Minority sports lead health and new fashion ⑤ Parkour： the city scurries and flies in youth.

Source: [Ningxia Daily]

Running, climbing, jumping, rolling … On December 6th, in the Shangcheng Parkour Club in Ningxia Gymnasium, a group of children, accompanied and guided by their coaches, kept climbing over obstacles, moving flexibly and deftly, and sweating heartily in the venue.

"This sport is a challenge to the limits of the body. The exploration of self-potential can enable people to find creative and free space in the city." Mao Weiguang, head of Shangcheng Parkour Club in Yinchuan, said that Parkour originated in France and is also called "free running" or "extreme running". This sport emphasizes not only physical fitness, but also self-confidence, creativity and teamwork, attracting young people and adventurers, and has become a dynamic and creative cultural expression sport in the world.

The coach in Yinchuan Shangcheng Parkour Club is guiding the young students to train.

More than ten years ago, Mao Weiguang became attached to Parkour. "At that time, I saw someone playing this sport on Youku.com, and I felt that the sport of being as light as a swallow, climbing the eaves and climbing was particularly attractive to me." Mao Weiguang said. In 2007, due to job transfer, Mao Weiguang returned to Yinchuan from Shaanxi, and then gathered some young people on the online platform to start playing Parkour. Unexpectedly, in 2009, he was seriously injured and was forced to interrupt this hobby.

In 2021, Mao Weiguang, who planned to start a business, once again set his sights on his parkour hobby. "Many cities in other places began to develop this sport in 2014. Since starting a business, we must choose a formal system to make parkour a brand and quality, and we can no longer play wild ways like in the past." Mao Weiguang said that for this reason, he chose the education and training system of the Asian Parkour Sports Federation to carry out step-by-step parkour training for children aged 4 to 14. So far, the Parkour Museum has trained three or four hundred students.

Primary school students in Yinchuan Shangcheng Parkour Club are conducting parkour training.

"Parkour people rely on their own physical fitness and skills to cross various known and unknown scenes in a fast, efficient and reliable way. Parkour is a challenge to the limits of self, a way to release the potential of body and mind, and encourage people to break through their own boundaries and face challenges bravely. " Li Zimei, the venue operation director of Yinchuan Shangcheng Parkour Club, has been engaged in teaching and training for many years and has been engaged in family education and children’s psychology research. Inadvertently, Li Zimei accidentally discovered that this sport can not only empower the growth of parent-child relationship and psychological adjustment, but also become an innovative medium in her own research field, bringing new kinetic energy to teaching and training.

"This sport is relatively new and influenced by many aspects. Many people don’t understand it." Mao Weiguang said that in recent years, the club has participated in some domestic parkour competitions and achieved good results. Recently, it has also participated in the preparations for the upcoming parkour competition in Yinchuan, hoping to make progress with the parkour movement in Ningxia to a new level and continuously achieve good results. (Ningxia Daily reporter Liu Huiyuan text/map)

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