Parkour 3.0
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Get Parkour app and find out “what is parkourâ€Â, get familiar with some of the parkour movements and discover more about the philosophy of parkour! Watch videos of parkour practitioners performing seemingly difficult or impossible body maneuvers at great speed!In parkour people run on foot, move quadrupedally, jump, climb, and use other methods of catching yourself, grabbing hold of things, and hanging from things, rolling and balancing!Discover how to perform some basic parkour movements, such as: landing, balance, cat crawl, underbar, lache, swing, pop vault, wall hop, wallpass, wallrun, dash bomb, cat leap, cat grab and much more!Learn how to flow with the currents of life in a more harmonious and beneficial manner so that your very daily activities themselves become an extension of your training and practice!Parkour (abbreviated PK) is a physical discipline which focuses on efficient movement around obstacles. Developed in France by David Belle, the main purpose of the discipline is to teach participants how to move through their environment by vaulting, rolling, running, climbing, and jumping. Parkour practitioners are known as ‘traceurs’.Parkour's modern history began in the 1920s, though similar movements can be found in the Eastern martial arts ninjutsu and qing gong. Georges Hébert began teaching the fundamental movements related to parkour during this time period, and eventually the training became the standard for the French military. David and Raymond Belle would expand on Hébert's work, and David would eventually find the Yamakasi group, the first group dedicated to parkour.Along with The Bourne Ultimatum, Casino Royale is credited with starting a new wave of parkour-inspired stunts in Western film and television. Parkour is featured prominently in the film Breaking and Entering, in which two of the characters employ parkour techniques to burgle an office in Kings Cross, London. Parkour is featured in the film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. David Belle was hired as parkour choreographer for the film and appears in the DVD and Blu-ray featurettes. Aamir Khan learned parkour techniques for his role in the 2011 movie Dhoom 3.Jump London is a documentary which explains some of the background to parkour and culminated with Sébastien Foucan, Johann Vigroux, and Jérôme Ben Aoues demonstrating their parkour skills. Jump London was followed by Jump Britain, which featured Foucan and Ben Aoeus. My Playground, a documentary film by Kaspar Astrup Schröder, explores the way parkour and free running are changing the perception of urban space and how the spaces and buildings they are moving on are changing them. The Australian TV program 60 Minutes broadcast a segment about parkour on September 16, 2007, which featured Foucan and Stephane Vigroux.The webcomic Schlock Mercenary makes frequent reference to ‘Parkata Urbatsu’ which is said to have grown ‘out of the ancient disciplines of parkour, urbobatics, and youtubing. It is a martial art that focuses on both pursuit and escape in developed environments, with an eye towards the aesthetic.’A number of video games include parkour as major gameplay elements. NOTE: 90% of the videos will work perfectly on all devices, but 10% of the videos might not work properly on all devices!
About Parkour
Parkour is a free app for Android published in the Other list of apps, part of Games & Entertainment.
The company that develops Parkour is Urke. The latest version released by its developer is 3.0. This app was rated by 1 users of our site and has an average rating of 5.0.
To install Parkour on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2013-04-02 and was downloaded 32 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Parkour as malware as malware if the download link to com.parkour is broken.
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