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"What I'm interested in for parkour is the utilitarian thing of getting to the other end, whether as a task or a challenge, but in film they like a little entertainment, so I do that, too, but it's not what I'm interested in," David Belle, 33, told New Yorker magazine in a recent interview.
"If you're diving, you want to learn how to fall and roll properly so you don't smash your face into whatever you're jumping at," [Tyler Crichton] advises."It's scary if you don't understand how much training these guys do," she says. "They're very healthy, very talented."See the full content of this document
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Going Through the Motions
The leaping, rolling, running practise of parkour celebrates the body's natural movement, and it's gaining momentum
By Carolin VeselyIT'S a sunny mid-May evening in St. James and two young men dressed in white T-shirts are running to beat hell toward Moray Bridge -- clearing stairs three at a time, vaulting over railings, hurdling over garbage bins, and somersaulting down hills. If you didn't know better, or were a suspicious sort, you might check to see if either of them is clutching a handbag or a car stereo.Just as you're expecting a police officer to run past in hot pursuit of the reckless ne'er-do-wells, you glimpse what's written on the front of their shirts: Winnipeg Parkour.Winnipeg wha...See the full content of this document
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