Today I went to the Brooklyn Zoo! I know, it sounds like a place you keep animals, right? Well, it’s not. It’s actually a gym. Sort of. There are lots of structures you can hop around on and vault over and hang from. It’s for parkour. Parkour comes from the French word that means “by running.” It actually consists of vaulting and jumping and rolling and things like that. I jumped off a landing that was around 8 feet high into a pit of foam. I learned how to do vaults like the speed vault and safety vaults. I had a lot of fun and I can’t wait to do it again.

Part of the gym.

That’s the foam pit!

Speed vault.

Parkour