Parkour Injuries

August 13, 2010

Know what actions can cause knee injuries. Unexpected twisting can root to the meniscus, ACL, or cartilage to rip. Landing can cause repetitive stress injury or PCL injury. Here we give you information about knee injuries in parkour. First, warm up! Never take warm up lightly. Just some calisthenics or jogging will increase your heart [...]

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Parkour Safety

August 4, 2010

What Is Parkour? Parkour is basically, to overcome any obstacle in your environment, in most efficient ways possible. It is done by the practitioners using their physical abilities, such as running, jumping, rolling and similar type of physical movements. It requires disciplined training of practitioners on permanent basis. Parkour is an exciting sport which can [...]

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Parkour Training

July 25, 2010

Parkour, is freely defined as the skill of moving. It involves using one’s body plus things in the surroundings to find the way physical obstacles. In spirit, a practitioner of Parkour, shall jump, run, climb or do other aerobics type actions to get from one point to another point. Parkour has an exacting focus on [...]

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Parkour – More than an art – A way of life

July 13, 2010

People face difficulties in day to day life because of unexpected changes in their life. To cope up with these difficulties, George Hebert, who first saw Africans doing these types of movements, introduced Parkour through different mediums of media. Parkour, as an Art Parkour is an art of training human body to move quickly and [...]

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Philosophy and History of Parkour

July 2, 2010

Parkour can be said as a complete sport which trains people to overcome any physical obstacles in their path swiftly and efficiently. This sport commonly involves jumping running and similar type of physical movements. History of parkour. The credit of invention of Parkour can not be given to one person because many people have worked [...]

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Pictures of Parkour

June 20, 2010

A clip of Jake Gyllenhaal’s exercises in order to, get ready for parkour.  Jake, who was taught directly by David Belle, started by doing aerobics routines.  Jake later began performing jumps on difficult surfaces and even did some of his personal stunts in the movie. Jake gives credit to parkour for helping him to get [...]

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The Traceuse – A Woman’s Perspective and Advice on Parkour

June 11, 2010

The essence of parkour is to move forward in a disciplinary manner with speed and efficiency to overcome obstacles while moving from one place to another. The practitioners of parkour who are men are called traceur and similarly women are called traceuse. There are many elite traceurs of parkour but still female practitioners are less [...]

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Videos of Parkour

June 3, 2010

Wisdom of parkour is becoming more and more popular, although it is not, the easiest obsession to do particularly if you try to learn it yourself. This piece of writing will discuss three ways to learn parkour that help you on your technique to learning this thrilling and charming sport. Our website will tell you [...]

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