Multimedia Monday: Parkour
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Parkour or l'art du déplacement, translated as "the art of displacement" is an activity in which participants or "traceurs" perform daring moves to get from one place to another. They use a combination of gymnastics and martial arts in what often resembles the stunts in chase scenes of action movies. Now that description may make it hard to view parkour as a form of art, which is why you have to see it.
There's something special about viewing these stunts as still images as opposed to live action; I think it adds a certain tranquility and really shows that it is ...
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