Download or read book Extreme Parkour written by Monique Vescia and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practitioners of the art of movement known as parkour display strength, skill, and grace as they climb and leap over every urban obstacle in their path. Parkour is a physically demanding discipline that almost anyone of any means can practice with proper instruction and when safety measures are taken. This riveting book examines the origins of parkour and its global appeal. An engrossing narrative and exciting pictures introduce the reader to basic parkour moves, equipment, and terminology. Dynamic sidebars in each chapter take a deeper dive, profiling famous athletes and the discipline's impact on popular culture.

Download or read book Parkour written by Lily Loye and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling overview of parkour, from the sport's early history to the top events and athletes of today. Engaging text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more. Features include a table of contents, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, an infographic, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. DiscoverRoo is an imprint of Pop!, a division of ABDO.

Download or read book Parkour Roadmap written by Max Henry and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... The Parkour Road Map is a detailed guide to Parkour history, culture, and technique from the experience of a professional parkour athlete. Gathering information from the world's best Parkour athletes and coaches, The Parkour Roadmap is an indispensable tool for practitioners of all levels."--Amazon.com

Download or read book Cin Parkour written by Julie Angel and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The written academic thesis for the world's first parkour themed PhD ; Cin� Parkour: a cinematic and theoretical contribution to the understanding of the practice of parkour.

Download or read book Parkour and the Art Du D placement written by Vincent Thibault and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parkour, the art of displacement, or freerunning--whatever the name, this new discipline born in the Paris suburbs is rapidly being adopted by people throughout the world. Not satisfied to suffer through urban life, these athletic artists or artistic athletes want to thrive in it, all the while earning dignity by daringly reappropriating three fundamental motor skills: running, jumping, and climbing. Vincent Thibault explores the philosophical and spiritual aspects of the art of movement and offers ideas on health, sports, urban living, and the relationship between the body and the environment. Reflecting on the culture of effort, he also avoids the misguided notion that depicts parkour as just another of those elitist extreme sports, instead providing a thoughtful, lyrical adventure into martial arts and chivalry in an urban setting.

Download or read book Parkour and the City written by Jeffrey L. Kidder and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger. Parkour’s modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour’s dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as “traceurs” or “freerunners”) reject a “daredevil” label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety—rather than a “pushing the edge” ethos normally associated with extreme sports.

Download or read book The Parkour Club written by Arooj Hayat and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parkour enthusiast Bronte Miller is back from a year in Alexandria, Egypt, where her father was a war correspondent. It means she misses her secret Egyptian boyfriend and is bored in her desert hometown of Richland, Washington. That is, until Yemen refugee Karam Saif shows up, trying awkwardly to fit into American high school life. "I can help him with that," she thinks. Handsome, attentive and an ace parkour athlete, Karam seems the perfect antidote to her impossible home situation and not-happening readjustment to American life. Together, they and the Parkour Club party-it-up around town and revel in learning challenging new parkour moves. But both have Middle Eastern secrets that draw them ever closer to danger, and someone they can't identify is meddling with their lives. Can they outrun the past, or join forces and save each other?

Download or read book Extreme Parkour Challenges written by Karen Latchana Kenney and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parkour is all about overcoming obstacles, and winning a parkour competition requires strength and creativity. Readers will dive deep into the world of parkour and how athletes face their fears.

Download or read book Teaching Parkour Sports in School Gymnastics written by Sascha Rochhausen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parkour Sports combines the trend sports of parkour, freerunning and parcouring. All of these disciplines are founded on moves derived from classic gymnastics skills, which makes them eminently suitable for school sports classes. The exercises are motivational and offer scope for spontaneous variation, while the moves themselves are creative and dynamic. Since parkour is gaining steadily in popularity outside the school arena, it is all the more important that schools provide pupils with a safe and methodical learning framework, to prepare them adequately for real-life urban conditions. This handbook has been conceived as a practical guide, for which reason, all the practice movements covered are illustrated with photo sequences. Sports teachers and trainers will find that the moves contained in this book are presented and explained in a clear and easy to understand manner and require a minimum of prior preparation. Over and above this, each move is introduced with the same systematic methodology, including warm-up exercises, a game segment, and a relaxation phase. The book contains a total of seventeen complete sample lessons, all of which have been tested in actual sports lessons. Additional materials are available from the Internet, at: www.parkoursport.com. 17 sample lessons covering all moves encountered in the range of parkour disciplines 458 illustrations 33 sketches

Download or read book Parkour and Freerunning written by Jan Witfeld and published by Meyer & Meyer Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the sport of parkour, or freerunning, which combines the core elements of running, jumping, climbing, and other physical movements with the goal of moving the body over and around obstacles in an urban environment without stopping

Download or read book Parkour written by Demi Jackson and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a sport, parkour has only been around since the 1980s. However, it promotes a frame of mind often encouraged by snowboarders, skateboarders, and other extreme sports enthusiasts: see your environment differently and use it. Parkour athletes use their sport to get around doing anything but walking! Reader learns how parkour developed and also how it’s practiced around the world. Full-color photographs showcase different moves, styles, and events. Readers are sure to be inspired by the free-spirited daredevils of parkour, highlighted by a playful layout and exciting fact boxes.

