Should Parkour Be Considered An Individual Sport?

In this world, we’ve all seen people trying some acrobatic stuff to impress others. These people should start doing Parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. The question we are all wondering is if Parkour should be considered a sport at the same level of other individual sports? In this essay, I will argue that Parkour is a sport such as any individual sport for multiple reasons. For me, I also consider it a form of art because it’s very fluid and done in the city while learning the culture.

First, Parkour should be known as a sport because it’s a very demanding activity and all these movements (jump, climb, run) require a lot of athleticisms to practice this discipline.
You need to be in an extraordinary shape and to train a lot of hours to be able to achieve some result.

A lot of people are saying that Parkour is not a sport because it isn’t in major sport events (Olympics, etc) and nobody is watching it, so it’s not important.

My response to those people is that Parkour is on its way up and is going to hit that stage and become very popular in the future. For now, just watch 5 minutes of this discipline and seeing the things that they can do is going to impress you a lot. After that, I think your going to take back your critics and have nothing but admiration for these athletes!

Finally, in this paper I’ve tried to defend that Parkour should be considered a sport on the same level as any sport because of the degree of difficulty to execute some movements. I hope to see people step up for this amazing activity and bring it where it belongs! And you, what is your opinion on the subject?