Parkour in Spokane
Tucked into a corner of Riverfront Park, near the big red wagon, are a pair of large, concrete planters, one sitting slightly uphill from the other. At least, that’s what it would look like to you or me. To Jarrod Swanson, the planters looked like an opportunity. A chance for fun. Something to jump on. “How can I play with it?” Swanson asks. “That’s how we look at this – our big playground.”
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Nicholas Murray, Jarrod Swanson and Joey Penchoen perform tricks on the block sculpture in Riverfront Park, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012.
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Jarrod Swanson and Joey Penchoen, left and right, watch Nicholas Murray perform vault over the block sculpture in Riverfront Park, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012.
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Nicholas Murray does a flip off an obstacle at Riverfront Park, Monday, Sept. 14, 2012, while Murray and his friends were practicing “parkour”, the improvisational sport developed in France.
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Jarrod Swanson leaps up onto a plants while practicing his parkour skills with friends, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, in Riverfront Park.
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Joey Penchoen swings himself up onto a planter at Riverfront Park, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012.
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