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Colorado's Parkour Pioneers Are Running With Itnew
Thanks to a concrete fountain in Skyline Park and other celebrated parkour hot spots like Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the University of Colorado at Boulder campus, Colorado has become a destination for the parkour community across the country and beyond.
If Parkour Ever Takes Off, Michael 'Frosti' Zernow Could be One of its First Starsnew
Thousands of people are believed to practice parkour in the US, and Frosti is one of the most widely recognized. At five-foot-eight with a sinewy build, multiethnic features, and short black hair that's often pushed into a fauxhawk, he has a distinctive look.
Chicago Reader |
Rich Knight |
01-12-2009 |
Sports
If Only 'Mirror's Edge' Played to its Many First-Person-Player Strengthsnew
The bulk of the experience works very well and is fun. The combat sections are laborious and can become frustrating, but you are motivated to push through them, so that you can get back to the excellent running and acrobatic portions.
Charleston City Paper |
Kyle Hilliard |
12-10-2008 |
Video Games
Building the Parkour Movementnew
Parkour is edging into the public consciousness, thanks in part to vehicles like the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, which opened with a spectacular construction-site foot chase featuring parkour pioneer Sebastian Foucan and events like the Memorial Day Weekend International Parkour Expo.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
06-16-2008 |
Sports
Parkour Lifts Young New Yorkers Up Above It Allnew
As a dispossessed teenager in a working-class suburb of Paris, Frenchman David Belle invented parkour, a way of moving with the purpose of findng the most efficient way of crossing a landscape, usually an urban one, by adapting to obstacles without hesitation or disruption to the intended path.
New York Press |
Derin Thorpe |
04-10-2008 |
Sports
Tags: parkour, sports & fitness
