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  • Parkour Craze Growing Among Thrill-Seekers in U.S. (amazing stuff - video link)

    06/19/2009 5:37:33 AM PDT · by SonOfDarkSkies · 23 replies · 1,485+ views
    FoxNews.com ^ | 6/19/2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller
    The first time he saw David Belle, Mark Toorock knew he had to become a traceur. Belle's cat-like balancing acts, his eye-popping feats of agility, his sheer strength ... "What I saw, frankly, was a guy with superhuman capabilities," Toorock told FOXNews.com. "[He] was doing all these things without pads or a wire." That was back in 2002, when parkour — an extreme sport popularized in France during the 1990s in which participants run, jump and flip from Point A to Point B as efficiently as possible — was relatively unknown outside of Europe. Now the obstacle-based urban sport appears...
  • Parkour and Free Running (Mind-Blowing Videos!)

    08/12/2006 11:28:00 AM PDT · by Pyro7480 · 12 replies · 386+ views
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    From Wikipedia: Parkour is a physical discipline of French origin in which participants attempt to pass obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible, using skills such as jumping, vaulting and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves. The obstacles can be anything in one's environment, so parkour is often practiced in urban areas because of many suitable public structures, such as buildings, rails, and walls. A traceur is a participant of parkour. Parkour is a physical discipline inspired by human movement, focusing on uninterrupted, efficient forward motion over, under, around and through obstacles (both man-made and natural) in...