Here in America there are many sports such as football, basketball, baseball and so forth.

But there is an upcoming sport that seems to be becoming popu­lar, a sport known as Parkour.

Parkour is the activity of run­ning through areas while perform­ing various gymnastic maneuvers over or on man-made obstacles such as walls and buildings.

Parkour is not very well known within certain areas, but there are people who practice this sport such Jathon Thompson.

Thompson is a freshman major­ing in Computer Information and he’s been practicing Parkour since he was in high school.

He became interested in the sport when he saw it on Youtube and has been doing it ever since.

The sport features a lot of differ­ent jumps and structures, which might sound easy, but it’s a cardio heavy based sport.

Thompson states, “It is a lot of repetition movements, basic movements over and over, balanc­ing, precision jumping, vaulting and basically a workout of every­thing.”

Anyone can learn to parkour or become a tra­ceur, which is what a person who does the sport is called, but one has to go through training much like any other sport.

If anyone is interested in learn­ing Parkour or wants to learn more information about it, Pakour.com would be the site to check out, ac­cording to Thompson and he him­self also trains people.

If anyone would like to get in touch he states, “For people who want to join they can contact me, I have a private group on Facebook and if interested, add me and I can add them to the group.”