How starting Parkour completely changed my life

[@joeybingham2412]

Truly one of the greatest inspirations in parkour

[@joseferreiraaranteslopes7565]

I really think this too

[@brunoenriquearvelodiaz7103]

True

[@TurtleHermitDM]

I’ve just restarted my parkour journey and your videos are an amazing help right now mentally

[@hsuehwen]

I just turn 40 today, and started parkour recently, I always thought I'm in good shape, but now accept the truth that I'll never do some fancy flips, still parkour fascinates me. Jason, seems like you're in a new chapter of life, wish you all the best

[@mu_on]

So Insightful, life-changing podcast. Thank you so much for sharing so openly!

[@Dustrout.]

Your one of my biggest inspirations in the parkour community

[@Karelle.p]

really interesting and inspiring video, thanks for sharing your thoughts! 🙏

[@Kipras-g4j]

Hi, im 14 years old and im curently in my 4th year of parkouring. I had nothing, well my previuos activity was singing in a chorus. My friend put me into this sport and im so glad im doing it. And as i listen to this, tears drop from my eyes. Jason is a very kind, inspirational person... that is all...

[@Lessonswithsenseimatt]

I started parkour 2 years ago I’m 55 yes it has changed my life as well thanks for posting this 🤸

[@airanmilian]

That's a great comparison with rock climbing. I hope parkour reaches those heights, it's a great mission you're getting on :)

[@Skyfall5670]

Love from India ❤❤❤

[@TheJasonPaul]

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[@2tseithe]

Thanks for sharing your view and story c: Really nice to listen to this!

[@gunnarfloid4750]

Jason du hast es einfach geschafft verdient 🫡❤️‍🔥

[@thesoundofparkour]

In my opinion, this video is currently not getting the recognition it deserves. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences!

[@D_Fyre]

Excellent video! It's cool to hear how similar your path was to mine (and I'm sure many others). Yes, you completely described the different phases that I experienced - enabling parkour vision, feeling awkward the first time you practiced in public, realizing your own potential and applying it elsewhere, etc. I love your idea to counter-balance the extreme side of viral videos by creating the definitive tutorial and showcasing "regular parkour" to an audience that probably needs to see that. Thank you!

[@JC-pk]

Hey Jason you are already very good at talking to the camera! Your passion comes through really strongly, thankyou for what you are doing for the sport 💪🔥

[@eriktorhall]

Thank you Jason for everything you are doing for the sport and thank you for sharing your story!!

[@simonlewien633]

Dear Jason, I really relate to what you said about Parkour being a gateway for you to tackle a wide range of self-assumed and or externally opposed challenges in your life. If you can do Parkour, that is to overcome most of all yourself and your fear, you really can learn anything. It's been almost ten years now since I've started Parkour and I cannot imagine what my life would look like without it. And in all this time I've never properly expressed my appreciation of one of the people who inspired me then and still inspire me to this day to reinvent myself and to keep moving. You've always been in touch with people who share your passion, wherever they might be on their individual path. Your posts are often a breath of fresh air because they still radiate that initial spark that first started your journey to start moving. You keep Parkour play and fun which is maybe the most important part to me. Even though I've never met you in real life, I feel like I have learned a lot from you, so thank you :) I wonder what more Parkour has in store. I feel my own movement shifting more and more towards a way to express what I feel and how I relate to my environment, where as in earlier years I might have been focused a lot more on gaps and proving myself. In the end, I like that it is up to anyone to make Parkour what they want it to be. And maybe that's what carries over into other spheres of our lives. By not only performing a sport, a mere activity but more-so inventing and self-defining what the objects around us are and what we do with them, we're living a process that forms our identity and personality in a similar fashion. Years ago I would tell absolutely anyone I crossed that they just needed to do Parkour, eagerly explaining all the great things that it had done for me. And while I still get excited sometimes when I talk to someone about it and credit a lot of who I am to it. Now, I ask myself if the benefits that I tried to explain in my last paragraph are so unique to Parkour or whether Parkour was just the right thing for me, you and many others in our community but could just as well be replaced by another burning passion. I think you are right, Parkour is not very accessible. It's scary, there's no guidebook, its edgy and its essence is hard to institutionalise. Which is precisely why I like it so much. Don't get me wrong though, I love that you're making guides and that you dedicate yourself to impacting Parkours image in a different way. It truly is one-dimensional to reduce it to top level performance and daredevil stunts. I thought your comparison with rock-climbing was interesting. Since two years I've been doing more rock-climbing in my daily life than Parkour. In a way it feels like its part of Parkour too though if Parkour is to keep developing my movement in various ways. I enjoy climbing a lot, bouldering is great, discovering outdoor landscapes while climbing rocks is awesome but it is not as free as Parkour. While you're right that goals for different climbers can be different the prospect of becoming a good climber still remains one-dimensional. The mantra is to get stronger, to climb harder, to be better... The grades, the ability to measure one's progress in numbers can feel very rewarding but this system is also a little primitive and part of me hates it because deep down I know that it means nothing. On the other hand, going outside, moving freely and creatively feels better for my me deep down but I don't always manage to do it. Chasing concrete grades in climbing, conquering set climbing problems in a buffet-style is simply easier. Of course, I can only speak for myself and I don't mean to bash climbing as a sport, I love it too. Cheers, this has gotten way too long already!

