Sunday, June 5, 2011

A 3 minutes talk

In some days I have to give freely a small talk in English on a topic of my choise. I decided to speak about parkour, as I write a blog about it and have read quite a lot material about it. So there occurs a very interesting and important question: what exactly I should talk about? It has to be compact! And here it is:

Now I would like to tell you something about a special hobby I have. Maybe you have seen people doing risky jumps from rooftop to rooftop or doing crazy flips from something high. Well, I am talking about parkour, but at this point we have to distinguish between parkour and free-running. The last is a discipline where the show is everything, you jump around and the show how nice and how many different movements you can do.

In parkour the speed and flow are more essential. Here you have to come from point A to point B and overcome all obstacles in your way fast, fluently and efficient, it mustn't cost you much energy.

The training plays a very important role in this sport. On the one hand, there is a physical training, like workout, it is for pushing your limits further. On the other hand, there is a mind training, like evolving discipline and getting to know your body. And only hard training in both areas, brings you safety while practising parkour.

If you like, write some ideas, what would you say in such a short period of time.

Michail