Rivalry between Tricking and Parkour

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There is a certain rivalry between some members of the tricking and parkour communities.^[1] It should be noted that the 'rivalry' is a light hearted one, and not to be taken seriously.

The main reason that certain trickers dislike parkour is that parkour gets more recognition, when they believe their sport is physically more challenging. On the other hand, certain traceurs also have a dislike towards tricking. This is usually because they believe that tricking is just a form of showing off, when it can be argued that parkour has some practical applications.^{[citation needed]}

These disagreements are often fueled by people mislabeling tricking as parkour, and associating the disciplines as the same thing, when they are in fact very different.

[edit] Tricker Commentary

• Once a traceur finally conjures the balls to do a standing backflip (the fear of this basic move alone seperates trickers from muggles), they realise tricking is quite fun and that parkour was actually pretty stupid. Trickers who used to train parkour (or still do) generally don't want to be reminded of their dark days of parkour for fear that they will be made fun of by their fellow tricking brothers and possibly kicked out of the zoot circle. Crosstraining with parkour develops muggleness in ways that tricking or resistance training will not.

  --Anonymous

• Tricking is the best. We win.

  --Ryan Rempfer

• Free runners and Traceurs have really bad time management skills compared to Trickers, always trying to get from point A to B as fast as possible haha

  --Braka

• To trick past class even class B in tricking you have to train for hours and be incridibly fit, to do basic dashes and backflips and front flips off thing's doesn't take long at anyone can do a backflip off a roof, on the ground you have to be fit and it will take you a day, but a 540; that will take you a week at the very least.

  --Salt4life/Fletcher

• Parkour sucks dude. Freerunners do tricking moves off of a height. Tricking is superior in all ways. The end. Stay hardkour guys!

  --Nelson Zuniga

• The fastest way to get from point A to point B is generally to drive. The moment someone can do a line of kongs and dashes at sixty miles per hour, I'll count parkour as a sport.

  --Ben Herald

• Tricking takes extreme dedication and takes at least 3 months of drilling stretching and conditioning for beginners to "JUST GET THE HANG OF IT" ive helped teach many friends how to trick. Most people can only last for 2 weeks before giving up because they cant land the tricks that they want. In order for someone to even be able to consistently land most intermediate tricks( basically class A-C even some D class tricks^[2]) one would have had to endure 1-3 years of consistent training and drilling. Most moves take landing 3-5 different ways JUST to be able to thoroughly combo it. Tricking is NOT easy, it takes a lot practice and precision and the fact that Tricking is often mistaken as parkour can cause a lot of frustration to dedicated trickers. For those who do not know what the classes of tricks are here is a link with a pretty thorough list of tricks from A- to whathaveyou.

  --Dion Jones

[edit] Notes

1. ↑ "YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.". youtube.com. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
2. ↑ "The Official Extreme Martial Arts Tricktionary and List of Martial Arts Tricks". club540.com. Retrieved 2012-01-12.