Parkour boy

Under the extreme sports in China

Posted by / Sun Zexuan

The sport of “parkour" is seen by many in China as "finding death," but for Sun Qi, it's a big part of his life. "Getting more people to learn about parkour and getting more people to understand parkour and keep themselves parkour" is the most important thing in Sun Qi's life.

In China's growing middle class, gradually realize that to maintain a good body state is a very important thing, with the constant improvement of public facilities, more and more people begin to exercise, and more and more people like sports, also, fitness way also more and more diversified, became many people's hobby, also became many occupations.

Sun qi and his partner took part in the competition

"People who like parkour are very simple. Just give them a bottle of water, a meal and let them go parkour, they will be satisfied." That's what sun qi said when he first came into contact with parkour. At that age, he did not ask for too much money, can let him to parkour, for him is a very happy thing. When he is practicing parkour, every time he does a movement, he will feel very happy, thousands of times of practice, it is a very worthwhile thing for him. Sun qi will often participate in parkour competitions and performances to obtain his own value for parkour.

Parkour age distribution

Sun was born in zhengzhou, in the process of parkour, met a lot of practice with partner, in these partners, have most is a novel and interested in parkour, and lasted for a period of time, practicing parkour, in China, about 100000 people engaged in parkour, most parkour's age between 16 and 25 years old, their career, most are students, when they graduated from college, most of them gave up the parkour.

Parkour enthusiasts love parkour time

The Chinese government organizes extreme sports competitions

"Faster, higher, stronger," this is state general administration of sports in China in 2019, extreme sports news conference for extreme sports standard, in extreme sports news conferences in China, "parkour, roller skating, known as the future of sports, the development of the Chinese government wants to limit movement, work with the culture, spirit, motion, combining the three elements. Chinese government support for extreme sports has also been growing in recent years, with six official parkour events and 12 roller skating events scheduled for 2019.

Sun qi, who is part of this fitness trend and is a fan of the extreme sport parkour, is also a parkour coach. Sun qi started playing parkour when he was in high school. At the age of 16, he saw parkour in movies. Sun qi was completely fascinated by parkour.

Parkour population is distributed in China

The above data comes from China parkour. www.leparkour.cn

Coastal open cities in China, the degree of parkour culture accepted by the public is relatively high, a lot of enlightened parents, not opposed to their children to love parkour, but for the parents of small cities in mainland China, most of the people for parkour opposed, think parkour is far too dangerous, against their children practice parkour.

Parkour for kids

"It's a dangerous behavior, and I'm worried about my kids getting hurt during parkour practice." A parent from zhengzhou said. When the author interviewed a number of parkour watchers during the shoot, most said, "parkour is great to watch, but they don't practice."

Children in parkour training

"Let more people to understand the parkour, let more people understand the parkour," sun to the goal, set up a children's parkour training camp, in this case, he is simple to use and there is no danger of props, to teach children parkour, let more and more people love parkour, and let more and more people in the process of parkour avoid danger.

"engaging in education and training allowed my parkour to find value.” In parkour teaching, sun qi tells children how to exercise healthily and how to run parkour safely through his own experience.