PokéParkour

One kind of sport that some people would consider "extreme" is parkour. The sport involves athletes getting from one point to another in quick time and great style, which means running, jumping, dashing, leaping, and so on and so forth to achieve the objective. In the world of Pokémon, their athletes (Trainers) don't need to do all the same funky and extreme things to get around, although there is the prospect that they may be able to do just that. If that happens, then it may just be deserving to call it "PokéParkour" per the title of this post.

While I've found that I'm not exactly fit for parkour, I might just be able to assist other Trainers (and likely their Pokémon as well) in their parkour efforts, particularly if it's to chase after some other Trainers with less-than-savory agendas like those of Team Skull, some of which might have parkour skills of their own and need to be chased down with those very same skills in order to prevent them from carrying out their agendas. Being that the parkour sport has some inherent dangers of its own, they may need all the help they can get.

Back to the case of their Pokémon, they might just be able to execute parkour moves of their own, and ones that are even more extreme than what their human partner Trainers are capable of. And if they're not affiliated with certain Trainers, they may run in order to evade capture... although the Trainers may be resourceful enough, with or without parkour skills, to corner and eventually capture them. Certainly, after that, they can then ally with some involvement of parkour for all their battle and non-battle needs.

In fact, those scenarios have been illustrated in a few YouTube videos, though with humans acting out the parkour scenarios for Trainers and Pokémon alike. Two videos illustrate the "capture" scenario and their eventual resolution (though without the above extrapolation) and were filmed during the initial explosive breakthrough of Pokémon Go. Another video illustrates the "chase" scenario and has a twist at the end, driving home the point that I made above. The production quality of the videos is very good as well.

"PokéParkour" becomes a fascinating display of what human Trainers and Pokémon species might just be capable of, considering the videos as above. And that would be some extreme abilities in getting from place to place while leaping over things rapidly and stylishly, a useful thing to do in some circumstances if not a whole lot of fun. It's as much fun to think about for a Pokémon fan - me - while being able to actually do it as some people can... and most likely their Pokémon, if they were actual Trainers.

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