festival regular outdoor training! No hurdle too high
Parkour athletes overcoming physical and mental limits in the public domain
KASSEL. Sven Becker takes off. Three steps later, he pushes himself off the ground and catapult itself to a three-foot wall into the air. He reaches for the edge, runs up. The 27-year-old parkour athlete.
Again and again he will meet with like-minded people at the war memorial at the State Theatre or at the documenta-Halle. The goal is to move efficiently with elegance through the urban and natural space. The paths that one takes advantage of spring, their own ideas, available options and their own ability.
Wehrwein Paul came over to the gymnastics parkour. As compensation for the study of mathematics began the 26-year-old to play the game. In Hamburg, he met by chance Sven Becker know - and both found that they do not just play the same sport, but also come from the same city. A self-made video finally attracted the attention of the clubs.
Today the two, as many of their friends, as a training manager for Parkour classes in various sports clubs in the region are active. At the Albert-Schweitzer-School and the Wilhelm-Leuschner-school they offer Parkour. Even teachers are the two from now.
Before the start parkour athletes, scouted the locations, surfaces tested, sought alternative handles, if one should slip again. Also, the training starts with small steps. Only when low balustrades can be reliably overcome, one turns to more challenging hurdles. No competition is
a competition it is not thought to help overcome the many obstacles. New movements are maintained, then the athletes learn from each other. "We want to be a role model for young people," said Wehrwein. Smoking and drinking alcohol one could not afford this sport. While some parkour groups to be identified clearly from related disciplines such as the free-running are the smoked more open. "We know the difference, but look at it as a freedom not to be set to a unit," says Becker. The creative encounter with obstacles and finding solutions can be applied to other situations.
training hours www.parkourkassel.de
A video about the Kassel Parkour athletes see www.hna.de / video
article by Jan Baetz
this and another article on HNA Parkour Kassel can be found here. Published on 29/10/2009, the whole is in the Hessian-Lower Saxony Allgemeine Zeitung.
Paul of course had a camera and shot some nice pictures:
Greetings your team from Parkour Kassel
