Parkour Ghana members will get very busy pretty soon as the interim executives are planning and preparing to organize the sport and competitions in the country.
Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners, called tracers or traceurs, aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in the fastest and most efficient way possible.
The international Parkour Federation (IPF) has sent messages to affiliated nations thanking them for sustaining and maintaining their health in this Covid -19 era.
The body has ordered all national federations to send most up-to-date logo, website link and/or Facebook or Instagram page so that they can add a functioning link below each country’s flag on the IPF website.
The IPF urged national federations to achieve official recognition from the sports ministry or NOC, and send us copies of those documents as well.
“It is CRUCIAL that you maintain your NF’s web presence with frequent posts. Many national and international organizations have their eyes on us, and we must all contribute to the goal of full recognition by GAISF, the IOC, and other NGO’s.
We highly value your NF as an integral part of the IPF family. However, failure to respond to this request could jeopardize the renewal of your IPF license” said a recently released statement signed by Mehdi Salman Pour – (Arash) and copied to the President- Asia Freerunning Parkour Union AFPU , Deputy Secretary-General- IPF and Vice President- IPF
The AFPU is the official Union of Freerunning and Parkour in Asia and The only governing body for the International Parkour Federation IPF,
Parkour is the practice of traversing obstacles in a man-made or natural environment through the use of running, vaulting, jumping, climbing, rolling, and other movements in order to travel from one point to another in the quickest and most efficient way possible without the use of equipment.
By Sammy Heywood Okine
