Parcour
(...kind of what I've been doing all along)

This month, I caught up (a little) with the digital age. We switched from dial-up to DSL. Following that, I made a discovery: I love YouTube. Somebody on TV was talking about a new extreme sport that's sweeping America, called parcour. Basically, the world becomes a giant, extreme obstacle course. If you get a chance, visit the aforementioned YouTube and type in "parcour." Some of the more impressive videos show teenagers and college students leaping painlessly from three-story rooftops and walking up walls. In the nineties, when I was in highschool, we called it free-style walking or freewalking. Anyway, I forgot how neat it was.

THIS is one of my favorite videos.

Years ago, me and a few other friends did stuff like this when we went away to camps in the summer. We would leap over creeks. I would jump from concrete pedistal to concrete pedistal. Come to think of it, that was at Wal-Mart, not camp. Just because I can, I celebrated finding these videos this week, by:

I. Jumping off the side of the escalator at the Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City.

II. Jumping off a balcony in a house we're working on, onto the staircase below, then over that handrail, to the floor.

Silly? Probably. But it was fun. Unless my wife reads this; then I'm probably going to be in trouble.

~J

Correction: Amy knows me. She won't be surprised.