Name: 【TEDx】A parkour state of mind: Matthew D. Lamb at TEDxPSU
Uploaded: 2014-04-25T19:11:37.000Z
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>> So I love parkour because I love to study cities,

and I love to study exactly how we learn how

So, one of the things I really am passionate about,

one of the things I really love to, to learn about is,

like I said, the rules that we sort of learn and how,

And I think parkour directly kind of challenges that.

because there's nothing necessarily natural

We sort of make the rules on what these things mean.

And so I think parkour can teach us a lot about city space

and kind of how to look at it differently.

And one of my favorite places to do parkour is

in Indianapolis, I grew up outside of Indianapolis,

and this is a parking garage right on the corner

and it's set up perfectly for, for parkour, which, you know,

isn't it's intended use, but we have [laughter],

I have this wonderful space inside, just to give you an idea

of what it looks like, and so I'm running up the,

up the stairs and I'm sort of vaulting from rail

to rail and, you know, you can feel the materials,

you can feel the concrete, and it's kind of slick and dusty

and oddly cold, and I'm making way up to the roof,

and these guys sort of look at me, as I'm there that day,

and they look at me really strange, like, you know,

the expectation of that space and the behavior that you sort

of expect to see that, that violates that script,

like we see the stairs, we see the parking garage,

and we sort of know what's supposed to happen, right?

And parkour looks odd, because it's at odds

or it's incongruent with the rules that we sort

So I make my way up to the roof and I sort of look

over Indianapolis and I'm looking over Mass Ave.

and the sort of the, the arts and cultural district

And you can see that kind of that, that planned space,

and you look over and you can, and, and the city just looks

and it looks like you can just do anything you want.

And part of the reason is is because, traceurs,

they develop what they call a parkour vision.

And if we see the, the picture here is the example.

That red arrow shows us, like, that's the walkway,

and you have the wall here and you have the building here,

and conventional wisdom sort of tells you

that you're supposed to take that, you see that, it's a,

it's a visible knowledge of space and it just makes sense

But with parkour, you have the, the parkour vision

So you can kick off the wall and you can grab the other wall

and climb up, and you see the guy jumping from roof to roof,

and some of our bodies and our minds won't let us do that,

And so parkour was developed circa 80's-ish,

to give you an exact date, so, David Belle,

he was the founder of parkour and was built on the maxim

or an art of movement, that helps you get through or,

And the idea is to get from point A, excuse me,

to point B as quickly and efficiently as possible.

And just like you, you develop your body in parkour,

you develop your body to be strong, to be fit and flexible,

and adaptable, but just like you develop your body

So there's a very spiritual component to parkour,

and once you, once you've trained your body,

you sort of have to train the mind to, to go along with it.

So you develop the mental, the mental strength as well

you see the gap from the roof to the roof

and your body tells you, like, don't jump, you know,

unless you're, unless you're like on the Grand Canyon

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