Just a thought

I can still remember the time when I for the very first time I saw parkour on he screen with David Belle running across rooftops in the BBC commercial. The knowledge people at that time had about parkour wasn't that big but It seemed like a fair, solid start back in the years of 2006.

In my opinion Parkour has developed in Sweden but not necessarily in a good way. At least not when I am looking, sadly enough, on the official site for Swedish traceurs and tracesus which often is the first step for newcomers to parkour. Since I joined Le Parkour Sweden back in 2006 the numbers of practiciones has increased but unfortunately it seems to me that the knowledge about the dicipline of parkour haven't changed very much. Sometimes It even feels like we've traveled in the wrong direction, far back from were we started. It would be wrong to say that the official site for parkour practicioners in Sweden are a good start off point for beginners new to the dicipline.


For me it seems like many people still see parkour as a media thing and something that they're able to change too - whatever they like, which gained the growth of trouble among many members which in meantime was a result that many good ones left. I am not saying that It's not good that people follow their own path or that it is forbidden to do so, but I do say that the path you follow are limited too what parkour really was created for. You can change your parkour, but you cannot change parkour itself. I've came across people that even had parkour as a martial art; even though the philosophy don't promote any violence. There are, whatever people would say, unwritten rules in the dicipline of parkour.

As said before, maybe Sweden are to young for parkour?
I don't think so. I do think that it will take time..