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	Colorado Parkour
		The Trophy Case is a tool to recognize the dedication, progression, and fitness achievements of the members of the Colorado Parkour community.
		From the largest CO jam to date in February to the first weekly parkour classes to many media and news appearances, COPK had a successful year in training and through the advancement of parkour as a known and respected discipline in the state.
		Parkour is growing at a faster rate than ever so from COPK, have a safe and successful year of parkour.
	www.coloradoparkour.com (2221 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| The art of Le Parkour
		David Belle, acrobatic star of the BBC's new advertising campaign, is the acknowledged guru of a new urban sport in France known as Le Parkour - or obstacle-coursing.
		Belle, 28, is credited with having invented Le Parkour as a teenager in the Paris suburbs, along with his friend Sebastien Foucan.
		There are a series of basic moves, from the cat-jump - in which the exponent places two hands on an obstacle and then leaps between them - to the tic-tac, which is a kind-off push-off taken in mid-movement from a wall or other surface.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1939867.stm (541 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Parkour Works"
		Parkour is an international discipline, sport and hobby that is best described as the art of forward motion in spite of obstacles, or to put it simply: the art of movement.
		Parkour's chief aim is never to move backward but instead to overcome obstacles fluidly, with strength, originality and speed.
		Parkour is often compared to skateboarding, mostly because it uses urban terrain to perform "tricks." However, most traceurs reject the comparison, finding comparisons to the negative public image of skateboarding (that of rebellious and misguided youth) inaccurate and unfair.
	entertainment.howstuffworks.com /parkour.htm (1101 words)

	Parkour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parkour (IPA: /paʁ.'kuʁ/, often abbreviated PK) is a physical discipline of French origin in which the participant — called a traceur (/tʁa.'sœʁ/) — attempts to pass obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible, using skills such as jumping, vaulting and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves.
		Parkour is often connected with the idea of freedom, in the form of the ability to overcome aspects of one's surroundings that tend to confine; for example, railings, staircases, or walls.
		Use of the term is deprecated among parkour communities, as it implies that the practice is a type of parkour, which is not the case due to the fundamental differences in intention between the two activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parkour (2667 words)

	Le Parkour - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is because the supposed French acrobats who partake in Parkour have a death wish, think they're hot stuff, or are a combination of both.
		Parkour enthusiasts can be identified by the iPod nanos surgically grafted into their arm, their love of Nike apparel that borders on fetishization and their tendency to ricochet sideways off any perpendicular surface more than six inches tall.
		Parkour was invented in France at least a hundred years ago when Monsieur Hugo Parkour fell backwards out of a third-storey window and bounced off eighteen different bits of extruding masonry during his descent.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Le_Parkour (232 words)

	Parkour - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Parkour (also called Le Parkour, PK, or Free Running) is a physical discipline of French origin, in which participants attempt to pass obstacles in a smooth and rapid manner.
		Parkour is often connected with the idea of freedom, in the form of the ability to overcome aspects of one's surroundings that tend to confine - for example, railings, staircases, or walls.
		One argument against parkour parks most commonly put forward is that one can't practice parkour in a park as one would not be true to (at least their take on) the philosophy behind parkour; that is, one would not be moving over obstacles designed to restrict or that restrict naturally.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/a/r/Parkour.html (3111 words)

	SFParkour.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Parkour is the art of moving through your environment using only your body and the surroundings to propel yourself.
		Parkour could be grasped by imagining a race through an obstacle course, the goal is to overcome obstacles quickly and efficiently, without using extraneous movement.
		Parkour is not acrobatics, tricking, stunts, recklessness, or jumping off high objects for no reason.
	www.sfparkour.com /parkourfaq.asp (731 words)

	[ About Parkour ] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Parkour is very basically the art of movement where participants (otherwise known as 'Traceurs') use objects within their urban surroundings, to create new and interesting ways of moving.
		For people unfamiliar to Parkour, the easiest picture to paint is to say that what we do is the closest you can get to the Matrix, Spiderman and Hong Kong martial arts movies in the sense of movement, without the need for special FX or wires.
		the parkour was born from the meeting of various elements which are sports in general, and particularly urban sliding sports (for example, skateboarding), Asian martial arts, as well as break dancing, and of course David’s father’s teaching.
	www.parkour.ir /eindex.aspx (1221 words)

	Parkour, a strange new urban sport, is like skateboarding but without the skateboards - September 6, 2004
		It showed parkour master Foucan leading a group of traceurs as they turned London landmarks into their own jungle gym, leaping from the HMS Belfast on the Thames and scaling the rooftops of the Tate Modern.
		Parkour is making way into the United States, helped along by word-of-mouth on the Internet—along with Urban Freeflow there are a few other sites devoted to parkour, including one run by Foucan at www.parkour.com — and by recent converts and images of the sport popping up in the media.
		Parkour, he says, tapped into his inner kid that—walking along an ordinary sidewalk—is secretly itching to vault over barriers, swing from a street lamp and climb things.
	archive.dailyitem.com /archive/2004/0906/fea/stories/05fea.htm (1617 words)

	Word Spy - parkour
		These are the instincts of traceurs, adoptees of a French-inspired sport called parkour that is part obstacle course, part pushing the limits of urban architectural functionality and all adrenaline-pumping excitement.
		Parkour developed 16 years ago in the suburbs of Paris when sneaker-clad teenagers began navigating public spaces as skateboarders might, but without the skateboards.
		Called Le Parkour — the obstacle course — it is a mixture of acrobatics and daredevil antics developed by martial arts expert Belle.
	www.wordspy.com /words/parkour.asp (350 words)

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		Si vous voulez parler d'autre chose que le Parkour.
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	Parkour: Interesting Thing of the Day
		Parkour combines elements of running, gymnastics, dance, and martial arts into a breathtaking—and sometimes dangerous—way of moving from place to place (typically in an urban setting).
		Even though parkour has reached a significant level of international popularity only in the past three years or so, there is already an offshoot sport that has led to a great deal of bitterness and division among parkour proponents.
		However, parkour purists feel that the direction in which Foucan has taken the activity is entirely different (in both execution and philosophy) from what he and Belle had originally developed—and that what is now known as free-running should not be confused with “true” parkour (which Belle still promotes).
	itotd.com /articles/551/parkour (1050 words)

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