Abstract
Parkour, until recently leisure physical activity, is currently a competitive sport with all the attributes associated with it. This is a challenge for the parkourist community, but it is also a matter of dispute.
The inclusion of parkour among sports, reinforced by the ambition to become an Olympic sport, accelerates the interest of the professional public in shaping theoretical foundations and creating methodological materials. Our study is focused on defining the characteristic somatotype of a group of 50 Czech parkourists and to express the difference of somatotypes between competitors in the discipline free style and speed run.
The research group consisted of 50 probands with an average age of 22 years, an average height of 178,9 cm and an average body weight of 76,2 kg. Based on measurements and subsequent calculations, the values of the average somatotype of Czech parkourists were 3,0 - 4,9 - 2,5, which puts them into the category of stable mesomorph.
Both groups put to the same classification to the category of stable mesomorph, when the free style specialists had an average somatotype 2,7 - 5,2 - 2,3 and the speed run specialists 2,6 - 4,5 - 2,9. The presented results show the dominance of the mesomorphic component in connection with the fulfillment of somatic prerequisites the force character.