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Hey dudes, check it out! Real life Gymkata!

Actually, it’s called freerunning, or parkour, in case you haven’t heard of extreme gymnastics before. And honestly, I can’t decide if “Gymkata” even sounds any dumber than either of those.

Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK), or l’art du déplacement (English: the art of movement) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment.

The term freerunning is sometimes used interchangeably with parkour. While freerunning is more to do with expressing yourself within your environment, parkour is aiming to get from A to B the fastest.

I also can’t decide if this is cool or unfathomably lame. Obviously it’s super impressive, either way. And, granted, I’d love to be able to run up a wall, but I’m kind of wondering about the practical purpose of being able to flip backwards through a hole the size of a morbidly obese three-year-old. Then again, I suppose a grown man who spends hours most evenings in dimly lit parking lots, flipping a four-wheeled piece of wood with his feet shouldn’t be criticizing anything for its lack of practicality.