decades) later I witness 'Freerunning' and that thought came flooding back to my memory, "I was RIGHT!" And of course I was, these are the very abilities that brought us from where we were (bottom of the food chain) to where we are (the top of the food chain).




Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.
Counting test
Number memory test

Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists. Click Here for the full BBC story


Tuesday December 4, 2007 - 12:17am (PST)