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‘Déplacement’ represents your future, where you will take yourself and who you will become. ‘Du’ is the present, who you are now and what you are trying to accomplish. According to them, the word ‘art’ represents your past, everything from your life that has gotten you to where you are and who you are today. ‘Par’ means through/by and ‘cours’ means route/course, and together they make ‘through the way’ or ‘through the course’.Īrt Du Déplacement: The name given to this discipline by the other Yamakasi was “L’Art du Déplacement”, ‘the art of displacement’. Parkour: The term ‘parkour’ was the first name, created by David Belle, which derived from the French word ‘parcours’. So, under his influence and training, his son David Belle ultimately became the father of parkour. He was known for his acrobatic athleticism and ability to safely and quickly move along ledges, to scale buildings without using a ladder, and to leap between building rooftops. Later, during the 1940s and ’50s, Raymond Belle, a firefighter received instruction on Hébert’s methods and become an elite firefighter. The regimen involved training in running, jumping, climbing, balancing, swimming, and defending and the use of obstacle courses called “parcours du combattant.” Hébert was a pioneering physical educator in the French military. Many writers on parkour trace its origins to the physical education and training methods developed in the years before World War I by Georges Hébert known as “la méthode naturelle”, (‘Natural method’) and a more wide training programme known as Hebertism (built on his name). This flowing technique is encouraged through a combination of training the body to move efficiently and training the mind to focus on the present moment, while adding creativity in the movement. Parkour’s flowing and flexible way of moving can be used to build strength, balance and flexibility while improving one’s mental health. The “run and jump” technique of parkour is often featured in the media, but it is so much more. Let us look deeper into this interesting sport and its techniques.
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using man-made structures for aiding in movement.Ī young man who practices parkour is called a traceur a woman is a traceuse.
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This discipline is also known as competition free running and is based on using the environment to one’s advantage, i.e. It is a self-taught discipline that involves training your body to move through space efficiently and fluidly, like a cat jumping to a roof or lizard slithering on a wall. Parkour involves a way of moving with rhythm and flow that has no boundaries, rules or restrictions. By urban, it means stairways, walls of the buildings, houses and everything related to it. In the west, parkour has been taken up as physical education and a lifestyle that aims to overcome obstacles by moving, running, jumping and climbing from one point to another in an urban environment. In this action-packed sport, the balance and power of the body are used together to challenge gravity and play with it. The past couple of decades have seen parkour gaining popularity in the western world, however, it is now becoming a well-known sport in the east and even in Pakistan too! The good thing is that there is a federation established particularly for this discipline. This is the combination of art and sport called ‘parkour’ - a relatively new sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing or leaping rapidly and efficiently. Their movement almost feels like they are weightless and are swaying with the air.Įver wondered what they are actually doing? Or why their moves are so smooth and what is the point of their running from one obstacle to another without appearing as if they are actually climbing the walls, running on the streets and on stairways, over railings, and jumping up and climbing down while completely twisting and stretching their bodies? There are many ads and movies in which we see youngsters jumping and running from one place to another so freely and smoothly that it almost feels like they are floating in the air.