The development of parkour in China, and how was parkour introduced to China?

In 2006, parkour was brought to China by "Naroku" (Zhou Hong, China Parkour Club), established the official Chinese parkour **, and promoted it in China. There are more and more people who like parkour in China.

In China, Ge Qiang was named the first person to be named a parkour by some parkour enthusiasts.

In 1999, he successfully passed the audit of the Guinness World Headquarters of Shanghai Great World with the eaves walking skills he had practiced since he was a child, and was known as the first person in China to fly the eaves and walk the wall.

The parkour movement is similar to light gong in that many of the parkour techniques have corresponding names in Chinese martial arts, such as the harrier turning over, the horizontal row of eight steps, and so on.

But on the other hand, Parkour borrowed a lot of gymnastic movements.

In Feng Shaolong's eyes, Parkour should be said to be a combination of Chinese kung fu, hip-hop dance, and gymnastics.

Now there are more and more people who like parkour in China.

Parkour" emerged in Qingdao in September 2007, and three young people, including "Bingbing" (screen name), organized the "Qingdao Feather Wing Society".

Up to now, the club has more than 20 members, mainly young people born in the 80s, some of them are students, some are working youth, every holiday, they gather in the abandoned factory or a bath training performance in the area of Beiling Mountain.

Injuries are inevitable in training, but the youngsters say they won't back down because they see the sport as an art.

Now there are nearly 300 young people in Qingdao who pay attention to "parkour".

Parkour was born in France in the 80s of the last century, parkour used the whole city as a big training ground, and all walls and roofs became objects that could be climbed and crossed.

The word "parkour" comes from the French word "parcour", which means "beyond the obstacle course".

China's parkour was introduced very early, but its development has been very slow, and parkour clubs (200 clubs) have been established in first- and second-tier cities across the country.

Chinese parkour is the first team of Chinese parkour, and the captain is Bai Jie. China's first team to bring parkour to China, China's first team to bring parkour to the Spring Festival Gala, and the only team in China invited to coach China's special police and snow leopard commandos. Parkour was introduced to China and integrated kung fu elements into the art of Chinese kung fu parkour with its own characteristics.

In 2007, Bai Jie, the captain of China Parkour FRT, began to lead the team to participate in TV shows "Avenue of Stars", "Happy Camp", "Luyu Appointment", "Happy China Tour" and so on. In 2010, China Parkour FRT appeared on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala "Chasing Dreams", which made Chinese audiences aware of the art of parkour. Subsequently, Chinese parkour FRT began to involve difficult parkour actions in domestic film and television shooting, such as "October Siege", "Jingwu Fengyun", "A Dog's College Years", "Can't Tell You", "Luohan Village", "Hollow" and so on.