Parkour ist die Freiheit und Motivation durch Überwindung sämtlicher Hindernisse einen möglichst kurzen Weg von A nach B zu laufen. Die Idealvorstellung ist es, durch nichts - außer der eigenen Kreativität - in der Bewegung eingeschränkt zu sein.

Keine Mauer ist zu hoch, keine Treppe zu steil. Durch Springen, Hangeln, Rollen und Hochziehen meistern die Künstler Ihren Weg. Beim Parkour Workshop legen Sie den Grundstein für Ihre künftige Leidenschaft!

Sie haben schon einmal davon gehört, dass Menschen sich geschmeidig wie Katzen über scheinbar unüberwindbare Hindernisse bewegen wie zum Beispiel Garagen, Häuserschluchten, Bauzäune und Mauern?

Entdecken Sie bei Ihrem Parkour-Workshop eine völlig neue Art der Fortbewegung! Danach ist Ihnen kein Weg mehr zu lang, keine Treppe zu steil und keine Wand mehr im Weg. Beim Parkour-Workshop werden Ihnen die grundlegenden Bewegungsabläufe näher gebracht und Sie üben sich in den Basics dieser faszinierenden Sportart und Kunstform.

Doch was ist Parkour eigentlich und wer hat´s erfunden? Le Parkour ist eine von dem Franzosen David Belle begründete Sportart, bei der der Teilnehmer oder auch Traceur (französisch: „der den Weg ebnet“ oder „der eine Spur legt“) durch Überwindung sämtlicher Hindernisse, einen möglichst kurzen Weg von A nach B nimmt.

Le Parkour kann eigentlich überall, sowohl in natürlichem wie in urbanem, städtischem Umfeld ausgeübt werden. Dabei überwindet der Traceur alles, was sich ihm an Hindernissen in den Weg stellt.

Ihnen ist vielleicht bislang noch nicht aufgefallen, wie kreativ man Pfützen, Papierkörbe, Bänke, Blumenbeete und Mülltonnen umgehen kann? Bauzäune, Mauern, Litfasssäulen, Garagen und für die Geübten auch Hochhäuser und Hochhausschluchten – beim Parkour wird alles übersprungen und überklettert, was sich dem Traceur in den Weg stellt. Die Hindernisse selbst dürfen natürlich nicht verändert werden. Schließlich geht es darum, sich mit dem tatsächlichen Umfeld auseinander zu setzen.

Laut Eigendefinition ist Parkour eine Disziplin, die Bewegungskunst, Sport und Technik zusammen bringt. Die Bewegungskunst des Parkour ist auf „elegante, effiziente, geschmeidige, flüssige Bewegungen“ ausgerichtet, was beim bloßen Betrachten von Außenstehenden zu großem Staunen führt.

Damit Sie eben nicht derjenige bleiben, der nur begeistert und bewundernd beim Le Parkour zusieht, sondern ein aktives Mitglied der kleinen aber wachsenden Community werden, sollten Sie sich den Parkour-Workshop auf keinen Fall entgehen lassen!

Kein geringerer als der in der Szene bekannte Moses Kallweit, der seine Kunst schon für diverse Werbespots gezeigt hat, wird Ihnen bei Ihrem Workshop mit professioneller Hilfe zur Seite stehen. Moses praktiziert Le Parkour nach der Methode vom Gründer David Belle und Sie lernen hier direkt vom Profi.

Der Workshop findet Indoor in einer Halle statt. Sie üben nicht an Blumentrögen oder Litfasssäulen, sondern an Geräten, die in der Sporthalle zu finden sind. Ob Sie nun die „die Drehung, den Katzensprung, den Präzisionssprung, die Rolle oder den Armsprung“ üben, diese Bewegungen wenden Sie dann, wenn Sie diese genügend trainiert haben auch draußen, in der natürlichen Umgebung an. Alle Übung macht den Meister. Parkour bedeutet Körperbeherrschung, Ausdauer und eine gute Fitness.

Sicher werden Sie mit dem Workshop einen Grundstock legen und sich nach dem Training intensiv mit den neu gewonnenen Möglichkeiten der Fortbewegung beschäftigen. Auf was warten Sie, werden Sie zum Bewegungskünstler!

Leistungen
• 3 Stunden Parkour-Workshop
• professionelle Einweisung und Betreuung - zum Event Anbieter: Parkour Workshop Salzburg: Erst Adrenalin. Dann Endorphin. Leckerbissen mit Langzeitrausch. Wir bringen Ihr Blut in Wallung.

A 30minutes show of Parkour featuring Tyson Cecka, a professional stuntman from Seattle, a very well known traceur in parkour scene. Join Tyson Cecka as he travels to Japan to practice parkour together with the Japanese traceurs. “Parkour Japan – The Tokyo Trip” brings you 4 days trip took place in Tokyo: Shibuya and Shinjuku where Tyson met with around 15 of the local traceurs, practicing a few tricks.

