> You seem like a marketing guy for the "parkour 4 hackers" putting it against traditional martial arts just like the hacker culture is against corporate culture.

I've corresponded and chatted with Zach on the phone a couple times. I've got to tell you - he's not so much a marketer for parkour as someone who has been able to reach more joy and self-perfection through a discipline.

And I train in martial arts and not parkour at all, and Zach has never given me a hard time for it ;) I don't think he's anti-anything really, he's one of the nicest and most open-minded, cool, and creative people I've connected with in the last year.

He's probably sharing on parkour because he really loves it and thinks others could have better lives through it too. I'm happy he's doing so - more education from experienced people is always welcome.

I'm not sure where you got the impression that parkour is "against" traditional martial arts. I had been training various martial arts for about 7 years before I started parkour, and then kept training for another 3 or so afterward. I'm a huge fan of martial arts, as are many traceurs.

I'm not so much a marketing guy for "parkour 4 hackers" as I am a marketing guy for "people finding something they love and doing it."

It's been incredibly influential in my life and it's helped make me who I am. Because of that, I do tend to go out of my way to help correct misconceptions and misinformation.

Cool, really cool. I'm now trying to get into shape(loose weight, improve breathing and stamina) with simple jump rope and hope to start training something specifical in near future so looking into different stuff. I didn't want to offend you or something. That post about parkour being without any kind of rankings/belts just seemed like an argument against those rankings a bit, which just related to the hacker culture for me, that's all. Sorry for the trolling about it ;)

No worries. Never any hard feelings or anything. :)

Do you know what you want to train in the future? Whether it's parkour or not, I'd love to chat and see if I can help you find what's a good fit for you. Email is in my profile.