In what direction goes the youth sports? The Jambo Free Style Urban Park is the UISP answer (the largest Italian Sport for All organization. For two days, Bologna, Italy, May 30-31, UISP will be present at TheJamBO 2015, animating Fiera di Bologna with the activities of urban freestyle like skate, parkour, tricking, speedbol, tree climbing, biking , half pipe and basketball. In a mix of sports and music, metro art and public meetings will be possible to discover and try out these new expressions of movement, which are considered a lifestyle by the crew of practitioners all over the world.
The urban freestyle are sports, because they have all the features, they are skilled expressions of movement. They involve to take risks and therefore require to be focused on the tasks and fast decision-making capacity, as well as coordination and balance. There are other components, such as ability to adapt to a changing environment.
Those who practice this kind of sport, parkour for example, have learned to move knowing to take a calculated dose of risk. They are also exciting activities, where it comes out the ability to manage the emotions. One of the things more intriguing is the ability to learn through their own practice s. The fact of being able to exercise outdoors and in the streets is a form of re-appropriation of spaces in the city. Like it was when we were kids in the ’60s, when you could play freely in the street.