You can watch “High 5 Extreme Sports: Parkour Japan – The Tokyo Trip” full episode here.

We can also get to know more about Tyson in this episode. Interviews and a lot of shots of his parkour action had been taken in the city of Tokyo.

Watch a preview of Parkour Japan – The Tokyo Trip.

Parkour or also known as free running, or l'art du déplacement (art of movement) is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is a sport of the art of displacement where new and different ways to move around is applied in the sport; series of jumping, running, rolling, climbing, crawling, sliding and even swimming if necessary

Founded by David Belle in France, parkour getting more and more fan/practitioner until today.

XBB.tv brings you “High 5 Extreme Sports: Parkour Japan – The Tokyo Trip” full episode.

Catch more videos on www.xbb.tv

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a film by Sam Ruscica

n.

A person possessing the natural or acquired traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance, that are necessary for physical exercise or sports, especially those performed in competitive contexts.

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It's been hovering around him since the opening ceremony, and now after he has shattered six world records and won seven of his seven entered races, there is no question to many sports fans and journalists alike that Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete ever to set foot on Earth. He has the three key components of a true athlete: strength, agility, and endurance, and he happens to compete in a sport that demands each of those traits. But is he really the best? I beg to differ.

There is no disputing that Phelps is the greatest swimmer ever, but some people need to seriously contemplate making a statement like this, which in my opinion is very premature. The world has only seen this guy for less than a week, and whatever he has managed to accomplish is admittedly extremely impressive, but the world has simply seen better out of a human being. It seems like in all this excitement the world has forgotten the flawless performances that have been displayed thus far in the world of sports ranging from Kobe Bryant's 81 point performance, where relentless scoring met grace and agility, to Michael Jordan's illustrious career. And who can forget Walter Payton's mesmerizing speed and toughness in the dirty sport of American football and Usain Bolt's recent world records with arguably the best sprinting ever showcased. And what about Pele, Gordie Howe, Magic Johnson, and the many others who really were sports during their era. 

And we keep forgetting the unknown sports that really showcase the most challenging and athletic ability -- Big Mountain Skiing, Biatholan, the marathon, horse racing, gymnastics, and (my favorite) -- parkour.

So is Michael Phelps the greatest athlete ever? It's very hard to tell, and it all comes down to a long and hard thought by a well respected journalist. So who is the greatest athlete ever? David Belle. Look him up.

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For traceurs (as devotees are called), parkour is a way of life and a philosophy. It is a practical, satisfyingly valid response to the existential dilemmas of our age and our urban environment. Humans have always strived to expand the limits of the possible. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this urge was epitomized by technological progress and ever growing cities that represented opportunity. Automated manufacturing, sophisticated infrastructures and access to cornucopia of goods and services made urbanization seem like the solution to human happiness.

Yet walk down the street of any metropolis and you’ll realize that it’s just the opposite. Cities are colossal machines that reduce their inhabitants to insignificant cogs; to survive, one must run an endless obstacle course. This challenge – or affront – to human nature tends to produce two responses: submission to the daily grind alleviated by voyeuristic immersion in the lives of celebrities, or flight from the cities to an imagined utopia of leafy suburbs or bucolic villages.

 It took a simple genius to formulate a response that reconciled our urge for striving and freedom with the constraints of urban life. David Belle was born in 1973, into a French family of limited means. As a child, his maternal grandfather Gilbert Kitten, a retired sergeant of the sapeurs-pompiers (firefighters), told him stories about real-life heroes. His father Raymond had served as a soldier in Indochina and then as a firefighter in Paris, where his colleagues dubbed him “a force of nature”. No wonder David felt compelled to emulate their physical courage and prowess…

Young David became skilled in athletics, gymnastics, climbing and martial arts. At fifteen he quit school to devote himself to training his body and spirit, understanding that one depended on the other.  Yet he was only attracted to sport per insofar that he could use those skills to save a life, or move without falling into a trap. Running, jumping, climbing all kinds of heights, balance, the ability to overcome obstacles…David was obsessed with those things. He wanted to be free of obstacles, limits and fears, to walk wherever he pleased. 

Meanwhile, he moved to Lisses, a suburb of Paris, where he met the people who would become his associates for the next eight years, calling themselves the Yamakasi. During military service, David obtained a First Aid certificate but an injured wrist prevented him from joining the firefighters. Having recovered from this, he joined the Marine Infantry at Vannes, where he became the regiment’s champion rope-climber (as his father had been) and won the Essonne obstacle course.

