Overcoming obstacles in the city, parkour has become popular among young people
Longhoo.com reported that when you are looking for a gate to go through a wall, a young man rushes straight to the wall, jumps up, grabs the edge of the wall with his hands, and then climbs up to the top of the three-meter-high wall with a stomp on his toes and then disappears to the other side of the wall in a backflip - just like that in martial arts movies. disappeared on the other side of the wall - the flying eaves in martial arts movies is just like that, isn't it?
This is now quietly popular among some young people in Nanjing extreme sports - "parkour", the English name "Parkour", meaning that the body with the Parkour", meaning the body over obstacles. In the long vacation, these young people's wonderful training let the reporter appreciate the charm of "parkour".
From a single person to build a "parkour" forum
When I met him yesterday afternoon, Yong was practicing parkour with his teammates, doing handstands on the fence, somersaults on the bar, and backflips in place. "I've been good at sports since I was a kid, and in junior high school I was the school's double champion in shot put and long-distance running. Then I watched a movie introducing parkour and was instantly hooked, so I started practicing parkour by imitating the main character's movements." Ah Yong told reporters that in May 2007 he began to practice parkour, at first he searched for parkour videos on the Internet to watch, at that time, Ah Yong night work in the bar, during the day to find a place to practice in the neighborhood where he lives. "In the beginning, I practiced jumping up and down stairs, flipping over railings, and turning the bar." Ayon began practicing without his family's knowledge. Because many of the movements of parkour have to be accomplished with the support of the palms of the hands, the skin on Ah Yong's palms is very rough, and the average person has at most four calluses, but he even has calluses on his knuckles. One day his parents found their son's calluses on his hands and were heartbroken.
In 2007, there were very few people practicing parkour in Nanjing, and there was very little information about parkour on the Internet. A person to practice some loneliness, A Yong created the first parkour forum in Nanjing - "TNT parkour club", two months time A Yong contacted four people in Nanjing to play parkour, five of them in the Zhongshan Mausoleum scenic area to organize the first The five of them organized their first "street brushing" - a collective outdoor parkour session at the Zhongshan Mausoleum Scenic Area. Go back to A Yong will be the day of the video uploaded to the forum, his forum on the Internet soon caught fire, many people through the forum to stay on the QQ number to find A Yong, hoping to parkour together, the team is gradually growing. "TNT" is already the largest parkour team in Nanjing, with more than 100 main team members and more than 500 registered team members. Not long ago in Beijing, China's first parkour competition, A Yong and his teammates won the group third and individual fourth good results, become the first in Jiangsu Province to join the China parkour league parkour group.
A flip action to practice more than 300 times
The difficulty of urban sprinting is **** to see, seemingly easy action behind the painstaking efforts. Ah Yong said, "Parkour has 38 basic movements, including vajra jump, cat flap, balance stand and so on". We can only ride around the city if we have a solid foundation. Each leap between roofs takes three months of simulated practice before it can be practiced; each flip move must be practiced at least 300 times or more. Therefore, A Yong and his teammates will first practice indoors, starting from the most basic movements, "We will do enough protection, there are mats, coaches on the side to protect. When you have confidence, you can go out and practice." They have been to many places, Xinjiekou, Xianlin, Gulou, Fuzimiao have left their footprints.
Just after finishing, Ayon climbed a 4-meter-high wall with a wall-stepping move, jumped down after a slight adjustment, and rolled on the ground and was fine. From such a high place to leap down, A Yong is how to avoid letting themselves fall and get hurt? Ah Yong told reporters that in the air when he was ready to land. By landing on the ground and rolling quickly after the collision, Ayon converted the force through his body like a wave, converting the vertical force into a horizontal forward force.
There are a lot of foreigners in the parkour crowd
Parkour is a combination of many elements of Chinese kung fu, taekwondo, gymnastics and other sports. Taekwondo's spinning kicks, gymnastics flips and other difficult maneuvers are reflected in parkour. Nanjing "parkour family" can be said to be hidden dragons and crouching tigers, specializing in a variety of sports are a lot of people, the team members are all equipped with "great skills", each other to communicate, a group of "sports cells" developed people! The group of people who have developed "sports cells" can improve the level of parkour very quickly.
Technical guide Tao Tao, eight years old, began practicing taekwondo so far; physical education graduates of the Liang practice is a short track track and field, the explosive force is amazing, more than 2 meters high, inclined degree of 90 degrees or so of the wall, he can rely on his legs to run up; fat bears have many years of experience practicing street dance, the body's flexibility is very good, inverted stand-ups is his strong suit.
