Follow Friday-Sticky Parkour
May 7, 2010
This is my first Follow Friday. I know I’ve stolen the idea from Twitter but I’m going to try and showcase one person a week who’s out on an expedition at the moment that you can follow either via twitter or their website.
Today is all about Johnny ‘Sticky’ Budden. Sticky is a professional Parkour Athlete or free runner. According to the oracle that is Wikipedia, “Parkour is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment.” Basically is amazingly impressive combinations of running up walls, backflips of buildings, jumping through objects and basically defying the laws of gravity. Sticky has decided to do this from the northernmost tip of Britain, John O’Groats, to the spiritual home of Parkour, Paris. That’s over a thousand miles of free running. He’s doing this to raise money and awareness for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
His website is here and you can follow him on twitter here.