Yet David felt that a regimented life in the army was not for him. His love of adventure and freedom were too strong, and jobs as a warehouse worker, security guard and furniture salesman left him unfulfilled.  After a trip to India to get a black belt in Gong Fu, he realized that parkour was his life’s mission. With a few friends, he shot footage of his abilities, and showed one to a team from Stade 2 TV.

They were so impressed that they made a report about him, which brought parkour worldwide fame.  Ever since, David and other traceurs have been filmed for music videos, adverts, presentations and cinema – yet all he cares about is pushing the limits of human ability by constant self-perfection. Since founding PAWA – the Parkour Worldwide Association – he has traveled the globe, displaying his skills, sharing his experience and looking for new obstacles to overcome. 

Parkour embodies the notion of reaching any location without physical limitations or equipment.  If humanity has long imagined cities where cars move vertically as well as horizontally, vertical pedestrians already exist. Fences, walls, stairs and roofs are sidewalks for a skilled traceur; whatever obstacles lie between A to B are merely sports apparatus.

The stunts they perform are better seen than heard, and even then it’s sometimes hard to believe your eyes. Hopping from rooftop to rooftop like squirrels; climbing up and down the sheer faces of buildings like Spiderman; vaulting walls and fences as easily as you climb stairs, or running into openings that look too narrow to squeeze into...

All these stunts are the results of hard training. Parkour involves an enormous effort; beside exceptional fitness, endurance of pain and capacity to avoid trauma, it requires utter concentration and self-control. A traceur’s body is their tool for realizing dreams and desires. Their training involves mind exercises, many taken from Oriental martial arts and meditative practices. Safety and responsibility are taken seriously; movements should never be performed without prior training, involving many repetitions of basic exercises and careful thought about the order of movements. 

Although minor injuries are inevitable in parkour, series injuries are uncommon and usually happen only when the traceur is careless or foolish. Yet this is enough to make others wonder if parkour is a danger for children or society as a whole.

Traceurs would argue that this reflects society’s neuroses and conformity to the spatial constraints of cities. People are so conditioned to follow existing paths and routes that anyone who acts in defiance of them is seen as posing a threat or, at best, as an irrelevance.

Parkour is not about sport, or politics, but a way of creating your own routes through an over-determined environment. It means perceiving the world, understanding your body and coexisting with the city. It is an expression of will and freedom to act; an emotional outburst, profoundly romantic. 

The city reveals its magic to you as you flash past astonished drivers and pedestrians, crossing high fences in bounds.  You have no foot pedals or skateboard beneath your feet, no handlebars or seat for reassurance – only your pumping heart and straining sinews. They won’t let you down.   You are powerful – and free.

True parkour will never become a sport. Sport is about money, competition, envy, doping, slander; it no longer reconciles people. Should parkour become a sport, it will never be the same again.  

(Wriiten by Alexei Iakovlev for Avantoure digital magazine www.avantoure.com)

No sé si se trata de una especie de superhéroe, una mezcla entre humano y animal, como Spiderman o de un saltamontes.

Lo que si os puedo asegurar es que si me lo cuentan no me lo creo, y aún tras ver el siguiente video, tengo mis propias dudas, en resumen, ver para creer.

Aquí os dejo lo mejor de este artista llamado David Belle Le Parkour

No sé si se trata de una especie de superhéroe, una mezcla entre humano y animal, como Spiderman o de un saltamontes.

Lo que si os puedo asegurar es que si me lo cuentan no me lo creo, y aún tras ver el siguiente video, tengo mis propias dudas, en resumen, ver para creer.

Aquí os dejo lo mejor de este artista llamado David Belle Le Parkour

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Se sabe que Parkour é uma atividade física, denominada "a arte do deslocamento", já viu alguém praticando por aí? Se viu alguém pulando obstáculos urbanos, vestido com roupas "normais", sabia que mais do que um esporte, os praticantes o consideram uma forma de vida, com filosofia e regras específicas? Se você já sabia de tudo isso, sabia então que a técnica foi criada por David Belle, um francês de 35 anos que aprendeu com o pai movimentos e técnicas militares e as transformou nesta mania mundial?

No Brasil, os praticantes são organizados através de associações, e uma comunidade no Orkut possui mais de 40.000 associados!

David Belle (Fécamp, 29 de Abril em 1973) é um desportista francês.

Nasceu e cresceu no Sena Marítimo, na Normandia. Oriundo de uma família simples dos subúrbios de Paris com antepassados relacionados com o desporto.