[@CardioGenetics]

Whow such an inspirational video. I can totally relate to it, I was agreeing with you the whole time. I'm definitely going to share this

[@amo_parkour1]

I allways notice people making vedios about starting parkour, and getting started. But Jason im kinda begging rn, im struggling big time to stay motivated to keep going, to take the next steps. Im in the advanced/master kinda level and i know im not the only one struggling, i really dont want this to turn bad becuse this journey im on i dont want it to end it transformed me too and i want to keep going. So if u have the time and u feel like it it would mean the world to me and many others for you to inspire us like you allways do. Also your so grate keep everything upp and i have you continue havibg a awsome life ❤. Thanks

[@benwmarsh]

Really enjoyed this and the content you've been making this past year, keep em coming

[@0v3rthinker17]

Your new videos are amazing, listening to your journey was really interesting. I would also love to see more people actually doing parkour, but, just as you were saying, they don't believe they can for whatever reason. You are doing an amazing job to solve this problem! I do parkour for 2 years while living in a town where there is no community or parkour gyms. I tried to post some videos/edits of my jumps (on another channel) online to show that parkour isn't only about crazy rooftop jumps, but, let's just say, they were far from going viral. It feels like it's really hard to solve the issue with distorted image of parkour for public , but videos like this one really help with it. Keep it up Jason

[@meesamabbas6993]

Jason you have a great deep personality, there are less people who focus on the phycological aspect of parkour. I can relate to almost everything you have said and fortunately I with my friend already started training parkour and in my country people are not much aware of parkour. Many people know but still they don't have the right image of it, like if I am practicing a precision jump across a jogging track, i would need to tell them that I am doing parkour. Currently we are only practicing it in the public parks but still struggling to start doing it outside.

[@sinister534]

I have been fan of you since i saw you first time in 'top 10 parkour video" and i lt was 2017 when i saw u and became a fan of you, i can't do any flip but still im a fan of u

[@TeamMotion21]

Thanks a lot big respect and much love from Nepal 🇳🇵🙏🙏

[@DuBCraft21]

Thank you for the video Jason, I really hope you manage to succeed. I always appreciate hearing you talk about your journey and your philosophy on things. I wish I could help support you while you work on gaining traction, but unfortunately I'm in my broke college student arc right now, so that isn't exactly on the table for me right now.

[@janstarosta3646]

Thank you Jason.

[@TeamMotion21]

One of the guy who drag us in parkour and made us imitate their lifestyle and philosophies ❤❤

[@marzan.k_]

Great Vid Jason👊If you could please make a " summarized video " it might help us/the Parkour community to share these benefits and shift in focus with more people/kids/parents or people that still think we are risking our whole lifes for a clip😁 Keep up the content, the best Parkour content on YT🤙

[@JumpShipParkour]

Meeting you at OTE Tour in ATL at ninjaquest made me never wanna leave the sport

[@SpeedHanX]

You make me love parkour if one day i join red bull i will never forget to shout out you

[@mirekprecek3916]

