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Etymology: Parkour (French Pronunciation

Parkour is a training discipline developed from military obstacle course training that involves navigating one's environment efficiently using only the human body. Practitioners aim to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible using movements like running, climbing, jumping, and vaulting depending on the situation. Parkour can be practiced alone or with others, usually in urban environments, and involves seeing new potential ways to navigate one's surroundings through movement. Developed in France in the late 1980s by Raymond Belle, David Belle, and Sébastien Foucan, parkour became popular in the late 1990s and 2000s through films and documentaries featuring these early practitioners.

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Etymology: Parkour (French Pronunciation

Parkour is a training discipline developed from military obstacle course training that involves navigating one's environment efficiently using only the human body. Practitioners aim to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible using movements like running, climbing, jumping, and vaulting depending on the situation. Parkour can be practiced alone or with others, usually in urban environments, and involves seeing new potential ways to navigate one's surroundings through movement. Developed in France in the late 1980s by Raymond Belle, David Belle, and Sébastien Foucan, parkour became popular in the late 1990s and 2000s through films and documentaries featuring these early practitioners.

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Parkour (French pronunciation: [paku]) is a holistic training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle

course training.[4][5][6] Practitioners aim to get from A to B in the most efficient way possible. This is done using only the human body and the
surroundings for propulsion, with a focus on maintaining as much momentum as possible while still remaining safe. Parkour can include
obstacle courses, running, climbing,swinging, mantling, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement, and the like, depending on what
movement is deemed most suitable for the given situation. [7][8][9]
Parkour is an activity that can be practiced alone or with others. Although it can be practiced in any location, it is usually practiced in urban
spaces.[10][11] Parkour involves seeing one's environment in a new way, and imagining the potentialities for navigating it by movement around,
across, through, over and under its features. [12][13]
Developed in France, primarily by Raymond Belle, David Belle, and Sbastien Foucan during the late 1980s,[14][15] Parkour became popular in
the late 1990s and 2000s through films, documentaries, and advertisements featuring these practitioners and others. [4]
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1 Etymology

2 History

3 Philosophy and theories

4 Movement

5 Risks
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5.1 Trespassing

5.2 Injuries and deaths

6 Equipment

7 Popular culture

8 Military training

9 Derivative terminologies and disciplines

10 See also

11 References

12 Sources

13 External links

Etymology[edit]
The term derives from "parcours du combattant", the classic obstacle-course method of military training proposed by Georges Hbert,[16][17]
[18]

the term "le parcours" was used by Raymond to encompass all of his training including climbing, jumping, running, balancing, and the

other methods he undertook in his personal athletic advancement. One day when David Belle was on a film set, he showed his 'Speed Air
Man' video to Hubert Kound, who suggested to change the "c" of "parcours" to a "k" because it was more dynamic and stronger, and to
remove the silent "s" for the same reason.[citation needed] Belle liked the idea and officially changed the name of his discipline to "parkour". [citation needed]
A practitioner of parkour is often called a traceur, with the feminine form being traceuse.[7] They are nouns derived from the French
verb tracer, which normally means "to trace", as in "tracing a path", in reference to drawing. [19] The verb tracer used familiarly means: "to buck

up".[20] The term traceur was originally the name of a parkour group headed by David Belle which included Sbastien Foucan and Stephane
Vigroux.[21]
A jam refers to a meeting of traceurs, involving training lasting anywhere from hours to several days, often with people from different cities.
The first parkour jam was organized in July 2002 by Romain Drouet, with a dozen people including Sbastien Foucan and Stephane Vigroux.

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