Prevale Traceur By Wenxin Yang: Article Analysis

Parkour is a relatively new sport that in the recent years have grown to become quite popular among young people around the world. Youth engage into this kind of physical activity, because it is active, interesting and provides a magnitude of landscapes to practice and acquire new skills. However, it is considered to be high-risk sport, as a lot of movements involve jumping from heights and interacting with new environments, so a traceur or traceuse are not able to identify for sure what is waiting for them around the corner. Receiving a major injury means ending the practice for a long time or even causing permanent harm to an athlete’s health. For this reason, diagnosis and prevention of various injuries are the common problems among parkour community. Both Wenxin Yang in his American Parkour blog post “A Word from an Injured Traceur” and Aparecido Da Rocha et al. in their scholarly article …show more content…
Wenxin Yang in his blog post presents his first experience of having a serious injury during his parkour practice and the way he has managed to preserve good physical form and continue practicing without causing the major harm to his health. He provides a list of practical advice for athletes to follow in order to avoid his mistakes and approach the issue of injury attentively and seriously. As a member of community, he knows a lot about the everyday routines of athletes and addresses the issues which he has experienced himself multiple times. For this reason, it becomes apparent that he addresses his fellow members of parkour community and tries to help them with their potential injuries and establishing safe and positive training routine. The article also may be interesting for those who are not engaged into this sport, but are planning to do that in the nearest future, as it introduces the risks they may run and show how to treat them