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Today is National Parkour Day in the U S of A.
(This is the most well known of the Parkour videos, featuring the Dvinsk Clan and their vital motion in Latvia. 2006 was the year Parkour and its sub-culture went viral. The Wikipedia article on Parkour is fascinating. Proponents equip themselves with physical skills, philosophy, an aesthetic and an ethic. It’s a deep embodied social critique too. This is clear enough from watching the grace within the environments the art form most often is conducted within. )
Parkour. Related: freerunning.
from Wikipedia:
Documentary online: Generation Yamakasi | Parkour@Metacafe
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(This is the most well known of the Parkour videos, featuring the Dvinsk Clan and their vital motion in Latvia. 2006 was the year Parkour and its sub-culture went viral. The Wikipedia article on Parkour is fascinating. Proponents equip themselves with physical skills, philosophy, an aesthetic and an ethic. It’s a deep embodied social critique too. This is clear enough from watching the grace within the environments the art form most often is conducted within. )
Parkour. Related: freerunning.
from Wikipedia:
To understand the philosophy of parkour takes quite a while, because you have to get used to it first. While you still have to try to actually do the movements, you will not feel much about the philosophy. But when you’re able to move in your own way, then you start to see how parkour changes other things in your life; and you approach problems — for example in your job — differently, because you have been trained to overcome obstacles. This sudden realization comes at a different time to different people: some get it very early, some get it very late. You can’t really say ‘it takes two months to realize what parkour is’. So, now, I don’t say ‘I do parkour’, but ‘I live parkour’, because its philosophy has become my life, my way to do everything.
—Andreas Kalteis.
Documentary online: Generation Yamakasi | Parkour@Metacafe
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