About Parkour
What parkour means ?
Parkour as a term was originated in France from the word "parcour" that means in english "course" or "way" then the "c" was replaced with "k" for better phonetics. But whatever what was its meaning, it remains that parkour is that new sport that spread as fast as fire all over the world.
It's worth mentioning that this sport isn't known with this term only, but it differs accordind to the differences between countries and cultures as it's called "Freerunning" and "L'art du deplacement".
What is parkour about?
Pakour concerns primarily about overcomming obstacles. It deals within the human body with a new concepts and its limitations during moving in the surrounding enviroment, this sport deal with the human body as a single unit taking into account harmonic coordination between its parts and each other and its parts and the enviroment.
As a result, new styles of moves and new means of overcoming obstacles have evolved. In other word, the matter of passing so many barriers became nothing if we saw them through the eyes of parkour players putting in mind the three fundemental rules "speed, precision and effeciency".
The start
It's in France, on the shoulders of a group of french sports men most notably of them "David Belle" where parkour as a sport was born on his hands. He was influenced greatly by what his father taught him during his childhood in sports and appending him to general "Herbert" obstacles military squad called "parcour de combatant" which is considered a prototype for parkour putting in mind the great difference between them now after decades of development.
The French players have been practicing more and more developing their skills over years till parkour basics was well formed in its recent style.
Parkour came out from France when the British T.V transmitted the "Jumb Londen" documentary as it represented parkour featured by "Sebastian Foucan" and his mates that attracted more and more sportive fans and players to try parkour. Then the stark that lead to spreading of parkour globally was set off by the unleashing of the documentary "Jumb Britain" which was broadcasted by too many T.V channels all over the world and one of them was "Al Jazeera documentary" which had a great influence in spreading parkour between the Arab audience.
Parkour worlwide
Many of this sport have presented some works like "Jumb London" & "Jumb Britain" documentaries as we said before, movies like "Yamaksi", "B 13" and "B 13 ultimatum" that focus on the sport and others that include parkour like "James Bond" fantastic peace of art "Casino royal".
Then parkour travelled all over the globle, private team were formed to practice and sometimes to train others by those who are more experienced like "Urban freeflow", "Parkour generations" and "3run" beside practicing some other related sports like "XMA" and free gymnastics. And the most famous arabian non-Egyptian teams are located on Morroco, Kuwait, Palestine and U.A.E.
Parkour techniques
It's worth mentioning that this sport isn't known with this term only, but it differs accordind to the differences between countries and cultures as it's called "Freerunning" and "L'art du deplacement"
Parkour and freerunning techniques varies greatly, but we can put them under three basic categories; vaults, climbings and tricks. Any technique under this categories has its specific technical and fitness excercises. But we should also say that parkour techniques are charachterized by great flexibility that depends on the physical and mental capabilities of the traceur - the player of parkour -, the obstacle and the enviromental conditions at which the technique is executed. This means that those techniques depends on this variabls unleashing the personal creativity and innovating new techniques.
But to describe any technique as a parkour one, it must obeys the following three conditions; effeciency, precision and speed.
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The history of Parkour Though Sébastien Foucan states in Jump London that "le parkour has always existed, free running has always been there, the thing is that no one gave it a name, we didn't put it in the box," there are certain precedents in modern history. Hollywood stars and stuntmen such as Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., John Ciampa and Buster Keaton captured parkour-like moves on film as early as the 1920–40s (much later followed by Jackie Chan). In Eastern martial arts such as ninjutsu and qing gong, movements similar to those of parkour have been taught for centuries and with a similar aim. In Western Europe, a forerunner of parkour was French naval officer Georges Hébert, who before World War I promoted athletic skill based on the models of indigenous tribes he had met in Africa.[6] He noted, "their bodies were splendid, flexible, nimble, skillful, enduring, and resistant but yet they had no other tutor in gymnastics but their lives in nature." [6] His rescue efforts during the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on Saint-Pierre, Martinique, reinforced his belief that athletic skill must be combined with courage and altruism.[6] Hébert became a physical education tutor at the college of Reims in France. Hébert set up a "méthode naturelle" (natural method) session consisting of ten fundamental groups: walking, running, jumping, quadrupedal movement, climbing, balancing, throwing, lifting, self-defense, swimming, which are part of three main forces:[7] During World War I and World War II, Hébert's teaching continued to expand, becoming the standard system of French military education and training. Thus, Hébert was one of the proponents of "parcours", an obstacle course,[8] which is standard in the military training and led to the development of civilian fitness trails and confidence courses.[6] Further impetus came from David and Raymond Belle, both of whom were active as fitness promoters—Raymond for the French fire service and David for more individual purposes; he went on to found the group the Yamakasi.[9][10] |
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