Greetings.
I was doing parkour for a while, reading these boards and such. I self taught myself the basic vaults (speed, monkey, kong, stuff like that not to mention this thing that idk what it is, where you put your and on the other side of the wall and you flip over the wall... name please?) and have been doing precisions and jumping around on jungle gyms since I was a small fry and didn't know it had a name. Everything was good until I damaged a friend's truck trying to jump into the back. I paid for it (as a good friend would) but it took all of my free money and some of my savings. I was also lucky not to get hurt. My parents were freaking out, and I like to keep them in good graces, so I basically gave up on parkour. I tried to stay in shape (I was done with sports a few weeks earlier) but I lost interest because I had nothing I was working towards and have since gained ~10lbs. [I was in good shape beforehand, I could see my abs without flexing and was exercising daily] For Christmas, my parents said they trusted me, gave me some martial arts shoes (great grip) and said they trusted me to be as safe as possible with this. I was rather pleased.
I'm 5'11, ~215lbs, bmi says I'm obese(I disagree, I'm just the broad shoulders, big arms/legs, and spartan calves type), I think I qualify as a gorilla.