Article About Parkour
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What is Parkour? In this article, we are going to talk about, what Parkour is, where Parkour was born, who creates the Parkour, and where you can practice this “new extreme sport” In the next text, you are going to find the responses to the above sentences and maybe you will begin to practice Parkour on the streets of your city. Parkour is an extreme sport and it was born in France. The Parkour consists in crossing the city while you do different stunts to surpass all the obstacles on the street. The young people that practice this new extreme sport are adventurous, and they love the adrenaline. Parkour comes from the word “parcours”, and its meaning is “route” in French, when the people want to talk about the Parkour’s birth, they have to speak about its beginnings in the XVIII century, some people named a French called Hèrbert as the creator of Parkour or “the art of displacement”. When Herbert died, he left a lot of literature about “the art of displacement”. Years after Herbert’s death, Raymond Belle Lute, an excellent sportsman and fireman, who was born in Paris too, practiced Parkour and he taught the movements to his son David Belle. People say Parkour was born with David Belle because he began to practice it on the street, while his father and other men practiced the discipline as training in the army. David Belle together with other men began to practice this new extreme sport on the streets of Paris and he created a group called “The Yamakasi”, the meaning of this word is “strong spirit”. After 1997, the Parkour is considered a popular extreme sport in many places in the entire world. If you want to practice Parkour, you do not need special equipment and, you do not have to pay anything. You only need comfortable clothes and you can practice this sport in whatever place on the street. You can use the city’s architecture, for example, you can do the different stunts on the street, on the buildings over the stairs, and you
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What is Parkour?
In this article, we are going to talk about, what Parkour is, where Parkour was born, who creates the Parkour, and where you can practice this new extreme sport In the next text, you are going to find the responses to the above sentences and maybe you will begin to practice Parkour on the streets of your city.
Parkour is an extreme sport and it was born in France. The Parkour consists in crossing the city while you do different stunts to surpass all the obstacles on the street. The young people that practice this new extreme sport are adventurous, and they love the adrenaline.
Parkour comes from the word parcours, and its meaning is route in French, when the people want to talk about the Parkours birth, they have to speak about its beginnings in the XVIII century, some people named a French called Hrbert as the creator of Parkour or the art of displacement. When Herbert died, he left a lot of literature about the art of displacement.
Years after Herberts death, Raymond Belle Lute, an excellent sportsman and fireman, who was born in Paris too, practiced Parkour and he taught the movements to his son David Belle. People say Parkour was born with David Belle because he began to practice it on the street, while his father and other men practiced the discipline as training in the army.
David Belle together with other men began to practice this new extreme sport on the streets of Paris and he created a group called The Yamakasi, the meaning of this word is strong spirit. After 1997, the Parkour is considered a popular extreme sport in many places in the entire world.
If you want to practice Parkour, you do not need special equipment and, you do not have to pay anything. You only need comfortable clothes and you can practice this sport in whatever place on the street. You can use the citys architecture, for example, you can do the different stunts on the street, on the buildings over the stairs, and you can train with someone or alone as well as you can create new stunts.
Parkour is an interesting extreme sport and unusual in Latin America, this is a cheap sport because you do not need anything; you only need to go out to the street and an excellent aptitude to learn different stunts. Parkour is very dangerous, for that reason, you have to begin with simple movements, and you have to do a lot of exercise to strengthen your body and with time and dedication, you are going to do wonderful movements. If you enjoy doing exercise and you are bored with the conventional sports, Parkour is a good option for you.