Download or read book Boy Culture 2 volumes written by Shirley R. Steinberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume set, a series of expert contributors look at what it means to be a boy growing up in North America, with entries covering everything from toys and games, friends and family, and psychological and social development. Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia spans the breadth of the country and the full scope of a pivotal growing-up time to show what "a boy's life" is really like today. With hundreds of entries across two volumes, it offers a series of vivid snapshots of boys of all kinds and ages at home, school, and at play; interacting with family or knocking around with friends, or pursuing interests alone as they begin their journey to adulthood. Boy Culture shows an uncanny understanding of just how exciting, confusing, and difficult the years between childhood and young adulthood can be. The toys, games, clothes, music, sports, and feelings—they are all a part of this remarkable resource. But most important is the book's focus on the things that shape boyhood identities—the rituals of masculinity among friends, the enduring conflict between fitting in and standing out, the effects of pop culture images, and the influence of role models from parents and teachers to athletes and entertainers to fictional characters.

Download or read book Parkour Strength Training written by Ryan Ford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Parkour Strength Training, you will learn how to:- Accelerate your athletic development with three fundamental bodyweight exercises- Promote the flexibility and mobility necessary for safe obstacle-based fitness- Prepare and condition your joints to avoid injuries- Train safely outdoors- Remedy the common faults and errors that plague parkour newcomers- Incorporate ground-based exercises, such as quadrupedal movement, bounding, and jumping into your workouts- Use low obstacles such as benches, handrails, and walls for full-body strength training- Fly over barriers using three basic vaults- Mount, traverse, and overcome head-high walls and bar structures- Master proper climb-up technique using many supplemental exercises- Design an effective strength training program- Combine skill-based drills and games to become a more well-rounded practitioner- Dominate obstacle courses

Download or read book Basic Parkour written by Sam Fury and published by SF Nonfiction Books. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the upgraded version of this training manual please search for: Essential Parkour Training by Sam Fury. Teach Yourself Basic Parkour! Parkour is not as hard as it looks. All you need to do is learn a few beginner parkour exercises and practice. Sam Fury's Basic Parkour will teach you all the basics you need to learn parkour. Discover how to teach yourself basic parkour, because it is a fun way to keep fit while learning lifesaving skills. Get it now. Parkour Made Easy * Learn the core skills needed for parkour training * Easy to follow step by step instructions that anyone can follow * No prior experience of parkour needed * Simple and clear pictures so you can see exactly how to do these basic parkour techniques Basic Parkour Lessons Include * How to gain superior balance * How to land with minimal impact on your body * Correct rolling techniques * Pinpoint jumping precision * The best ways get up, over, and between walls * Fundamental parkour techniques such as vaults, cat passes, and underbars ... and more! Limited Time Only... Get your copy of Basic Parkour today and you will also receive: * Free SF Nonfiction Books new releases * Exclusive discount offers * Downloadable sample chapters * Bonus content … and more! Start teaching yourself parkour today, because this no-nonsense training manual has all the moves you need. Get it now.

Download or read book Parkour written by Dan Edwardes and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is an obstacle course in Parkour. Watch as talented athletes scale walls and leap from ledges. Learn all about this exhilarating extreme sport through wonderful color photographs and engaging text.

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Download or read book Essential Parkour Training written by Sam Fury and published by SF Nonfiction Books. This book was released on with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach Yourself Parkour! This is a beginner's parkour training manual like no other. Essential parkour techniques are those which are safe to use on a whim. Like if you were running away from someone in an unfamiliar area. There are no fancy free-running movements in these parkour lessons. It starts with beginner parkour movement and parkour strength training. Then it progresses to harder parkour techniques. Learn parkour the safe way, because this is a comprehensive beginners training manual! Get it now. Step-by-Step Parkour Training Essential Parkour Training is a progressive parkour training manual. This is very important for safety and building confidence. * Each parkour lesson uses progressive parkour training steps. * Written in simple language and accompanied with easy to follow pictures where needed. This parkour book is split into 6 sections according to the type of movement: * Safety. Parkour is not a dangerous activity as long as you progress slowly. Do not take unnecessary risks, and learn the correct parkour safety techniques. * Warm-ups and Conditioning. Using basic parkour exercises such as balance and quadrupedal movement. * Running and Jumping. Parkour techniques to get you over or between obstacles without touching them. This section also includes explanations of parkour games and runs. * Vaults. The essential vaults needed to overcome any medium sized obstacle. Includes the safety vault, speed vault, kong vault, reverse vault, and more. * Wall Movement. Cat hangs, wall runs, and other movements to use when negotiating obstacles too big to vault. * Bar Movement. Bar focused movements that are not in previous sections. Includes laches, underbars, muscle-ups, etc. It covers all the parkour skills you need to get from one point to another as fast as possible! Parkour for Kids, Adults, Male, and Female * A basic parkour workout is a fun and challenging way to keep fit. * See the world around you in a new light. * Increase your imagination. * Overcome fear. * Build confidence. Limited Time Only… Get your copy of Essential Parkour Training today and you will also receive: *Free SF Nonfiction Books new releases *Exclusive discount offers *Downloadable sample chapters *Bonus content … and more! Discover the most useful parkour techniques to get you out of danger, because this is a training manual like no other! Get it now.