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Parkour and Free Running

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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.

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.”

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Parkour balances acrobatic risk, control: By RANDY SCHAFER on February 12, 2012 Quickly, on a recent night, the members of Parkour at UGA began their warm-up maneuvers. Their muscles clinched and the whites of their knuckles tensed as they hung from an 8-foot wall by their fingers, ...
WWE Elimination Chamber 2012: Top 10 Moments in the Match's 10-Year History: John Morrison Jumps on Sheamus from Chamber Roof, Elimination Chamber '11 In 2011, WWE announcers began to refer to the Prince of Parkour, someone who could use all surfaces for an offensive attack, and he showed why at Elimination Chamber 2011.
Moonlight Online English Beta Coming Soon: A few of the highlights of Moonlight Online include parkour -- yes, you can free-run across buildings and throughout the environment -- as well as Soul Clerics for weapons, which enables players to level-up the soul of a weapon and transfer it to other ...

Re-defining Urban Flow