Personal Narrative: Parkour

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As a child, I was always energetic and restless. I could never sit still and always felt like I needed to be moving. I tried playing sports to help exert energy. I started out playing basketball, then tried martial arts until I earned my second black belt in tae kwon do, and finally, played lacrosse in high-school. The down side to these sports was that over time they became repetitive and costly. I found the best solution for my desire to move was parkour. Parkour seems like a series of running, jumping, climbing, and vaulting, but to encapsulate its entirety, parkour is finding the most efficient way to move through one’s environment. This expression of freedom of movement, and freedom from the restrictions of an environment define me as

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