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Kids, parkour and freerunning are such new sports that most people don't even know what they are. In fact, calling them "sports" is almost incorrect. Most "traceurs" (boys who practice parkour; women are called "traceuses") think of parkour as developing your body's natural way of wanting to move...not so much as a sport. But what it means is that there is lots of room in parkour to try your own thing. Jim continues to create new parts that make up his very own 'style' of parkour. You could do the same. Take what you like to do; maybe it's swimming or bike riding and think about how you can use parts of the way you move in a pool or on a bike when you are running around on the playground at school tomorrow. It might sound really off the wall, but traceurs and traceuse know that bouncing off the wall is a ton of fun.
Grown-ups, ever the performer, Jim is an avid endeavorer of anything remotely challenging. Be it parkour, literature, or his new-found appetite for modern dance, Jim is an insatiable glutton for expanding his horizons. On the difficult path now of seating himself with the top touring circuses of the world, Jim has moved on from his degree in literature to instruct and train constantly at more than a handful of gymnastics and fitness centres around Calgary, including, of course, No Limits AFC. He (and his compatriots in the Bonus section that ends this Simple Fun video) are all sporting red t-shirts that say, "Breathe" on them--you may have noticed. Though "Breathe" is taken as both a motto and constant reminder to remain centred and calm while exploring the limits of human ability, it is also the name of a Calgary-based parkour magazine: Breathe Parkour. Though constantly expanding its international footprint, Breathe has its roots in Calgary, and features many of the traceurs/traceuses you saw in the video and may see out bounding about the streets. Much in the parkour vein, Breathe is a maverick in its own right; breaking water in the parkour community, it is one of two distributed parkour publications in the world.
Links to Calgary-based parkour sites are listed below.
No Limits AFC Parkour Gym: http://www.nolimitsafc.com/main/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-Limits-AFC-Calgary/194226400618904
https://twitter.com/#!/NoLimitsAFC
Breathe Parkour Magazine:
http://breathepk.com/
http://www.facebook.com/breathepk
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