Tao Tao's girlfriend is also a fan of extreme sports, in the South China Airlines graduate school, she is the "Nanjing TNT parkour" agent, responsible for liaising with a variety of performance activities.
"We probably have the most foreigners among the parkour teams in China." said Yong. Yong said his team includes several parkour runners from the U.S. and the U.S. Alex is from the Netherlands and is a senior in Nanjing. "Alex, who is from the Netherlands and is a senior in Nanjing, told reporters that he used to be the only one who played parkour in his hometown, but he didn't realize that there were so many runners with similar interests in Nanjing, and it felt so good to run together. It's a great feeling."
Jenny Wu is one of the few female members of TNT. Jenny, who majored in medicine in college and rightfully became the team doctor for TNT, told reporters that courage is important in practicing parkour! "Everyone has fear, but the truth is that the more nervous you are, the more you can't let go of your body and the easier it is to get hurt."
Purple butterfly is last December to start parkour, she is now able to do monkey jump, grab ankle jump, cat walk, ape jump, although the movement difficulty is not as good as the male team members, but it has been very windy.
Want to build a parkour museum so that more people participate
Ayon told reporters that in the eyes of outsiders, parkour is very "cool", but for the parkour family, the most important thing is to learn to control, "do not flaunt it, with your own speed through the city." In the face of people's lack of understanding, Ah Yong prefers to see parkour as a philosophical experience in action. "Parkour is a philosophy that explores human potential to inspire the limits of the body and mind, and parkour will make you a strong man with a firm mind and a strong body." Ayon told reporters that he is happy with every successful new move (such as flips) and feels a little stronger.
Parkour began to become popular, and more and more people knew that Ayon played parkour, and more people approached him to shoot commercials and participate in performances. For this reason, he specially selected the backbone members of the club to form a parkour performance troupe. Ah Yong hopes to open the first parkour hall in Nanjing, "the hall has 'strange' parkour equipment, training equipment, so that more young people who love parkour systematically and safely learn parkour, but also allows more people to understand and accept parkour as a sport." The parkour player who flies over the wall
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Zhou Mohao, male, born in 1988, founded the Nanjing TNT Parkour Club, known as the first person in Nanjing parkour.
By Hu Yinghua
The "wild child" who jumps up and down
"I especially like to play and challenge the limits. Like having a talent for sports, I was good at sports since I was a child, and when I participated in the school sports games in secondary school, I swept the championships of all the events I took part in." Ayon said proudly.
Ah Yong loved jumping up and down from a young age, not a minute to spare, and he stepped all over the roof of his hometown. He likes to imitate the martial arts action in the movie, Jet Li and Jackie Chan's movie never get tired of watching, if he sees a certain action that he thinks is cool, he will study for half a day, and he will learn to do it himself, and he can play a lot of tricks in the school's bar, double bar, and the basketball hoop. Yong was interested in martial arts and taekwondo, but because his family stopped him, he never received formal training.
After coming to Nanjing with his parents a few years ago, because they were busy at work, Ah Yong was more free, "imitating and creating a lot of his own moves, doing handstands on fences and somersaults on the bar with ease".
April 2007, Ah Yong watched a video on the Internet, only to know that he was messing around with these actions turned out to have a special term - parkour, people around the world to play this kind of extreme sports, the domestic Beijing and Chengdu and other places there are specialized clubs.
Long practiced alone is too lonely, Ah Yong learned such information, can not wait to find people to play with him, so he set up the first parkour club in Nanjing - TNT.
Ah Yong said, at that time, Nanjing play parkour is still very few people, two months before contacting the four people. The first "brush street" (collective outdoor parkour) organized by the five was at the Zhongshan Mausoleum scenic spot, where they performed some of their best moves and attracted a lot of people. After the video was uploaded to the Internet at night, it immediately caught fire, and many people found Yong through the contact information he left on the Internet, hoping to parkour together, and the TNT team gradually grew.
Nanjing parkour first
Ayong was originally a bar lighting technician, working at night, during the day to find a place to practice in the neighborhood where they live. In the beginning, he practiced jumping up and down stairs, flipping over railings and turning the bar, basically practicing for more than three hours every day.
"Parkour is an indispensable part of my life, no matter how sunny or rainy it is, I have to find a place to practice." Front flips, back flips, vajayjay jumps, each move has to be practiced a number of times, and you may be able to do it in two or three days, but it takes two or three months to become proficient at it. "After learning each move, there is a special sense of accomplishment and a feeling that I have become stronger." Ayon said.
