I think parkour is amazing — beautiful and exciting, combining talent, skill, elegance and pragmatism (a blend I’ve always found compelling). So fabulous to see the human body in use, in motion, in flight.
Most people I’ve seen doing parkour are traceurs — men. Mais aujourd’hui, je vous présente les traceuses. Parkour women.
Actually, first, parkour girls, in a program in Westminster (UK) teaching them to throw their bodies through space. Here’s where parkour can start for girls…
And here’s where it can go.
Gives me chills. My entire girlhood, my entire life, might have been so different in so many ways if I’d had any of this when I needed self-confidence, when I needed to be living in and learning my body rather than being so wary of it. Oh, the possibilities.