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Can you go with the urban flow?
Parkour, also known as "Le Parkour" or "free running" is an international sport that originated in France.
The idea that underpins the sport of parkour is that the traceur (the runner) moves through an urban landscape, navigating whatever obstacles they encounter as directly and fluidly as possible.
An apt description is that parkour can look a lot like urban skateboarding, just minus the skateboard part. Running, jumping, climbing and rolling in a fluid sequence, the traceur strives for grace, speed and economy of motion.
Contents at a Glance
Le Parkour
An Introduction
- Le Parkour - Free Running
- Welcome to Sebastien Foucan's website. (NOTE: this is the guy playing the bad guy Bond chases in "Casino Royale.")
- Parkour.NET - THE Official Parkour Portal powered BY Traceurs, FOR Traceurs
- THE Official Parkour portal with News, Articles, Links, Photos, Videos, Forum, Blogs and a lot more! English, Français, Deutsch, Portuguese (BR), Polski, Español.
- Le PARKOUR - art du déplacement
- English and French langauge version of this site are available.
- Parkour videos - Only good Parkour videos !
- Parkour videos - Parkour-videos.com : Only good Parkour videos ! Parkour is an art to help you pass any obstacle.
- Urban Freeflow: The Official Worldwide Parkour/Freerun Network
- UF - The Worlds biggest, most active and organised parkour / freerun network
- Parkour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 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 one's environment. Such movement may come in the form of running, jumping, climbing and other more complex techniques. The goal of parkour is to adapt one's movement to any given obstacle.
- Howstuffworks "How Parkour Works"
- Learn what parkour is, the philosophy behind it, how it got started and where parkour is going in the future.
- Dangerous Ground Project
- For millions of people the ground is a dangerous place to be. Click here to see if we could walk around 50,000 square metres of London without touching it
- Parkour Online, - Useful Tips Tricks an Tutorials
- Parkour - online.com this is a brand new site where you can find out what you want to know about parkour and freerunning, or view our guides or tutorials.
"It's the art of overcoming obstacles as swiftly and efficiently as possible using only your body."
Parkour Blogs
the very latest in free-running
- Parkour Motion Reel | RealTalkNY Brought To You By Nigel D.
- parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo. Spotted @ CaviNYC.
- Parkour Motion Reel Video | Hypebeast
- Marcus Troy puts us onto this cool new video entitled Parkour Motion Reel. The short animated piece was done with a technical pen, frame by frame. Tracing.
- Marcus Troy » MTTV: Parkour Motion Reel
- Streets-lifestyle-fashion-retail-gadgets-sneakers.
- Parkour flip book | Doobybrain.com
- parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo. The physical act known as parkour gets a new creative twist in this hand-drawn and hand-flipped illustrated.
Parkour Communities
National and Local Parkour/Freerun Groups and Websites
- American Parkour - Home
- American Parkour- Parkour and Free Running Community
- Parkour :: South Africa :: PKSA
- This site is built by traceurs for traceurs. It was designed with an Urban Free-Running Community in mind. The main drive of this site is to introduce this sport in South Africa.
- Parkour Australia - The Australian Centre for Parkour and Freerunning
- Parkour Australia - The Australian Centre for Parkour and Freerunning.
- Parkour Nottingham - Parkour in Nottingham - Index
- Parkour Nottingham, pk Notts, Notts freerunning, you will find lots of people from in and around Nottingham who do parkour,le-parkour, freerunning.
- Northern Parkour :: Based in Manchester, for parkour across the North of England
- NorthernParkour: For parkour across the north of England
- Le PARKOUR -Spain-
- Web oficial de Le PARKOUR en Espana.
- SFParkour.com
- THE source of parkour information for the San Francisco Bay Area traceur community.
- Welcome to NYParkour.com!
- Parkour is a discipline for the body and the mind. It is about navigating one's surroundings with speed, power, and grace. Additionally, practicioners of parkour (traceurs) explore new ways of moving through their environments, turning features such as walls and railings from barriers into opportunities for creative movement.
- Edinburgh Parkour
- Edinburgh Parkour is the website for Parkour in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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- marsha32 marsha32 Nov 21, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
- Interesting, didn't know what it was until now.
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- James Delong James Delong Aug 23, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
- Great lens - I love how you broke down the youtube and flick sections. for a squidoo site this looks like a great blog. If you like to check out some of the newest parkour info I have, then visit my Parkour Running Blog.
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- triathlontraining triathlontraining Apr 20, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
- Great lens! I was going to make one about freerunning, but ya beat me to it! :)
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- Dav1d0 Dav1d0 Mar 21, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
- Really nice work man ;) 5 stars
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