{"id":9402,"date":"2013-08-13T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2013-08-13T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T15:23:16","slug":"the-commercialization-of-parkour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-commercialization-of-parkour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commercialization Of Parkour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081213_0120_TheCommerci1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parkour\">Parkour<\/a>, or free running, has mainstream attention that is leading to its commercialization writes Samantha Storey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Parkour gyms that have popped up across the United States it&#8217;s possible to have a child&#8217;s birthday party for as little as $450.<\/li>\n<li>Special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007NL8MKO\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=B007NL8MKO&amp;adid=13ANE1EAT7G3MQMBJ35K&amp;\">parkour gloves <\/a>can be bought for $34.50. Shoes for $60.<\/li>\n<li>An international parkour organization also offers insurance policies and teacher certification courses.<\/li>\n<li>Red Bull hosts an annual free running contest.<\/li>\n<li>Parkour enthusiasts are horrified at this commoditization of their beloved sport. In particular they abhor the idea of people engaged in free running indoors. It was created for urban environments.<\/li>\n<li>The gyms, for their part, usually make their interiors look as urban as possible \u2013 with indoor graffiti and handrails that mimic the outdoors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why doing parkour in a gym is like &#8220;asking swimmers to perfect the breaststroke on grass&#8221;, the video games that are increasingly showcasing the activity, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/09\/sports\/parkour-a-pastime-born-on-the-streets-moves-indoors-and-uptown.html?hp&amp;_r=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/09\/sports\/parkour-a-pastime-born-on-the-streets-moves-indoors-and-uptown.html?hp&amp;_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkour, or free running, has mainstream attention that is leading to its commercialization writes Samantha Storey: In the Parkour gyms that have popped up across the United States it&#8217;s possible to have a child&#8217;s birthday party for as little as $450. Special parkour gloves can be bought for $34.50. Shoes for $60. An international parkour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081213_0120_TheCommerci1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9418,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions\/9418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}