Parkour

Welcome to the exciting, dynamic world of parkour! This acrobatic and athletic discipline that makes ordinarythough highly coordinated and gracefulpeople appear to be superheroes has caused a sensation online, as videos of practitioners running up walls, vaulting over obstacles, leaping across the roofs of buildings, and generally treating urban areas as their own personal obstacle courses went viral. Readers will learn about parkours roots in France, as well as how the sport developed and spread worldwide. Safety is always emphasized in the text, as are do not try this at home cautions to the reader.