Le Parkour
Le Parkour. As described in wikipedia, it is "an urban acrobatic activity of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment — from branches and rocks to rails and concrete walls — parkour can be practiced in both rural and urban areas. Male parkour practitioners are recognized as traceurs and female as traceuses."
In order words, they are a bunch hyperactive homosapiens who like to show off their solid bodies by jumping around trash cans, outrunning Mr.Bond, and dodging Bruce Willis' bullets in a half nakedly fashion; all in all trying to emulate the likes of Spiderman, hoping they can impress a few blondes and not end up being blended into meat patty by cooling tower fans. A frenchman decided to call this le parkour. I call it reckless driving without the car.
Parkour has appeared in various television advertisements, news reports and entertainment pieces, often combined with other forms of acrobatics also called free running, street stunts and tricking.
The most notable appearances have been the narrative films:
* Yamakasi
* District B13
* Casino Royale
* The Great Challenge
* Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0)
2 comments:
Indeed, parkour is reckless, destrucive, dangerous, un-urbanlike, and very impressive. I would like to emulate all such things myself.
If'd only parkour was made known to us during the age when our bones were still rubber and our testicles made from titanium. haha.
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