This is so good! Top tier content

[@joshingwithyahaha]

Hello Jason, I used to watch your channel a lot back when I used to do Parkour for fun. I remember watching you a lot during Covid-19, which is when I was doing lots and lots of Parkour. Whenever I would practice Parkour, I definitely was embarrassed to tell people what I was doing because as someone from North America, Parkour was just seen as trendy fashion that generates views on social media, it was never taken seriously. My friends at the time were not very supportive of it either, which hurt my motivation more because this was an art I wanted to pursue doing. Anytime a stranger would ask me what I was doing, and whenever I would tell them that I was doing parkour, these are the responses I would get. "Haha, damn kids! There are so many great sports and you chose this one." or "So... are you like SPIDER MAN OR SOMETHING?!" or, and this one kind of hurt the most... "DO A BACKFLIP BRO!". Honestly after dealing with the constant BS of minding my own business and trying to enjoy myself, and still get called out for it, I had enough. During my entire parkour career, there was only one person who said something positive to me. I was trying to perfect my side flips and was doing a very sloppy job on it because of the "cringe" I felt, ended up busting my knee. That's when I called it quits and never really looked back on Parkour. Even though it's been a long time, I still do random dash vaults from time to time. Everything else has completely left me, I can't do flips or other vaults. Just the basic safety, speed, and dash vault. My biggest take away from this, is to never let people get in your head. It can spoil such a beauty and you never know what you might able to turn that into. Great video Jason, hope you're doing well.

[@Honkman-se5ph]

Great vid!

[@rathorical]

Another banger like the last one with joe, “Retired” like pewds in parkour community

[@TripleD303]

Great insights!

[@PaulAllee]

I woke up to this thank you!

[@daniell2906]

Very nice

[@luca25345]

Jason is the goat

[@ziadoak]

This must have been hard to do, not just talking, but reminiscing and writing it down and making a video talking about it. for me it was quite similar, as I just played video games and one day a friend from school saw me move and asked if i did parkour and i had no idea what he was talking about, but given the fact that he knew i liked games he suggested for me to start assassin's creed as the second game just came out, and from that i thought parkour was a fancy word for climbing and not until month later another friend of mine forgot his house keys and i just did what i did in the game and climbed and cat leaped to the balcony and weeks later his brother approached me and asked me if i did parkour and me who now knew a bit about the word said no, but i'm interested in learning and he knew a few people that did it and told me how to contact them and from that i was hocked, yes I've retired, but I still have a great passion to the sport and i become a child again whenever i move (and yes i'm aware of the irony, since i still look like 20 or something) so thank you for making this, I appreciate it greatly and I hope all is good with everyone and if we ever see each other again we have so much to talk about (well this sounds perfectly sketchy XD)

[@ScaleParasitoid]

I love your videos ❤🐚

[@R.A.E.D]

Awesome vid

[@Wxxdbridger]

Very good video

[@bollotalavera6943]

In mi opinión Is beautifull to push Parkour like a healty, creative and fun hobby that any person can do on their own level like yoga or some Martial arts 🎉. Next step. Make the world like the Parkour Minecraft world where every body do Parkour 😂

[@wlag10]

Oh so you feel it too huh

[@JussiTiilikainen]

good video

[@chokapick1975]

I have a question for you, I have 17 and i am starting in parkour, its to late for me to be a profesional? Good video bro 👍

[@DuBCraft21]

Its certainly not too late for you to be a professional, especially at 17, but keep in mind only a small number of people end up truely making it. Its less about when you start and more about how dedicated you are to the sport and how well you are able to market yourself. If you have a bit of luck, are dedicated and are able to market yourself well you can absolutely become pro, but also don't forget the whole purpose of this video. Even if you don't manage to go pro, parkour is still an incredibly worthwhile endeavor for anyone who is interested in it.

[@masterangler7738]

@@DuBCraft21perfect response

[@Gefam]

[@YasenGrozev]

Hey, I started following your content a long time ago, back in the days, when everything was new. Just wanted to say a huge thank you for everything you do for the practice - I truly believe you are spreading good message and you use your influence in a meaningful way. I hope the course will have a huge success! Wish you the best, Jason! Keep doing what you are doing!

[@IJGR98]