Os primeiros 14 anos de vida foram passados em Fécamp e mais tarde em Sables d'Olonne. Foi criado pelo avô materno Gilbert Kitte, que desde cedo despertou em David uma paixão para o heroísmo e o saber ajudar as outras pessoas. Tanto no avô como no pai existia um passado relacionado com o exército e os bombeiros. Seguiu as pegadas do seu avô e pai tornando-se um Bombeiro Sapador Parisiense. Infelizmente devido a uma lesão no pulso, desistiu e nunca mais voltou. Mais tarde tratado da lesão entrou no exercito francês e ganhou mérito batendo recordes dos treinos. Venceu também o campeonado Essonne de obstaculos em tempo recorde.

David sempre foi uma pessoa simples e acredita no desporto para a vida diária. Procurava o que era útil. Aprendeu com o pai desde cedo a saber algumas técnicas/treinos militares que pôs em prática desde muito novo com os amigos(Yahn, Frederic Hnautra, David Malgogne,Sébastien Foucan e Kazuma).

A brincadeira originou ao nome da prática, Parkour.

Desde cedo demonstrou gosto pela acção e movimentos rápidos. Aos 15 anos desistia da escola para dar inicio a modalidades desportivas como:

• atletismo
• ginástica
• escalada
• artes marciais
• método natural

Desenvolveu várias aptidões físicas, controle, equilíbrio e força para dominar o corpo com uma agilidade considerável. Sempre procurou no esporte algo que fosse útil e prático para o dia a dia.

Seu pai, Raymond Belle, antigo soldado vietnamita dedicou a sua vida a uma vida saudável e desportiva. Conhecido e respeitado pelos seus métodos de deslocação em ambientes extremos, Raymond seguiu ensinamentos do Francês Georges Hébert, nomeadamente pelo seu livro “Natural Method of Physical Culture”, onde o atleta interage com o ambiente natural, treinando o seu físico, com um percurso de deslocação por obstáculos.

No Le Parkour:

• Situações de perseguição ou de fuga.
• Ir ao encontro de pessoas em ambientes complexos.
• Rapidez na deslocação e segurança durante a travessia.

• Desenvolveu o conceito "viagem", "percurso" de ponto A ao ponto B.
• Participou em anúncios, cinema, televisão.
• Ajudou a criar o PAWA

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Já faz algum tempo que este esporte vem chamando a atenção das pessoas (em todo o mundo). E pode colocar tempo nisso (rs). Eu mesmo não consigo me recordar da primeira vez que ouvi falar dele (muito menos quanto tempo faz). Enfim, o Parkour é uma derivação de um treinamento militar (francês) chamado: Parcours du Combattant (ou Percurso de Obstáculo). Este treinamento consistia em aperfeiçoar as técnicas usadas para transpor obstáculos (de forma rápida e fluente).

Iniciado nas artes militares por seu pai, David Belle (juntamente com Sébastien Foucan), desenvolveu o Parkour para a forma que conhecemos hoje. Unindo as técnicas militares com as artes marciais orientais. Mas, afinal, o quê se faz nesse esporte? Simples, o principal fundamento do Parkour é: "Nenhum obstáculo deve pará-lo". Ou seja, seu percurso (daí vem o nome Parkour) não deve ser interrompido por nenhum obstáculo. E, se há obstáculos, eles devem ser transpostos de forma rápida.

Vocês nunca ouviram falar do Parkour? E não estão entendendo nada? Então nada melhor do que um vídeo para ilustrar o Le Parkour. E, para isso, quem poderia ser melhor, do que o próprio David Belle, para apresentar o esporte a vocês:

Os praticantes de Parkour são conhecidos como Traceurs (ou Aquele que Traça). Sendo que, para as praticantes femininas, há uma outra denominação: Traceuses. Como assim? Mulheres também praticam este esporte? Sim, elas praticam este esporte. Aliás, elas não ficam devendo nada quando o assunto é Parkour. Vejam:

Aqui no Brasil o esporte ainda está engatinhando, mas já conta com uma Associação Brasileira de Parkour. Sendo que, os principais focos do esporte aqui, são: São Paulo e Brasília.

Bom, para finalizar, que tal vermos uma forma diferente de brincar de Pega-pega?

In the most recent James Bond film, Casino Royale, viewers are treated to an amazing demonstration of agility and physical prowess -- and no, ladies, I'm not referring to actor Daniel Craig's formidable physique. Rather, early in the film an extended, nail-biting action sequence takes place, showcasing the acrobatic and almost gravity-defying abilities possessed by practitioners of the physical art form known as Parkour.

Founded by David Belle in France, Parkour (which means "the art of displacement" in English) is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, principally using the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help a person overcome obstacles found in their surrounding environment -- from tree branches and large rocks to metal railings and concrete walls.

(via that'sfit: What is Parkour?)

(Very little. Not anywhere close to David Belle, mind you.)

Edit - yeah it looks ok, this is only Part 1... I've not found the remaining parts yet.