The Importance of Sound in Parkour

Okemi is big in parkour. How do we fall? How do we receive the ground? Well, yeah. So one thing we realized early on was that slapping the ground loudly is not a good technique. When it comes to feedback for falling well, parkour is just miles ahead of the martial arts. And then you look at like a martial arts stances, you go back to karate manuals from the 1920s and they're 50% deeper, 50% longer. It's just type of virtuosity that actually has almost nothing to do with combat effectiveness.

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