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EXTREME SPORTS LEARN TO RIDE

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PARKOUR<br />

Parkour is not widely practiced in dedicated public<br />

facilities. Although efforts are being made to create<br />

places for it, some traceurs do not like the idea as<br />

it is contradictory to Parkour's value of<br />

freedom.Traceurs practice Parkour in both rural<br />

and urban areas such as gyms, parks, playgrounds,<br />

offices, and abandoned structures.<br />

Parkou is a holistc training discipline using<br />

movement that developed out of military<br />

obstacle course training. Practtoners aim<br />

to move quickly and efficiently through<br />

their environment using only their bodies<br />

and their surroundings to propel themselves,<br />

negotatng obstacles in between.<br />

They try to maintain as much momentum<br />

as possible without being unsafe. Parkour<br />

can include running, climbing, swinging,<br />

vaultng, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal<br />

movement and more, if they are the most<br />

suitable movements for the situaton. Parkour<br />

is non-compettve. It may be performed<br />

on an obstacle course, but is usually<br />

practced in a creatve (and sometmes<br />

playful) reinterpretaton or subversion of<br />

urban spaces.Parkour involves 'seeing'<br />

one's environment in a new way, and imagining<br />

the potentalites for movement<br />

around it.Developed by Raymond Belle,<br />

David Belle, Sébasten Foucan and others<br />

in the late 1980s,Parkour became popular<br />

in the late 1990s and 2000s through films,<br />

documentaries and advertsements featuring<br />

these practtoners and others.

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