Parkour is a French born sport in which the practitioner aims at moving through urban environments as fast as possible using routes not so common for ordinary street wanderer. It was born in 80´s in the suburbs of Paris and gained popularity of the wider audiences Parkour was featured in couple films, among them in James Bond film Casino Royale.
Parkour is actually quite easy to start despite it looking quite acrobatic and complicated. Of course it needs a lot of training as well, and beginners should carefully listen their bodies and recognize their limits to prevent accidents and injuries. Slowly, after gaining more fitness through hard training and dedication, the more skill needing movements are possible and some movements seeming first difficult and even impossible, can be found simple and easy. The boundaries for possible movements and skills are only practitioners mental restrictions according to the philosophy of Parkour.
The idea of Parkour is not to have a defined movements at such, and the main thing in the sport is to find your way fast and smoothly, to know your bodily limitations and possibilities. However and especially, when the Parkour entered Britain and turned into Freerun, the movements started to get names and labels as well. But ultimately, there is no right or wrong movement in Parkour.
The most simple movement is drop and means to jump to the ground from something. Parkour includes as well vaults and gap jumps and also blind jumps in which the jumper doesn't see the landing. Monkey or gong is a dive over an obstacle, and in the end of the obstacle to push off with hands to bring body back to vertical level and ready to land. Overcoming the obstacle is called among other wallhop or wallpop. Cat leap seems a bit more complicated, as in this movement person gets from the hanging position into a position where she stands on her arms above the obstacle.
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