After the establishment of the club, Ayon will also have to take on the role of coach in the twice-weekly group training, "We can train anywhere, as long as there are obstacles and a pair of non-slip sneakers can start, but because there are many beginners who are not very good at the foundation, we will rent the gym for safety reasons and practice with the help of the mats in the gym. "
Ayon, who is known as the "first person in Nanjing parkour" and whose club is listed as the top parkour team in China, was invited to perform at the launch of a brand of car in Changsha, which was well-received by the audience, and then took part in a number of commercial performances.
Dangerous but not risky
The difficulty of the city crossing is obvious to all ****, and behind the seemingly easy action are hard work. Yong showed reporters his hands, each with three rows of neatly visible callus scars, even on the knuckles.
"They really don't want to die!" That's what most people who saw Ayon and the others perform would say. Ah Yong pulled up his pants leg and pointed to the injury at his knee, "Look at me here, it's a scratch from yesterday when I was going over the wall, a superficial injury, nothing serious." Then pointed to the swelling of the ankle, said, "here can be a disaster, March 8 in the Wutai Mountain do 'high forward backflip' when landing on the grass stepped on the stone, sprained. To the hospital took a film, see a dozen doctors, all said to take medicine and drip will be good, but it has not been good. Not long ago went to see a Chinese medicine practitioner, only to say that it was dislocated, after he pushed and reset, only after the good."
It is because of the foot injury, failed to participate in the first parkour international open competition held in Beijing on March 26, Ah Yong regret not and the national parkour masters competition, he is confident that if the competition "at least can guarantee the top three".
The more difficult parkour is, the more dangerous it is. In order to avoid injuries, Yong has to simulate every move until he is very skilled before practicing outdoors.
"I'm not blind or risky, I haven't done the action before, before the action I will carefully observe every stone and every angle in the vicinity, and think ahead of time where to hold the hand, how to land."
The reporter learned that in their circle, taboo mention "injury" and "fracture" and other words. They are well aware that this is a dangerous sport, but the sport brings a sense of pleasure and fulfillment, and always drive them to defy all odds to continue to surpass themselves.
To be a professional parkour player
Today, Yong's team has grown to several hundred, and there are many talented people on it. In addition to high school and college students, there are also some bosses and foreigners. And the few female players have become the team's finishing touch.
As the club's founder, Yong is the most capable of the team; Hua, who won an aerobics championship during her college years, is very knowledgeable about meals and helps the team regulate their diets to control their body fat content; Wu Jieyu, a female team member who majored in medicine, has rightfully become the team's doctor; the agent, Zhuge Qianqian, is the assistant to the general manager of a certain company, and is responsible for contacting all kinds of performances; and Alex, who comes from the Netherlands, is a senior in Nanjing, and has been a member of the team for many years. Alex, a senior in Nanjing, has three years of parkour history and is considered a mainstay of the show.
With the gradual popularity of parkour, more and more people know about Ayon, parkour enthusiasts from Tibet, Qinghai, Shandong and other places also come to learn parkour from Ayon, in addition, there are also people looking for him to shoot advertisements and TV dramas.
In order to take the team to Beijing to participate in the competition, Ah Yong quit his original job. When he came back from the competition, he simply stopped looking for a job and planned to become a professional parkour player. He is preparing for a parkour training course: "I hope to carry forward the sport of parkour and show people the attractive aspects of the sport."
Parkour, which comes from the French word parkour, originally referred to a course of overcoming obstacles when training soldiers in the French army. It was later developed by French extreme sportsmen into a sport that combines climbing, tumbling, wall-grabbing and jumping. Parkour players as long as wearing a pair of sneakers, do not need any protective measures, you can be in all roofs, fences, railings at any time to start practicing, giving you the feeling like a warrior of light skills plus the special forces of the hard man of the synthesis, flying over the wall, the line of clouds and water.
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The square of a school in Xianlin University Town, Beijing, is full of green grass and white stone steps scattered everywhere, of different heights and full of modernity. A boy stood tall on the 2-meter-high stone steps, wearing a dark-colored bandana and a red sweatshirt, not tall and lanky, but sturdy enough to look mature for his age. He was seen hurdling, flipping, flipping over walls, climbing steel frames, and stomping on walls, like he was starring in a Jackie Chan and Jet Li action blockbuster, a set of moves that were done consistently and beautifully. But unlike the movie, there is no NG, no protection, and all his moves must be done in one go.
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