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Parkour and Freerunning Australia

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Parkour (and Freerunning). It’s an amazing method of movement. Practitioners live all over the world. You’ve probably seen it on TV or in movies. To explain a little more here’s a chunk of info from the Parkour and Freerunning Australia website:

…..What is Parkour?
Parkour is the most efficient way to travel from point A to B. In parkour, every motion must be as close to 100% efficient as possible in taking you from your start point to your destination point. Therefore vaults, drops, jumps, rolls, wall climbing, and catgrabs are part of parkour, but spins, flips, and direction reversals are usually not. “Traceurs” (the French name for one who practises Parkour) utilize obstacles and the spaces between them to create a forward flow, taking physical objects meant to restrict motion and using them to enhance it instead……..[more]