Flips are now Parkour
Editor's note: Published as an April Fools' joke. NOS revealed it the next day in You've been had, mateys!
Our friends over at American Parkour, along with UrbanFreeflow, the Yamakasi, and other major parkour groups from around the world met up earlier today at the take-off Manpower Gap where David Belle, the founder of Parkour held an international press conference. The conference was also attended by several scientists, physicists, aerodynamists and others, who conducted scientific experiments to ascertain that in some cases, flipping moves such as a gainer actually carry more height and power into the move, thereby making them more efficient over other regular moves like drops and gap jumps. Therefore, even David was forced to conclude that flips can now be considered a part of Parkour.
What this bodes for the spin-off art of Freerunning remains to be seen. There were no comments available at this time from its founder Sebastien Foucan.
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