Ban? Or not to Ban? Jumping is the question.

In Newcastle Upon Tyne, I find myself within part of a community called the NEPK, North East Parkour, England. Now I have grown to understand the concept of Parkour and Free running and I have to say, in a non biast way (due to the love of my life being within this community too), that these people are practicing a sport...that is what it is after all.Now, surely they wouldn't say to the Footballing association that they were going to ban Football in certain stadiums due to it not being fair would they? Wish to know why that is? because football is the norm to a lot of, if not all of the world's population, where as Parkour is something different and something that is still hidden among ( what some people thing) the shadows of the sporting world... and the human race being the human race, people who haven't practiced freerunning or all those who dont understand it agree that it shouldn't be allowed. Yet this is not the case as there are so many practitioners across the world, but again, its still seen as a minority sport. This, outlook, seems to be the norm. But to those people who are thinking of starting to ban it in areas... think about this? Imagine you do something you love... like a hobbie. Now imagine you practice this in a safe environment. Now imagine that that hobbie is taken away from you...not because you cannot practice it anymore due to injury...but because the council or the local community decide to ban it...for no other reason than saying that it is a hazard to the public and there is not a thing you can do about it?
Now these practitioners do nothing apart from some of the, yes rather crazy jumps, leaps and drops they all try to attempt, but why take the passion and want away from those just wanting to make the free running community bigger and give it a bigger following of people who love what they do?



*Send this into anyone who wishes to say the sport of free running is dangerous...I don’t mind because frankly, they don’t know what they’re talking about it. Yet I will say, done incorrectly it can be unsafe…but just next time you see a set of boys and girls doing parkour, just take time to watch and see what they are doing, and then, only then, will you all realise that it is something beautiful,graceful,athletic and sport like.