Recent CommentsFree-running, my first attempt
You probably haven’t ever heard of free-running, I hadn’t either until several hours before the injury you see here. By chance I happened to watch a movie/documentary called Jump London (refer IMDB).
The goal of Free-running is to “use the environment to develop yourself and to always keep moving and not go backwards”. This is not to be confused with Parkour, which aim is to “move from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body”.
I’m definitely not a Parkour purist as I like to be free to run where I want and how I want, and believe I’m a free-runner at heart (but not necessarily by skill level)! I’m often running over fences (albeit usually only small ones) when I go out running, and have great pleasure in the freedom of turning down one trail and up the other depending on what I feel like at the time. I guess this makes me a free-runner at heart?
Injury from my first ever free-running style of run
To put it to the test, last night after watching Jump London, I went out for a “free-run”. However it was dark, cold, wet, and slippery! I nearly slipped a couple times whilst jumping up onto metal rails (not very far off the ground!) and not long after I clipped my knee whilst trying to jump over a concrete wall, hence the above photo!